Pindarou Olympia Nemea Pythia Isthmia. = Pindari Olympia, Nemea, Pythia, Isthmia. Una cum Latina omnium versione carmine lyrico per Nicolaum Sudorium. Quid praeterea huic accessit editioni, praefatio indicabit.
Pindar (Pindaros) (c.522-c.443 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1697
Materials
Place of origin
Oxford
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3078896
Summary
Bibliographic description
[36], 56, 59-497, [93], 77, [3] p. : port. ; fol. Pencil “644” on front pastedown. Provenance: anonymous late seventeenth-century/early eighteenth-century gilt armorial centrepiece [Somers?]. 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: late seventeenth-century/early eighteenth-century sprinkled, panelled sheep over boards on six raised cords, gilt spine tooling, red-brown spine label, double gilt fillet with inner rectangular compartment and cornerpiece design on covers, gilt armorial centrepiece on both covers, gilt roll on board edges, gilt edges.
Makers and roles
Pindar (Pindaros) (c.522-c.443 BC), author Nicolas Le Sueur (1545 - 1594), translator Erasmus Schmid (1570-1637), translator Johannes Benedictus (d.1664), translator William Lloyd (1627-1717) Bishop of Worcester, author Robert Welsted (1670/1 - London 1735), editor Richard West (1671/2 - 1716), editor Michael Burghers (Amsterdam 1653-1727), engraver (printmaker)