Xenophōntos ta sōzomena biblia. Xenophontis (viri armoru[m] & literaru[m] laude celeberrimi) quae extant opera. Annotationes Henrici Stephani, multum locupletatae: quae varia ad lectionem Xenophontis longè vtilissima habent.
Xenophon (c.430 - c.355 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1581
Materials
Place of origin
Geneva
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3189134
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12], 584, 76, [16], 428, [20] p. ; fol. Running number: 4748. Provenance: manuscript inscriptions on front pastedown: price "6tt" [i.e. 6 livres tournois], old shelfmark "B.2.1", "Ex libris Tussani[?] Beuget[?] Sugon[?] Sedani 1584" (crossed-out), "Ex libris Joannis ... ...is. 1607" (crossed-out), and "Ex libris Alberti Hulleni [or Halleni] Noviomagi" (crossed-out). Manuscript book number on second front fly-leaf: "(35)". Manuscript inscription on rear pastedown: "Emi Sedani / 1613. 22. Octobr.". With occasional manuscript marginalia and underscoring of text in Henri Estienne's annotations (76 p. section) and in the Latin translation (428 p. section). Binding: seventeenth-century armorial calf (rubbed); double gilt fillet border; gilt armorial centrepiece stamp: medallion, a pelican in her piety, above three stars and motto 'Vivere sic mori', below nest a heart, all within decorative oval border with initials 'TB' on either side [this is possibly from an unidentified abbey or monastery in the Ile-de-France]. Gold-tooled spine with decorative stamps within fillet panels, and title stamped directly onto spine. Repaired in goatskin. Pencil note on front pastedown: "repaired at Cambridge c. 1958".
Makers and roles
Xenophon (c.430 - c.355 BC) Henri Estienne (1460-1520) Camerarius, Joachim Conrad Gessner (1516-1565) Franciscus Portus (1511-1581)