Shelfmark
Gg.5.05(02)
Author
Godefroy, Jacques, 1587 - 1652 editor.
Title
Vetus orbis descriptio, Græci scriptoris, sub Constantio & Constante impp. Nunc primùm, post mille trecentos fermè annos, edita: cum duplici versione & notis I. Gothofredi IC..
Publication, distribution, etc.
Genevae, : Ex typographia Petri Chouët., M.DC.XXVIII. [1628]
Physical description
[16], 47, [17], 49, [7] p. ; 21 cm. (4to)
Note
The author of the original Greek text is believed to have been a Syrian of the fourth century.
Note
Original Greek text has been lost; the present Greek is a translation from the Latin by Jacques Godefroy.
Note
Part 2 has additional half title page with separate pagination: 'Notae in Veterem orbis descriptionem sub Constantio et Constante conscriptam'.
Note
Divisional half title, leaf A1 recto: 'Exēgēsis holou tou kosmou kai tōn ethnōn = Expositio totius mundi & gentium'.
Note
Part 1: Greek versos, 2 Latin versions in double columns on rectos; commentary in Latin.
Note
Final leaf is blank.
Note
Errata on verso of leaf ²G3.
Note
Signatures: [paragraph mark]-2[paragraph mark]⁴ A-H⁴, ²A-²G⁴ (²G4 blank).
Note
Printer's device on the title page; head-piece; initals.
Provenance
Booklabel recording donation to Eton College by John Reynolds in 1751.
Binding
17th century English dark brown calf binding, possibly Oxford ca. 1630; borders formed by blind triple fillets; four raised bands; red leather spine label; red sprinkled text block edges; ms. fore-edge title "Budæus / Aristot. / Rhet".
Copy-specific note
Inscription (bookseller's code?) on title page flanking imprint date.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Fi.3.13.
Copy-specific note
ECL copy bound (2) in a volume with Guillaume Budé, Epistolai hellēnikai, Paris, 1567, and Aristotle, Technēs rhētorikēs biblia tria = De rhetorica seu arte dicendi libri tres, London, 1619.
Subject
World History Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
Added entry--name
Chouet, Pierre, 1580? - 1648 bookseller.
Added entry--place
Switzerland Geneva.
Language code
lat grc grc
Identifier
B49525