Thoukydidou tou Olorou, Peri tou Peloponnēsiakou polemon biblia oktō. = Thucydidis Olori filii, De bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo. Iidem Latinè, ex interpretatione Laurentii Vallae, ab Henrico Stephano nuper recognita, quam Aemilius Portus, Francisci Porti Cretensis F. paternos commentarios accurate sequutus, ab infinita grauissimorum errorum multitudine nouissimè repurgauit, magnaq[ue] diligentia passim expolitam innouauit. In hac postrema editione quid praesterea praestetur, sequens pagina docet.
Thucydides (460-400 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1594
Materials
Place of origin
Frankfurt am Main
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3095373
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 631, [1] p., 568 columns, [48] p. ; fol. Running number: 6942. Engraved seventeenth-century frontispiece portrait (unidentified armoured man holding marshal's baton, with a framed city view tied to the wall in the background, signed 'ML') pasted onto verso of front free endpaper, with manuscript inscription: "HAMR[?monogram] CC PP 1642 HAMR[?monogram] anté müerta qué mudada 1648 [crossed-out]". Provenance: eighteenth-century former shelfmark on front pastedown: B.1.9. Manuscript book number or inventory number on front fly-leaf: (80). Manuscript price on title page verso: "13tt.6" [livres tournois?]. Binding: France, late sixteenth-century or early seventeenth-century full brown morocco; sewn on six supports; gold-tooled all-over with a semis of alternating fleurs-de-lys and the letter H [for King Henri IV] within double frame of fillets between dotted rolls, the inner frame with small fleur-de-lys cornerpieces and the outer frame with a dentelle roll; gilt lozenge, square and circle roll pattern along board edges; seven spine compartments, six panels with a semis of alternating fleurs-de-lys and letter H, the second panel lettered with title 'Thucydid. Hist. G. L.'; all edges gilt. Printed waste visible beneath front pastedown. Part of front cover missing in upper right corner, various scrapes on back cover; headband missing.
Makers and roles
Thucydides (460-400 BC), author Henri Estienne (1531-1598), editor Aemilius Portus (1550-1614), commentator Franciscus Portus (1511-1581), commentator Lorenzo Valla (1407-1457), translator Isaac Casaubon (1559 - 1614), commentator David Chytraeus (1531-1600), commentator Jobus Veratius (d.1571), commentator