Les oeuvres d'Anacreon et de Sapho. Contenant leurs poësies, & les galanteries de l'ancienne Grece. Traduites de grec en vers françois par Mr. de Longepierre, avec des notes curieuses sur tout l'ouvrage.
Anacreon (c.582 - c.485 BCE)
Category
Books
Date
1692
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3031732
Summary
Bibliographic description
[20], 398, [2] p. ; 12mo. Running number: 5426. 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 Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "α½" [i.e. alpha½ = Greek number 1½]. Manuscript price in pencil on front fly-leaf: "1-6". Binding: eightenth-century sprinkled calf; gold-tooled spine, with gilt title.
Makers and roles
Anacreon (c.582 - c.485 BCE) Sappho (b.c. mid-7th century BC), author Hilaire Bernard de Requeleyne, baron de Longepierre (1659-1721), editor