Annês tês Komnênês Porphurogennêtou kaisarissês Alexias. Annæ Comnenæ Porphyrogenitæ cæsarissæ Alexias,. siue de rebus ab Alexio imperatore vel eius tempore gestis, libri quindecim. E bibliotheca Barberina nunc primùm editi, et à Petro Possino ... latinâ interpretatione, glossario, & notis illustrati, è quibus glossarium nunc datur: notæ mox opportunius edentur, vnà cum Sinnamo continuatore Annæ, & aliis quibusdam ad Alexiadem spectantibus. Accesserunt præfationes ac notæ Davidis Hoeschelii Augustani, ex editione anni MDCX.
Comnena, Anna
Category
Books
Date
1651
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Osterley Park and House, London
NT 3208927
Summary
Bibliographic description
[28],507,[53]p., frontis.. ill.., coat of arms. fol. 18th-century Osterley shelfmark on front free endpaper verso: B4-6 [crossed through in pencil and replaced by 11.i.4.i]. Pencil shelfmark in top left-hand corner of front free endpaper verso: b/2. Late seventeenth or early eighteenth-century ink note on half-title: 10 // 16.ff.15 [price code?]. Provenance: (1) Armorial bookplate: Victor Albert George Child Villiers Earl of Jersey. Osterley Park.; (2) Book label over bottom of the Earl of Jersey's plate: Fras: M: Yglesias, M:A: [with printed poem]. Given back to the National Trust in 2012 by Brian Pritchard, from his father's collection, with the dedication: Given in memory of Donald and Dorine Pritchard. Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled sheep over boards (rebacked), remains of gilt tooling on board edges, red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Comnena, Anna David Hoeschel (1556-1617) Pierre Poussines (1609-1686)