Pindarou Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia. Meta exēgēseōs palaias pany ōphelimou, kai scholiōn homoiōn..
Pindar.
Kalliergēs, Zacharias,active 1499-1523,printer.
Benignus, Cornelius,active 1515-1516,publisher.
Naunton, Robert,Sir,1563-1635,former owner.StEdNL
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy,Duke of,1735-1811,former owner.StEdNL
Mitford, John,1781-1859,former owner.StEdNL
Lothian, William Schomberg Robert Kerr,Marquess of,1832-1870,former owner.StEdNL
Thomas and William Boone,bookseller.StEdNL
Impressi Romae : Per Zachariam Calergi Cretensem, ... ,
[1515]
Title transliterated from Greek.
Other than the imprint the book is printed entirely in Greek.
Some text printed in red.
Two devices on title page: the publisher's, Cornelius Benignus, and the printer's Zacharaias Kallergiēs.
Signatures: a⁴ b-th⁸ i⁶ (i⁶ blank) k-m⁸ n-s⁶ [A]-H⁸ TH¹⁰ (TH¹⁰ blank) I-P⁸.
Title page lacks the signature letter alpha but the variant state of the first quire may be established by other means. See Fogelmark. The Kallierges Pindar (Cologne: Dinter, 2015).
With marginal annotations.
With three cuttings from bookseller's catalogues pasted to verso of front free endpaper.
Ink inscriptions at head of title: Naunton [and in a different hand] D. of Grafton 1763. Remains of mutilated Duke of Grafton armorial bookplate on front pastedown with round armorial Marquess of Lothian bookplate pasted over and above. Ink inscription at head of recto of front flyleaf: J Mitford. This book was lot 1460 in the Catalogue of the valuable collection of Greek & Latin classics ... the first portion of the library of the late Rev. John Mitford ... sold by auction, by Messrs. S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson ... 17th December 1859. Marked up National Library copy at T.3.e.1 shows it sold for £2-3- to Boone.
18th-century blue morocco with gilt rolled triple fillet border on front and back boards, gilt tooled spine, gilt rolled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges and marbled endpapers.
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