Shelfmark
Fd.1.10
Author
Uniform title
[Epitome historion. Latin & Greek]
Title
Ioannis Zonarae Monachi, qui olim Byzantij Magnus Drungarius excubiaru[m] seu Biglae, & protosecretarius fuit, Compendium historiarum, in tres tomos distinctum: quorum primus agit de rebus Iudaicis, ab exordio mundi usq[ue] ad Hierosolymitanum excidium. Secundus, historiam Romanam, ab urbe condita usq[ue] ad Constantinum Magnum, breuiter complectitur. Tertius, imperatorum res gestas, à Constantino Magno usq[ue] ad obitum Alexij Commeni, tractat. Opus praeclarum, ac diu desideratum: nunc uerò demum liberatitate magnifici & generosi uiri D. Antonii Fuggeri, &c. & labore Hieronimi VVolfii, Graecè ac Latinè, quinq[ue] codicibus inter se collatis, quàm emendatissimè fieri potuit, in lucem editum. Singulis tomis sui additi sunt indices, & uariarum lectionum annotationes.
Varying form of title
Added title page title: Tomus historiorium tertius, quo Christianorum imperatorum res gestæ, à Constantino Magno usque ad Alexii Comneni obitum describuntur
Varying form of title
Added title page title: Ioannes Zonarae monachi Tomus historiorium tertius, quo Christianorum imperatorum res gestæ, à Constantino Magno usque ad Alexii Comneni obitum describuntur
Varying form of title
Added title page title: Tomus secundus, quo Romana historia ab urbe condita usque ad Constantinum magnum, breuiter perstringitur
Varying form of title
Added title page title: Ioannis Zonarae magni Drungarij Biglæ, & primarij à secretis, Tomus secundus, quo Romana historia ab urbe condita usque ad Constantinum magnum, breuiter perstringitur
Publication, distribution, etc.
Basileae, : Per Ioannem Oporinum, 1557.
Physical description
3 v. in 1 (11, [1], 224, [36]; 248, [24]; 246, [22] p.) ; fol.
Note
Volume 3 has title: Ioannes Zonarae monachi Tomus historiorium tertius, quo Christianorum imperatorum res gestæ, à Constantino Magno usque ad Alexii Comneni obitum describuntur: Hieronymo VVolfio interprete. Cum rerum & uerborum memoravilium indice copioso.
Note
Volume 2 has title: Ioannis Zonarae magni Drungarij Biglæ, & primarij à secretis, Tomus secundus, quo Romana historia ab urbe condita usque ad Constantinum magnum, breuiter perstringitur: Hieronymo VVolfio interprete. Cum rerum & uerborum memorabilium indice copiosa.
Note
Printer's device (Arion riding a dolphin while playing the violin) on each title page and repeated in a different form with motto "In via virtuti nulla est via" on verso of final leaf.
Note
Printed marginalia; woodcut figurative initials; line numbers.
Note
Each volume includes its own index.
Note
Greek text and Latin translation in parallel columns.
Note
Colophon: Basileae, ex officina Ioannis Oporini, anno Salutis humanae M. D. LVII. mense Martio.
Citation/references note
Adams, Z180
Provenance
Booklabel of John Reynolds, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Binding
17th century dark brown calf; blind tooled double fillet border, with two further vertical lines two inches from the spine; gold tooled single fillet on board edges; gold tooled double fillet, arabesque cornerpieces and floral stamps on spine; red morocco spine label with gold tooled letters and triple fillet border.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Fb.1.8.
Copy-specific note
Price on front pastedown: pr. 00-10-00.
Copy-specific note
Marginal annotations in two 17th century hands throughout.
Subject
History, Ancient Early works to 1800.
Subject
Byzantine Empire History Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Wolf, Hieronymus, 1516 - 1580 editor.
Added entry--name
Oporinus, Joannes, 1507 - 1568 printer.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
Added entry--place
Switzerland Basel.
Language code
grc lat grc
Identifier
B28397