Aratou Soleōs Phainomēna kai Diosēmeia. Theōnos scholia. Eratosthenous Katasterismoi. Metron tēs gēs periphereias. Tou kubou diplasiasmos. Koskinon. Tou Neilou pēgai. Tou kanonos tomē. Dionysiou hymnoi. Accesserunt annotationes in Eratosthenem et hymnos Dionysii.
Aratus (c.315/310 – 240 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1672
Materials
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3006979
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 147, [13], 56, 55-69, [1] p., [3] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill., music ; 8vo. Running number: 5265. Head of title page cut off. 2 double leaves of plates. Provenance: manuscript initial on fly-leaf facing title page: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript inscription on title page: "Suum cuiq[ue]. Tho: Hearne" [i.e. Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), whose library was sold in 1736]. Manuscript codes on inside front board: "J 272" and "J 6". Binding: seventeenth-century mottled calf; blind double fillet border, with blind cornerpiece stamps; blind roll pattern on board edges; recessed cords; blind fillets on spine. Blue and red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Aratus (c.315/310 – 240 BC) Eratosthenes (c.276- c.195 BC) Eudoxus of Cnidus (c.400-c.350 BC) Theon of Alexandria (fl.364) Theon of Smyrna (100 AD) John Fell (1625-1686) Bishop of Oxford Edmund Chilmead (1610-1654), author David Loggan (Gdańsk c.1634 – London 1692), engraver (printmaker)