Commentarii in septem tragedias Sophoclis: quae ex aliis eius compluribus iniuria tempor[um] amissis, solae superfuerunt: opus exactissimu[s]: rarissimu[s]q[ue] in Gymnasio Mediceo Caballini mo[n]tis, a Leone Decimo Pont. Max. constituto, recognitu[m]: repurgatumq[ue]: atq[ue] ad co[m]munem studiosor[um] vtilitatem in plurima cxemplaria [sic] editum. non sine priuilegio: vt in caeteris.
Sophocles (c. 496-405 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1518
Materials
Place of origin
Rome
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3045975
Summary
Bibliographic description
[404] p. ; 4to. Running number: 6987. Provenance: manuscript capital letter in ink at head of front fly-leaf recto: "S". Eighteenth-century[?] manuscript inscription in ink on front fly-leaf recto: "Maeheus[?] contulit". Eighteenth-century manuscript inscriptions in ink on front fly-leaf verso (facing the title page): [1] "1708 E' Bibliopolio Varenni" [i.e. bought from the bookseller 'Varenni', possibly the French bookseller Pierre de Varennes who was established in London from 1694 to 1724]. [2] "tōn Bridgēsou" (transliterated from the Greek) [i.e. John Bridges (1666-1724), antiquarian and lawyer whose library was sold in London, 7 Feb. 1725/26]. [3] "Sophocles" [i.e. catalogue entry note written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Ellys bought a number of books at the Bridges library sale in 1726]. Lot 360 in Bridges sale catalogue 'Bibliothecae Bridgesianae catalogus' (London, 1725 [i.e. 1726]). Binding: sixteenth-century blind-tooled alum-tawed pigskin over thin wooden boards; sewn on five supports; blind-tooled with a concentric framework design of triple fillets, the outer frame with heads in medallions roll with initials 'MT' and 'IV', the middle frame plain except for fleur-de-lys cornerpeice stamps, the inner frame with floral roll, the centre panel with arabesque pattern of repeated foliate tool; traces of two pairs of leather ties on fore-edge of boards; single blind fillet along turn-ins; blind fillet panels on spine; remnants of paper title label at head of spine 'SO[PHO]CLE[S] Scho[lia] Graeca'; burnished bookblock edges.
Makers and roles
Sophocles (c. 496-405 BC), author Pope Leo X (Giovanni de' Medici) (1475-1521) Janus Lascaris (1445-1535), editor Markos Mousouros (1470-1517), publisher Angelo Colocci (1474-1549), publisher Zacharias Kalliergēs (1499-1523), printer Stamperia Greca del Ginnasio Mediceo, publisher Janus Lascaris (1445-1535), publisher