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.
Added entry--name
Mann, Nicholas, ? - -1753 former owner.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--name
Chevalier, Nicolas, 1562 - 1630 former owner.
Added entry--place
Netherlands Leiden.
Language code
lat grc
Identifier
B11035