Ploutarchou Chairōneōs ta sōzomena syngrammata = Plutarchi Chaeronensis quae extant opera, cum Latine interpretatione / ex vetustis codicibus plurima nunc primùm emendata vt ex Henr. Stepani annotationibus intelliges ; quibus & suam quorundam libellorum interpretationem adiunxit ; Aemylii Probi De vita excellentium imperatorum liber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Plutarch.

Contributor:

Estienne, Henri, 1531-1598, printer.

Croeser, Herman, approximately 1510-1574.

Acciaiuoli, Donato, 1429-1478.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Greek Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Works. Latin & Greek. 1572

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Penn Provenance:

Llanover, Augusta Hall, 1802-1896 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Llanover Library (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

13 volumes ; 17 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Sōzomena syngrammata

Plutarchi Chaeronensis quae extant opera, cum Latine interpretatione

Plvtarchi Chaeronensis quae extant opera, cum Latine interpretatione

Place of Publication:

[Geneva] : Excudebat Henr. Stephanus, anno MDLXXII [1572]

Contents:

V. [1] : Tōn Plutarchu diaphorōn syngrammatōn tmena [proton] = Variorum Plutarchi scriptorum [primus]

v. [2] Tōn Plutarchu diaphorōn syngrammatōn tmena deuteron = Variorum Plutarchi scriptorum secundus

v.[3] Plutarchu diaphorōn syngrammatōn tmena triton = Variorum Plutarchi scriptorum tertius

v.[4] Ton tou Ploutarchou bion Parallelōn tmēma [proton] = Plutarchi chaeronensis parallela, seu vitae parallelae. Id est, vitae illustrium virorum, quos binos quasi paria composuit [primus]

v.[5] Ton tou Ploutarchou bion Parallelōn tmēma deuteron = Plutarchi vitarum parallelarum tomus secundus

v.[6] Ton tou Ploutarchou bion Parallelōn tmēma triton = Plutarchi vitarum parallelarum tomus tertius.

Notes:

First five words of title transliterated from Greek.

First edition of the complete works.

Place of printing supplied from Adams based on printer's activity.

Signatures: v.1: *⁸ a-z⁸ A-2B⁸ 2C⁸ (2C6-8 blank); v. 2: 2a-2z⁸ 2A-2O⁸ 2P⁸ (2P7-8 blank); v. 3: 3a-3z⁸ 3A-3X⁸ 3Y⁸ (3Y7-8 blank); v. 4: a-z⁸ A-M⁸ N¹⁰; v.5: a⁶ b⁸ 2C-2Z⁸, 2A-R⁸; v. 6: 2A-3V⁸ 3X¹⁰; v. 7: *⁴ a-z⁸ A-Y⁸ Z⁸ (Z⁸ blank); v. 8: 2a-2z⁸ 2A-2T⁸ 2V¹⁰; v. 9: 3a-4k⁸ 4l⁴ 4m-4z⁸ [alpha]-[phi]⁸, [1], [kappa]⁴ [lambda]-[chi]⁸ [omicron]⁴; v. 10. [par.]⁸ A-2H⁸ 2I⁸ (2I6-8 blank); v. 11: 2A-3L⁸ 3M⁴; v. 12: 3A-3P⁸ 4Q⁸ (4Q8 blank), [a]-[h]⁸, [i]²; v. 13: [A]-[M]⁸ [N]⁶ [O]-2[F]⁸ 2[G]⁴.

Also issued in large paper edition as a six volume set. Cf. F. Schreiber "Estiennes" (p. 180)

The titles recorded in contents are from half-titles, added to vols. II and III of the Moralia and of the Vitae respectively, and to the corresponding volumes of the Latin translation.

The Moralia are translated by Wilhelm Xylander and others; the Vitae parallelae by Hermann Cruser.

The volumes are numbered in 4 groups of 3, usually arranged in the following sequence: v. [1]-[3], Moralia, v. 1-3; v. [4]-[6], Vitae parallelae, v. 1-3; v. [7]-[9], Moralia in Latin, v. 1-3; v. [10]-[12], Vitae parallelae in Latin, v. 1-3; v. [13], Appendix to the Vitae parallelae.

Printer's device on the general title page of v. 1 and on special title page of the Moralia in Latin (v. [7]).

Vols. 1-3 with continuous pagination (16, 778; [779]-1381; [1387?]-2101 p.); vols [4]-[6] also continuously paged (579; [581]-1213; [1217?]-1923 p.)

Errata to the Moralia (Greek and Latin), colophon dated 1572, and privileges dated 1570 [1571] and 1561 at end of v. 9.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy IMPERFECT: library has v.1-6 only (wanting v. 7-13)

Culture Class Collection copy has shelf label and armorial bookplate of "Llanover Library" which belonged to Augusta Hall Llanover. Bookplate "Llanover" (with Welsh motto 'Ni ddaw Da o hir arofyn') is stamped "Llanover Trustees 1896".

Cited in:

Adams P1607

Hoffmann, S.F.W. Bibl. Litt. der griechen, III, p. 171-172

Renouard, A.A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne I, p. 134-135

Contains:

Tacitus, Cornelius. Agricola.

Nepos, Cornelius. Vitae excellentium imperatorum.

OCLC:

779095333