Lycophronis Chalcidensis Alexandra, obscurum poema. Cum Graeco Isaacii, seu potius Joannis, Tzetzae commentario. Versiones, variantes lectiones, emendationes, adnotationes, & indices necessarios adjecit Joannes Potterus, ... Editio secunda, priori auctior.
Lycophron (fl.3rd century BC)
Category
Books
Date
1702
Materials
Place of origin
Oxford
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3232594
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 183, [29]; [6], 174, [18] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; fol. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front pastedown: "Willm. Windham Oxford. June 16th 1770" [i.e. William Windham III (1750-1810)], when he was at University College]. Manuscript inscription on additional Greek title page: "J. Waller". Pencil sketch [by Windham?] of a landscape (walled town[?] in left foreground, range of mountains in background) at foot of leaf b1r (p. [9]). Former Felbrigg shelfmarks: "Q6" (in pencil, crossed-out), "S8" (in pencil), "O6" (in ink on rear pastedown). Binding: early eighteenth-century blind-panelled calf; sewn onto five sewing supports; double blind fillet border, triple blind fillet panel with blind cornerpiece stamps; gilt roll on board edges; gold-tooled spine with fillet and stamp decoration; title label missing, lozenge-shape paper label at head of spine; red and blue sprinkled bookblock edges.
Makers and roles
Lycophron (fl.3rd century BC) , author Isaac Tzetzes (d.1138), translator John Tzetzes (12th century), translator Willem Canter (1542 - 1575), editor Joseph Juste Scaliger (1540-1609), editor Johannes Meursius (van Meurs) (1579-1639)., editor John Potter (1673-1747) Archbishop of Canterbury, editor Richard Wright of London, editor