Archaeologiae Atticae libri septem = Seven bookes of the Attick antiquities : containing the description of the citties glory, government, division of the people, and townes within the Athenian territories, their religion, superstition, sacrifices, account of their yeare, a full relation of their judicatories / by Francis Rous scholler of Merton Colledge in Oxon ; with an addition of their customes in marriages, burials, feastings, divinations, &c. in the foure last books / by Zachary Bogan, scholar of C.C.C. in Oxon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rous, Francis, 1615-

Contributor:

Lichfield, A. (Anne), active 1657-1671, printer.

Hall, Henry, active 1642-1680, printer.

Adams, John, active 1649-1673, bookseller.

Forrest, Edward, active 17th century, bookseller.

Bogan, Zachary, 1625-1659.

Standardized Title:

Archaeologiae Atticae. Books 1-7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Athens (Greece)--History--Early works to 1800.

Athens (Greece).

Athens (Greece)--Politics and government--Early works to 1800.

Athens (Greece)--Social life and customs--Early works to 1800.

Athens (Greece)--Antiquities--Early works to 1800.

Penn Provenance:

Hotchkiss, Robert V. (donor) (stamp)

Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary of the United Presbyterian Church of North America (stamp)

Allegheny Theological Seminary (bookplate) (stamp)

Doury, Christopher (inscription)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 374 pages, 10 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm (4to)

Edition:

The fifth edition corrected and enlarged, with a twofold index, rerum and vocabularum.

Other Title:

Seven bookes of the Attick antiquities

Attick antiquities

Fingerprint:

lln- isu- n.p- **di (3) 1658 (A)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Printed by A. Lichfield, and H. Hall, for John Adams, and Edw. Forrest, 1658.

Notes:

Includes index.

Signatures: *⁴ ²*² A-3B⁴

Title enclosed in a decorative rule-border.

Text in English with quotations and examples in Latin and Greek.

Head- and tail-pieces, initials, marginal notes.

In this edition, line 10 of title has "account of their yeare". Another edition (ESTC) R233880 has "account of the yeare"

According to Madan this reprint of the Fourth edition was made chiefly by Henry Hall. ESTC records some copies "may have the table of contents ('Index vocabulorum'; ²*²) bound at the end after the true index, also headed 'Index vocabulorum' (3B⁴)."

Title bound together here (subsequent to publication) is commonly found with two other school texts of ancient history. By 1685 the three works, consisting of "Romanae historiae" and "Moses and Aaron" both by Thomas Goodwin, and "Archaeologiae Atticae" by Francis Rous, were being issued together under a general title-page.

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Rev. Robert V. Hotchkiss.

Penn Libraries copy with ms. inscription: Ex libris Christophori Doury(?), 1661.

Penn Libraries copy with dated ownership stamp: R.V. Hotchkiss Jan. 14 1955.

Penn Libraries copy has ink institutional stamp "Allegheny U.P. Theological Seminary Library" on title page of work with which this is bound.

Penn Libraries copy with bookplate of the Library of the Allegheny Theological Seminary of the United Presbyterian Church.

Penn Libraries copy has ownership stamp from the Library of the Pittsburgh Xenia Theological Seminary as well as a discard stamp from the Pittsburgh Xenia Seminary Library on title page of work with which this is bound.

Penn Libraries copy bound with: Romanae historiae anthologia recognita et aucta. London : Printed by R.W. for Henry Cripps, ..., 1661.

Cited in:

Madan, F. Oxford books, III, 2410

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), R2035

ESTC R008418

OCLC:

228728149