Fragmenta poetarum veterum Latinorum, quorum opera non extant: Ennii, Accii, Lucilii, Laberii, Pacuuii, Afranii, Naeuii, Caecilii, aliorúmque multorum: vndique à Rob. Stephano summa diligentia olim congesta: nunc autem ab Henrico Stephano eius filio digesta, & priscaru[m] quae in illis sunt uocum expositione illustrata: additis etia[m] alicubi uersibus graecis quos interpreta[n]tur. Haec in gratiam studiosorum carminis: propediem autem & amatoribus orationis solutae in simili labore (Deo fauente) gratificabimur.
Quintus Ennius (c. 239 BC – c.169 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1564
Materials
Place of origin
Geneva
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3113955
Summary
Bibliographic description
433 [i.e. 432] p. ; 8vo. Running number: 5230. Provenance: shelfmark label on front pastedown: 'Z' [printed in red] "40" [in manuscript black ink]. These labels appear in books owned by Louis-Henri de Loménie, comte de Brienne (1635-1698). Count Loménie de Brienne's library was sold in London, 28 April 1724, where Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) undoubtedly purchased it. With manuscript marginal annotations and corrections to the printed text. Binding: sixteenth-century gold-tooled calf; sewn on seven sewing supports; single gilt fillet border; gilt oval centrepiece stamp; blind fillet on board edges; blind fillets and diagonal hatching on spine, with gilt stamps in the panels and gilt title on brown leather label. Thin strips of binder's vellum manuscript waste visible at hinges of front and rear fly-leaves. Pale yellow edges.
Makers and roles
Quintus Ennius (c. 239 BC – c.169 BC), author Henri Estienne (1531-1598), editor Robert Estienne (1503-1559), editor Lucius Accius (170 BCE - c.86 BCE), author Gaius Lucilius (c.180-c.102 BC), author Decimus Laberius (c.107-43 BC), author Marcus Pacuvius, author Lucius Afranius (c.150 - c.90 BCE), author Gnaeus Naevius (c.270-c.200 BC), author Calactinus Caecilius (b.49 BC), author