Diogenis Laertii De vitis, dogmatibus et apophthegmatibus clarorum philosophorum libri X. Graece et Latine. Cum subjunctis integris annotationibus Is. Casauboni, Th. Aldobrandini & Mer. Casauboni. Latinam Ambrosii versionem complevit & emendavit Marcus Meibomius. Seorsum excusas Aeg. Menagii in Diogenem observationes auctiores habet volumen II. Ut & eiusdem Syntagma de mulieribus philosophis; et Joachimi Kühnii ad Diogenem notas. Additae denique sunt priorum editionum praefationes, & indices locupletissimi.
Diogenes Laertius (fl.3rd century)
Category
Books
Date
1692
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Chirk Castle, Wrexham
NT 3030099
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v. plates . ports.. . 4to. Previous shelfmarks: K.6.1-2; L.6.29-30. Identified in 1796 inventory: Q 1, price £1 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. manuscript inscription 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), author Gilles Ménage (1613-1692), editor Tommaso Aldobrandini (1540 - 1572) Isaac Casaubon (1559 - 1614)