Hērodotou Halikarnēssēos Historiōn logoi 9 epigraphomenoi Mousai. = Heroditi Halicarnassei Historiarum libri IX Musarum nominibus inscripti Gr. & Lat. cum interpretatione Laurentii Vallae. / Ex MS. membrana medicea post Aldi Manutii, Joach. Camerarii, Henr. Stephani, Goth. Jungermanni, Th. Gale in edendo operas non tantum adjutis locis, ubi ab viris doctis sentiebatur corruptela, sed etiam Graecismo per singulas fere paginas remollito industria Jacobi Gronovii, cujus accedunt notae. Tou autou exēgēsis peri tou Homērou biotēs. Ejusdem narratio de vita Homeri Gr. Lat. interprete Conr. Heresbachio. Accedunt excerpta ex Xenophonte, Strabone, Dinone, Heraclide Cymaeo, Clearcho, Agathocle, Cherete, Plutarcho, Nymphodoro, de Persicis, Aegyptiis, & indicis; item de incremento Nili ex Plutarcho, Theophylacto Simocata, Athenaeo, Diod. Siculo, Aristide, Dione, Heliodoro & praesertim Ctesia &c.
Herodotus (c.484-c.425 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1715
Materials
Place of origin
Leiden
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire (Accredited Museum)
NT 3029422
Summary
Bibliographic description
[22], 1000, [56] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; fol. With additional divisional half-title inserted between pp. 554-5. Provenance: armorial bookplate: The Honble. Charles Yorke [i.e. Charles Yorke (1722-1770), younger brother of the 2nd Earl of Hardwicke; Lord Chancellor, 1770]. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled sheep over boards on five double raised cords, gilt spine tooling, brown spine label, double gilt fillet with inner blind zig-zag roll and circles pattern at edge of sprinkling on covers, gilt edges, marbled edges to match endpapers, green silk bookmark. Spine title: Herodotus Gronovii.
Makers and roles
Herodotus (c.484-c.425 BC), author Ctesias (fl. 5th century BC), author Jacobus Gronovius (1645-1716) , commentator Lorenzo Valla (1407-1457), commentator