Accession number
Heineman 243
Creator
Lycophron.
Published
Basileae Ex officina Ioanis Oporini, Anno Salutis Humanae M.D.XLVI. Mense Martio [March 1546].
Credit line
Gift of the trustees of the Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection, 1977.
Notes
Annotated in Greek and Latin by Pierre de Ronsard.
Edited by Arnoldus Peraxylus Arlenius and Nicolaus Gerbelius.
Title also in Greek at head of title page.
PML copy is pt. I only with the Greek text.
Edited by Arnoldus Peraxylus Arlenius and Nicolaus Gerbelius.
Title also in Greek at head of title page.
PML copy is pt. I only with the Greek text.
Description
[16], 180, [8] , 268, [2] pages ; 28 cm (fol)
Inscriptions/Markings
Contemporary Greek and Latin marginal notations throughout, mostly trimmed. The authorship of the annotations has been variously assigned to Ronsard and his teacher Jean Dorat. A Greek anagrammatic distich in praise of Ronsard on the titlef page is probably in the hand of Dorat. For an account of the various attributions see Isidore Silver, Ronsard and the Hellenic Renaissance in France, new edition (1981-1985) 2: 75-77. Unidentified inscription, 17th/18th century(?): "Revido por D. Raphael," (front endleaf 1 verso).
Provenance
Pierre de Ronsard, signature (title page); unidentified owner: initials BTST (front pastedown); Hector de Backer, bookplate (front pastedown), his sale, Paris, part I, 17 Feb. 1926, lot 211; Dannie and Hettie Heineman, bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of the trustees of the Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection, 1977.
Binding
17th-century French brown calf, gilt spine; in slip case.
Classification
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