Diogenis Laertii De vitis, dogmatibus et apophthegmatibus clarorum philosophorum libri X. Graece et Latine. Cum subjunctis integris annotationibus Is. Casauboni, Th. Aldobrandini & Mer. Casauboni. Latinam Ambrosii versionem complevit & emendavit Marcus Meibomius. Seorsum excusas Aeg. Menagii in Diogenem observationes auctiores habet volumen II. Ut & eiusdem Syntagma de mulieribus philosophis; et Joachimi Kühnii ad Diogenem notas. Additae denique sunt priorum editionum praefationes, & indices locupletissimi.
Diogenes Laertius (fl.3rd century)
Category
Books
Date
1692
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3190042
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v., plates : ports. ; 4to. Running number: 4839. Provenance: manuscript inscriptions on front fly-leaves: "Tho. Daffy" [possibly Thomas Daffy (d. 1716), headmaster of Melton Mowbray School; son of Thomas Daffy, inventor of the ‘elixir salutis’], v.1: "This w[i]th ye other part cost 1l. 10s. 0d", and book number "(15/1)". Former shelfmark on front pastedown: D.3.1, D.3.2. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; gold-tooled spine, with gilt title and vol. number lettered directly onto spine. Red and brown sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Diogenes Laertius (fl.3rd century), author Gilles Ménage (1613-1692), editor Marcus Meibom (1630-1711) Tommaso Aldobrandini (1540 - 1572) Joachim Kuhn (1647-1697) Isaac Casaubon (1559 - 1614)