Epicteti Stoici philosophi Enchiridion, unà cum Cebetis Thebani Tabula. Accessêre Arriani commentariorum de Epicteti disputationibus lib. IV. Omnia Hieron. Wolfio interprete, cum ejusdem annotationibus. Item Porphyrii philosophi Pythagorici De abstinentia ab animalibus necandis libri quatuor, ex nova versione; cui subjiciuntur notae breviusculae. Ejusdem liber De vita Pythagorae: & Sententiae ad intelligibilia ducentes: De antro nympharum quod in Odyssea describitur. Lucas Holstenius Hamburgens. Latinè vertit. Dissertationem de vita & scriptis Porphyrii, & ad vitam Pythagorae observationes adjecit. Cum indicibus in Arrianum & Porphyrium locupletissimis.
Epictetus (c.60 - after 100 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1655
Materials
Place of origin
Cambridge
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3194694
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 495, [17]; [2], 285, [11], 87, [15] p. ; 8vo. Running number: 5162. Provenance: former shelfmark: "S.2.26". Manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "JArcher. 13. ...[illegible] cf.". Fragment of eighteenth-century letter used as bookmark between leaves ²F8 and ²G1, with notes in Greek and French on one side, and on the other side "If the third volume of the Museum Florentium [b]e come, & where I must send for it". Binding: seventeenth-century calf; blind double fillet border; panel of blind single and double fillets, with blind thistle cornerpiece stamps; blind double fillet on board edges; blind-tooled spine, with fillets, rolls and stamps.
Makers and roles
Epictetus (c.60 - after 100 AD), author Lucio Arrian (86-175 AD), author Cebes of Thebes (c. 430 – 350 BC) Hieronymous Wolf (1516 - 1580) Porphyry (c.232-c.305) Lucas Holstenius (1596-1661)