Geōrgiou Gemistou tou kai Plēthōnos, ek tōn Diodōrou, kai Ploutarchou, Peri tōn meta tēn en Mantineia machēn, en kephalaiois dialēpsis. Hērōdianou tēs meta Markon basileias Historiōn biblia oktō. Scholia palaia, kai xynoptika es holon ton Thoukydidēn, hōn chōris ouk euxynetos ho xyngrapheus. = Georgii Gemisti, qui & Pletho dicitur, ex Diodori, & Plutarchi historiis de iis, quae post pugnam ad Mantineam gesta sunt, per capita tractatio. Herodiani a Marci principatu historia[rum] libri octo, quos Angelus Politianus elegantissime latinos fecit. Enarratiunculae antiquae, & perbreues in totum Thucydidem, sine quibus autor intellectu est quam difficillimus.
George Gemistus Plethon (fl.15th century)
Category
Books
Date
1525 - 1527
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3234077
Summary
Bibliographic description
[108] leaves ; fol. Running number: 6882. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Eighteenth-century shelfmark on front pastedown, probably written by Sir Richard Ellys: C.5.2. Booksellers' codes on front endpapers. Price code on rear pastedown. Binding: seventeenth-century full dark brown calf (rubbed); sewn onto five recessed cords; smooth spine; single gilt fillet border; gilt fillet and hatched pattern along board edges; spine rebacked in tan calf, with original gilt spine preserved, tooled with arabesque, bird, fleuron and floral tools, lettered directly onto spine at a later date with gilt title 'Gemistus & Herodianus Gr.' (evidence of missing goatskin label); gilt edges. Manuscript waste visible underneath pastedowns at hinges. Pencil inscription in the hand of Cecil Clarabut (the National Trust's first Libraries Adviser) on front free endpaper: "repaired at Cambridge 1955".
Makers and roles
George Gemistus Plethon (fl.15th century), author Herodian (fl.AD 250), author Thucydides (460-400 BC), author Xenophon (c.430 - c.355 BC), author Franciscus Asulanus (d.1546), editor Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494), translator Aldo Manuzio the Elder (1449/50 - 1515), printer Andreas Torresanus de Asula (1451-1529), printer Aedes Aldi et Andreae Asulani Soceri, printer and publisher