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Shelfmark

Ak.6.15 (Copy 1)

Additional shelfmark

Gi.7.27 (Copy 2)

Author

Title

Ioannis Meursi Athenae Atticae. Sive, de praecipuis Athenarum antiquitatibus, libri III..

Varying form of title

Ioannis MevrsI Athenæ Atticæ

Publication, distribution, etc.

Lugduni Batavorum : Apud Commelinos Fratres, 1624.

Physical description

[8], 184, [24] p. ; 20 cm. (4to)

Language

Latin text, with Greek excerpts.

Note

Includes printer's device (a seated female figure holding the sun in one hand, a book in the other; with her right foot on a sphere).

Note

Signatures: [dagger]⁴ A-2C⁴.

Provenance

(Copy 1) Label recording bequest to Eton by Nicholas Mann in 1754.

Provenance

(Copy 2) Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front pastedown. Ms. note and loose card noting the coat of arms of Nicolas Chevalier (1562-1630) on the binding.

Binding

(Copy 1) 17th-century blind-stamped calf.

Binding

(Copy 2) 17th-century calfskin over pasteboards. Covers decorated with double gilt fillets to form a border with gilt tools at the corners (intersecting 'C's); centrepiece is gilt coat of arms of Nicolas Chevalier. Spine flat, decorated with gilt double fillets, fleur-de-lys tools, and titling ("Meursi Athenae Atticae"). Textblock trimmed. Endpapers of undecorated laid paper; one flyleaf at both ends of the textblock.

Copy-specific note

(Copy 1) Former ECL shelfmark: Da.6.12. Ms. price: "-2-".

Copy-specific note

(Copy 2) Former ECL shelfmarks: DDk.6.25; DDk.5.23.

Subject

History in literature Early works to 1800.

Subject

Athens (Greece) Antiquities Early works to 1800.

Subject

Athens (Greece) History Early works to 1800.

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Added entry--place

Netherlands Leiden.

Language code

lat grc

Identifier

B11035
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