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Plvtarchi ... Opus quod parallela et vitas appellant, in quo vitae illustrissimorum uirorum graecorum ac romanorum ... exponuntur atq[ue] inter se comparantur / Gvilelmo Xylandro ... interprete.

Accession number
PML 129965.1
Creator
Plutarch.
Published
Heidelbergae : Excudebat Academiae typographus Ludouicus Lucius, 1561.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2007.
Description
[19], 962, [50] p. ; 32 cm (fol.)
Inscriptions/Markings
Annotations, primarily in Praefatio.
Provenance
Ownership inscription of Nicolai Erardi inside upper cover. "Cochet" inscribed on title page. "Ex libris Sugny" inscribed on first flyleaf. From the library of the Ramey family (16th-cent. France).
Binding
Contemporary calf tooled in blind and gilt; manuscript waste visible beneath lower endpaper; evidence of paper spine label; edges colored brown.
Classification
Department