Dēmosthenous logoi, duo kai hexēkonta. Libaniou sophistou, hypotheseis eis tous autous logous. Bios dēmosthenous, kat' auton libanion. Bios dēmosthenous, kata ploutarchon. = Demosthenis orationes duae & sexaginta. Libanii sophistae in eas ipsas orationes argumenta. Vita Demosthenis per Libanium. Eiusdem uita per Plutarchum.
Demosthenes (384 - 322 BCE)
Category
Books
Date
1504
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3087015
Summary
Bibliographic description
[28], 320; 286 [i.e. 288], [8] p. ; fol. Running number: 7073. Wanting final blank leaf T4. Provenance: manuscript inscription at head of title page, erased, partially legible under a UV light: "N [illegible] Θωμάς λ[?]αγιος 1598" [the Greek transliterates as "Thomas l[?]agios"]. Early sixteenth-century manuscript inscription in a neat hand written in black ink at foot of title page: "Venetiis In aedibus Aldi Man. Rom. Anno M.D. IV. Mense Sept. Sub Signo Anchorae". Manuscript additions to table of contents on leaves aa2v-aa3r. Extensive early sixteenth-century manuscript marginal notes in Greek and some Latin, textual corrections, other marginal markings and underlining of text written in black and brown ink on leaves aa3r-cc6r, and infrequently thereafter, e.g. on leaves dd3r, ff1, gg6v, gg8r, ii7v. Eighteenth-century manuscript shelfmark on front pastedown: "C.2.7." [probably in the hand of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript book number or inventory number on front fly-leaf: "(70)". Manuscript price on rear pastedown: "16tt" [16 livres tournois?]. Binding: eighteenth-century full calf (rubbed); sewn on six supports; double and single gilt fillet border with small fleur-de-lis tool in the corners; gold-tooled spine with vase and flower tool within double and single fillet panels; gilt title 'DEMOSTENES GRAEC' tooled directly onto spine; red sprinkled bookblock edges.
Makers and roles
Demosthenes (384 - 322 BCE), author Libanius (c.314-392/3), author Plutarch (c.46 - c.120), author Aldo Manuzio (1449/50-1515), editor Scipione Forteguerri (1466-1515), editor Aldo Manuzio (1449/50-1515), printer