Aris[t]ophanous kōmōdiai 11. Aristophanis comoediae undecim, Graecè & Latinè, cum indice paroemiarum selectiorum, & emendationibus virorum doctorum, pracipuè Iosephi Scaligeri. Accesserunt praeterea fragmenta eiusdem ineditarum comoediarum Aristophanis.
Aristophanes (c.488-c.388 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1625
Materials
Place of origin
Leiden
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3005727
Summary
Bibliographic description
[24], 935, [1], 56 p. ; 12mo. Running number: 5129. Quires ²A10 ²B12 ²C6 (i.e. final 56 p.) mis-bound immediately following main title page. With an additional leaf *12 mis-bound between leaves ²A10 and ²B1. Provenance: manuscript initial on verso of front printed waste: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: seventeenth-century calf, sewn on three tawed leather supports; blind triple fillet border; single blind fillet on board edges, with two-way hatching pattern typical of Oxford bindings; spine has three raised bands, with blind fillets and hatching pattern. Red sprinkled edges. Printed waste (Latin, seventeenth-century) at front and rear.
Makers and roles
Aristophanes (c.488-c.388 BC) Joseph Juste Scaliger (1540-1609), editor Édouard Biset de Charlais (b.1540), editor Willem Canter (1542 - 1575), editor Florent Chrestien (1541-1596), editor Willem van der Codde (1575-1630), editor Andrea Divo, editor Nicodemus Philipp Frischlin (1547-1590), author Andreas Schottus (1552-1629), editor