Accession number
PML 125296
Creator
Plato.
Published
Basileae : [In officina Frobeniana], M. D. LXI [1561] Cautum est priuilegio D. Ferdinandi Imp. ne quis typographorum intra quinquennium hanc editionem imitetur.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1988-9.
Notes
Signatures: a-b (in Greek)⁶ a-z A-Z Aa-Zz AA-OO⁶ PP⁸ QQ-ZZ⁶.
Includes index.
Printer's device on the title page; verso of final leaf.
Colophon: Basileae in officina Frobeniana, per Hier. Frobenivm et Nic. Episcopivm, mense Avgvsto, anno domini M. D. LXI.
Historiated floral and other initials throughout.
Printed marginalia.
Errors in pagination: 316 numb. 318, 340 numb. 338, 362 numb. 372, 386 numb. 366, 705 numb. 707, 717 numb. 917, 724-725 numb. 714-715, 728 numb. 718.
Description based on imperfect copy: lacks t.p. and up to page 89; pages missing at end.
Includes index.
Printer's device on the title page; verso of final leaf.
Colophon: Basileae in officina Frobeniana, per Hier. Frobenivm et Nic. Episcopivm, mense Avgvsto, anno domini M. D. LXI.
Historiated floral and other initials throughout.
Printed marginalia.
Errors in pagination: 316 numb. 318, 340 numb. 338, 362 numb. 372, 386 numb. 366, 705 numb. 707, 717 numb. 917, 724-725 numb. 714-715, 728 numb. 718.
Description based on imperfect copy: lacks t.p. and up to page 89; pages missing at end.
Description
12 leaves, 1048, [58] p., [1] leaf : ill. ; 34 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Mathematical notations and unidentified inscriptions inside upper cover. Unidentified inscription inside lower cover. Drawing on upper cover.
Provenance
From the library of the Ramey family (16th-cent. France).
Binding
Contemporary reversed alum-tawed skin over paperboards; manuscript waste; evidence of paper spine label; edges colored brown; sewing structure visible. .
Classification
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Department