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Nemesiou episkopou kai Peri physeōs anthrōpou biblion en. = Nemesii episcopi et philosophi De natura hominis, lib. unus.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nemesius, Bishop of Emesa
- Standardized Title:
- On the nature of man. Latin & Greek
- Language:
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Theological anthropology--Christianity--Early works to 1800.
- Theological anthropology.
- Theological anthropology--Christianity.
- Psychology--Early works to 1800.
- Psychology.
- Penn Provenance:
- English College of St. Omers (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 181 pages, 11 unnumbered pages, 142 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm (8vo)
- Edition:
- Nunc primùm & in lucem editus, & Latinè conuersus à Nicasio Ellebodio Castetano.
- Other Title:
- Nemesii episcopi et philosophi De natura hominis, unus
- Peri physeōs anthrōpou biblion en.
- De natura hominis, lib. unus
- Fingerprint:
- *-** i-** *-** **** (3) 1565 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- Antuerpiae : Ex officina Christophori Plantini, MDLXV [1565]
- Notes:
- Signatures: A-M⁸, ²A-I⁸ (last leaf blank)
- Some copies of this first edition have errata list at foot of p. 181. Cf. Hoffmann.
- Editio princeps. Cf. Bibliotheca Graeca (VIII, p. 450)
- Edited by Castetano whose prefatory letter to Cardinal Antonio Pernottus referrs to the corrupt manuscripts on which he based his text.
- Printer's device on the title page; initials.
- First nine words of title transliterated from the Greek characters.
- Colophon: Excudebat Christophorus Plantinus Antuerpiae. Anno MDLXIV idibus Decemb. [15 Dec. 1564]
- Contains Greek text and Latin translation of a letter from Saint Gregory of Nazianzus to Nemesius (p. [183-185]).
- Text in Greek and Latin. Latin translation follows Greek text.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has list of errata at foot of p. 181.
- Culture Class Collection copy with ms. inscription "Coll. Ang. Audom" (Collegio Anglorum Audomari) for the English College of St. Omers, founded by the Jesuits in 1593 at St. Omer (Belgium) relocated to Bruges in 1762, to Liège in 1773, and to Stonyhurst, England in 1794.
- Culture Class Collection copy with dated partially legible inscription: Franciscus [...] 1593.
- Cited in:
- Adams N157
- Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire, IV col. 37
- Hoffmann, S.F.W. Bibl. Litt. der griechen, II, p. 614
- Ruelens, C. Annales plantiniennes, p. 50
- OCLC:
- 19386722
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