Shelfmark
Gg.7.17
Author
Poliziano, Angelo, 1454 - 1494 author.
Uniform title
[Works. 1528]
Title
Angeli Politiani Operum tomus primus: Epistolarum lib. XII. & miscellaneorum centuriam unam complectens..
Varying form of title
Angeli Politiani Opervm tomvs primvs
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Operum tomus primus
Publication, distribution, etc.
[Lugduni] : Sebastianus Gryphis Germanus excudebalt Lugduni, Anno M.D.XXVIII. [1528]
Physical description
2 volumes ; 16 cm. (8vo)
Language
In Latin and Greek, partly in translation.
Note
Volume 2 has sperate title: "Alter tomus Operum Angeli Politiani, ea continens, quae elenchus paginae sequentis indicat."
Note
Gryphius published the first two volumes in 1528, and added volume 3 when he republished them in 1533. See Graesse; Brunet; Baudrier's Bibl. Lyonnaise.
Note
Volume 2 consists of a number of Poliziano's translations of a variety of texts from Greek into Latin.
Note
Both volumes have printer's device on title page and on verso of last leaf.
Note
Pagination: volume 1: [16], 675, [1] pages ; volume 2: [16], 647, [1] pages.
Note
Signatures: volume 1: *⁸ a-z⁸ A-S⁸ T¹⁰; volume 2: 2⁸ 2a-2z⁸ 2A-2R⁸ 2S⁴.
Note
Includes index.
Note
Printed marginalia.
Note
Ornamental initials.
Citation/references note
Baudrier, H.L. Bib. lyonnaise, VIII, 46
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College.
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate recording gift to Eton College by Edward Waddington in 1731.
Binding
18th century binding with blind tooled double fillet border; sprinkled textblock edges; re-backed spine with 18th century red and gilt morocco spinelabel; manuscript waste dated 1509.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Ck.7.07
Copy-specific note
Ink annotations in second vol. in contemporary hand.
Subject
Subject
Humanists Italy Correspondence.
Subject
Poets, Italian To 1500 Correspondence.
Subject
Philosophy Early works to 1800.
Subject
Political science Early works to 1800.
Subject
Italy Intellectual life 1268-1559 Sources.
Added entry--name
Gryphius, Sebastianus, 1493 - 1556 printer.
Added entry--name
Waddington, Edward, 1670 or 71 - 1731 former owner.
Added entry--place
France Lyon.
Language code
lat grc grc
Identifier
B49422