Flauij Philostrati De vitis sophistarum libri duo / Antonio Bomfino interprete ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Philostratus, the Athenian, active 2nd century-3rd century.

Contributor:

Schürer, Matthias, approximately 1470-1519, printer.

Bonfini, Antonio, 1427-1502.

Gerbel, Nicolaus, approximately 1485-1560.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Greek Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Lives of the sophists. Latin

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Sophists (Greek philosophy)--Biography--Early works to 1800.

Sophists (Greek philosophy).

Sophists (Greek philosophy)--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Franciscans (stamp) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Madius, Johannes Antonius (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Monti, Vincenzo, 1754-1828 (former owner) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered leaves, LVI leaves ; 19 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Flavii Philostrati De vitis sophistarum libri duo

De vitis sophistarum libri duo

Fingerprint:

i-o- a-S. r-*- amru (3) 1516 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Strasbourg] : Ex aedibus Schurerianus, mense Martio, anno ... MDXVI [Mar. 1516]

Notes:

Imprint from colophon.

Signatures: pi⁴ A⁴ B⁸ C-D⁴ E⁸ F-G⁴ H⁸ I⁴ K⁸.

Printer's device on verso of leaf K8 identified as Schmidt no 6.

Title printed with woodcut border on title page.

Place of publication from Adams and VD16 based on activity of printer.

Prefatory letter records that work was edited by Nicolaus Gerbel from a copy of the text borrowed from a library in Buda and emended by collating it with the Greek text.

Translated by Antonio Bomfino.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has unidentified Franciscan ownership stamp: Bib[...] Min. Conv. S. Franc. M[...]"

Culture Class Collection copy with ownership inscription of physician Johannes Antonius Madius, who purchased the book from the library of Italian scholar and translator Vincenzo Monti (1754-1828)?; inscription reads: Ex lib. olim Vincentii Monti nunc emptus a me Joh[annis] Ant[onij] Madio Medici.

Culture Class Collection copy bound with: L. Apuleii Madaurensis philosophi platonici Floridorum libri quattuor .... Argentorati : Ex aedibus Schurerianis, mense Augusto MDXVI [Aug. 1516] -- Plutarchi Cheronei De philosophorum placitis libellus elegantissimus ... Argentorati : Ex aedibus Schurerianis, mense Iulio MDXVI [July 1516]

Cited in:

Schmidt, C. Bibliographique strasbourgeois, VIII, p. 183

Panzer, G.W. Annales typographici, VI, p. 80

Adams P1073

Shaaber, M.A. 16th cent. imprints, P272

VD16 P2502

Hoffmann, S.F.W. Bibl. Litt. der griechen III, p. 80

OCLC:

702168196