Annotations in copies of volumes 3 and 4 of Immanuel Bekker's edition of Plato (1826), ca. 1922-1926.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Newbold, William Romaine, 1865-1926.

Contributor:

Plato.

Bekker, Immanuel, 1785-1871.

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Plato.

Genre:

Annotations.

Manuscripts, American.

Penn Provenance:

Gift of William Romaine Newbold ; transferred from Van Pelt stacks, 1987.

Physical Description:

2 volumes

Contained In:

William Romaine Newbold annotations in works of Greek and Latin literature. Box 4

Place of Publication:

ca. 1922-1926.

Language Note:

Text in Greek with Latin notes; annotations in English.

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 marginal and interleaved annotations, in black and red ink, in published copies of vols. 3 and 4 of the following edition of Plato, edited by Immanuel Bekker, and reprinted by Priestley in 1826: Platonis et quae vel Platonis esse feruntur vel Platonica solent comitari scripta graece omnia ad codices manuscriptos recensuit variasque inde lectiones (Londini: excudebat A.J. Valpy, A.M., sumptibus Ricardi Priestley). The annotations are generally undated; however, vol. 3 contains a pencilled notation dated 1922 (Beg. Oct. 26. 22; p. 45).

OCLC:

770307037