Geōponika. = Geoponicorum, sive De re rustica, libri XX. / Cassiano Basso scholastico collectore. Antea Constantino Porphyrogenneto a quibusdam adscripti. Graece & Latine. Graeca cum MSS. contulit, prolegomena, notulas, & indices adjecit Pet. Needham Coll. D. Joannis Cantabrig. Socius.
Anatolius of Berytus (d.360)
Category
Books
Date
1704
Materials
Place of origin
Cambridge
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3179053
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], xxii, 532 p. ; 8vo. Provenance: Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf over boards; gilt tooling on spine and board edges; gilt double fillet with inner rectangular compartment and cornerpiece design on covers; red sprinked edges; red spine label. Cambridge binding?
Makers and roles
Anatolius of Berytus (d.360), author Chalcenterus Didymus , author Cassianus Bassus, Scholasticus, compiler Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, Emperor of the East (905-959), commissioner Peter Needham (1680-1731), editor Janus Cornarius (1500-1558), translator