AEschinis et Demosthenis orationes duae contrariae
Aeschines (c.390 - c.330 BCE)
Category
Books
Date
1581
Materials
Place of origin
Altdorf
Collection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 3156103
Summary
Bibliographic description
[320]p. . 8vo. With 6 extra leaves bound in before title-page, and 7 at end, ruled in 2 columns headed with a letter of Greek alphabet; intended for "Explicatio difficilium" in the Æschines and the Demosthenes respectively, according to manuscript notes (seventeenth-century hand) at head of each set - but not used. Fragments of fourteenth-/fifteenth-century manuscript in 2 columns, on vellum, used in binding. Scribbles in seventeenth-century hand on front flyleaf and back pastedown (similar hand to signature on tp). Provenance: Signature on title-page (seventeenth-century): Gregorius Fauconer Magdalenensis. Bookplates: Belton House (earl's coronet & crests), pasted over: Lord Brownlow's Grantham House Binding: Calf, gilt rules.
Makers and roles
Aeschines (c.390 - c.330 BCE) Demosthenes (384 - 322 BCE) Johannes Sturm (1507-1589)