Ek tōn Ktēsiou, Agatharchidou, Memnonos historicōn eklogai. Appianou Ibērikē kai Annibaikē : Ex Ctesia, Agatharchide, Memnone excerptae historiae. Appiani Iberica item, de gestis Annibalis, omnia nunc primùm edita ; cum Henrici Stephani castigationibus

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The instance Ek tōn Ktēsiou, Agatharchidou, Memnonos historicōn eklogai. Appianou Ibērikē kai Annibaikē : Ex Ctesia, Agatharchide, Memnone excerptae historiae. Appiani Iberica item, de gestis Annibalis, omnia nunc primùm edita ; cum Henrici Stephani castigationibus represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in UCLA Library.

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Ek tōn Ktēsiou, Agatharchidou, Memnonos historicōn eklogai. Appianou Ibērikē kai Annibaikē : Ex Ctesia, Agatharchide, Memnone excerptae historiae. Appiani Iberica item, de gestis Annibalis, omnia nunc primùm edita ; cum Henrici Stephani castigationibus

Title remainder

Ex Ctesia, Agatharchide, Memnone excerptae historiae. Appiani Iberica item, de gestis Annibalis

Statement of responsibility

omnia nunc primùm edita ; cum Henrici Stephani castigationibus

Instantiates

• Ek tōn Ktēsiou, Agatharchidou, Memnonos historicōn eklogai. Appianou Ibērikē kai Annibaikē : Ex Ctesia, Agatharchide, Memnone excerptae historiae. Appiani Iberica item, de gestis Annibalis

Publication

• Geneva, Ex officina Henrici Stephani Parisiensis typographia, an. MDLVII 1557

Note

• The excerpts from Ctesias include Photius' selections from the Persica and the Indica; the selections of Agatharchides are from his Peri tēs Erythras Thalassēs
• Includes Henri Estienne's lengthy dedicatory epistle to the eminent Italian humanist Carlo Sigonio, his essay on Ctesias, and 30 pages of critical notes
• Place of printing from Adams; also cf. Clair, A history of European printing, p. 162
• Printed in Greek, roman, and italic type; text in Greek type; spaces left for capitals, with guide letters
• Woodcuts: Estienne's olive tree device on t.p. (a man, possibly St. Paul, standing by the tree, garlanded with a ribbon containing an excerpt from Romans 11:20, "Noli altum sapere", emphasizing the importance of faith)
• Signatures: [par.]8 a-p8 q6
• Errata: p. 248

Dimensions

16 cm (8vo)

Extent

[16], 248 p.

Note

• Spec. Coll. copy bound with: Appiani Alexandrini Hispanica & Annibalica / latinè nunc primùm edita, ex Francisci Beraldi linguae graecae professoris doctissimi interpretatione. Anno MDLX. Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, illustris viri Huldrici Fuggeri typographus.
• Spec. Coll. copy: worn 19th-century brown calf; gold-stamped spine title "Ctesias. Appian. 1557"; gold-stamped crest of the Royal College of Physicians in top spine panel; edges stained red. Red ownership stamp of the College on t.p.; their large bookplate, designed and engraved by Alfred J. Downey, and dated London 1924, on front pastedown. Purchased from E.K. Schreiber on Getty Fund, 2007.

Record ID

6109123

System control number

• (OCoLC)36770491
• ucoclc36770491