Tōn Ploutarchou diaphorōn syngrammatōn tmēma deuteron. Variorum Plutarchi scriptorum tomus secundus.
Plutarch (c.46 - c.120)
Category
Books
Date
1572
Materials
Place of origin
Geneva
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3237224.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
Vol. 2. [2], 781-1381, [5] p. ; 8vo. Extensive manuscript notes written in a sixteenth or seventeenth-century hand and additional notes in eighteenth or nineteenth-century hand on front fly-leaf. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "W. H. Lukin Eton Coll. 1818" [i.e. William Howe Lukin, later William Howe Windham (1802-1854), whilst a pupil at Eton]. Manuscript inscription on half-title: "K [or possibly R] Lukin". Manuscript initials on title page, p. 781 and 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.25". 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. Head of 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