Scholia tōn panu dokimōn eis hepta tragōdias tou Euripidou, syllegenta ek diaphorōn palaiōn biblōn kai synarmologēthenta para Arseniou archiepiskopou Monembasias. Scholia in septem Euripidis tragoedias ex antiquis exemplaribus ab Arsenio archiep[iscop]o Mone[m]basi[a]e collecta, & nunc primu[m] in lucem edita.
Arsenios, (1464-1535) Archbishop of Monemvasia
Category
Books
Date
1534
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3195230
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 293 [i.e. 285], [3] leaves ; 8vo. Running number: 5216. Ruled in red throughout. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "J Bridges" [i.e. John Bridges (1666-1724), antiquarian and lawyer. Bridges' library was sold in London, 7 Feb. 1725/26]. Lot 1375 (with the 1503 editio princeps of Euripides) in Bridges sale catalogue 'Bibliothecae Bridgesianae catalogus' (London, 1725 [i.e. 1726]). Library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire; Ellys bought a number of books at the Bridges library sale in 1726. Manuscript inscription on fly-leaf facing title page: "Euripides" [i.e. catalogue entry note by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys]. Manuscript capital letter written in ink at head of front fly-leaf: "S" (found in a number of Blickling's books but unknown as to what it means). Binding: Italy, sixteenth-century, brown goatskin over thin wooden boards; sewn on five sewing supports; covers blind and gold-tooled to a rectangular panel design with a blind thin-thick-thin fillet border, the middle frame of blind thin-thick-thin fillets with a single gilt fillet on the inner edge and gilt fleuron cornerpiece stamps, the central frame of blind thin-thick-thin fillets with a single gilt fillet on the outer edge and small gilt floral stamps at the corners, and with a gilt centrepiece of four fleurons (two impressions each of two different tools); traces of two pairs of red textile ties on fore-edges; single blind fillet along board edges; spine with five raised bands and six compartments with blind-tooling and gilt fleuron and floral tools, the second and third compartments with brown goatskin labels gilt lettered with title 'SCHOLIA GR. IN EURIPIDEM' and imprint 'AP: JUNTAM 1534'; all edges gilt, gauffered with abstract floral design within border.
Makers and roles
Arsenios, (1464-1535) Archbishop of Monemvasia , author Luca-Antonio Giunta (1457-1538), printer