Tou Kydōniou Peri tou kataphronein ton thanaton. Hermeiou philosophou diasurmos tōn exō philosophōn = Cydonij De contemnenda morte oratio. Hermiae philosophi Irrisio gentilium philosophorum. Ex inclyti ac generosi D.D. Ioannis Iacobi Fuggeri splendidiss. ac ornatiss. bibliotheca desumpta: & nunc primùm cùm Gr[ae]cè, tum Latinè, Raphaelis Seileri Augustani, Geryonis C. V. filij, opera ac uersione in lucem prolata.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Demetrius Cydones, approximately 1324-approximately 1398.

Contributor:

Seiler, Raphael.

Wolf, Hieronymus, 1516-1580.

Hermias.

Fugger, Johann Jakob, 1516-1575.

Oporinus, Joannes, 1507-1568, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Greek Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

De contemnanda morte oratio. Latin & Greek

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Death--Early works to 1800.

Death.

Soul--Early works to 1800.

Soul.

Genre:

Manuscript waste (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Baluze, Etienne, 1630-1718 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Bibliotheca Colbertina (former owner) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

172 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 15 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Peri tou kataphronein ton thanaton

Cydonij De contemnenda morte oratio

Hermiae philosophi Irrisio gentilium philosophorum

Fingerprint:

jsa- asr* ini* dicu (3) 1553 (R)

Place of Publication:

Basileae : Per Ioannem Oporinum, anno salutis humanae MDLIII mense Martio [Mar. 1553]

Notes:

First 13 words of title transliterated from Greek characters.

Signatures: a-l⁸ (leaf l8 blank)

Date of imprint from colophon.

Includes a poem in Latin by Hieronymus Wolf.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has manuscript binding waste probably from a Book of Hours, Lauds of the Office of the Dead; text is Ps. 29(30):8-13 followed by the beginning of the versicle "Requiem aeternam dona eis domine."

Culture Class Collection copy with inscription on title page reading "Stephanus Baluzius Tutelensis" from Etienne Baluze (1630-1718), librarian of the "Bibliotheca Colbertina" which was founded by Jean Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683) director of the French Royal Library and bibliophile, and owned successively by his descendants until it was sold in Paris in 1728.

Culture Class Collection copy bound with: Synesius Cyrenaeus Aegyptii, seu, De providentia disputatio. Basileae : Per Ioannem Oporinum, MDLVII [1557]

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full parchment with unidentified gilt stamp on binding.

Cited in:

Shaaber, M.A. 16th cent. imprints, D72

Index Aureliensis 151.171

Adams D249

VD16 D466

Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire, II, col. 582

Related Work:

Hermias. Irrisio gentilium philosophorum. Latin

OCLC:

80677258