Aristophanous Kōmōdiai ennea = Aristophanis Comoediae nouem.
Aristophanes (c.488-c.388 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1498
Materials
Measurements
322 x 230 x 65 mm
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3069825
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Vertical Text Substrate: handmade laid paperInk/Pigment: black printing ink with some ms marginal notes in a brown ink Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Laced case, limp Date of Binding: 16.2?Binder's Name: Italian?End Leaves: Single leaf at each end only survives, now pasted to the inside of the cover; originally outside hook. Structure: BritishEdges: plain cut to show proof, not decorated, polished Spine Lining: flat, no joints,. It is unclear whether or how the spine was lined.End Bands: cover shows lacing holes for endband slips, but the evidence on the bookblock is not clear. Bookmark: NoneBoards: NoneCovering: full goat parchment with wide fore-edge cover extensions and wide turn-insTooling: 18th-century red tanned goat title label on spineFurniture: holes for ties on fore-edge (2-hole)Enclosure: NoneBinding Notes:
Bibliographic description
[348] leaves ; fol. Running number: 7100. Manuscript underlining of text and marginal markings in ink in preliminaries; infrequent manuscript marginal annotations in Greek, marginal markings and underlining of text in text of plays and Scholia, e.g. leaves [alpha]1r, [alpha]7r, [beta]2r. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1692-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Faint pencil inscription (to the binder?) on recto of front fly-leaf: "Mr pale a la pane fior"[?]. Manuscript inscriptions on verso of front fly-leaf: (1) old shelfmark in ink "C.5.9" [probably in the hand of Sir Richard Ellys]; (2) code "ah"; (3) code "ii". Binding: seventeenth-century[?] full limp parchment; sewn on five supports; fore-edge of covers extended and folded over; faint manuscript visible (but illegible) on front cover; brown leather spine label with gilt title 'ARISTO[P]HANES GR ALD. 1498'; faint manuscript title visible at head of spine; two strips of medieval manuscript waste at front and rear, with off-setting of text onto facing inside covers. Modern repairs: new tawed-leather sewing supports, spine rebacked, new endbands.
Makers and roles
Aristophanes (c.488-c.388 BC), author Markos Mousouros (1470-1517), editor Aldo Manuzio the Elder (1449/50 - 1515), editor Antipater, of Thessalonica, author Aristophanes, of Byzantium, author Hephaestion (c.356-324 BC), author Platonius, author Magistros Thōmas (fl.1310-1327), author Chiari, Daniele, author Scipione Forteguerri (1466-1515), author Demetrius Triclinius (b.c.1300), author