Iouliou Polydeukous Onomastikon en bibliois deka =. Julii Pollucis Onomasticum Graece & Latine /
Julius Pollux (180-328)
Category
Books
Date
1706
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 3192584
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. ([8], 48, 1388, [16], 178, [10] p., [1] folded leaf of plates) : ill. ; fol. Both volumes bound together. Provenance: a prize awarded by Amsterdam University to Nicolaus Laurentius Burmannus in September 1749. An additional printed leaf reading "Ingenuo optimaeque spei adolescenti, [Nicolao Laurentio Burmanno,] ob spectatos in Graecis literis progressus; in classe tertia, praemium hoc literarium lubentes dederunt ex decreto, in frequenti virorum doctissimorum consessu, amplissimi Dd. Coss. & scholarchae Amstelaedamenses. Quod testor [Otto Arntzenius, I.U.D.] Gymnasii publici Amstelaedamensis Rector. Promotione autumnale, [D. XIX. Septembr.] MDCCXXX[XXIX]" (sections within square brackets added in eighteenth century manuscript) with engraved armorial vignette (arms of Amsterdam University?) signed "J. Goeree delin. J. Baptist sculp" is bound in at front of volume, facing preliminary half-title leaf to vol. 1. Binding: eighteenth century Dutch gilt tooled vellum over boards; gilt tooled armorial centrepiece (arms of Amsterdam University?); evidence of ties at fore-edges of boards; two original? green silk ties remain almost intact; gilt tooling on spine; text block edges sprinkled red and blue.
Makers and roles
Julius Pollux (180-328), author Julius Pollux (180-328) Wolfgang Seber (1573-1634), editor Tiberius Hemsterhuis (1685-1766) Gottfried Jungermann (d.1610) Joachim Kuhn (1647-1697) Jean Henri Lederlin (1672-1737) Claude Saumaise (1588-1653) Wolfgang Seber (1573-1634) Henri de Valois, seigneur d'Orcé (1603-1676) Isaac Vossius (1618-1689)