Annotations in an interleaved copy of Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, Griechisch und Deutsch, edited by Hermann Diels (1903), ca. 1908-1926.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Newbold, William Romaine, 1865-1926.

Language:

English

German

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Ancient.

Pre-Socratic philosophers.

Genre:

Annotations.

Manuscripts, American.

Penn Provenance:

Gift of William Romaine Newbold.

Physical Description:

2 volumes

Contained In:

William Romaine Newbold annotations in works of Greek and Latin literature. Box 1

Place of Publication:

ca. 1908-1926.

Language Note:

Text in Greek with preface and notes in German, and usually a German translation on the lower portions of pages, in parallel with the Greek; annotations in English with some quotations in Greek.

Biography/History:

Professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania; in 1907 named the Adam Seybert Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, a position he held until his death.

Summary:

William Romaine Newbold's annotations in an interleaved published copy of Hermann Diels's Fragmente der Vorsokratiker (Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1903; 2 vols.). The annotations include a reference dated 1908 (vol. 2, page facing p. 495). See also Newbold's annotations in a copy of Diels's earlier collection entitled Poetarum philosophorum fragmenta (Ms. Coll. 856, also in Box 1).

Contains:

Diels, Hermann, 1848-1922. Fragmente der Vorsokratiker.

OCLC:

770301439