Shelfmark
Gh.9.20(03)
Author
Maximus of Tyre,
Uniform title
[Dissertationes.]
Title
Maximou Tyriou philosophou Platōnikou Logoi 41 = Maximi Tyrii philosophi Platonici Sermones siue disputationes XLI. Graecè nunc primùm editæ.
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Sermones siue disputationes XLI
Publication, distribution, etc.
[Genevae] : Ex officina Henrici Stephani Parisiensis typographi., An. M.D.LVII. [1557]
Physical description
[8], 363 [i.e. 263], [1]; [16], 320 p. ; 17 cm. (8vo)
Note
Printer's mark on the title page; blank spaces with guide letters for initials.
Note
Signatures:(*)⁴, a-q⁸, r⁴; A-X⁸.
Note
Translated from Greek by Cosimo de' Pazzi (1466-1513), archbishop of Florence.
Note
The Latin section its own title-page: 'Maximi Tyrii philosophi Platonici Sermones siue disputationes XLI. Ex Cosmi Paccii archiepiscopi Florentini interpretatione, Ab Henrico Stephano quamplurimis in locis emendata'.
Note
The Greek section presents an error in pagination: p. 256-263 are numbered 356-363.
Citation/references note
Adams, M939-940
Citation/references note
Renouard, Ant. A. Annales, 116, 2
Citation/references note
Schreiber, F. Estiennes, 141a
Citation/references note
Neil R. Ker, Pastedowns in Oxford Bindings with a Survey of Oxford Binding, c.1515-1620 (Oxford, 1954), plate VIII
Provenance
Eton College book label on the inner front board.
Binding
Sammelband. 17th-century smooth brown calfskin over pasteboard, probably bound in Oxford for Dominique Pinart. Three blind fillets around the border of the covers, and centrepiece with vine motifs (Ker, p.218; pl. VIII, n. xx). Spine with four raised bands, decorated with transverse blind fillets; gilt titling over red label, with double gilt fillets ('TRACTATUS | VARII'); modern shelfmark label. Single head- and end-bands of alternating plain and blue thread. Textblock trimmed and rounded. Endpapers of undecorated laid paper, comprising front paper stubs and back pastedown. One flyeleaf at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
Handwritten marginalia, most likely for signposting purposes, including the star of David (p. 11, 229, 231).
Copy-specific note
Illegible note written on fore-edge of texblock of whole volume.
Copy-specific note
Imperfect: only includes the Latin translation.
Copy-specific note
Bound with two other items, shelfmarks Gh.9.20(01)-(02): (1) De imitatione ciceroniana dialogi tres; (2) Petri Rami Veromandui Pro philosophica Parisiensis academiae disciplina Oratio.
Copy-specific note
Ms. notes in ?different 16th- or 17th-century hands: 'precationes' on third flyleaf verso, 'mp' on fourth flyleaf verso at the front of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
Former ECL shelfmark: Cf.7.4.
Subject
Maximus of Tyre, Sermones.
Subject
Sophists (Greek philosophy).
Added entry--name
Estienne, Henri, 1460? - 1520 printer.
Added entry--name
Estienne, Henri, 1531 - 1598 editor.
Added entry--place
Switzerland Geneva.
Language code
lat grc
Identifier
B50740