Theocriti Syracusii, poëtae celeberrimi, selecta ac praecipua quaedam Idyllia, Graeca et Latina. In quibis omnimoda dorismorum varietas continetur, eademque cum caeteris dialectis, quae hîc passim occurrunt, clarè & distinctè exponitur: phrases, loquendique formulae, è quibus vocum constructionem & textûs sensum perspicies, Graecè & Latinè proponuntur: loca difficiliora explican[t]ur, ac ab omni obscuritate vindicantur. Quare illis, qui haec diligenter & accuratè legerint ac observaverint, tutò, facilè ac jucundè in omnibus Theocriti scriptis, aliisque Doricae linguae authoribus versari licebit.
Theocritus (c.308-c.240 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1683
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3200964
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12], 117, [3] p. ; 12mo. Running number: 5559. Provenance: manuscript booksellers' codes on front fly-leaf. Manuscript initial on second front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: seventeenth-century sheepskin; sewn on two leather sewing supports; blind double fillet border; blind roll pattern along board edges; recessed cords. Red and brown sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Theocritus (c.308-c.240 BC), author Georgius Sylvanus, editor