Hērodotou logoi ennea, hoiper epika lountai Mousai = Herodoti libri nouem quibus Musarum indita sunt nomina : Mousōn onomata, Kleiō, Euterpē, Thaleia, Melpomenē, Terpsichorē, Eratō, Polymnia, Ourania, Kalliopē = Musarum nomina, Clio, Euterpe, Thalia, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Erato, Polymnia, Vrania, Calliope.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herodotus.

Contributor:

Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 1450-1515.

Aldine Press, 1502.

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

History. Greek (Manuzio)

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

History, Ancient--Early works to 1800.

History, Ancient.

History.

Greece--History--Early works to 1800.

Greece.

Genre:

Printers' devices (Printing) -- Italy -- Venice -- 16th century.

Penn Provenance:

Augustus Frederick, Prince, Duke of Sussex, 1773-1843 (bookplate) (RBC copy)

Beaufoy, Henry Benjamin Hanbury, 1786-1851 (bookplate) RBC copy)

Physical Description:

280 unnumbered pages ; 33 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Herodoti liber nouem quibus Musarum indita sunt nomina

Fingerprint:

**** ***- **** **** (C) 1502 (R)

Place of Publication:

Venetiis : In domo Aldi, mense Septembri MDII [September 1502]

Language Note:

Text in Greek; title, contents and colophon in parallel Greek and Latin.

Notes:

First seven words and the sixteenth through the twenty-sixth words from the title transliterated from the Greek.

Edited by Aldo Manuzio.

Imprint from Latin portion of parallel colophon on leaf 2[Sigma]2S4r.

Signatures (in Greek and Roman capitals): 2[Alpha]2A⁸ [Beta]B⁸ 2[Gamma]2G-2[Rho]2R⁸ 2[Sigma]2S⁴.

Without pagination.

Register in Greek and Latin on leaf 2[Sigma]2S4r.

Initial spaces with guide letters.

Woodcut printer's devices on title leaf and verso of last printed leaf.

Local Notes:

RBC copy has ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on front pastedown and front free endpaper; ms. shelf-mark at head of front pastedown; a few early ms. underlines, marginal marks and notes in brown ink in text.

RBC copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1941.

RBC copy has armorial bookplate of Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, with 2 early ms. shelf-marks (1 struck through) in ink and modern ms. bibliographical note in pencil on front pastedown.

RBC copy has armorial bookplate of Henry B.H. Beaufoy on front pastedown.

RBC copy has largely effaced ms. ownership inscription ("Collegij Greci[?] [...]") and shelf-mark(?) ("22-160") in brown ink on title leaf.

RBC copy has paper slip with bookseller's printed description of this copy on front free endpaper.

RBC copy bound in full early parchment; 5 raised bands on spine; 2 gold-stamped black leather spine labels, 1 with brief title ("HERODOTUS GRECE") and 1 with imprint ("EDIT. PR. ALDUS VENET. 1502"); all edges stippled red.

RBC copy: spine damaged at head and tail; a few ink smears in text.

Cited in:

EDIT 16 CNCE 22655

Whiting, B. Ahmanson-Murphy Aldine collection, 62

Adams H394

Renouard, A.A. Alde, 1502, no. 8

OCLC:

228692796