Hoi tês êroikes poiêseôs palaioi poiêtai pantes. = Poetae Graeci veteres carminis heroici scriptores, qui extant, omnes. Homerus, … Nonni Dionysiaca. Apposita est e regione Latina interpretation. Notæ item & variæ lectiones margini adscriptæ. / Cura & recensione Iac. Lectii. V. Cl. Accessit & index verborum locupletissimus.
Jacobus Lectius (1556-1611)
Category
Books
Date
1606
Materials
Place of origin
Geneva
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3078063
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. ([24], 177, 180-739, [1], 624, [46] p.) ; fol. Uniformly bound and shelved with the “… Poetae Graeci veteres, tragici, lyrici, comici, epigrammatarii, …” (1614). Provenance: gilt “CC” monogram on spine = Charles II? Anonymous gilt armorial centrepiece: [ = John Lord Sommers (1651-1716)?]. Armorial bookplate on titlepage verso: John Lord Sommers Baron of Evesham [i.e. John, Lord Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor]. Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: seventeenth-century sheep over boards on six double raised cords, double gilt fillet with monogram initials “CC” gilt roll tool at head and tail and gilt title on spine, triple blind fillet at spine edge of covers with inner double gilt fillet frame and anonymous armorial centrepiece, remains of red sprinkled edges. Spine title: Poetæ Græci Heroici. Sixteenth-century manuscript document waste used as spine support.
Makers and roles
Jacobus Lectius (1556-1611), editor