Plutarchi Chaeronensis moralia, quæ vsurpantur. Sunt autem omnis elegantis doctrinæ penus: id est , varij libri: morales, historici, physici, mathematici, deni<q3> ad politiorem litteraturam pertinentes & humanitatem: omnes de Graeca in Latinam linguam transscripti summo labore, cura, ac fide. Guiliel. Xylandro Augustano interprete: ... Accesserunt his indices locupletissimi.
Plutarch (c.46 - c.120)
Category
Books
Date
1572
Materials
Place of origin
Switzerland
Collection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 3143050
Summary
Bibliographic description
[24],778,[70] p . 8vo.. With sporadic annotations, in more than one sixteenth/seventeenth-century hand.. Provenance: In ink on flyleaf 'Tho: Petri liber pret: 2s 1594' (i.e. Thomas Peter, (d. 1618) Rector of St. Mawgan in Pydar.). In ink on t-p, crossed out 'Tho: Peter'. In ink on t-p 'Gualterus Snellius'; 'Walter Snell' (i.e. Walter Snell (d.1677) Chaplain to Lord Robartes at Lanhdyrock). Binding: Sixteenth-century blind-tooled calf, with double frame of filets, cornerpieces, small centrepiece, with 'T P' surrounding it. All very worn. Holes on fore-edge from ties. Rebacked, with new endpapers and pastedowns, nineteenth century.
Makers and roles
Plutarch (c.46 - c.120) Wilhelm Xylander (1532 - 1576)