Ploutarchou Chairōneōs ta sōzomena syngrammata. = Plutarchi Chaeronensis quae extant opera, cum Latina interpretatione. Ex vetustis codicibus plurima nunc primùm emendata sunt, vt ex Henr. Stephani annotationibus intelliges: quibus & suam quorundam libellorum interpretationem adiunxit. Aemylii Probi De vita excellentium imperatorum liber.
Plutarch (c.46 - c.120)
Category
Books
Date
1572
Materials
Place of origin
Geneva
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3237224
Summary
Bibliographic description
13 v. ; 8vo. Imperfect: vols. 1-3 only. Water-staining throughout vol. 3. Extensive manuscript list of classical names and notes written in a sixteenth or seventeenth-century hand on vol. 1 front fly-leaf and paper stub and on vols. 2-3 front fly-leaves; with additional notes in eighteenth or nineteenth-century hand on vol. 2 fly-leaf. Provenance: manuscript inscriptions on recto of vol. 1 front fly-leaf: (1) "Liber est Guiliel: Lewin"; (2) "W: H: Lukin Eton Coll: 1818" [i.e. William Howe Lukin, later William Howe Windham (1802-1854), whilst a pupil at Eton]. Manuscript inscriptions on verso of vol. 1 front fly-leaf: (1) "J. Chapman"; (2) "Kath[?]: Lukin Londini Jul: 18:17" [not identified]. Manuscript inscription on vol. 2 front fly-leaf: "W. H. Lukin Eton Coll. 1818". Manuscript inscription on vol. 2 half-title: "K [or possibly R] Lukin". Manuscript inscriptions on recto of vol. 3 front fly-leaf: (1) "Liber est Guil: Lewin -54 Mes: No."; (2) "W H Lukin Eton Coll: 1818". Manuscript inscription on verso of vol. 3 front fly-leaf: "WH[?] Lukin Londini Jul: 1751". Manuscript initials on title page of each vols, p. 1 (vol. 1), p. 781 (vol. 2), p. 1389 (vol. 3), and rear fly-leaves in each vol.: "W.L." [probably William Lukin]. Manuscript marginal annotations throughout in at least two different hands, one sixteenth or seventeenth-century hand, one possibly eighteenth-century; marginal markings throughout in pencil. Manuscript former shelfmark[?] in black ink on inside front board: "G.30" (vol. 1), "G.25" (vol. 2) and "G.26" (vol. 3). Manuscript inscription on vol. 1 rear fly-leaf: "1654 Men: no.". Manuscript inscriptions on vol. 3 rear fly-leaf: (1) "-54 Men: No." and (2) "Liber est Guil. Lewin". Binding: English (Oxford) sixteenth-century blind-tooled brown calf over pasteboards; sewn on four alum-tawed supports laced through the pasteboards; covers have a blind-tooled panel design of two outer thin thick thin fillet frames containing two different Renaissance ornament roll patterns, the outer roll with signed with the initials GK, and a plain central panel; single blind fillet on board edges, with two-way hatching (row of diagonal hatching with a few rows running horizontally) adjacent to the spine at the head and foot of the boards typical of Oxford bindings between about 1580 and 1650; blind-tooled spines with fillets on either side of raised bands and diagonal hatching at the head and tail, again typical of Oxford bindings of the period; brown leather label with gilt title on spines; faint manuscript vol. number written on spines; bookblock edges stained red. Head of vol. 2 spine partially missing.
Makers and roles
Plutarch (c.46 - c.120), author Cornelius Nepos (99-24 BC), author Henri Estienne (1531-1598), editor Herman Croeser (1510-1574), translator Wilhelm Xylander (1532 - 1576), translator Donato Acciaiuoli (1429 - 1478), translator Henri Estienne (1531-1598), publisher