Shelfmark
Gh.5.20
Author
Title
Græcæ linguæ historia: sive Oratio de ejusdem linguæ origine, progressu, atque ad ipsam [akmēn] incremento: de latissimo denique ipsius, omnibus propè seculis, per universum terrarum orbem, usu: habita olim Oxoniis in aula glevocestrensi, ante XX & VI annos. A Guilielmo Burtono Londiniensi, in LL.L. hodiè autem scholæ, quæ est Regiovici ad Thamesim in regnis, præfectus..
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Oratio de ejusdem linguæ origine, progressu, atque ad ipsam [akmēn] incremento
Publication, distribution, etc.
Nunc demum typis excusa Londinii, Augustæ Trinobantum. : Apud Thomam Roycroft, prostat autem venalis apud Jo. Martin, & Ja. Allestrye, sub signo Campanæ in cœmiterio D. Pauli,, MDCLVII. [1657]
Physical description
[8], 104, [8] p. ; 15 cm. (8⁰)
Note
Signatures: A⁴ B-H⁸ (H8 blank).
Note
The fourteenth word of title in Greek characters.
Note
With a final errata leaf; the last leaf is blank.
Note
"Veteris linguae Persicae [leipsana] fere omnia" has separate dated title-page (on leaf E7 recto); pagination and register are continuous. The fourth word of this title is in Greek characters.
Note
Wing has "Allistrye" in imprint.
Note
Previously also listed in ESTC as ESTC R223395, a ghost, with title: "Græce linguæ historia: sive Oratio de ejusdem linguæ origine, progressu, atque ad ipsam [akmēn] incremento:".
Citation/references note
ESTC, R6218
Citation/references note
Madan, III, 2321
Citation/references note
Wing (2nd ed., 1994), B6186
Provenance
Inscription J. Reynolds 1692 pasted on the first front flyleaf.
Provenance
Booklabel on front pastedown recording donation to Eton College by John Reynolds in 1751.
Binding
?18th-century half leather binding with marbled paper; gold titling on spine; one additional flyleaf on front and back of book.
Copy-specific note
Previously Fh.6.10 and Gh.5.22.
Subject
Greek language History.
Subject
Persian language History.
Added entry--name
Roycroft, Thomas, ? - d. 1677 printer.
Added entry--name
Martyn, John, fl. 1649 - 1680 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Allestry, James, ? - d. 1670 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
lat grc
Identifier
B50288