This book is a guide to the basic tools of Renaissance Greek studies and their use in the classrooms of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Paul Botley examines the origins and diffusion of the twenty Greek grammars known to have been composed or used during the period, explores the development of Greek lexicology during the Renaissance and its relationship with surviving ancient and Byzantine Greek lexica, and studies the fortunes of twenty-one Greek authors known to have been used by Renaissance student. The book concludes with two appendices that catalog all Greek grammatical and lexical works printed before 1530.

Paul Botley is a research fellow at The Warburg Institute, London, where he is preparing an edition of the correspondence of Renaissance polymath Joseph Scaliger (1540–1609). Dr. Botley has previously held research positions in the Department of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at Imperial College, London, and at the Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition at the University of Bristol.