Pausaniou Tēs Hellados periēgēsis. Hoc est, Pausaniae Accurata Graeciae descriptio, qua lector ceu manu per eam regionem circumducitur: a Guilielmo Xylandro Augustano diligenter recognita, & ab innumeris mendis repurgata. Accesserunt annotationes, quae a G. Xylandro paulo ante obitum inchoatae, nunc vero a Frid. Sylb. continuatae, magnaq[ue] accessione locupletatae, non exiguum ad genuinam Pausaniae lectionem momentum afferunt. Addita etiam doctissima Romuli Amasaei versio, a plurimis & ipsa mendis vindicata, breuibusque notatiunculis illustrata. Appendice quoq[ue] aucta est haec Pausaniae periēgēsis, & aliis, quae vndecima ab hinc pagina prolixius recensentur. Cum tribus rerum & verborum indicibus amplissimis.
Pausanias (fl.c.150-175AD)
Category
Books
Date
1583
Materials
Place of origin
Frankfurt am Main
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3232583
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12], 357, [1] p., 359-507 columns, p. 508, [77] p.; [12], 302 p., 303-352 columns, [1] p. ; fol. Verso of final leaf Ee6 pasted onto blank fly-leaf. Provenance: eighteenth-century Jacobean armorial bookplate (Franks 32206), lettered: William Windham Esquire [i.e. William Windham III (1750-1810)]. Manuscript inscriptions on two paper labels pasted onto front pastedown: "Will Windham" and "Willm Windham Oxford May 8th. 1771" [i.e. when William Windham was at University College, Oxford]. Former Felbrigg shelfmark in pencil on rear pastedown: "L6". Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn onto five sewing supports; single gilt fillet border; blind roll along board edges; spine with gilt title 'Pausanius [sic] Franc. 1583' on brown leather label and gilt fillets at head and tail, otherwise plain; red sprinkled bookblock edges.
Makers and roles
Pausanias (fl.c.150-175AD), author Wilhelm Xylander (1532 - 1576), editor Friedrich Sylburg (1536-1596), editor Romolo Quirino Amaseo (1489 - 1552), editor