Euclidis Megarensis mathematici clarissimi Elementorum geometricorum. Lib. XV. Cum expositione Theonis in priores XIII à Bartholomaeo Veneto Latinitate donata, Campani in omnes, & Hypsiclis Alexandrini in duos postremos. His adiecta sunt Phaenomena, Catoptrica & Optica, deinde Protheoria Marini & Data. Postremûm uero, opusculum de Leui & Ponderoso, hactenus non uisum, eiusdem autoris.
Euclid (fl.300 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1537
Materials
Place of origin
Basel
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3232604
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 587, [1] p. : ill. ; fol. With Melanchthon's uncensored preface. Provenance: eighteenth-century Jacobean armorial bookplate (Franks 32206), lettered: William Windham Esquire [probably William Windham III (1750-1810)]. Pencil inscription on verso of front endpaper: "Began the seventh book Nov. 28th 1786 aged 15 years Geo. Lukin" [i.e. George Lukin (b. 1771), younger brother of Vice-Admiral William Lukin. With manuscript marginal annotations and geometrical diagrams in a small sixteenth-century[?] hand. Former Felbrigg shelfmarks in pencil: Z6 (crossed-out), L6 (on rear pastedown). Binding: seventeenth-century[?] brown reversed calf (faded to white on spine); blind fillet and roll panels; blind roll on board edges; gilt title 'Euclidis Elementa' on brown goatksin label on spine; bookblock edges stained red; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Euclid (fl.300 BC), author Theon of Alexandria (fl.364), editor Campano da Novara (d.1296), editor Hypsicles, of Alexandria, editor Marinus, editor Philipp Schwarzerd called Melanchthon (1497-1560), writer Zamberti, Bartolomeo, translator Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (d.1536), editor