Hērodotou Halikarnēssēos Historiōn logoi 9 epigraphomenoi Mousai. = Heroditi Halicarnassei Historiarum libri IX Musarum nominibus inscripti Gr. & Lat. cum interpretatione Laurentii Vallae. / Ex MS. membrana medicea post Aldi Manutii, Joach. Camerarii, Henr. Stephani, Goth. Jungermanni, Th. Gale in edendo operas non tantum adjutis locis, ubi ab viris doctis sentiebatur corruptela, sed etiam Graecismo per singulas fere paginas remollito industria Jacobi Gronovii, cujus accedunt notae. Tou autou exēgēsis peri tou Homērou biotēs. 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
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3078244
Summary
Bibliographic description
[22], 1000, [56] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; fol. Running number: 4731. Provenance: manuscript inscriptions on front pastedown: "J. Gibson C.C.C.C. al." [i.e. John Gibson, of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; adm. 1717, matric. Easter 1719, will proved 1722 -- cf. Alumni Cantabrigienses], and old shelfmark "A.5". Manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine, with gilt title label. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Herodotus (c.484-c.425 BC) Ctesias (fl. 5th century BC) Jacobus Gronovius (1645-1716) Lorenzo Valla (1407-1457)