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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).

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Added entry--place

Switzerland Geneva.

Language code

lat grc

Identifier

B50740
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