Adagia, id est: prouerbiorum, paroemiarum et parabolarum omnium, quæ apud Græcos, Latinos, Hebræos, Arabas, &c. in vsu fuerunt, collectio absolutissima in locos communes digesta. In qua continentur suis quæque locis accurato ordine posita: Des. Erasmi Roterodami Chiliades. Hadriani Iunii medici Adagia. Ioan. Alexandri Brassicani IC. Symmicta. Ioannis Vlpii IC. Epitome. Petri Godofredi Carcassonensis IC. Prouerbia. Gulielmi Canteri IC. Adagia iuridica. Victoris Giselini medici Specimen adagiorum. Henrici Stephani Animaduersiones in Erasmum. Gilberti Cognati Nozareni Sylloge. M. Grunnii Corocottæ Porcelli Testamentum. Polydori Vergilii Adagia. Caroli Bouilli Prouerbia. Hadriani Turnebi & M. Antonii Mureti excerpta Adagia. Gulielmi Gentii IC. Adagia iuridica. Melchioris Neipei Bredenani Adagia. Quorum omnium ac singulorum prouerbia et adagia, iuxta locorum communium seriem, Erasmicis, præposito cuiusque authoris nomine, commodissima methodo subiunguntur. Adiecti sunt indices duo accuratissimi, unus proverbiorum iuxta alphabeti, alter rerum & verborum.
Johann Jacob Grynaeus (1540-1617)
Category
Books
Date
1629
Materials
Place of origin
Frankfurt am Main
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3193413
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12], 776 , [160] p. ; fol. Adages inscribed on rear endpaper: "When good cheer is lacking / Your friends will be packing."; "Careless servants have neither eyes or ears." Provenance: endpaper inscribed "Ex Dono Guil: Derham" [William Derham (1657-1735) or his son, also William (1702-1757). Titlepage inscribed: Ex Libris Lou[-?] Goringley[?]. Binding: seventeenth-century calf; blind tooled borders; rebacked nineteenth-century; gold on spine, with spine label: Erasmi Adagia.
Makers and roles
Johann Jacob Grynaeus (1540-1617) Clemens Schleich Peter de Zetter Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) Marcus Grunnius Corococta Andreae Wecheli Heredes