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Demosthenis ac Ciceronis Sententiae selectae : item, apophthegmata quaedam pia ex ducentis veteribus oratoribus, philosophis & poëtis, tam Graecis quàm Latinis ad bene beatéque viuendum diligentissimè collecta : horum nomina sequens pagella indicabit.

Accession number
PML 125315
Creator
Demosthenes.
Published
[Lugduni? : s.n., 1558?]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1988-9.
Notes
Description based on library's imperfect copy (lacking title page).
Caption title on p. 279: "Illustres quaedam sententiae ex optimis quibusque aliis autoribus selectae, per eundem Petru[m] Lagnerium"; caption title on p. 393: "Viro de literis optime merito D. Nicolao Tartretio Mecoenati suo, Desiderius Iacotius Vandoperanus S."
Signatures: ã⁸ ẽ⁸ ĩ⁸ a-z⁸ A-L⁸ M⁸( -M8).
Initials.
Includes index.
Description
[48], 558 p. ; 13 cm (16mo)
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscriptions inside upper cover, heavily obscured; inscriptions inside lower cover and on lower flyleaf; possible book curse on verso of lower flyleaf; contemporary annotations in the form of hash marks throughout.
Provenance
"Joannis [word obscured, probably not Ramey]" inscription inside lower cover and on verso of lower flyleaf. From the library of the Ramey family (16th-cent. France).
Binding
Contemporary blind-stamped calf over paperboards, tooled in gilt; evidence of paper spine label.
Classification
Department