Adagia and Adagiorum chiliades Des. Erasmi Roterodami
Description:
Colophon: Basileae in Officina Frobeniana per Hieronymum Frobenium, & Nicolaum Episcopium, mense Martio, anno M.D.LIX., Errata: p. 1071., Imperfect: wormed, with no loss of text. Front paste-down endpaper heavily annotated, with original contemporary drawing. Armorial bookplate and inscription of J. Henryson. Some annotations in text. Bookplate: Teodorg Becu. Bound in blind-tooled pigskin, stamped and dated "C.C.I., 1565.," with metal clasps., Includes index., Page 1056 incorrectly numbered 1065., Printer's mark on t.p. and p. [1072]; initials., Signatures: 2a-2h⁶ 2i⁴ a-z⁶ A-3T⁶ 3V⁸., and Text in Latin with examples in Greek.
Publisher:
In officina Frobenium per Hieronymum Frobenium, & Nicolaum Episcopium,
Subject (Name):
Henryson, J.--Autograph and Henryson, J.--Bookplate
Manuscript on paper (medium weight, sturdy) of 1) Aristotle, De anima. Followed by a Latin translation of Aristotle's De anima, sometimes ascribed to William of Moerbeke. 2) Simplicius, In Aristotelis De anima libros Commentarius. 3) Paraphrasis of art. 1. 4) Plotinus, Enneades I.1-8.6 line 27. 5) Aristotle, De interpretatione
Description:
In Greek and Latin., Watermarks on f. ii similar to Briquet Main 10713; ff. 1-48 similar to Harlfinger Homme 21; f. 49 similar to Briquet Ancre 428; ff. 51-67 similar to Briquet Chapeau 3384; ff. 69-80 similar to Briquet Balance 2506; ff. 81-96 similar to Briquet Lettre R 8938., Script: The manuscript is divided into 4 parts, which do not correspond precisely with the divisions of the text. Part I (ff. 1r-50v): Written in small, neat Greek minuscule. The parallel Latin translation (ff. 1r-9v only) is in italic, about the same size as the Greek; probably added later, since it is written around some marginal rubrics for the Greek text. Part II (ff. 51r-67r): Written in a rather large Greek minuscule, with a thick pen which ran out of ink every few words; marginal and interlinear notes much smaller, but possibly by same hand. Part III (ff. 67v-80r): Greek minuscule very similar to that in Part I. Part IV (ff. 81r-96v): Same scribe as Part II; signed on f. 96v: George, son of Constantine., Part I: Space for a 5-line initial at the beginning of the Greek text was not filled; 2-line initials in red at beginning of sections; headings in red, also marks in margin for chapters. Part II: Spaces for initials, 7-line or larger, were not filled in, but two initials similar to those in Part IV were sketched in (ff. 51r and 56r). Part III: Spaces for 8-line initials not filled. Part IV: 7-line initials in black and orange-tinted red; stylized leaves and vines, with a bird on f. 83v. Diagrams in red traced over black., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Tan calf case deeply indented and gold- and blind-tooled. Similar to the bindings of MSS 255 and 256 and probably by the same binder. According to A. R. A. Hobson the binder may be Whitaker.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Aristotle.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
BEIN 2010 56: Ownership inscription and ms. notes of the Augsburg Hellenist Hieronymus Wolf indicating that this book was from the library of Johann Jakob Fugger. Stamp: Biblioteca Heberiana. Blind tooled pigskin binding., BEIN Gfd46 c551: For fuller description see Renouard, Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde, 3rd ed., 1834, p. 151-2; Bibliotheca Lindesiana, vol. 1, col. 2343. Two leaves of a vellum manuscript (a Latin theological treatise) serve as end papers., Editorship uncertain: attributed both to Federico Torresani and to Paolo Manuzio., First edition., Renouoard. 3rd. ed. 1834. p. 145 for relationship of Torresano & the sons of Aldus. Hard to tell exactly who was printer., and Signatures: A-3L⁸.
Publisher:
apud Federicum Turrisanum,
Subject (Name):
Fugger, Johann Jakob,--1516-1575--Ownership, Heber, Richard,--1773-1833--Bookplate, Manuzio, Paolo, 1512-1574, printer. prt, Torresano, Federico, d. 1561 or 62, publisher, Wolf, Hieronymus,--1516-1580--Autograph, and Wolf, Hieronymus,--1516-1580--Ms. notes