Dēmosthenous logōn tmēma prōton[-triton]. = Demosthenis orationum pars prima[-tertia] … Corrigente Paulo Manutio, Aldi filio.
Demosthenes (384 - 322 BCE)
Category
Books
Date
1554
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3086942
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v. ([8], 122, [2]; 248, [4]; [2], 243 [i.e. 242], [2] leaves) ; 8vo. Running number: 7059. Bound in 1 vol. Manuscript marginal Latin notes in a very small sixteenth or seventeenth-century hand and underlining of text on leaves a1v-b8v and e4r-e8r (vol. 1), and on leaves A6r-E3v (vol. 2). Provenance: eighteenth-century manuscript shelfmark on front pastedown: "F.5.28." [probably written by Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript book number or inventory number on front fly-leaf: "(194)". Manuscript prices[?] on front and rear pastedowns: "4tt" and "10tt". Binding: eighteenth-century full mottled calf; sewn on four supports; double gilt fillet border; gold-tooled spine; gilt title lettered directly onto spine; red and brown sprinkled bookblock edges.
Makers and roles
Demosthenes (384 - 322 BCE), author Libanius (c.314-392/3), author Paolo Manuzio (1512-1574), printer