Shelfmark
Fa.2.06
Author
Uniform title
[De bello Peloponnesiaco. Latin & Greek 1594]
Title
Thoukudidou tou olorou, peri tou Peloponnesiakou polemou biblia okto. Thvcydidis olori filii, de bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo. Iidem Latinè, ex interpretatione Lavrentii Vallæ, ab Henrico Stephano nuper recognita, quam Æmilius Portus, Francisci Porti Cretensis F. paternos commentarios accuratè sequutus, ab infinita gravissimorum errorum multitudine novissimè repurgavit, magnaq diligentia passim expolitam innovavit.
Varying form of title
Thucydidis olori filii, de bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo.
Edition
In hac postremo editione quid præterea præstetur, sequens pagina docet.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Francofurti : Apud heredes Andreæ Wecheli, Claudium Marnium, & Ioan. Aubrium, M.D. XCIV [1594].
Physical description
[16], 631, [1]p, 568 columns, [48]p ; 35cm. (Fo.)
Note
Previously: Ca.2.12.
Note
Greek text and Latin translation in parallel columns; Latin commentary.
Note
Printers device on title page and last page, headpiece and initial.
Note
Type and ornaments would suggest that the book was printed at the Estienne shop (either by Henri or his son Paul) at Geneva for the Wechel firm of Frankfurt. Cf. Schreiber, F. Estiennes, 1982, p. 233-234.
Citation/references note
Adams T668; BM STC German, 1455-1600, p. 860
Provenance
Bookplate of Eton College.
Provenance
Circular armorial bookplate of Eton College.
Binding
16th-century brown armorial panelled calf; triple blind fillet to form a border; six raised bands; remains of two clasps; red spine label.
Subject
Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War.
Subject
Classical literature Early works to 1800.
Subject
Greece History Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Estienne, Henri, 1531 - 1598 printer.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Marnius, Claudius, ? - d. 1610 printer.
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Aubry, Jean, ? - d. ca. 1667 printer.
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Wechel, Andreas, ? - d. 1581 printer.
Added entry--place
Germany Frankfurt.
Language code
grc lat
Identifier
B19140