Shelfmark
Ib1.1.09
Author
Smith, Thomas (), 1513 - 1577
Title
De recta & emendata linguæ Græcæ pronuntiatione, Thomæ Smithi Angli, tunc in Academia Cantabrigiensi publici prælectoris, ad Vintoniensem Episcopum epistola.
Varying form of title
De recta & emendata linguae Graecae pronuntiatione
Varying form of title
De recta et emendata linguae Graecae pronuntiatione
Publication, distribution, etc.
Lutetiæ, : Ex Officina Roberti Stephani Typographi Regij., M.D.LXVIII. [1568]
Physical description
[2], 50 [i.e. 48] leaves ; 20 cm. (4to)
Note
Head-piece, initials, marginal notes.
Note
Text in Latin with quotations and examples in Greek.
Note
Probably issued with the edition of Smith's "De recta & emendata linguae Anglicae scriptione" published in Paris under the same imprint same year ?
Note
Signatures: pi² (pi1 blank) A-M⁴.
Note
Printer's device with motto "Noli altum sapere" on title-page.
Note
Leaves 46 and 48 misnumbered 48 and 50 respectively.
Citation/references note
Adams S1313
Provenance
Bookplate of Eton College.
Provenance
Ms. inscription: "B. H. Cowper" on front flyleaf.
Binding
Brown calf binding with perimeter frame of narow blind tooled fillets and additional vertical fillet tooled parallel to the spine.
Copy-specific note
Two papers containing ms. notes with bibliographic details and notes on the author pasted on front flyleaf.
Copy-specific note
Paper with ms. inscription: "By ... T[ho]mas Smith: b. Saffron Walden 1514 d. 1577. This is the 1st printed edition. Paris 1568, or on coloph. 1567" pasted on front flyleaf.
Subject
Greek language Pronunciation Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Estienne, Robert, 1530 - 1571 printer.
Added entry--place
France Paris.
Language code
lat grc
Identifier
B33867