Shelfmark
Bb.7.07
Title
Vetus orbis descriptio, Græci scriptoris, sub Constantio & Constante Impp. Nunc primùm, post mille trecentos fermè annos, edita. Cum duplici versione & notis Iacobi Gothofredi ...
Publication, distribution, etc.
[Geneva] : Ex Typographia Petri Chouët, 1628.
Physical description
[16], 47, [17], 49, [5]p ; 4to.
Note
Previously Be.3.1.
Note
Text in Latin and Greek.
Note
Greek version = translation of Latin by Godefroy; Greek original lost.
Note
Half-title to main text reads "Exegesis holou tou kosmou kai ton ethnon. Expositio totius mundi & gentium" (first part transliterated from the Greek).
Note
Author thought to have been a 4th century Syrian.
Provenance
Bookplate of Eton College.
Provenance
Topham stamp; bequeathed to Eton by Richard Topham in 1736.
Binding
17th century blind-stamped calf.
Subject
Geography, Ancient Early works to 1800.
Subject
Cosmography Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Godefroy, Jacques, 1587 - 1652 editor.
Added entry--place
Switzerland Geneva.
Language code
lat grc
Identifier
B11795