Loci communes sacri et profani sententiarum omnis generis ex authoribus Graecis plus quam trecentis congestarum per Ioannem Stobaeum, et veteres in Graecia monachos Antonium & Maximum: à Conrado Gesnero Tigurino Latinitate donati, & nunc primùm in vnum volumen Graecis ac Latinis è regione positis coniuncti. Adiecti sunt indices Locorum communium duo, vnus iuxta ordinem quo se deinceps consequuntur: alter alphabeticus, ex quo etiam apparebit, si quando fortè vna de re aut simili in locis diuersis agitur.
Stobaeus (fl.5th century)
Category
Books
Date
1581
Materials
Place of origin
Frankfurt am Main
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3194436
Summary
Bibliographic description
[20], 962 [6] p. ; fol. Running number: 5111. Provenance: paper slip pinned to verso of front fly-leaf, containing manuscript bibliographical notes in the hand of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742): "Stobaei editio Aureliae Allobrogum, 1609. fol. Continet, 1. Cyri Theodori Dialogus de amicitis exilio. ... Sir Richd's edition of Stobaeus's works, in 2. vol. has all mentioned above, except what is marked 1.2.3. and his edition of the Eclogae physic. & moral. has platonis de rebus Pelopon. orationes duae, et ejusdem libellus De virtutibus"; with remnants of red wax seal and, on the other side, a partial address: "Sr Richard [Ellys] in Bolton [Street] Piccad[illy]", complete with a smudged inky fingerprint. With manuscript marginal annotations and page references on leaves ẽ2r and A1r. Binding: seventeenth-century plain vellum over boards; yapp edges; stubs of two pairs of leather ties on fore-edge of boards; manuscript spine title. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Stobaeus (fl.5th century), author Conrad Gessner (1516-1565), editor