Les images ou tableaux de platte peinture des deux Philostrates sophistes grecs et les statues de Callistrate / mis en francois par Blaise de Vigenere ... enrichis d'arguments et annotations ; reuues et corrigez sur l'original par un docte personage de ce temps en la langue grecque et representez en taille douce en cette nouvelle edition ; auec des epigrammes sur chacun diceux par Artus Thomas Sieur d'Embry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Contributor:

Philostratus, the Lemnian, active 3rd century.

Philostratus, approximately 220-

Vigenère, Blaise de, 1523-1596.

Artus, Thomas, sieur d'Embry

Louvain, Françoise de, approximately 1540-1620, bookseller.

Guillemot, Mathieu, veuve, -1637, bookseller.

Jay I. Kislak Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

French

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Undetermined

Subjects (All):

Painting--Early works to 1800.

Painting.

Mythology, Classical, in art--Early works to 1800.

Mythology, Classical, in art.

Greek literature--Translations into French--Early works to 1800.

Greek literature.

Greek literature--Translations into French.

Penn Provenance:

Kislak, Jay I. (donor)

Thou, Jacques-Auguste de, 1553-1617 (armorial binding) (former owner)

La Chastre, Gasparde de (armorial binding)

Soubise, Charles de Rohan, prince de, 1715-1787 (former owner)

Ashburnham, Earls of (former owner)

Devonshire, Dukes of (former owner)

Chatsworth House (bookplate)

Riaux, Monsieur (former owner)

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages, 921, that is, 925 pages, 47 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 43 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Images ov tableavx de platte peintvre des devx Philostrates sophistes grecs et les statves de Callistrate

Fingerprint:

arec s:e- *.** plco (3) 1615 (R)

Place of Publication:

A Paris : Chez la veufe Abel L'Angelier ... et la veufe M. Guillemot ..., MDCXIIIII [1615]

Notes:

The "deux Philostrates" mentioned on the title leaf may be identified with two men of that name, designated the Athenian and the Lemnian, respectively. In the present volume the former is designated "Philostrate lemnien" and the latter "le jeune Philostrate." The first Imagines has been attributed to both authors, and the second Imagines has been attributed to Philostratus the Lemnian and yet another Philostratus (b. ca. 220).

Signatures: ã⁸ A-3D⁶ 3E⁶(3E1+'EEe') 3F-3R⁶ 3S⁶(3S1+'SSs') 3T-4C⁶ 4D⁶(4D3+'DDdd iiij') 4E-4G⁶ 4H⁴ 4I-4L⁶ 4M⁶(-4M6?).

Engraved title leaf (plate); engraved illustrations.

Woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces.

Printed marginalia.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Collection copy has ms. shelf-mark ("2.C.P.T.2.G.21") of the library of Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise, in pencil at head of front pastedown.

Kislak Collection copy has ms. inscription ("Ashburnham Library") in pencil in on front pastedown. This copy was formerly held in the library of the Earls of Ashburnham at Ashburnham Place, Sussex, England. Cf. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge. Catalogue of the magnificent collection of printed books the property of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Ashburnham : Third and final portion (London: 1898), no. 2904.

Presented to the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts by Jay I. Kislak in 2014.

Kislak Collection copy has bookplate (with ms. shelf-mark in pencil) of the library of the Dukes of Devonshire at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, England, on front pastedown.

Kislak Collection copy formerly owned by M. Riaux of Rouen, France. Cf. T.F. Dibdin, A bibliographical, antiquarian and picturesque tour in France and Germany, v. 1 (London: Shakespeare Press, 1821), p. 159.

Kislak Collection copy bound in full contemporary brown morocco with gold-stamped supralibros of Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617) on each board (containing his arms and those of his second wife, Gasparde de La Chastre, and their joint monogram, IAG); 7 raised, gold-ruled bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels, one with title ("LES IMAGES DE PHILOSTR. B. VIGEN. FIGVR."), the rest with IAG monogram of de Thou and his wife; all edges gilt.

OCLC:

25854183