Etymologikon to mega. Ēgoun Hē megalē grammatikē. = Etymologicon magnum; seu Magnum grammaticae penu: in quo & originum & analogiae doctrina ex veterum sententia copiosissime proponitur: historiae item & antiquitatis monumenta passim attinguntur: superiorum editionum variumq[ue] auctorum collatione a multis ac foedis mendis repurgatum, perpetuis notis illustratum, tribusq[ue] vtilissimis indicibus, verborum, rerum at[que] auctorum numero pene infinitorum, nunc recens adauctum: opera Frideri Sylburgii veter.
Friedrich Sylburg (1536-1596)
Category
Books
Date
1594
Materials
Place of origin
Heidelberg
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3235202
Summary
Book box containing two parts of the same book 'Etymologikon to mega. Ēgoun Hē megalē grammatikē' (Heidelberg, 1594). First part consists of unbound loose printed leaves wrapped in blank bifolia; second part is bound and consists of rest of the book in abraded leather binding.
Bibliographic description
VIII p., 828 columns, [2], 163, [1] p. ; fol. Running number: 6930. Imperfect: wanting leaves ):(1-4, F6-G2, I5-6 and M6-R6. In two parts: leaves A1-M5 are unbound and wrapped in blank paper bifolia; leaves S1 to ²V6 are bound. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Written in red ink on front of first bifolium: "Quaecunq[ue] rubro in hoc opere notata invenis ex Manuscripto Spectatissimi Viri Richardi Ellys desumta sunt et quaecunq[ue] in ipso Textu lineâ rubrâ subducta sunt ità iisdem verbis reperiuntur in dicto Manus scripto quae verò in Textu nullô rubrô notanti ea in MSCo. non extant. ...". The bifolia are heavily annotated with Greek notes written in red ink; the loose printed leaves have underlining of text in pencil and in red ink, plus marginal and interlinear Greek notes in red ink. Some of the loose printed leaves have a paper slip pasted onto them, containing additional Greek notes in red ink. Bound second part has only one or two manuscript marginal note in black ink, e.g. sig. Dd6v, and many ink blotches on the leaves. Binding: first part containing loose leaves up to leaf M5 is unbound; second part containing leaves S1 to ²V6 has seventeenth-century[?] full sprinkled calf binding (very abraded and worn, surface leather almost totally gone, feels more like reversed calf now); recessed cords, smooth spine; double blind fillet border with additional quarter double blind fillet parallel to spine-edge, small blind cornerpiece stamps; double blind fillet along board edges; spine leather almost totally gone, revealing fabric spine lining; textblock edges stained blue. Stored in brown buckram book box (title mispelled on label). Typescript binder's note loose in box, signed and dated 'Nicholas Pickwoad May 1983'.
Makers and roles
Friedrich Sylburg (1536-1596), author