Ploutarchou Parallēla en biois Hellēnōn te kai Rhōmaiōn =. Plutarchi quae uocantur Parallela: hoc est, Uitae illustrium uirorum Graeci nominis ac Latini, prout quaeque alteri conuenire uidebatur, accuratius quàm antehac unquam digestæ..
Plutarch (c.46 - c.120)
Category
Books
Date
1533
Materials
Place of origin
Basel
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 3193404
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 369, [1] leaves ; fol. Provenance: sixteenth? century manuscript inscription "Ex libris Philippi Floronij ciuis Veneti" on recto of first free end-paper. Provenance: eighteenth century manuscript inscription "Davenport Talbot", i.e. William Davenport Talbot, 1764-1800, on title page. Seventeenth? century manuscript inscription "25", possibly a previous shelfmark, on verso of first free end-paper, facing title page. Binding: sixteenth? century vellum over boards; evidence of ties at fore-edges of boards; paper title label with manuscript title "Plutarchus" in a capitalized eighteenth? century Roman hand on spine; evidence of an earlier manuscript title, now faded and illegible, on spine.
Provenance
Purchased with the family collection of Abbey contents in situ from Mrs Petronella Burnett-Brown December 2009.
Makers and roles
Plutarch (c.46 - c.120), author Simon Grynäus (1493-1541), editor