Thoukydidou Peri tou Peloponnēsiakou polemou biblia 8. = Thucydidis De Bello Peloponnesiaco libri VIII. Iidem Latinè, ex interpretatione Laurentii Vallae, ab Henrico Stephano recognita.
Thucydides (460-400 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1588
Materials
Place of origin
Geneva
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3005882
Summary
Bibliographic description
[20], 621, [15], 73, [7] p. ; fol. Running number: 4879. Worm damage from p. 405, affecting some text. Piece of letter written in French used as book mark between p. 462-463. Provenance: manuscript initial letter on front pastedown: "D". Binding: sixteenth-century[?] sheepskin (rubbed, very worn); single gilt fillet border; gilt wreath centrepiece stamp; gold-tooled spine (faded), with gilt title. Pale yellow burnished edges.
Makers and roles
Thucydides (460-400 BC) Ammianus Marcellinus (c.330 - c.400), author Isaac Casaubon (1559 - 1614), editor David Chytraeus (1531-1600), author Henri Estienne (1531-1598), editor Lorenzo Valla (1407-1457), editor