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Sylvarum libri V. Achilleidos libri XII. Thebaidos libri II. Orthographia et flexus dictionum graecarum omnium apud Statium cum accentib. et generib. ex variis utriusq; linguae authoribus.

Accession number
PML 1608
Creator
Statius, P. Papinius (Publius Papinius)
Published
Venetiis, In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae soceri, mense Ianuario M.D.XIX [January 1519]
Credit line
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
With prefaces by F. Asulanus and A. P. Manutius.
"Orthographia ... dictionum graecarum omnium apud Statium" (by A. P. Manutius) has special t.p.
Description
294, [2] leaves ; 17 cm (8vo)
Provenance
Unidentified price code and inscriptions: "Bxr" and "Collated perfect S.H." (rear endleaf 2 recto); Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), purchased in 1823 (while at Harrow School), armorial booklabel (front pastedown) and shelfmark: F2 (front endleave 1 verso), 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 in 1899 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Binding
18th-century English blind-tooled red morocco, perhaps by Roger Payne (1738-1797). Plain brown paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Classification
Department