Palaeographia Graeca, sive De ortu et progressu literarum Graecarum, et variis omnium saeculorum scriptionis Graecae generibus: itemque de abbreviationibus & de notis variarum artium ac disciplinarum. Additis figuris schematibus ad fidem manuscriptorum codicum. Opera & studio D. Bernardi de Montfaucon, sacerdotis & monachi Benedictini è congregatione Sancti Mauri.
Bernard de Montfaucon (1655-1741)
Category
Books
Date
1708
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3225410
Summary
Bibliographic description
[18], xxix, [1], 574 p., [9] leaves of plates (6 folded) : ill., facsims. ; fol. Running number: 7738. Imperfect: wanting some leaves of plates[?]: [9] leaves (6 folded) present. Wanting leaves Eee1-2 (pp. 397-400). Provenance: eighteenth-century manuscript former shelfmark on front pastedown: "H.3.11" or possibly "A.3.11". Binding: eighteenth-century blind-panelled sprinkled calf (rubbed and scratched); sewn on seven raised bands; blind double fillet border, blind double fillet and roll pattern inner panel with blind cornerpeice stamps; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gilt title on brown leather label on spine; red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Bernard de Montfaucon (1655-1741), author Porphyrios, Metropolitan of Nicaea, author Iōannēs, Komnēnos (1657-1719), author Jean Bouhier (1673-1746), author Pierre François Giffart (b.1677), engraver (printmaker) Sébastien Le Clerc (Metz 1637 - Paris 1714), artist