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Diodori Siculi Bibliothecae historicae libri XV : hoc est, quotquot Graecè extant de quadraginta, quorum quinque nunc iterum Latinè diligenter recogniti, & chronologia illustrati edunter / Sebastiano Castalione totius operis correctore, partim interprete. Interiecta vero est, Dictys Cretensis & Daretis Phrygii de bello Troiano historia, & Tryphiodori Aegyptij, Ilij excidium, Gulielmo Xylandro interprete, ad supplendam lacunam quinque librorum, qui inter quintum & undecimum desiderantur. In calce operis accessere fragmenta historica eiusdem Diodori Latinè uersa.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Diodorus, Siculus
- Standardized Title:
- Bibliotheca historica. Latin. 1578
- Language:
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Troy (Extinct city)--Early works to 1800.
- Troy (Extinct city).
- History, Ancient--Early works to 1800.
- History, Ancient.
- Trojan War--Early works to 1800.
- Trojan War.
- Penn Provenance:
- Waddington, Horace (bookplate) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Adams, Randolph Greenfield, 1892-1951 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 40 unnumbered pages, 223 pages, 8 unnumbered pages, 224-715 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 32 cm (folio)
- Other Title:
- Bibliothecae historicae libri XV
- Diodori Sicvli Bibliothecae historicae libri XV
- Fingerprint:
- o-pe ann- uml- lopi (3) 1578 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- Basileae : Ex officina Henricpetrina, anno post recuperatam salutem nostram MDLXXIIX, mense Martio [Mar. 1578]
- Notes:
- Signatures: a⁴ ):(⁴ b-c⁶ A-N⁸ O¹² P-2V⁸ 2X⁶ 2Y⁸.
- Name of printer and date of printing supplied from colophon on recto of last leaf.
- Edited by "Iohannes Iacobus Grynaeus" who signed the dedicatory epistle.
- Books 1-5 of DIodorus translated by Poggio Bracciiolini; book 15 translated by M. Hopper; books 16-17 translated by A. Copsi and books 18-20 translated by Chateillon.
- Also with Latin versions of "Dictys Cretensis Ephemeris Belli Troiani" and "De excidio Troiae" Greek accounts of the Trojan War purporting to be by the eyewitnesses Dictys and Dares, ascribed respectively to Q. Septimius Romanus (Lucuis Septimius) and Nepos whose name perhaps appeared in the original Greek preface but is now considered to be a a spurious attribution. Cf. introd. to The Trojan war : the chronicles of Dictys of Crete and Dares the Phrygian / translated with an introduction and notes by R.M. Frazer, Jr., 1966.
- Printer's device on verso of last leaf.
- In a variant edition (VD16 D1830) the title statment omits phrase "Sebastiano Castalione totius operis correctore, partim interprete."
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of R G Adams.
- Culture Class Collection copy has armorial bookplate of Horace Waddington on front pastedown.
- Culture Class Collection copy inscribed "Ex libris Horatii Waddington, M.A. e Coll. Mag. Aul. Universitatis Oxon [i.e. Collegium Magnae Aulae Universitatis]" by Horace Waddington of University College, Oxford.
- Culture Class Collection copy has sheet with typed and ms. bibliographic notes (signed at foot "R.G.A" [i.e. Randolph Greenfied Adams]) laid in.
- Cited in:
- VD 16 D 1831
- Adams D475
- Shaaber, M.A. 16th cent. imprints, D141
- Hieronymus, F. Griechischer Geist aus Basler Pressen (WWW) no. 247
- Contains:
- Dictys, Cretensis. De bello Troiano. Latin.
- Daretis Phrygii de excidio Troiae historia. Latin.
- OCLC:
- 43259582
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