Dionysiou Oikoumenēs periēgēsis, meta tōn Eustathiou hypomnēmatōn. = Dionysii Orbis descriptio annotationibus Eusthathii & Henri. Stephani, necnon Guilielmi Hill commentario critico & geographico ac tabulis illustrata. Textui etiam subjungitur figurarum quae apud Dionysium occurrunt (cum dialecticis & aliis grammaticis minutiis) systema, in usum tyronum; ut non modo philologis & geographiae studiosis, verùm & scholis inserviatur, in quibus geographia vetus, historiae lux, una cum poësi Graeca ex hoc sonte imbibi poterit.
Dionysius Periegetes (c.117-c138 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1688
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3005951
Summary
Bibliographic description
[13], x, [1], 208, [56], 368 p., [8] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 8vo. Old Felbrigg shelfmarks: O5; N3. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front pastedown: "A Windham" [i.e. Ashe Windham (1673-1749)]. Historic shelf-label pasted on spine: "C / 42". Binding: seventeenth-century blind-panelled calf; panel of triple fillets, with lozenge-shaped floral cornerpiece stamps; gilt roll pattern on board edges; blind fillets and roll decoration on spine; spine lettered direct (manuscript): "Dions."; red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Dionysius Periegetes (c.117-c138 AD), author Eustathius, (d.c.1194) Archbishop of Thessalonica, editor Henri Estienne (1460-1520), editor William Hill (fl.1662), author