Ailianou Poikiles historias, biblia 14, Ek tōn Hērakleidou peri politeiōn hypomnēma. Polemōnou Physiognōmonikōn egkheiridion Adamantiou sophistou Physiognomonikon, biblia 2. Melampodos Peri palmon mantikē. Peri elaiōn tos sōmatos = Aeliani Variae historiae libri, XIIII. Ex Heraclide De rebus publicis commentarium. Polemonis Physionomia. Adamantii Physionomia. Melampodis Ex palpitationibus diuinatio. De neuis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aelian, active 3rd century.

Contributor:

Peruschi, Camillo, -1572 or 1573.

Blado, Antonio, 1490-1567, printer.

Heraclides, Ponticus, approximately 390 B.C.-310 B.C.

Walther, Henry, binder.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Greek Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Varia historia. 1545

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Physiognomy--Early works to 1800.

Physiognomy.

History, Ancient--Early works to 1800.

History, Ancient.

World history--Early works to 1800.

World history.

Political science--Early works to 1800.

Political science.

Divination--Early works to 1800.

Divination.

Penn Provenance:

Kimberely, John Wodehouse, Earl of, 1826-1902 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Thorold, John, Sir, 1734-1815 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Thorold, John Hayford, Sir, 1773-1831 (bookplate) (label) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Syston Park Library (Lincolnshire, England) (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered leaves, 111 leaves, 13 unnumbered leaves ; 23 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Poikilēs historias, biblia, 14. Ek tōn Hērakleidou peri politeiōn hypomnēma. Polemōnou Physiognōmonikōn egkheiridion. Adamantiou sophistou Physiognōmonikōn, biblia 2. Melampodes Peri palmōn mantikē. Peri elaiōn tos sōmatos

Aeliani Variae historiae libri, XIIII. Ex Heraclide De rebus publicis commentarium. Polemonis Physionomia. Adamantii Physionomia. Melampodis Ex palpitationibus diuinatio. De neuis

Variae historiae libri, XIIII. Ex Heraclide De rebus publicis commentarium. Polemonis Physionomia. Adamantii Physionomia. Melampodis Ex palpitationibus divinatio. De neuis

Fingerprint:

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Place of Publication:

En Rōmē : [Antonio Blado], Etei ... mēni gamēliōni ... MDXXXXV mense Ianuario [Jan. 1545]

Language Note:

Title transliterated from Greek; parallel title in Latin, text in Greek only.

Notes:

Date of imprint from colophon; printer identified by woodcut device with motto in Latin and Greek "Bonus eventus = Agathos daimōn"

Woodcut device of printer Antonio Blado on title page and verso of final leaf identified as Zappella 671.

Disagreement over which work Heraclides authored "De rebus publicis" (generally known, "De politiis")--Cf. Pauly-Wissowa, VIII, p. 482 & 490-1. Hoffmann, BM, BN & Brunet attribute to Heraclides, of Pontus; LC attributes work to Heraclides, Lembus.

Edited by Camillus Peruscus.

Signatures (in Greek characters): *⁴ a-ō⁴ A-D⁴ 1-3⁴.

Signatures: *⁴ [alpha]-[omega]⁴ [Alpha]-[Delta]⁴ 1-3⁴ (leaf 33 blank)

Errata: verso of final leaf 10.

Initial spaces with printed guide letters.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy wanting penultimate blank leaf 33.

Culture Class Collection copy has armorial bookplate on front free endpaper: "E libris Ioh[ann]is Comitis de Kimberley" [i.e. John Wodehouse, Earl of Kimberley, 1826-1902] with Wodehouse coat of arms bearing 'Agincourt' on 4 ribbons, and the motto 'Frapes Fort' on either side of a clenched fist rising from a cloud, holding a club.

Culture Class Collection copy has armorial bookplate: "Syston Park" for the "Syston Park Library" collected by Sir John Thorold, 1734-1815 (9th baronet. ) and his son John Hayford Thorold, 1773-1831(10th baronet.) underneath which is monogram label "J H T", presumably that of John Hayford Thorold. This title recorded as #22 in Syston Park Library. Catalogue of an important portion of the extensive and valuable library of the late Sir John Hayford Thorold ... London : Dryden Press 1884.

Cited in:

Adams A221

EDIT 16 CNCE 316

Index aureliensis 100.767

Hoffmann, S.F.W. Bibliographisches litt. der griechen, I, p. 11

Fumagalli & Belli, 1523

Contains:

Aristotle. Politics.

Adamant. Physiognomonica.

Heraclides Lembus. De politiis.

Malampus, active 3rd century B.C. De divinatione per palpitationes. Greek.

Malampus, active 3rd century B.C. De naevis corporis. Greek.

Polemo, Antonius, approximately 88-145. Physiognomonica.

OCLC:

14297573