Diogenis Laertii De vitis, dogmatibus et apophthegmatibus clarorum philosophorum libri X. Græce et Latine. Cum subjunctis integris annotationibus Is. Casauboni, Th. Aldobrandini & Mer. Casauboni. Latinam Ambrosii versionem complevit & emendavit Marcus Meibomius. ...
Diogenes Laertius (fl.3rd century)
Category
Books
Date
1692
Materials
Place of origin
Netherlands
Collection
Chirk Castle, Wrexham
NT 3030099
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 672 p., plates . ports.. . 4to. Previous shelfmrk: K.6.1; L.6.29. Shelved and uniform with Diogenes "In Diogenem Laertium Aegidii Menagii observations & emendations" (Amsterdam, 1698). Identified in 1796 inventory: Q 1, price Đ1 5s. Christie's, 21 June 2004, lot 652.. Provenance: Bookplate: Chirk Castle R. E. Myddelton [i.e. Robert Edward Myddelton (1866-1949)]; crest, signed and dated: W.P.B. 1914. manuscriptinscription on front endpaper: "Giles Dint pr l k:". Bookplate on rear pastedown (upside-down): Robert Myddelton Esqr of Chirk Castle Denbigh shr [i.e. Robert Myddelton (1678-1733)]; Jacobean armorial. Franks 21461.. Binding: Late seventeenth-century sprinkled sheepskin binding; gold-tooled spine.
Makers and roles
Diogenes Laertius (fl.3rd century) Tommaso Aldobrandini (1540 - 1572) Isaac Casaubon (1559 - 1614)