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 3237224.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
Vol. 1. 778, [6] p. ; 8vo. Extensive manuscript list of classical names and notes written in a sixteenth or seventeenth-century hand on front fly-leaf and paper stub. Provenance: manuscript inscriptions on recto of 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 front fly-leaf: (1) "J. Chapman"; (2) "Kath[?]: Lukin Londini Jul: 18:17" [not identified]. Manuscript initials on title page, p. 1, and rear fly-leaf: "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". Manuscript inscription on rear fly-leaf: "1654 Men: no.". 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 tools, 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 spine 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 spine; faint manuscript vol. number written on spine; bookblock edges stained red.
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