Arrianou Peri Alexandrou anabaseōs historiōn biblia oktō = Arriani De expeditione, siue, Rebus gestis Alexandri Macedonum regis libri octo, nuper & reperti, & quàm diligentissimè in lucem editi / historiam quo[que] eandem, olim quidem a Bartholomaeo Facio latinitate donatam, nunc uero innumeris quibus scatebat mendis repurgatam, hic adiungi curauimus ut & conferri a linguae Graecae studiosis possit, & quid in utraque a nobis praestitum sit, facilius appareat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arrian.

Contributor:

Winter, Robert, -approximately 1553, printer.

Gerbel, Nicolaus, approximately 1485-1560.

Facio, Bartolomeo, -1457.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Greek Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Anabasis. Latin & Greek

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.

India--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

India.

Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C--Campaigns.

Alexander.

Iran--History--Macedonian Conquest, 334-325 B.C.

Iran.

History.

Physical Description:

2 volumes (13 pages, 643 unnumbered pages; 16 unnumbered pages, 397 pages, 3 unnumbered pages) ; 16 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Peri Alexandrou anabaseōs historiōn biblio oktō

Arriani De expeditione siue Rebus gestis Alexandri Macedonum regis libri octo

Arriani De expeditione, sive, Rebvs gestis Alexandri Macedonum regis libri octo

De expeditione, siue, Rebus gestis Alexandri, Macedonum regis, libri octo

Rebus gestis Alexandri, Macedonum regis, libri octo

Fingerprint:

ume- atr- I.no **** (3) 1539 (T) v.1

cus- t.n- umm. inda (3) 1539 (R) v.2

Place of Publication:

Basileae : In officina Roberti VVinter, mense Martio anno MDXXXIX [Mar. 1539]

Notes:

Cataloged from incomplete copy. Description based on Folger Library copy record.

First seven words of title and colophon of v.1 transliterated from Greek characters.

The Latin translation indicated on the title page appeared as a separate volume. It has separate pagination and register with title page reading: Arriani Nicomedensis noui Xenophontis appellati, De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni regis Macedonu[m] libri octo ....

Colophon of v.1 reads: Etypōthē en Basileia : Analōmasi Robertou tou Cheimerinou [i.e. Robert Winter] ...

Woodcut printer's device (the goddess Athena and her emblems) on verso of leaf R8.

Prefatory epistle and editing by Nicolaus Gerbel.

Signatures: v.[1]: [alpha]⁸ a-z⁸ A-R⁸; v.[2]: [alpha]⁸ a-z⁸ A-B⁸.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy IMPERFECT. Library has vol. [1] with Greek text only; wanting vol. [2] with Latin translation.

Cited in:

Shaaber, M.A. 16th cent. imprints, A795

Grässe, J.G.T. Trésor de livres rares et précieux, v. I, p. 227

VD16 A 3796

BM STC German, 1455-1600 p. 47

Index Aureliensis 109.031

Legrand, Bibliographie hellénique, v. III, 388

Adams A2009

Contains:

Arriani Nicomedensis noui Xenophontis appellati, De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni regis Macedonu[m] libri octo.

OCLC:

15384629