Gh.9.20(03)
Maximus of Tyre,
[Dissertationes.]
Maximou Tyriou philosophou Platōnikou Logoi 41 = Maximi Tyrii philosophi Platonici Sermones siue disputationes XLI. Graecè nunc primùm editæ.
Portion of title: Sermones siue disputationes XLI
[Genevae] : Ex officina Henrici Stephani Parisiensis typographi., An. M.D.LVII. [1557]
[8], 363 [i.e. 263], [1]; [16], 320 p. ; 17 cm. (8vo)
Printer's mark on the title page; blank spaces with guide letters for initials.
Signatures:(*)⁴, a-q⁸, r⁴; A-X⁸.
Translated from Greek by Cosimo de' Pazzi (1466-1513), archbishop of Florence.
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'.
The Greek section presents an error in pagination: p. 256-263 are numbered 356-363.
Adams, M939-940
Renouard, Ant. A. Annales, 116, 2
Schreiber, F. Estiennes, 141a
Neil R. Ker, Pastedowns in Oxford Bindings with a Survey of Oxford Binding, c.1515-1620 (Oxford, 1954), plate VIII
Eton College book label on the inner front board.
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.
Handwritten marginalia, most likely for signposting purposes, including the star of David (p. 11, 229, 231).
Illegible note written on fore-edge of texblock of whole volume.
Imperfect: only includes the Latin translation.
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.
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.
Former ECL shelfmark: Cf.7.4.
Maximus of Tyre, Sermones.
Sophists (Greek philosophy).
Estienne, Henri, 1460? - 1520 printer.
Estienne, Henri, 1531 - 1598 editor.
Switzerland Geneva.
lat grc
B50740