Herodotou Halikarnesseos Historion logoi 9 epigraphomenoi mousai. = Heroditi Halicarnassei Historiarum libri IX . Musarum nominibus inscripti Gr. & Lat. cum interpretatione Laurentii Vallae. ... graecismo per singulas fere paginas remollito industria Jacobi Gronovii, cujus accedunt notae. ... Ejusdem narratio de vita Homeri Gr. Lat. interprete Conr. Heresbachio. Accedunt excerpta ex Xenophonte, Strabone, Dinone, Heraclide Cymaeo, Clearcho, Agathocle, Cherete, Plutarcho, Nymphodoro, de Persicis, Aegyptiis, & indicis; item de incremento Nili ex Plutarcho, Theophylacto Simocata, Athenaeo, Diod. Siculo, Aristide, Dione, Heliodoro & praesertim Ctesia &c.
Herodotus (c.484-c.425 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1715
Materials
Place of origin
Netherlands
Collection
Chirk Castle, Wrexham
NT 3078239
Summary
Bibliographic description
[22],1000,[56]p., [1] folded leaf of plates . ill.. . fol.. Identified in 1796 inventory: F 19, price 12s. Christie's, 21 June, 2004, lot 648.. Provenance: Bookplate: John Myddelton Esqr. of Chirk Castle Denbighshire [i.e. John Myddelton (1685-1747)] (the plate of Robert Myddelton of Chirk Castle with inscription altered); Jacobean armorial, after 1733. Franks 21457.. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf binding; double blind fillet and blind roll pattern border; gilt roll on board edges; gold-tooled spine.
Makers and roles
Herodotus (c.484-c.425 BC) Ctesias (fl. 5th century BC) Jacobus Gronovius (1645-1716) Lorenzo Valla (1407-1457)