Shelfmark
Fb.7.03
Author
Euclid
Uniform title
[Elements. 1564]
Title
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.
Varying form of title
Euclidis quindecim elementorum geometriæ primum: ex Theonis commentarijs Græcè & Latinè
Publication, distribution, etc.
Argentorati : excudebat Christianus Mylius, M. D. LXIII. [1564]
Physical description
3 v. in one : ill. ; 8vo.
Language
Greek and Latin parallel text.
Note
Despite the title, the work contains the first 13 books only, and not 15.
Note
Vols. [2] and [3] have separate title pages, pagination and collation.
Note
Vol. [2] title: Eukleidou ton pente kai deka stoicheion ek ton tou theonos synodion to diateron. Includes a supplementary work by Barlaam Monachi.
Note
Vol. [3] title: Propositiones reliquorum librorum geometriæ Euclidis.
Note
With woodcut geometric diagrams throughout; initials; ornamental vignette on t.p. of vol. [3].
Note
Errata, vol. [1], p. 189 and vol. [3], final two pages.
Note
First 13 words of title in Greek script.
Citation/references note
Adams, E1008
Citation/references note
Adams, E1009
Citation/references note
Thomas-Stanford. Early editions of Euclid's Elements, 22
Provenance
Ownership inscription, t.p. verso: "William Tonstall, huius libri possessor: Ann. Dom: 1631". Further list of names, in margins of p. A2r and A3v.
Provenance
Booklabel of John Reynolds, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Binding
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.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelf-mark: Fk.6.01.
Copy-specific note
Copious annotations in several hands in the text, and geometrical exercises in ink in the margins of 1st 20 pages of vol. [3].
Subject
Mathematics, Greek Early works to 1800.
Subject
Geometry Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758
Added entry--name
Dayspodius, Cunradus, 1532 - 1600
Added entry--name
Theon of Alexandria,
Added entry--name
Barlaam, Calabro, ca. 1290 - 1348
Added entry--place
France Strasbourg
Identifier
B27810