[Hêrodotou logoi ennea, hoiper epikalountai mousai.] Herodoti libri novem, quibus musarum indita, ... Clio. Euterpe. Thalia. Melpomene. Terpischore. Erato. Polymnia. Vrania. Calliope. . Ad haec ... Georgii Gemisti, qui et Pletho dicitur, de ijs quæ post pugnam ad Mantineam gesta sunt, libri II. Vnà cum Ioachimi Camerarii præfatione, annotationibus, Herodoti uita: de[que] figuris: & qua usus est dialecto: omnia in studiosorum utilitatem diligenter conscripta.
Herodotus (c.484-c.425 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1541
Materials
Place of origin
Switzerland
Collection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 3020916
Summary
Bibliographic description
[20],310,[2]p. . fol.. Calf (seventeenth-century) Inscriptions (various 16/17c. hands) in Latin and Greek on title-page (one in red ink). Extensive marginal annotations throughout (in Greek and Latin, several 16/17c. hands; some slightly cropped). Old pressmark (17c.?) on title-page: G/y (or G/7). Old Belton pressmark on pastedown: C/8.. Provenance: Inscription on title-page: Sum Thome Chapmani liber 23ʻ octobris Anno Domini 1568ʻ. - pretium viijs vjd. Two or three earlier names erased from title-page. Bookplates: John Brownlowe, viscount Tyrconnel; Belton House (earl's coronet & crests).
Makers and roles
Herodotus (c.484-c.425 BC) Camerarius, Joachim George Gemistus Plethon (fl.15th century)