Tōn Diōnos tou Kassiou tou Kokkēianou Rōmaïkon historiōn ta heuriskomena. = Dionis Cassii Cocceiani Historiae Romanae libri XLVI, partim integri, partim mutili, partim excerpti: $cIoannis Leunclauii studio tam aucti quam expoliti. Fragmenta priorum XXXIV amissorum, & posteriorum XX librorum. Notae Leunclauii, quibus Dionia plurima restituuntur. Accedunt & R. Stephani, G. Xylandri, Fr. Sylburgii, H. Stephani, F. Vrsini, notae, quibus Dioni infinitis locis qua lux, qua medela, simul accedit. Adiectus index copiosissimus.
Cassius Dio Cocceianus (155 - 235)
Category
Books
Date
1606
Materials
Place of origin
Hanau
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3038782
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 1054 [i.e. 1052], [40] p. : geneal. table ; fol. Running number: 4873. Heavily wormed, with some loss of text. Provenance: manuscript inscription on title page: "Barth. Harwood viator apud Americanos in Col: Bostonia Ano in[...] 1697. Pret 16s" [i.e. Bartholomew Harwood (fl. 1674-1700). "Adm. sizar at Corpus Christi, 1674. Of Norwich. Matric. Easter, 1675; B.A. 1678-9; M.A. 1682. Ord. deacon (Norwich) Nov. 1679; priest, Nov. 1681. V. of Easton, Norfolk, 1681-1700. Settled in Boston, New England, in 1697" -- Cf. Alumni Cantabrigienses]. With manuscript marginal markings and underscoring of text in pencil throughout. Manuscript notes and page references on final fly-leaf and inside rear board. Binding: seventeenth-century sprinkled calf; double blind fillet border, with double blind fillet along spine edge; single gilt fillet on board edges; gold-tooled spine, with gilt title on brown goatskin label. Red stained edges. Manuscript fore-edge title: "Dion. Cassij historia". Manuscript waste (seventeenth-century?, in Latin) on vellum lines spine.
Makers and roles
Cassius Dio Cocceianus (155 - 235) Henri Estienne (1531-1598) Robert Estienne (1503-1559) Johannes Leunclavius (1533-1593) Fulvio Orsini (1529-1600) Friedrich Sylburg (1536-1596) Wilhelm Xylander (1532 - 1576)