Diogenis Laertii De vitis, dogmatibus et apophthegmatibus clarorum philosophorum libri X. Graece et Latine. Cum subjunctis integris annotationibus Is. Casauboni, Th. Aldobrandini & Mer. Casauboni. Latinam Ambrosii versionem complevit & emendavit Marcus Meibomius. Seorsum excusas Aeg. Menagii in Diogenem observationes auctiores habet volumen II. Ut & eiusdem Syntagma de mulieribus philosophis; et Joachimi Kühnii ad Diogenem notas. Additae denique sunt priorum editionum praefationes, & indices locupletissimi.
Diogenes Laertius (fl.3rd century)
Category
Books
Date
1692
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3074908
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 672 p., [21] leaves of plates : ports. ; 4to. Priced in pencil: 2 vol. 1-8-0. Treated as 2v set with 'In Diogenem Laertium Ægidi menagii ...'. Provenance: not indigenous. Library of the Earls of Macclesfield, Shirburn Castle, with armorial bookplate 'North Library. Press mark 11.E.3 ... 1860'. [Purchased 2011 from Maggs?] Macclesfield armorial blind stamp through preliminary leaves. Former Macclesfield shelfmark on paper spine labels (& in ink on rear pastedown): [B.IV.]21. Binding: eighteenth-century calf; triple blind fillet border and blind tooled centre panel; sewn onto six raised bands; gilt tooled spine, board edges; spine label gilt: Giogenes Laertius Vol: 1.
Makers and roles
Diogenes Laertius (fl.3rd century), author Marcus Meibom (1630-1711), editor