Sophokleous hai hepta tragōdiai. = Sophoclis tragoediae septem. / Vna cum omnibus Graecis scholiis, & cum Latinis Ioach. Camerarii. Annotationes Henrici Stephani in Sophoclem & Euripidum, seorsum excusae, simul prodeunt.
Sophocles (c. 496-405 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1568
Materials
Place of origin
Geneva
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3180375
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 461 [i.e. 451], [1]; 142 [i.e. 242] p. ; 4to. Seventeenth-century manuscript note on titlepage: Prodierunt in 8vo. A°. 1568. [different hand to signature?]. Seventeenth-century manuscript note at foot of p. 142: Henrici Stephani ānotat: in Sophoclem extent in mea biblio// theca una cum Apollodoro compactæ. Marginal annotations in Greek on pp.: [6-7], 12, 14, 26, 52, 79, 83, 114, 238, 287, 294, 314, 323, 359, 373, 376. Greek annotation note pinned to p. 105 (first count). Latin annotations on pp. 189, 225, 259. Provenance: Seventeenth-century manuscript inscription at foot of titlepage: Grentemesnil. Armorial bookplate: The Honble. Charles Yorke [i.e. Charles Yorke (1722-1770, younger brother of the 2nd Earl of Hardwicke; Lord Chancellor, 1770]. Binding: Sixteenth-century sheep over boards, single blind fillet above and below raised spine bands, single gilt floral tool between spine bands, single gilt fillet and oval centrepiece on covers with triple blind fillet at spine edge (thin-thick-thin), remains of yellow painted edges, red-brown spine label.
Makers and roles
Sophocles (c. 496-405 BC) Camerarius, Joachim Henri Estienne (1531-1598)