Dionysiou Oikoumenēs periēgēsis, meta tōn Eustathiou hypomnēmatōn. Dionysii Orbis descriptio annotationibus Eusthathii & Henri. Stephani, necnon Guilielmi Hill commentario critico & geographico ac tabulis illustrata. Textui etiam subjungitur figurarum quae apud Dionysium occurrunt (cum dialecticis & aliis grammaticis minutiis) systema, in usum tyronum; ut non modo philologis & geographiae studiosis, verùm & scholis inserviatur, in quibus geographia vetus, historiae lux, una cum poësi Graeca ex hoc sonte imbibi poterit.
Dionysius Periegetes (c.117-c138 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1688
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3068889
Summary
Bibliographic description
[13], x, [1], 208, [56], 368 p., [8] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 8vo. Running number: 5251. Provenance: manuscript inscription on title page (in Greek?): "...[illegible] Dod.". Binding: seventeenth-century blind-panelled calf; double fillet border; panel of narrow double fillets between two single fillets, with lozenge-shaped floral cornerpiece stamps; gilt roll pattern on board edges; blind fillets and roll decoration on spine, with gilt title label. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Dionysius Periegetes (c.117-c138 AD) Eustathius, (d.c.1194) Archbishop of Thessalonica Henri Estienne (1531-1598) William Hill (fl.1662), author