Dionysii Alex. et Pomp. Melae Situs orbis descriptio. Aethici Cosmographia. C. I. Solini Polyistor [sic]. In Dionysii poematium commentarij Eustathij: interpretatio eiusdem poematij ad verbum, ab Henr. Stephano scripta: necnon annatotiones eius in idem, & quorundam aliorum. In Melam annotationes Ioannis Oliuarii: in Aethicum scholia Iosiae Simleri: in Solinum emendationes Martini Antonii Delrio.
Dionysius Periegetes (c.117-c138 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1577
Materials
Place of origin
Geneva
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3084920
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 158 [i.e. 160], [24], 47, [1], 152 p. ; 4to. Running number: 5074. With 8 blank leaves bound-in each at the front, between leaves 2[par.]4 and ³[par.]1, and at the rear. Provenance: 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: seventeenth-century[?] blind-panelled calf; double blind fillet border; panel of double and single blind fillets, with blind cornerpiece stamps; gilt roll pattern on board edges; blind fillet and roll decoration on spine. Red and blue sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Dionysius Periegetes (c.117-c138 AD), author Aethicus Ister, author Eustathius, (d.c.1194) Archbishop of Thessalonica, author Pomponius Mela (d.c.45AD), author Caius Julius Solinus (fl.3rd century) , author Henri Estienne (1531-1598), editor Martin Antoine Del Rio (1551-1608), editor Pedro Juan Oliver (16th century), editor Josias Simmler (1530-1576) , editor