Athenaeus. Athēnaiou Deipnosophis[t]ou tēn polymathestatēn pragmateian nun exesti soi philologe mikrou priamenō pollōn te kai megalōn kai axiomnēmoneutōn kai thaumastōn kai poikilōn kai daidalōn kai glaphyrōn kai hōn isōs proteron ouk ēdeis, es gnōsin elthein. kai holōs tōn tēs Hellenikēs paideias apothetōn kai dyseuretōn keimēliōn enkratei genesthai. ...
Athenaeus of Naucratis (fl.end of 2nd century and beginning of 3rd century AD)
Category
Books
Date
1514
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3069193
Summary
Bibliographic description
38, [2], 294, [2] p. ; fol. Running number: 7069. Imperfect: wanting blank leaf B10 and final leaf t4. Sixteenth-century manuscript marginal notes throughout, all have been thoroughly washed-out. Regular manuscript numbering of text in black ink in the margins (about every twenty-fifth line) and additional pencil markings; these probably refer to this copy having been collated with Casaubon's edition of 1657. Provenance: unidentified armorial binding, with oval arms in chief a lion salient, quarterly 1 & 4 three fleur-de-lis, 2 & 3 a bend lozengy. Two clippings from nineteenth-century catalogues pasted onto verso of front free endpaper. Manuscript inscriptions on front fly-leaf: [1] "J: Mitford. 1804" [probably John Mitford (1781-1859), literary scholar and clergyman]; [2] "Payne"; [3] long bibliographic note in Mitford's hand containing extracts from Renouard on Athenaeus: "(Collated with Casaubon's edition, Lugduni, 1657.) 1. 'Alde, dans sa pusau, annonce que cette edition …". $zBinding: eighteenth-century gold-tooled full calf; sewn on six supports; border of a double gilt fillet between two gilt rolls (one leafy); oval armorial centrepiece, arms in chief a lion salient, quarterly 1 & 4 three fleur-de-lis, 2 & 3 a bend lozengy; gilt double fillet and leafy roll on either side of six raised bands and at head and tail of spine; title, printer and date tooled in gilt in three panels on spine; bookblock edges dark blue with red sprinkling; pulled paste pattern endpapers.
Makers and roles
Athenaeus of Naucratis (fl.end of 2nd century and beginning of 3rd century AD), author Aldo Manuzio (1449/50-1515), editor Markos Mousouros (1470-1517), editor Aldo Manuzio (1449/50-1515), printer Andreas Torresanus de Asula (1451-1529), printer