Pindarou Periodos, hoc est, Pindari Lyricorum principis
Subtitle: plus quam sexcentis in locis emaculati, ut jam legi & intelligi possit, Olympionikai. Pythionikai. Nemeonikai. Isthmionikai. Illustrati versione nova fideli. Rationis metricae indicatione certa. Dispositione textus genuina. Commentario sufficiente. Cum fragmentis aliqvot diligenter collectis. Indice locuplete, victorum, autorum, rerum & verborum. Discursu duplici; uno de Dithyrambis: altero de Insula Atlantica ultra Columnas Herculis, qvae America hodiè dicitur
By: Opera Erasmi Schmidii Delitiani, ..
Contributors: Schmidt, Erasmus, 1560-1637
Publisher: Sumptibus Zachariae Schureri, bibliopolae.
Published: 1616
Place of publication: Wittenberg]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 395
Subjects: Greek poetry; Medieval and modern Latin poetry
Other titles: Pindarou Periodos.; Periodos.; Pindari Lyricorum principis.; Lyricorum principis.
Work titles: Works
Notes: New edition, with a Latin translation and commentary by Erasmus Schmidt.

Greek and Latin text facing each other, with Greek on versos and Latin on rectos.

Commentary in Latin, printed in two columns, following each chapter of the Greek and Latin text.

Place of publication according to Bircher and all other sources mentioned below.

Parts 2-4 with half titles, part 1 with caption title.

Vignette on half titles.

Signatures: A⁴ *b-*d⁴ ²A⁴ B-2V⁴ (A1 verso, A4, H4 verso, 2V4 verso blank;) ):(⁴ a-3c⁴ 3d² ():(1 verso, 3d2 verso blank); ²):(⁴ [alpha]- 2[iota]⁴ 2[kappa]² (2[kappa]2 verso blank); [Delta]⁴ aA-kkK⁴ (uV1 verso blank). The Greek alphabet, used for signing in part 3, has 24 letters, hence this part comprises 34 gatherings (excluding the preliminary gathering signed "):("). Leaf 2q1 (p. 305-306, 2nd part) is wider than usual and folded towards the margin.

Errors in paging.

Plate in first part is a genealogical table, unnumbered.

Cf. Bircher, M.  Deutsche Drucke des Barock, Register zu den Bänden A1-A7, B1-B6, C1-C3 p. 299 (Schürer publisher in Wittenberg)

Errata (p. 23, 1st count)

Includes indexes.

Alden, J. & Landis, D.C.  European Americana, 616/94.

Grässe 5: p. 294.

Sabin 62917.

Jantz, H.  German Baroque lit., 193.
Table of contents: title: In Pindaricam exēgēsin prolegomena (pt. 1: fol. 1-5 recto).; title: Prolegomina de Olympiis (pt. 1: fol. 5 verso - 12, p. 13-45).; title: De eidei, strophē, antisrophēi [sic], epōdōi, kōlois, pedibus, & carminibus lyricis (pt. 1: p. 46-51).; title: Pindarou Olympionikai (pt. 1: p. 53-331; caption title p. 53).; title: Pindari Pythionicae (pt. 2: p. [1-8], 1-395; half title p. [1]).; title: Pindari Nemeonicae (pt. 3: p. [1-8], 1-267; half title p. [1]).; title: Pindari Isthmionicae (pt. 4: p. [1-8], 1-153; half title p. [1]).; title: Catalogus victorum, qvibus eidē haec scripta sunt (pt. 4: p. 155-156).; title: Leipsana seu residua fragmenta scriptorum Pindari, incuria superiorum seculorum amissorum, /ex diversis autoribus collecta ab E[rasmo S[chmidtio] (pt. 4: p. 157-168).; title: Index autorum antiqvorum et recentiorum; ... (pt. 4: p. [169]-175).; title: Index rerum et verborum memorabiliorum Commentarij Pindarici, locupletissimus (pt. 4: p. [176]-246).; title: De dithyrambis. Qvaestio in promotione XXXII. Philosophiae candidatorum d. 23. Martii Anno 1607. / à M. Joachimo Jaschio proposita (pt. 4: p. 247-255).; title: De America, oratiuncula in promotione XXXV. magistrorum, 23. Martij, Anno 1602. habita (pt. 4: p. 256-264; published here for the first time)