Sophoclis quæ exstant omnia cum veterum grammaticorum scholiis. : Superstites tragœdias VII. Ad optimorum exemplarium fidem recensuit, versione et notis illustravit, deperditarum fragmenta collegit Rich. Franc. Phil. Brunck .... / Accedunt excerpta ex varietate lectionis, quam continet editio Caroli Gottl. Augusti Erfurdt, Demetrii Triclinii scholia metrica, et notæ ineditæ Caroli Burneii.
Sophocles (c. 496-405 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1819
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3229500
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v. ; 8vo. Provenance: manuscript inscriptions on front free endpaper of vol. 1 and vol. 3 and on rear free endpaper of vol. 2: "W: Windham" [probably William Howe (Lukin) Windham (1802-1854)]. Pencil inscription on front free endpaper of vol. 1: "Windham". Pencil number on front free endpaper of vol. 1: "19, 000, 000, 000", with further 0's crossed through. Pencil inscription on second front free endpaper of vol. 1: "Robert Courtenary Windham Brasenose College Oxford Novr. 12th. Public Lecture S. Hall". Pencil notes on rear free endpapers of vol. 1, including quotations, calculations, and list of names under the heading "Wine this evening"; also a couplet of verse by Robert Burns in a different hand. Binding: nineteenth-century full dark green calf; single gilt fillet and blind fillets and rolls used to form outer border; four false bands; spines decorated with blind and gilt tooling; black spine labels: 'Sophoclis. Brunck' and 'Tom I[-III]'; single gilt fillet on board edges; gilt-rolled turn-ins; marbled edges; marbled endpapers; green ribbon marker in all vols.
Makers and roles
Sophocles (c. 496-405 BC) Richard François Philippe Brunck (1729 - 1803) Karl Gottlob August Erfurdt (1780-1813) Demetrius Triclinius (b.c.1300) Charles Burney (Lyme Regis 1757 – 1817)