Hērodotou Halikarnassēos Historiōn logoi 9 epigraphomenoi Mousai. Tou autou Exēgēsis peri tēs Homērou biotēs. = Herodoti Halicarnassei Historiarum libri IX novem Musarum nominibus inscripti. Ejusdem narratio de vita Homeri. Excerpta è Ctesiae libris de rebus Persicis & Indicis. Graecè & Latine. Et H. Stephani Apologia pro Herodoto. Accesserunt huic editioni chronologia Historiae, & tabula geographiae Herodoteae; necnon variantes lectiones, & notae ex pluribus Mss. codd. & antiquis scriptoribus collectae; unà cum indice Graeco & Latino.
Herodotus (c.484-c.425 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1679
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3233161
Summary
Bibliographic description
[72], 708, [44], 33, [37] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; fol. Provenance: paper slip with inscription pasted onto front pastedown: "A. Windham" [i.e. Ashe Windham (1673-1749)]. Eighteenth-century Jacobean armorial bookplate (Franks 32206), lettered: William Windham Esquire [i.e. either William Windham II (1717-1761) or William Windham III (1750-1810)]. Pencil markings in the margins (usually a sign that William Windham III has read the book). Pencil doodles in the margins (by William Windham III?): geometric shapes (e.g. pp. 423, 427, 435, 444, 461, 463, 473, 476), churches (pp. 523, 527), castles (pp. 531, 535), bridge (p. 539), houses (pp. 543, 547, 551). Former Felbrigg shelfmarks in pencil: L6 (crossed-out), R8 (crossed-out). Binding: seventeenth-century blind-tooled calf; sewn onto five sewing supports; double fillet border forming outer sprinkled panel; double fillet and roll pattern forming plain inner panel with cornerpiece stamps; gilt roll pattern along board edges; rebacked (nineteenth-century) in calf; gilt title label on spine; red sprinkled textblock edges; nineteenth-century endpapers.
Makers and roles
Herodotus (c.484-c.425 BC), author Ctesias (fl. 5th century BC), author Henri Estienne (1531-1598), editor Thomas Gale (1635/6-1702) Dean of York, editor Lorenzo Valla (1407-1457), translator Lamb, Francis, engraver (printmaker)