Eukleidou stoicheiōn bibl. 15. ek tōn Theōnos synousiōn. Eis tou autou to prōton, exēgēmatōn Proklou bibl. 4. Adiecta praefatiuncula in qua de disciplinis mathematicis nonnihil.
Euclid (fl.300 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1533
Materials
Place of origin
Basel
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3233322
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12], 268, 115, [1] p. : ill. ; fol. Provenance: 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)]. Manuscript price[?] in pencil at head of front fly-leaf: "-15-". With manuscript marginal annotations in Greek and Latin in sixteenth- or seventeenth-century hand and underlining of text throughout. With a few marginal notes in pencil [usually a sign that William Windham III (1750-1810) has read the book]. Former Felbrigg shelfmark in pencil: L6 (crossed-out). Binding: seventeenth-century[?] full blind-panelled reversed calf; sewn onto four sewing supports; blind double fillet border; panel of triple blind fillets and two different cornerpiece stamps; rebacked in reversed calf; brown goatskin label with gilt title on spine; red sprinkled textblock edges; pencil note on front pastedown: "Binding repaired 1950. RWKC" [i.e. Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969)].
Makers and roles
Euclid (fl.300 BC), author Proclus (c.410 - 485), author Theon of Alexandria (fl.364), author Simon Grynäus (1493-1541), editor