Historiarum mirabilium auctores Graeci / Iohannes Meursius recensuit & partim commentarios, partim notas adiecit.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Phlegon, of Tralles, 2nd century.

Antigonus, of Carystus, active 240 B.C.

Apollonius, Dyscolus, active 2nd century.

Apollonius, paradoxographus.

Meurs, Johannes van, 1579-1639.

Xylander, Wilhelm, 1532-1576.

Elzevier Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Curiosities and wonders--Early works to 1900.

Curiosities and wonders.

Paradoxes.

Penn Provenance:

Garnier, George (bookplate)

Krumbhaar, Edward Bell (donor) (autograph)

Physical Description:

22 unnumbered pages, 174 pages, 10 unnumbered pages, 210 pages, 10 unnumbered pages, 190 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm (4to)

Place of Publication:

Lugduni Batavorum : Apud Abrahamum Elzevirium, anno 1622.

Language Note:

Greek texts with Latin translation on facing pages.

Contents:

Apollonii Dyscoli, Alexandrini grammatici, historiae, commentitiae liber

Antigoni Carystii Historiarum mirabilium collectanea / Guilemo Xylandro augustano interprete

Ioannis MeursI ad Antigoni Historiarum mirabilium collectanea notae

Phlegontis Tralliani De Rebus mirabilibus liber / Guilielmo Xylandro augustano interprete

Phlegontis Tralliani De longaeuis libellus

Phlegontis Tralliani De Olympiis fragmentum

Ioannis MeursI Ad haec Phlegontis Tralliani opuscula notae.

Notes:

"Alexandrini grammatici" by Apolionius paradoxographus; wrongly ascribed to Apollonius Dyscolus. Cf. Westermann.

One of two Elzevier editions printed in 1622. This one with preliminary leaves to Phlegon of Tralles and Antigonus of Carystus. Cf. Willems and Berghman.

Signatures: pi1 *-2*⁴ 3*² A-Y⁴, ²[par.]⁴ A-2C⁴ 2D², ³[par.]⁴ A-2A⁴.

Leaves Y4 and ²2A4 are blank.

Title page in red and black.

Includes index.

Errata for the Antigonus on leaf following its index.

Local Notes:

Imperfect: t.p. cut out and pasted on new leaf.

Imperfect: the Phlegon texts (leaves ³[par.]1-2A4) misbound preceding the Antigoni texts (leaves ²[par.]1-2D2).

Imperfect: leaf Y4 (blank) wanting.

Cited in:

Willems, A. Elzevier, 196

Copinger, H.B. Elzevier Press, 2293

Berghman, G. Suppl. à Willems, 145

Westermann, A. Paradoxographoi.

OCLC:

187473450