Epicteti Enchiridion, . hoc est Pugio, siue Ars humanæ uitæ correctrix : una' cum Cebetis Thebani tabula, qua uitae humanae prudenter instituendae ratio continetur: Græce' et Latine'. Quibus nunc demu'm accesserunt, e' Græco translata, Simplicii in eundem Epicteti libellum doctissima scholia. Arriani Commentarium de Epicteti Disputationibus libri IIII. Item alia eiusdem argumenti, in studiosorum gratiam, & scholarum usum. / Hieronymo Wolfio interprete: una' cum annotationibus eiusdem. Cum locuplete rerum & uerborum in singulis memorabilium indice: item Caes. Maiest. gratia & priuilegio ad annos decem..
Epictetus (c.60 - after 100 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1563
Materials
Place of origin
Switzerland
Collection
Springhill, County Londonderry
NT 3108116
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 pt. in 1 v. ([16], 160; 421, [3]; 440 p., [1] folded leaf of plates) . ill.. . 8vo.. Imperfect: lacking the woodcut "Tabula Cebetis". Provenance: Title page inscribed variously inscribed in a series of sixteenth-century hands: "Sum Liber Roberti Shengletoni"; "Simulata Sanctitas Duplex Iniquitas" ("Pretended holiness is double wickedness" - a quotation from St Jerome); "Sum Gulielmi Shengletoni Liber ex dono Fratris"; "Sum Guilielmi Pilkingtoni ex dono Guillelmi Shingletoni ".. Binding: Sixteenth-century plain calf binding.
Makers and roles
Epictetus (c.60 - after 100 AD) Lucio Arrian (86-175 AD) Cebes of Thebes (c. 430 – 350 BC) Simplicius of Cilicia (c.490 – c. 560) Ioannes Stovaios Joannes Oporinus (1507-1568) Hieronymous Wolf (1516 - 1580)