Les poesies d'Anacreon et de Sappho, traduites de Grec en François, avec des remarques. Par Madame Dacier.
Anacreon (c.582 - c.485 BCE)
Category
Books
Date
1699
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3031734
Summary
Bibliographic description
[36], 320, [4] p. : ill. ; 12mo. Running number: 5428. 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: "β'." [i.e. beta' = Greek number 2]. Manuscript initial letter on rear pastedown: "R[underlined]". Binding: early eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; blind roll pattern on board edges; blind fillet panels on spine, with blind roll pattern at head and foot; gilt title stamped onto spine. Red and brown sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Anacreon (c.582 - c.485 BCE) Anne Le Fèvre Dacier (c.1654 - Paris 1720) Tannegui Lefebvre (1615-1672) Sappho (b.c. mid-7th century BC), author