Aischylou tragōdiai hepta : Aeschyli tragoediae septem, a Francisco Robortello Vtinensi ; nunc primvm ex manuscriptis libris ab infinitis erratis expurgatae, ac suis metris restitutae

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Aischylou tragōdiai hepta : Aeschyli tragoediae septem, a Francisco Robortello Vtinensi ; nunc primvm ex manuscriptis libris ab infinitis erratis expurgatae, ac suis metris restitutae

Title remainder

Aeschyli tragoediae septem

Statement of responsibility

a Francisco Robortello Vtinensi ; nunc primvm ex manuscriptis libris ab infinitis erratis expurgatae, ac suis metris restitutae

Instantiates

• Aischylou tragōdiai hepta : Aeschyli tragoediae septem

Publication

• Venetiis, Apud Gualterium Scottum, MDLII 1552

Note

• This is either the second or third ed. of Aeschylus: the editio princeps was published in Venice at the Aldine Press in 1518, and no precedence can be established between Robortello's Venice ed. and Turnèbe's Paris ed. of the same year; cf. Gruys, p. 32-33
• Title proper romanized from t.p
• Signatures: [alpha]8 [beta]4 [Alpha]-[Rho]8
• Woodcuts: ornamental initials; tail-pieces
• Text printed in Greek type; prefatory material in Latin in large and small italic type
• Errata: p. [1]-[2] at end

Contents

(romanized from running titles) Promētheus -- Hepta epi Thēbais -- Persai -- Agamemnon -- Choephoroi -- Eumenides -- Hiketides

Dimensions

16 cm (8vo)

Extent

[24], 265, [7] p.

Note

Spec. Coll. copy: imperfect, final two blank leaves ([Rho]7-8) wanting; gathering [beta]4 misbound at end following leaf [Rho]6. Olive green (brown) straight-grain morocco binding by Charles Lewis; triple gilt fillet on covers and spine; inner gilt dentelles; all edges gilt. Ownership inscriptions excised from t.p. and last p., with loss of 3 letters of text at end. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper of Rev. Henry Joseph Thomas Drury, classical scholar, friend of Dibdin, and schoolmaster and friend of Byron, who purchased it at the auction sale in 1822 of the library of Daniel Albert Wyttenbach, German Swiss classical scholar, and 13th Librarian of Leiden University. Purchase, Hesketh & Ward, 1994.

Record ID

3692107

System control number

• (OCoLC)41366238
• ucoclc41366238