Ploutarchou Chairōneōs ta sōzomena syngrammata. = Plutarchi Chaeronensis quae extant opera, cum Latina interpretatione. / Ex vetustis codicibus plurima nunc primùm emendata sunt, vt ex Henr. Stephani annotationibus intelliges: quibus & suam quorundam libellorum interpretationem adiunxit. Aemylii Probi De vita excellentium imperatorum liber.
Plutarch (c.46 - c.120)
Category
Books
Date
1572
Materials
Place of origin
Geneva
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3020410
Summary
Bibliographic description
13 v. ; 8vo. Running number: 4762. Bound in 7 vols. Vols. 9-10 mis-labelled as 'Tom. VI'; vols. 11-12 mis-labelled as 'Tom. V'. Provenance: manuscript old shelfmark and book number: "M.2.21-27" and "(468)". Occasional manuscript corrections to text in vols. 1 and 7. Binding: sixteenth-century calf; blind thin thick thin fillet border and panel, the panel with gilt fleuron cornerpiece stamps and gilt oval centrepiece stamp. Blind fillet on board edges. Spines have blind fillets along 4 raised bands, single gilt floral stamp in 4 compartments, gilt title and vol. number on brown sheepskin label, and blind diagonal hatching at head and foot. Remnants of paper label with manuscript title and number at head of spines.
Makers and roles
Plutarch (c.46 - c.120) Cornelius Nepos (99-24 BC), author Donato Acciaiuoli (1429 - 1478), editor Herman Croeser (1510-1574), editor Henri Estienne (1531-1598), editor Wilhelm Xylander (1532 - 1576), editor