Fb.7.03
[Elements. 1564]
Eukleidou ton pente kai deka stoicheion, ek ton tou theonos synodion to proton. = Euclidis quindecim elementorum geometriæ primum: ex Theonis commentarijs Græcè & Latinè. Cui accesserunt scholia, in quibus quæ ad percipienda geometriæ elementa spectant, breuiter & dilucidè explicantur, authore Cunrado Dasypodio, scholæ Argentinensis professore.
Euclidis quindecim elementorum geometriæ primum: ex Theonis commentarijs Græcè & Latinè
Argentorati : excudebat Christianus Mylius, M. D. LXIII. [1564]
3 v. in one : ill. ; 8vo.
Greek and Latin parallel text.
Despite the title, the work contains the first 13 books only, and not 15.
Vols. [2] and [3] have separate title pages, pagination and collation.
Vol. [2] title: Eukleidou ton pente kai deka stoicheion ek ton tou theonos synodion to diateron. Includes a supplementary work by Barlaam Monachi.
Vol. [3] title: Propositiones reliquorum librorum geometriæ Euclidis.
With woodcut geometric diagrams throughout; initials; ornamental vignette on t.p. of vol. [3].
Errata, vol. [1], p. 189 and vol. [3], final two pages.
First 13 words of title in Greek script.
Adams, E1008
Adams, E1009
Thomas-Stanford. Early editions of Euclid's Elements, 22
Ownership inscription, t.p. verso: "William Tonstall, huius libri possessor: Ann. Dom: 1631". Further list of names, in margins of p. A2r and A3v.
Booklabel of John Reynolds, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
18th century quarter sheep leather binding; boards covered with marbled paper; rebacked, with older black morocco spine label re-used; four raised bands; green fore-edges.
Previous shelf-mark: Fk.6.01.
Copious annotations in several hands in the text, and geometrical exercises in ink in the margins of 1st 20 pages of vol. [3].
Mathematics, Greek Early works to 1800.
Geometry Early works to 1800.
Theon of Alexandria,
France Strasbourg
B27810