Bod-Inc: I-042
Isocrates
Orationes [Greek].
Analysis of Content
Α2r Plutarchus [pseudo-]: Βιος Ἰσοκράτους . Lives of ten orators; see F. Blass, Die Attische Beredsamkeit, II (2nd edn 1887-98), 9.
Α4v Philostratus: Βιος Ἰσοκράτους .
Α5r Dionysius Halicarnaseus: Περὶ τω̂ν ἀρχαίων ῥητόρων . ‘ Ἰσοκράτης Ἀθηναι̂ος .’ Dionysius Halicarnaseus, Opuscula. Isocrates.
Γ1r Isocrates: Πρὸς Δημόνικον . Isocrates, Orationes, 1.
Γ6r Isocrates: Πρὸς Νικοκλέα . Isocrates, Orationes, 2.
Δ3r Isocrates: Νικοκλη̂ς ἢ Κύπριοι . Isocrates, Orationes, 3.
A1r Isocrates: Εὐαγόρας . Isocrates, Orationes, 9.
B1r Isocrates: Ἑλένη . Isocrates, Orationes, 10.
B7r Isocrates: Βούσιρις . Isocrates, Orationes, 11.
C4r Isocrates: Κατὰ τω̂ν σοφιστω̂ν . Isocrates, Orationes, 13.
C6v Isocrates: Πανηγυρικός . Isocrates, Orationes, 4.
F1v Isocrates: Πλαταικός . Isocrates, Orationes, 14.
F7v Isocrates: Ἀρεοπαγιτικός . Isocrates, Orationes, 7.
G8r Isocrates: Παναθηναικός . Isocrates, Orationes, 12.
L3v Ὑπόθεσις του̂ πρὸς Φιλίππον λόγου .
L4r Isocrates: Φιλίππος . Isocrates, Orationes, 5.
N4v Ὑπόθεσις .
N5r Isocrates: Περὶ ἐιρήνης . Isocrates, Orationes, 8.
P6v Ὑπόθεσις .
P6v Isocrates: Ἀρχίδαμος . Isocrates, Orationes, 6.
R5r Isocrates: Περὶ Ἀντιδόσεως . Isocrates, Orationes, 15.
V4r Isocrates: Περὶ του̂ ζεύγουν . Isocrates, Orationes, 16.
Y3v Isocrates: Αἰγινητικός . Isocrates, Orationes, 19.
AA2v Isocrates: Τραπεζιτικός . Isocrates, Orationes, 17.
BB2r Isocrates: Παραγραφή πρὸς Καλλίμαχον . Isocrates, Orationes, 18.
CC2r Isocrates: Κατὰ Λοχίτου . Isocrates, Orationes, 20.
CC4r Isocrates: Πρὸς Εὐθύνουν Ἀμάρτυρος . Edited by Demetrius Chalcondylas. Isocrates, Orationes, 21.
Imprint
Imprint: Milan: Uldericus Scinzenzeler, and Sebastianus de Ponte Tremulo, 24 Jan. 1493. Folio.
Remarks: For notes on the variant settings of gathering A and the outer forme of sheet B3 see BMC and CIBN.
Collation
Collation: α β γ8 δ10 A–L8 M–V Y AA–CC6.
References
ISTC: ii00210000
Hain: HC 9312;
Goff: Goff I‑210;
BMC: BMC VI 767;
Proctor: Pr 6065;
Others: BSB‑Ink I‑646; CIBN I‑88; Oates 2317; Rhodes 969; Sheppard 4997-8.
LCN: 14437369, 14437424
Copies
Copy number: I-042(1)
Wanting the blank leaves Β8 and Δ10.
With the first setting of gathering A. A1r, l. 4: ‘ . . . χοροι̂ς ‘; B1r, l. 1: ‘ . . . ἐπεχείρησας . . .' [ ει is a ligature].
Binding: Sixteenth/seventeenth-century blind-tooled parchment, with the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on the front pastedown. Sprinkled red and black-edged leaves.
Size: 305 × 206 × 33 mm.
Size of leaf: 295 × 199 mm.
Provenance: Pietro-Antonio Bolongaro-Crevenna (1735-1792); printed label of the sale (1789), part III, lot 3266; purchased by A. Pierson for Fl. 60, the equivalent of £5. 5. 0, according to the exchange rate used by Thomas Payne at this sale. Purchased for £5. 5. 0; see Books Purchased (1790), 5.
SHELFMARK: Auct. K 3.2.
Copy number: I-042(2)
With the later setting of gathering A. A1r, l. 4: ‘ . . . χο- | ροι̂ς ’. In gathering B, sheets 1, 2, and the outer forme of sheet 3 are also differently set up from those in the preceding copy; B1r, l. 1: ‘ . . . ἐπεχείρησας . . .’
Binding: Nineteenth-century gold-tooled red morocco; gilt-edged leaves and marbled pastedowns; bound by F. Bedford.
Size: 308 × 204 × 35 mm.
Size of leaf: 308 × 204 mm.
A few marginal notes in Greek. ‘2697' in brown ink on Α1r.
On Α2r a contemporary Italian (Milan) initial ‘I' is supplied in gold, decorated with blue, green, and silver (previously red?) acanthus leaves, within a pink frame; on the same leaf, the printed headline is surrounded by a pink frame decorated with acanthus leaves and hanging from a blue chain with a trompe-l'œil effect.
Provenance: London, Royal Society; stamp: ‘Soc. Reg. Lond.' William Horatio Crawford (1815-1888); armorial book-plate. Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); purchased by B. Quaritch for Bywater at the Crawford sale (London: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 18 March 1891), lot 1701 for £10. 10. 0; see bill pasted to rear endleaf. Elenchus, no. 1836. Bequeathed in 1914.
SHELFMARK: Byw. D 4.3.
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