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
Ham House, Surrey
NT 3078242
Summary
Bibliographic description
[22],1000,[56]p., [1] folded leaf of plates . ill.. . fol.. Not indigenous. Provenance: Inscription on flyleaf: Cholmeley Edward Dening 1808. Small ink notes in Greek and Latin on flyleaves. Marginal ink annotations in Greek, probably in Dening's hand. Later pencil note on flyleaf: "With collation of a Manuscript in the margins". Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Inscribed on flyleaf in Norris's hand: Baddesley Clinton [Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire (seat of Ferrers family)]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full calf over boards; blind fillets; spine gilt; later calf spine label with title "Herodoti Halicarn"; calf repairs to spine; sewn on six raised bands.
Makers and roles
Herodotus (c.484-c.425 BC) Ctesias (fl. 5th century BC) Jacobus Gronovius (1645-1716) Lorenzo Valla (1407-1457)