Shelfmark
Gg.2.07
Author
Title
Iosephi Scaligeri IulI Caesaris f. Opus de emendatione temporum: : castigatius et multis partibus auctius, vt nouum videri possit. Item veterum Graecorum fragmenta selecta, quibus loci aliquot obscurissimi chronologiae sacrae & Bibliorum illustrantur, cum notis eiusdem Scaligeri..
Varying form of title
Iosephi Scaligeri IvlI Caesaris f. Opvs de emendatione temporvm
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Opus de emendatione temporum
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Opvs de emendatione temporvm
Publication, distribution, etc.
Lugduni Batauorum, : Ex officina Plantiniana Francisci Raphelengij. , M.D.IIC. [1598]
Physical description
[84], 752, [28], liiij, [2] p. ; 34 cm. (Fo.)
Note
Woodcut printer's device with motto "Labore et constantia" on title page; initials.
Note
"Veterum Graecorum fragmenta selecta, quibus loci aliquot obscurissimi chronologiae sacrae & Bibliorum illustrantur" has divisional half title page and begins new pagination and register.
Note
Text in Latin with quotations and examples in Greek and a variety of other languages.
Note
Signatures: [alpha]⁴ [beta]-[epsilon]⁶ [zeta]⁴ A-3F⁶ 3G⁴ 3H-3S⁶ 3T⁸, a-c⁶ d⁴ e⁶.
Note
Errata on leaf [zeta]4 verso.
Citation/references note
Adams, S568
Provenance
Presentation copy from the author to Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614). Inscription on title-page: Eruditissimo Isacio Casaubono suo Josephus Scaliger D D.
Provenance
Inscription on title-page records donation to Eton College by Thomas Evans, M.D., Fellow of Eton College 1716-1734, in 1733.
Binding
18th century mid brown calf; blind tooled double fillet border with two further vertical lines three centimetres from spine; gold tooled dot roll on board edges; rebacked in late 20th or early 21st century in mid brown calf with new red morocco spine label with gold tooled triple fillet frame and title; six raised bands; new endpapers and pastedowns from the same time as rebacking.
Copy-specific note
Copious annotations and underscorings by Isaac Casaubon throughout. Includes a table under various headings on verso of final leaf. Some of the annotations have been trimmed by the 18th century binder.
Copy-specific note
Included in the Pierrepont Morgan exhibition 'Treasures of Eton College Library: 550 years of collecting' curated by Paul Quarrie, in 1990. Catalogue number 36.
Copy-specific note
For further scholarship on this volume, see Anthony Grafton, 'Joseph Scaliger: a study in the history of classical studies' (Clarendon Press, 1983), vol. II, and Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg, '"I have always loved the Holy Tongue": Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a forgotten chapter in Renaissance scholarship' (Belknap Press, 2011).
Subject
Chronology, Historical Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Raphelengius, Frans, 1568 - 1643? printer.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Casaubon, Isaac, 1559 - 1614 former owner.
Added entry--name
Evans, Thomas former owner.
Added entry--name
Plantijnsche Drukkerij printer.
Added entry--place
Netherlands Leiden.
Language code
latgrcmul
Identifier
B49868