Chalcidii v.c. Timaeus de Platonis translatus.. Item ejusdem in eundem commentarius.
Plato (c.428-c.348 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1617
Materials
Place of origin
Leiden
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3188030
Summary
Bibliographic description
[10], 42, [16], 463, [1] p. ; 4to. Running number: 4244. Quire Ccc mis-bound in following order: Ccc2 (mis-signed Ccc), Ccc1, Ccc4, Ccc3. Provenance: manuscript initials[?] on inside front board: "S. Ph.". Manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "M. post p. 384. quatuor folia malé compinguntur" [i.e. catalogue code and collation note of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript price[?] in pencil on front fly-leaf: "2-6". Manuscript bookseller's/price code on title page. Binding: seventeenth-century sprinkled calf; double blind fillet border; gilt roll pattern on board edges; blind fillets on spine. Red stained edges.
Makers and roles
Plato (c.428-c.348 BC) Calcidius Johannes Meursius (van Meurs) (1579-1639). Johannes Meursius (van Meurs) (1579-1639). Joost van Colster [printer]