Shelfmark
Ff.7.24(03)
Author
Title
Alphabetum Græcum. Addita sunt Theodori Bezæ Scholia, in quibus de germana Græcæ linguæ pronuntiatione disseritur.
Varying form of title
Alphabetum Graecum
Publication, distribution, etc.
[Geneva] : Oliua Roberti Stephani., M. D. LIIII. [1554]
Physical description
[36] leaves ; 17 cm. (8vo)
Note
While still in Paris, Robert Estienne issued three editions of his Greek Alphabet, type specimens for his new "Grecs du Roi." The new types were printed in 1543, 1548, and 1550. The types were cut by Claude Garamond based on the Greek script of the Cretan calligrapher Angelo Vergazio. Roberttook the punches of all three sizes of type with him, and all three appear in this work.
Note
Signatures: A-D⁸ E⁴.
Note
Printer's device on the title page.
Note
"Scholia in quibus disputatur de germana Græcæ linguæ pronuntiatione" (C5 verso).
Provenance
Ownership inscription of George Fren[ch?] on title-page, cropped by the binder.
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College on t.p. verso of first work bound in volume.
Binding
?16th-century dark brown calf; blind roll-tooled border with blind-tooled corner fleurons; blind-tooled centre-piece built from smaller tools; modern rebacking in brown calf stained to match with blind double filled and gold tooled title letters.
Copy-specific note
Ms. underlinings in text.
Copy-specific note
Bound with "Ciceronianum lexicon Græcolatinum" and "In M. T. Ciceronis quam plurimos locos castigationes Henrici Stephani", published by Henri Estienne in 1577; and with "De abusu linguae Graecae in quibusdam vocibus quas Latina usurpat, admonitio Henrici Stephani", published in 1573.
Copy-specific note
Previously: Cf.7.27(03).
Subject
Greek language Alphabet Early works to 1800
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Estienne, Robert, 1503? - 1559 printer.
Added entry--place
Switzerland Geneva
Language code
lat grc
Identifier
B33048