Demosthenis et Aeschinis principum Graeciae oratorum opera, : cum vtriusque autoris vita & Vlpiani commentaries, nouisq[ue] scholiis, ex quarta eaq[ue] postrema recognitione, Graecolatina: sex codicum impressorum, & inter hos Parisiensis nuper editi: duorum manuscriptorum, alterius Pannonii, alterius ex Augustana bibliotheca fidelissimi collatione, àmendis repurgata, variis lectionibus adaucta, annotationibus illustrata: / per Hieronymum Wolfium ... His recens accedit vita Demosthenis ex parallelis Andreae Schotti ... Catalogum operum praefationi subiecimus, indicem quoq[ue] rerum & verborum locupletissimum in fine adiecimus.
Demosthenes (384 - 322 BCE)
Category
Books
Date
1604
Materials
Place of origin
Frankfurt am Main
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3068993
Summary
Bibliographic description
[68], lxxiiii, [6], 1464 [i.e. 1460], [44] p. : ill., ports. ; fol. Imperfect: missing two preliminary leaves. Eighteenth-century bookseller’s price code on front pastedown: umu/12. Eighteenth-century price on later [eighteenth-century?] front flyleaf: 2.12.6. Annotations in red and/or grey pencil on pp. XLII, 195, 332, 461-2, 467-70, 472-3, 507, 541, 564-5, 710-11, 810-11, 975-6, 978, 980. Seventeenth-century brown ink manuscript notes on pp. 332-3 [some cropped by binding]. Sigs. H3-4, HH3-4 misbound. Provenance: seventeenth-century shelfmark on front pastedown: (8,1). Eighteenth-century ownership inscription on front pastedown [partially scrubbed away]: Gulielmo Smith// [Et??] 15 [???s] [????]. Binding: seventeenth-century sprinkled, panelled sheep over boards, triple blind fillet and roll tool on spine, red-brown spine label, triple blind border fillet with double inner rectangular and compartment design on covers, blind roll on board edges, red sprinkled edges. Central roll tool and cornerpieces on covers may be oxidised silver.
Makers and roles
Demosthenes (384 - 322 BCE), author Socraticus Aeschines, author Ulpian, the Rhetorician, commentator Hieronymous Wolf (1516 - 1580), editor Andreas Schottus (1552-1629), author