Synesii philosophi ac episcopi Ptolemaidis Cyrenaicae, epistolae lectu dignissimae : in utriusque linguae studiosorum gratiam Gr[ae]cè ac Latinè editae / Thoma Naogeorgo Straubingensi interprete.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Synesius, of Cyrene, Bishop of Ptolemais

Contributor:

Oporinus, Joannes, 1507-1568, printer.

Naogeorg, Thomas, 1511-1563.

Synesius, of Cyrene, Bishop of Ptolemais.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Greek Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Epistulae. Latin

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Cyrene (Extinct city)--History.

Cyrene (Extinct city).

Byzantine Empire--History--Arcadius, 395-408.

Byzantine Empire.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Dudley and Ward of Dudley, William Ward, Viscount, 1750-1823 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Berio, Francesco Maria, marchese di Salza (1765-1820) (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

48 unnumbered pages, 17- 515, that is, 511 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 15 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

r-ho q;Iu taus miom (C) 1559 (A)

Place of Publication:

Basileae : Per Ioannem Oporinum, [1559]

Notes:

Signatures: [alpha]-[gamma]⁸ b-z⁸ A-I⁸.

Text in Greek and Latin on facing pages; prefatory matter in Latin.

Pages 353-356 omitted in pagination.

Date of imprint supplied from translator's prefatory letter: Dat. Stutgardiae, calendis Martijs: 1559 [1 March 1559]. Date on last leaf reads: Finis epistolarum Synesij. 25 Aprilis 1558.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has armorial bookplate (with motto 'Comme je fus') of William Ward, Viscount Dudley and Ward of Dudley (1750-1823) on back pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy with bookplate: Ex libris Marchionis Salsae of Giovanni Domenico Berio, marchese di Salza (d. 1791) and his son Francesco Maria (1765-1820).

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full leather with double filet gilt border panel with gilt stamped fleur-de-lis corner ornaments on covers.

Kislak Center copy imperfect: all before leaf b1 wanting.

Kislak Center copy bound with: Euclid. Euclidis Elementorum libri XV. Graecè & Latiné. Parisiis : Apud Hieronymum de Marnef, & Gulielmum Cauellat, sub Pellicano, monte D. Hilarij, 1573.

Kislak Center copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Ann Benkert.

Kislak Center copy has bookplate ("JOHANN CHRISTOPH KUNZE, PREDIGER IN PHILADELPHIA") of John C. Kunze affixed to inside left board.

Kislak Center copy bound in full parchment with cover extensions (each approximately 8 mm in width) over wooden boards (pastedowns detached from boards); manuscript spine title ("Euclid."); all edges red.

Kislak Center copy: leaf u4 torn and mended at fore-edge margin; tail outer corner of leaves F5-F6 each torn off and replaced with a blank leaf.

Cited in:

VD16 S 10412

Shaaber, M.A. 16th cent. imprints, S705

Hoffmann, S.F.W. Bibl. Litt. der griechen III, p. 465

Adams S2208

Hieronymus, F. Griechischer Geist aus Basler Pressen (WWW) no. 467

Related Work:

Synesius, of Cyrene, Bishop of Ptolemais. Epistulae. Latin.

OCLC:

54265220