Euripidou tragōdiai heptakaideka. ōn enai met' exēgēseōn. eisi de autai. Hekabē Orestēs Phoinissai Mēdeia Hippolytos Alkēstis Andromachē Iketides Iphigeneia en Aulidi Iphigeneia en Taurois Rēsos Tēades Bakchai Kyklōps Hērakleidai Helenē Iōn = Euripidis tragoediae septendecim, ex quib[us] quaedam habent commentaria. & sunt hae. Hecuba Orestes Phoenissae Medea Hippolytus Alcestis Andromache Supplices Iphigeniai Aulide Iphigenia in Tauris Rhesus Troades Bacchae Cyclops Heraclidae Helena Ion.
Euripides (484-480-406 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1503
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3075804
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. ; 8vo. Running number: 7010. On the title page, "Hēra: Mai:" and “Her: Fu:” have been added in black ink at the end of the Greek and Latin titles respectively in a sixteenth-century hand, supplying the title of the last play. Ruled in red throughout. Provenance: late seventeenth-century manuscript inscriptions on second front fly-leaf in both vols.: "1694/5. 3 Vol." and "J Bridges" [i.e. date of purchase and autograph of John Bridges (1666-1724), antiquarian and lawyer. Bridges' library was sold in London, 7 Feb. 1725/26]. Lot 1375 (with the 1534 scholia) in Bridges sale catalogue 'Bibliothecae Bridgesianae catalogus' (London, 1725 [i.e. 1726]). Library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire; Ellys bought a number of books at the Bridges library sale in 1726. Manuscript bookseller's[?] code with Greek letters and other symbols on vol.1 front pastedown. Manuscript capital letter written in ink at head of front fly-leaf in both vols.: "S" (found in a number of Blickling's books but unknown as to what it means). Binding: Italy, sixteenth-century, brown goatskin over pasteboards; sewn on five sewing supports; covers blind and gold-tooled to a rectangular panel design with a single blind fillet border, the middle frame of blind thin-thick-thin fillets with a single gilt fillet on the inner edge and gilt fleuron cornerpiece stamps, the central frame of blind thin-thick-thin fillets with a single gilt fillet on the outer edge and small gilt floral stamps at the corners, and with a gilt diamond-shaped centrepiece of four fleurons and a small floral tool within a double fillet frame; traces of two pairs of red textile ties on fore-edges; spines with five raised bands and six compartments with blind-tooling and small gilt floral tool, the second and third compartments with brown goatskin labels gilt lettered with title 'EURIPIDES GR: AP: ALD: 1503' and vol. number 'VOL. I[-II]'; all edges gilt, gauffered with abstract floral design within border.
Makers and roles
Euripides (484-480-406 BC), author Iōannēs Grēgoropoulos (fl. 1493-1503), editor Aldo Manuzio (1449/50-1515), printer