Aischylou Promētheus desmōtēs, Hepta epi Thēbais, Persai, Agamemnōn, Eumenides, Hiketides.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aeschylus.

Contributor:

Aeschylus.

Turnèbe, Adrien, 1512-1565.

Morel, Guillaume, 1505-1564, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Greek Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Works. 1552

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Greek drama (Tragedy)--Early works to 1800.

Greek drama (Tragedy).

Mythology, Greek--Drama--Early works to 1800.

Mythology, Greek.

Polynices (Greek mythological figure)--Drama.

Polynices.

Polynices (Greek mythological figure).

Seven against Thebes (Greek mythology)--Drama.

Seven against Thebes (Greek mythology).

Eteocles, King of Thebes (Mythological character)--Drama.

Eteocles.

Eteocles, King of Thebes (Mythological character).

Genre:

Drama.

Penn Provenance:

Lyell, James P.R. (James Patrick Ronaldson), b. 1871 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 211 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 18 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Promētheus desmōtēs, Hepta epi Thēbais, Persai, Agamemnōn, Eumenides, Hiketides

Fingerprint:

*.** ***. ***. **** (3) 1552 (R)

Place of Publication:

Parisiis : Ex officina Adriani Turnebi typographi Regii, MDLII [1552]

Language Note:

Text in Greek.

Notes:

Edited by Adrien Turnèbe.

Includes "Choēphoroi" which is treated as one play under title "Agamemnōn."

"Bios Aischylou tou poiētou": preliminary p. [6]-[7].

Probably printed by Guillaume Morel; cf. Gruys, p. 32.

Adams records two issues of title, one with leaves A3 and A4 signed (Adams 263) and the other in which leaves lack signature mark (Adams 264).

Woodcuts: device on title page; headpieces; initials.

Turnèbe's printer's device on title page depicts a serpent coiled around an upright lance, entwined with olive branches; motto below in Greek, "Basilei t' agathōi kraterōi t'aichmētēi"

Signatures: a⁴ A-N⁸ O².

Leaf a2 signed a3.

Numerous errors in pagination.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate: Ex-libris Jacobi P.R. Lyell.

Culture Class Collection copy with ms. annotations in Greek throughout.

Culture Class Collection copy has variant issue with leaves A3 and A4 signed.

Cited in:

Hoffmann, S.F.W. Bibliographisches Litt. der griechen, I, p. 32

Adams A263

Index Aureliensis 100.915

Grässe, J.G.T. Trésor de livres rares et précieux I, p. 29

Mortimer, R. French 16th cent., no. 3

Gruys, J.A. Early printed ed. of Aeschylus, no. II, 3 (p. 31-46)

Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire, I, col. 77

BM STC French, 1470-1600, p. 4

Related Work:

Aeschylus. Seven against Thebes.

Contains:

Aeschylus. Prometheus bound.

Aeschylus. Eumenides.

Aeschylus. Agamemnon.

Aeschylus. Choephori.

Aeschylus. Persae.

Aeschylus. Suppliants.

OCLC:

15109637