Shelfmark
Fa.6.01
Additional shelfmark
Fa.6.02 (Copy 2)
Author
Uniform title
[Works and days. Latin & Greek 1542]
Title
Hesiodi Ascræi poetæ vetustissimi ac sapientissimi opera, quæ quidem extant, omnia Græcè, cum interpretatione latina è regione, ut conserri à græcæ linguæ studiosis citra negotium possint. Adiectis etiam eusdem latino carmine elegantiss. Versis, & genealogie deorum à Pylade Brixiano viro doctiss. descriptæ Libris. Item, Ioannis Grammatici cognomento Tzetzis ... Scholiae Graeca in eadem omnia Hesiodi opera ...
Varying form of title
Hesiodi Ascraei poetae vetustissimi ac sapientissimi opera, quae quidem extant, omnia Graecè, cum interpretatione latina è regione, ut conserri à graecae linguae studiosis citra negotium possint
Publication, distribution, etc.
Basileæ : [H. Froben and N. Episcopius], 1542?
Physical description
[8], 373, [3], 270p ; 17cm. (8vo.)
Note
"Deorum genealogiae a Burcardo Pylade Brixiano uersibus elegiacis conscriptae" - pp. 315-373.
Note
Printers and date from Adams H473. Preface dated 1 June 1542.
Note
Added t.p.: Ioannis Grammatici Tzetzis expositio librorum Hesiodi, Operum & dierum, Clypei Herculis, Generationis Deorum. Separate pagination and signatures.
Note
The last leaf is blank.
Citation/references note
Adams H473
Provenance
Book-label of Nicholas Mann, recording donation to Eton College in 1754.
Provenance
Copy 2: Book-label of John Reynolds, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Binding
16th century Oxford binding (Gibson, Roll. VIII) with pastedown (Ker 497). Inscription "Sam Cosens me possidet". Sold by John Adams Feb 3. 1613 (loose ms. note inside book); remains of two clasps; four raised bands; spine title.
Binding
Copy 2: 16th century white vellum; spine title.
Copy-specific note
Previously: Da.6.05.
Copy-specific note
Ms. waste used for pastedowns.
Copy-specific note
Copy 2: Second part only.
Copy-specific note
Copy 2: Previously: Fl.4.15.
Added entry--name
Froben, Hieronymus, 1501 - 1563 printer.
Added entry--name
Episcopius, Nicolaus, 1531 - 1565 printer.
Added entry--name
Mann, Nicholas, ? - -1753 former owner.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1667 - 1727 former owner.
Added entry--name
Pilade, Giovanni Francesco Boccardo, ? - 1505 Geneologia deorum.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
Switzerland Basle.
Language code
grc lat
Identifier
B21159