Adagia, id est, proverbiorum, paroemiarum et parabolarum omnium, quae apud Graecos, Latinos, Hebraeos, Arabes, &c. in usu fuerunt, collectio absolutissima in locos communes digesta. In qua continentur suis quaequae locis accurato ordine posita: Des. Erasmi Roterodami Chiliades. Hadriani Iunii Medici adagia. Ioann. Alexandrini Brassicani IC. Symmicta. Ioannis Ulpii IC. Epitome. Petri Godofredi Carcassonensis IC. Proverbia. Guilielmi Canteri IC. Adagia iuridica. Victoris Giselini Medici Specimen adagiorum. Henrici Stephani Animadversiones in Erasmum. Gilberti Cognati Nozareni Sylloge. M. Grunii Corocottae Porcelli Testamentum. Polydori Vergilii Adagia. Caroli Bovilli Proverbia. Hadriani Turnebi & M. Antonii Mureti Excerpta Adagia. Guilielmi Gentii IC. Agagia [sic] iuridica. Melchioris Neipei Bredenani Adagia. Quorum omnium ac singulorum proverbia et adagia juxta locorum communium seriem, Erasmicis, praeposito cujusq[ue] authoris nomine commodissima methodo subjunguntur. Adiecti sunt indices duo accuratissimi, unus proverbiorum juxta ordinem alphabeti, alter rerum & verborum.
Johann Jacob Grynaeus (1540-1617)
Category
Books
Date
1646
Materials
Place of origin
Frankfurt am Main
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3031599
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12], 776, [160] p. ; fol. Running number: 5096. Provenance: former shelfmark: "13.B.5". Manuscript presentation inscription on leaf of paper pasted onto front endpaper: "Ingenuo magnaeq[ui?]s spei adolescentulo Isaco Limborch. Propter singularem in studys diligentiam et industriam, cuius specimen, tum publico, tum privato examine, tum honorifico per omnes militiae litterariae gradus ascensu dedit, virtutis et honoris ergo hoc brabaeon decreverunt IIII Viri Scholae Lugdunensis constituendae. A M.D.CLXIIII Mense August. [signed with 3 names, the first illegible] Arnold. Wittens. Jacobus Golius" [i.e. presented to Isaac Limborch (not identified), presumably by his tutors at the University of Leiden, the first illegible, Arnoldus Wittens (not identified), and Jacobus Golius (1596-1667), Dutch Orientalist and Professor of Mathematics at Leiden]. Binding: seventeenth-century vellum; blind fillet framework; gilt armorial centrepiece stamp of the arms of the University of Leiden: shield bearing two crossed keys, the shield held by helmed lion rampant brandishing a scimitar, the whole within strapwork border featuring two classical figures each holding a snake and a frond and two grotesque figures (monkeys?); holes in boards for two pairs of ties (missing). Rebacked in calf. Gilt title on green goatskin label and gilt date stamp on spine. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Johann Jacob Grynaeus (1540-1617), editor Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536), author Marcus Grunnius Corococta, author