Dēmosthenous Logōn tmēma prōton. Demosthenis Orationum, nunc longe diligentiore quàm unquam hactenus recognitione emendatarum, pars prima. In qua deliberatiuae sexdecim eius orationes, unà cum exordijs deliberatiuis, & duae demonstratiuae continentur.
Demosthenes (384 - 322 BCE)
Category
Books
Date
1547
Materials
Place of origin
Basel
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3113957
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v. ; 8vo. Running number: 5219. Wanting blank leaves *8 in vol. 1 and NN4 in vol. 3. Vol. 2 imperfect: wanting quire nnn (i.e. p. 561-571, [5]); replaced with exact manuscript copy of each leaf. Provenance: manuscript former shelfmark on front pastedowns and title pages: "O.3.19-21". Manuscript ownership inscription at head of vol. 1 title page has been mostly cropped-off. Manuscript marginal annotations in red pencil and black ink, and underscoring of text, in vol. 1, p. 1-55, and vol. 2, p. 464-471. $Binding: seventeenth-century sprinkled calf; blind double fillet border along the three outer edges and blind roll pattern along the spine edge; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gilt title and vol. number on goatskin label on spines. Red and brown sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Demosthenes (384 - 322 BCE) Libanius (c.314-392/3), author Joannes Bernardus Felicianus (1490-1552) , editor Johann Herwagen (1497-1559)., engraver and publisher