Anthologikon Hellēnisti kai Rhōmaisti. ēnthologēmenon ek Bibliōn proainetikōn Hēsiodou, Theognidos, Pythagorou, Phōkylidou, Araētou, kai Theokritou, pantōn palaiōn kai sophōn poiētōn, kai kalōs eis topous tinas diatetagmenon. Anthologicum Graecolatinum: hoc est, insigniores flores seu sententiae, decerptae ex Hesiodo, Theognide, Pythagora, Phocylide, Arato, & Theocrito, omnibus poetis uetustissimis & sapientissimis, & in locos propè bis centum digestae, cum expositione, usu, & accommodatione singulorum in margine. His accesserunt praeterea etiam alij tres libelli, ex scriptis Platonis, Xenophontis, Plutarchi, & Iustini Martyris & philosophi confecti, omnes argumenti antiquissimi & iucundissimi. Per Michaelem Neandrum Sorauiensem. Cum gemino & locorum & rerum uerborum[que] memorabilium indice.
Michael Neander (1525-1595)
Category
Books
Date
1556
Materials
Place of origin
Basel
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3031476
Summary
Bibliographic description
465, [23] p. ; 8vo. Running number: 4982. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. With manuscript marginal annotations. Manuscript booksellers' code on rear fly-leaf: "NB. 6/:220". Binding: sixteenth-century quarter-bound pigskin sewn on three supports, with manuscript vellum leaf over boards. The pigskin is blind-tooled with a thin thick thin fillet frame and repeated small stamps in the central panel. The spine (cracked and partially missing at head) has blind fillets along and on either side of the three raised bands, and at head and foot, with two manuscript titles (faded and illegible) and a shelfmark "E.VI.6". The manuscript leaf (fifteenth-century?) covering the boards is vellum, containing Latin text written in blackletter in two columns, with capitals and paragraph marks in blue and red ink. Stubs of two sets of ties. Manuscript fore-edge title.
Makers and roles
Michael Neander (1525-1595), editor Hesiod (c.8th century BC), author Theognis (fl.6th century BC), author Pythagoras (c.570 – c. 495 BC), author Phocylides (fl.554-541 BC), author