Shelfmark
Ic3.5.12
Author
Title
Apophthegmata, ex probatis Græcæ Latinæque linguæ scriptoribus a Conrado Lycosthene collecta, & per locos communes, iuxta alphabeti seriem, digesta. Postremâ hac editione diligenter recognita, & vndecim apophthegmatum centuriis aucta. Accesserunt parabolæ, siue similitudines, ab Erasmo ex Plutarcho & aliis olim excerptæ, deinde per Lycosthenem dispositæ, ac nunc primùm aliquot centuriis auctiores editæ.
Varying form of title
Parabolarum, sive similitudinum.
Varying form of title
Parabolarum, siue similitudinum.
Edition
Editio altera.
Publication, distribution, etc.
[London] : Excudebat Ioann. Iacksonus, M.D.XCVI. [1596]
Physical description
[16], 746, [16], 129, [5] p. ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Note
"Parabolarum, siue similitudinum" has separate dated title page and pagination; register is continuous.
Note
Signatures: A-3L⁸.
Citation/references note
STC (2nd ed.) 17003.7
Citation/references note
ESTC, S108906
Provenance
Eton College Library bookplate with ms. inscription: “1988”.
Provenance
Manuscript inscriptons, doodles, and scribbles on lower flyleaf verso, including: "Henry Corthrop", "Henry Courthopp", "Henrey Courthop his booke", and "John Bursted his booke witness by William Drurie, Robert Drurie, [and] Drue Drurie [and] John Robinson". Facing, three stylised initials 'I B' [i.e., John Bursted?]. The Druries may be the children of Drue Drury 1st Bart. (1588-1632).
Binding
17th century brown calf over pasteboard, sewn on four tawed leather supports laced through boards. On both covers, an outer border of blind triple fillets, intersecting at corners; on upper cover, a central blind stamp of a crowned falcon; on lower cover, the Estienne/Norton 'Noli Altum Sapere' device (similar tools used by Williamson of Eton); board edges tooled with a single blind fillet. Spine with transverse blind fillets across and beside the raised bands; faint traces of diagonal hatcheting to a diaper pattern at head and tail; endbands of plain thread.
Copy-specific note
Manuscript itemised list in a 17th century hand on lower flyleaf recto, describing money "paid to my tutor" for various items including "a cup" and "for tuition"; one item partially dated "from the time . . . until the 26 of July."
Subject
Aphorisms and apothegms.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B37705