Isokratous pros Dēmonikon logos parainetikos.
Isocrates (436-338 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1493
Materials
Place of origin
Milan
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3095363
Summary
Bibliographic description
[200] leaves ; fol. Running number: 6971. Imperfect: wanting first blank leaf ([alpha]1). Quire A in first setting: A1v has 35 lines. Sheet B3, line 28 begins "ton". Leaf Y6 a cancel? (leaf attached to guard stub). Initial spaces left blank; without rubrication. Provenance: manuscript capital letter in ink at head of first front fly-leaf: "S". Manuscript inscriptions on second front fly-leaf verso: [1] sale or inventory code[?] "1705 - 4½m"; [2] signature "J Bridges" [i.e. John Bridges (1666-1724), antiquarian and lawyer, FRS, whose library was sold in London at three sales in 1726]; [3] "Isocrates. 1ma. edit." [i.e. catalogue entry and edition note written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742). Ellys bought a number of books at the Bridges sale]. Lot 4205 "Isocrates, Gr. Fol. deaur. Chalcondyl. 1493" (listed under "Duodecimo, Octavo") in Bridges sale catalogue 'Bibliothecae Bridgesianae catalogus' (London, 1725 [i.e. 1726]). Small manuscript cipher device drawn in ink beneath caption title on leaf [alpha]2r. Pencil note in the hand of Cecil Clarabut (the National Trust's first Libraries Adviser) on verso of front free endpaper: "1st ed. with the 2 blank leaves in text, but lacking a1". Binding: eighteenth-century gold-tooled sprinkled calf; sewn on six supports; covers decorated with double gilt fillet border and inner panel of double and single gilt fillets, the panel with gilt cornerpieces; gilt roll on board edges; blind roll on turn-ins; rebacked in calf with most of original spine retained; brown leather spine label ' Isocratis Mediolani 1493'; all edges gilt; red and gold-blocked brocade paper (Brokatpapier) endpapers: gold leaf impressed upon red paper stencilled with floral and foliate decoration. Conservator's typescript note attached to rear fly-leaf, signed and dated 'Nicholas Pickwoad 1 October 1986'.
Makers and roles
Isocrates (436-338 BC), author Dionysius, of Halicarnassus (c.60 - after 7 BC), author Philostratus, the Athenian (2nd - 3rd century BC), author Plutarch (c.46 - c.120), author Demetrio Calcondila (1423 - 1511), editor Sebastiano da Pontetremoli (15th century), printer Ulrich Scinzenzeler (ca. 1450-1500?), printer Bartholomaeus Scyasos (fl. 1493), publisher Vincentius Aliprantus (fl.1493), publisher Bartholomaeus Rozonus (fl. 1493), publisher