Opuscula mythologica, ethica et physica : Graece & Latine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gale, Thomas, 1635?-1702.

Contributor:

Hayes, John, 1633 or 1634-1705, printer.

Creed, John, active approximately 1669-1685, publisher.

Founders Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Greek, Modern (1453-)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Mythology, Greek--Early works to 1800.

Mythology, Greek.

Physics--Greece--Early works to 1800.

Physics.

Greek literature--Translations into Latin.

Greek literature.

Ethics--Greece--Early works to 1800.

Ethics.

Mythology.

Philosophy.

Greece.

Medical Subjects:

Mythology.

Ethics.

Philosophy.

Penn Provenance:

Gascoigne, Joseph (autograph) (Founders Collection copy)

Dallett, Joseph B. (donor) (RBC copy)

Gaell, Eldred (inscription) (RBC copy)

Saint Mary's Church (Brent Eleigh, England). Library (former owner) (inscription) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 46 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 12 pages, 8 unnumbered pages, 35 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 12 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 44 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 51 pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 24 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 96 pages, 24 unnumbered pages, 111 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 106 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

Cantabrigiae : Ex officina J. Hayes ... : Impensis Joann. Creed ..., 1671.

Language Note:

Greek and Latin in parallel columns.

Contents:

(from t. p.) Palaephatus, Heraclitus, Anonymus, Phurnutus, Sallustius, Ocellus Lucanus, Timaeus Locrus. Demophilus, Democrates, Secundus, Sextius Pythagoricus, Theophrasti Charactêres, Pythagoricorum Fragmenta. Heliodori Larissaei Optica.

Notes:

Preface signed: Tho. Gale.

First issued in 10 parts, Cantabrigiae, 1670-71. Cf. Brit. Mus. Catalogue. Each of the ten parts has a special title leaf, with imprint date 1670, and separate pagination. Signatures are largely continuous.

Signatures: pi1 A-C⁸ D² [superscript chi]D⁸ 2A-2C⁸ 2D⁸(±2D5) 2E-2F⁸ (2F)⁴ 2I⁸ 2K¹⁰ 2L-2R⁸ 2S² 3A-3P⁸ 3Q⁴.

Leaves [superscript chi]D8 and (2F)4 are blanks.

Title in red and black.

Pagination from ESTC.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

RBC copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Joseph B. Dallett.

RBC copy has early ms. inscription ("Brentely Library B C 36") on front pastedown, identifying this volume as part of the Brent Eleigh parish library, founded by Henry Colman in the early 18th century and dispersed at the end of the 19th. Cf. J.A. Fitch, "Some ancient Suffolk parochial libraries," Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology 30 (1965), p. 69ff.

RBC copy has early ms. inscriptions (".N." and "E. Gaell. 0-3-6") on front free endpaper; early ms. gift inscription ("Ex dono sui longe amicissimi E. Gale") on blank leaf following front free endpaper. E. Gaell/Gale is possibly to be identified with Eldred Gaell (1669-1702).

RBC copy bound in full leather; boards tooled in blind; 4 raised bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; gold-stamped black leather spine label ("OPUSCULA MYTHOLOG."); all edges stippled red.

RBC copy: left board detached.

Cited in:

Wellcome cat. of printed books, II, p. 81

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) G156

ESTC R30421

OCLC:

17381439