Accession number
PML 394
Object title
To men paron biblion, Souida. : Oi de syntaxa menoi touto, andres sophoi...
Uniform title
Suda lexicon.
Published
Impressum Mediolani : Impensa & dexteritate D. Demetrii Chalcondyli Ioannis Bissoli Benedicti Mangii Carpensium, Anno ab Incarnatione. M. cccc. lxxxxviiii die xv Nouembris.
Description
[516] leaves ; 37 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
Title from head of leaf α3r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf ZZ6v: Anno ab incarnatione .M.cccc.lxxxxviiii die xv nouembris. Impressum Mediolani impensa & dexteritate D. Demeitrii Chalcondyli Ioannis Bissoli Benedicti Mangii Carpensium. [Printer's mark]
Printed in unidentified types 109R and 107Gr.
Signatures: α-ω⁸ ααα-λλλ⁸ Α-Ω⁸ ΑΑ-ΔΔ⁸ ΕΕ-ZZ⁶: 516 leaves.
Paper format: Super-median folio.
Edited by Demetrius Chalcondyles.
Often referred to as Lexicon Graecum.
Includes on fol. 1 a Greek dialogue of Stephanus Niger between the bookseller and a student, mentioning the price of three ducats (Pollard and Ehrman p.6).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 35.5 x 24.5 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf ZZ6v: Anno ab incarnatione .M.cccc.lxxxxviiii die xv nouembris. Impressum Mediolani impensa & dexteritate D. Demeitrii Chalcondyli Ioannis Bissoli Benedicti Mangii Carpensium. [Printer's mark]
Printed in unidentified types 109R and 107Gr.
Signatures: α-ω⁸ ααα-λλλ⁸ Α-Ω⁸ ΑΑ-ΔΔ⁸ ΕΕ-ZZ⁶: 516 leaves.
Paper format: Super-median folio.
Edited by Demetrius Chalcondyles.
Often referred to as Lexicon Graecum.
Includes on fol. 1 a Greek dialogue of Stephanus Niger between the bookseller and a student, mentioning the price of three ducats (Pollard and Ehrman p.6).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 35.5 x 24.5 cm.
Binding
19th-century gilt-tooled blue straight-grained morocco over paper boards (37 x 26.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Bozérian le Jeune. Gilt-tooled orange morocco doublures, with plain paper and vellum endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary title inscription: "SOYIDAS" (in Greek) and Greek and Latin inscriptions, including citation from Stefano Negri's Dialogus, bleached/faded but more legible under UV (leaf α1r) No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Unidentified names, abraded (leaf α1r); Antoine Augustin Renouard (1765-1853), Catalogue de la bibliothèque d'un amateur, part II, p. 18; Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), purchased from Payne & Foss, 1837, armorial booklabel (front endleaf 1 recto), entire library purchased in 1878 by: James Toovey (1814-1893), through inheritance to his son: Charles J. Toovey (1848-1925), Burnham Abbey booklabel (front pastedown), entire library purchased by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
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