Comicorum Graecorum sententiae, id est gnōmai, Latinis versibus ab Henr. Stephano redditae, & annotationibus illustratae. Eiusdem Henrici Stephani tetrastichon de his sententiis. Quem permixta iocis offendunt seria multis, Quem minus idcirco comica musa iuuat, Paucis mixta iocis hinc seria plurima carpat. Nanque cothurnata hic plurima soccus habet.
Henri Estienne (1531-1598)
Category
Books
Date
1569
Materials
Place of origin
Geneva
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3200412
Summary
Bibliographic description
[32], 663 [i.e. 635], [5] p. ; 32mo. Running number: 5517. Ruled in red throughout. Imperfect: wanting final two leaves (rr7 and 8). Provenance: manuscript former shelfmark on front pastedown: "N.1.5". Manuscript gift inscription in seventeenth-century[?] hand on title page: "Je donne ce libre a vernuilh pour se souuenir De lamitie gui est entre luy et moy, M" [vernuilh possibly = John (Jean) Verneuil (1582 or 3-1647), underkeeper of the Bodleian Library]. Binding: sixteenth-century blind and gold-tooled calf; sewn on four raised bands; blind triple fillet border; panel of blind triple fillets, with gilt arabesque cornerpiece stamps; small gilt oval centrepiece stamp. Rebacked very badly in parchment (cracked, partially missing at head), probably late sixteenth or seventeenth-century. Manuscript title on spine. Gilt edges. Thin strips of binder's vellum manuscript waste containing text in black and red ink along the board hinges visible at front and rear.
Makers and roles
Henri Estienne (1531-1598) Syrus Publilius (1st century BC) Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)