In Diogenem Laertium Aegidii Menagii observationes & emendationes, hac editione plurimum auctae. Quibus subjungitur historia mulierum philosopharum eodem Menagio scriptore. Accedunt Joachimi Kühnii in Diogenem Laertium observationes. Ut & variantes lectiones ex duobus codicibus MSS. Cantabrigiensi & Arundeliano, cum editione Aldobrandiana collatis, quas nobiscum communicavit vir. celebrr. Th. Gales. Epistolae & praefationes, variis Diogenis Laertii editionibus hactenus praefixae. Indices auctorum, rerum & verborum locupletissimi.
Gilles Ménage (1613-1692)
Category
Books
Date
1692
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3190049
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 590, [58] p. ; 4to. Running number: 4839. Shelved and uniform as a 2 vol. set with: "Diogenis Laertii De vitis, dogmatibus et apophthegmatibus clarorum philosophorum libri X" (Amsterdam, 1692). Provenance: manuscript inscriptions on front fly-leaf: "Tho. Daffy" [possibly Thomas Daffy (d. 1716), headmaster of Melton Mowbray School; son of Thomas Daffy, inventor of the ‘elixir salutis’]; and book number: "(15/1)". Inscription in vol. 1 reads: "This w[i]th ye other part cost 1l. 10s. 0d". Former shelfmark on front pastedown: "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
Gilles Ménage (1613-1692) Olympiodorus, the Younger, of Alexandria (6th century), author Thomas Gale (1635/6-1702) Dean of York, editor Joachim Kuhn (1647-1697), author James Windet (d.1664), editor