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165121700London: Robert Daniel 1651. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary Cambridge style full brown calf lacking spine label. Very good. 393 pages plus 5 leaves: Index Rerum & Verborum & Index Scripturarum. 32 x 21 cm. Translated and edited by Richard Montague. Parallel text in Latin and Greek. He is recognized in the Eastern Orthodox Church as St. Photios the Great viewed as the most important intellectual of his time - "the leading light of the ninth-century renaissance" and a central figure in both the conversion of the Slavs to Christianity. Considered by some scholars as only one of many Byzantine scholars of Armenian descent. Text generally clean and fresh. Armorial bookplate hinges cracked but firm woodcut device on title leaf Ddd browned minor marginal worming not affecting text errata. Lacks first blank free endpaper. BRUNET Vol. IV p.623. WING P2136. Robert Daniel unknown
16061395728Augustae Vindelicorum Augsburg: Exeudebat Christophor Mangus Christoph Mang 1606. Hardcover. Quarto 28 555 35 pages. In Good minus condition. Bound in full vellum. Spine has handwritten ink titling. Tearing and partially detached vellum from spine and loose end band at tail end of spine. Boards have moderate yellowing and soiling. Textblock has tears to pastedowns minor worming scattered on some pages throughout not impacting the text; light age toning moderate foxing and stains scattered throughout. Title page has 2 blue stamps and 1 brown stamp. Red ink along the edges. Text in Latin. Shelved in Room A. VD17 no: 23:230865S; USTC no: 2014301; OCLC no: 80468668. 1395728. Special Collections. Exeudebat Christophor Mangus [Christoph Mang] hardcover
16129681Geneva: Oliva Pauli Stephani 1612. Folio in 6s pp. xxxii cols. 1624 104 ff. xii. Title page printed in red and black large woodcut olive-tree title device Schreiber 34 woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials Greek and Latin text in double column some spotting and browning at intervals largely due to paper qualityl later sheep circa 1700 minor wear abrasions to covers and wear to headcaps. A couple of ink library stamps St Patricks Collge Maynooth. Ownership inscription of Antoine Pericaud probably the Lyons-based antiquary author and translator 1782-1867. Engraved armorial bookplate to verso of title. Second edition overall and the first bilingual edition of the Myriobiblon combining David Hosechels recension of the original Greek text 1601 with Andreas Schotts 1606 Latin translation. A powerful and capable statesman and churchman Photios a 9th century Patriarch of Constantinople was also at the centre of intellectual life in the Byzantine capital. His Bibliotheca or Myrobiblon supposedly written just before Photios undertook a dangerous diplomatic mission and dedicated to his brother Tarasius as a consolation in case he should fail to return is an account of some 280 books read and reviewed many of them classical works which have since been lost and for which this is the most important surviving record. Reynolds and Wilson credit him with inventing the book review Scribes and Scholars third ed. p. 62. Renouard Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne 197 no.21 also noting copies dated 1611; further copies traced dated 1613; Schreiber The Estiennes 275. Book ] Oliva Pauli Stephani, unknown
