Epicteti Manuale :. Cebetis Thebani Tabula, Prodici Hercules, et Theophrasti Characteres ethici /. Græce et Latine, in usum Tyronum accommodati, Græca cum mss. collata castigavit, versionem fidam, nec barbaram adjunxit, annotationibus omnium doctissimorum selectis, necnon suis, in quibus verba, sententiæ, dogmata, moresque antiqui explicantur, illustravit Josephus Simpson, A.M. Coll. Reg. Oxon. Socius.
Epictetus (c.60 - after 100 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1758
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Dyrham, Gloucestershire
NT 3249607
Summary
Bibliographic description
Editio quarta, auctior & emendatior.. [36], 89, [5], 58, 14, [2], 112, [8] p. ;. 21 cm. (8vo). Acquired by the National Trust with other former Dyrham books in April 2022. Provenance: Manuscript inscription in brown ink on front pastedown 'Blathwayt'; manuscript inscription in brown ink on front pastedown, removed aside from '14 Dec. 1779.'; manuscript inscription in brown ink on title page, mostly removed. Binding: eighteenth-century tan leather over boards with unusual sprinkled and 'brushed' effect; sewn on five slightly raised bands; floral gold tooled motifs on spine; blind tooling to board edges; red sprinkled edges; red leather spine label with 'Epictetus Simpson' lettered in gold.
Makers and roles
Epictetus (c.60 - after 100 AD) Cebes of Thebes (c. 430 – 350 BC) Prodicus Theophrastus (c.372-287 BC) Simpson, Joseph, 1710?-1796