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Author/Creator:

Epictetus , author

Contributors:

Raphelengius, Frans, 1568-1643? , publisher

Plantin Press (Leiden) , publisher, printer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prt

Miniature Book Collection

Languages:

Latin
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Language Notes:

Latin and Greek on facing pages.

Main Work:

Epicteti Enchiridion, Et Cebetis Tabvla, Græcè & Latinè [by Epictetus]

Included Works:

Manual [by Epictetus] (Latin)

Manual [by Epictetus] (Greek)

Related Works:

Pinax of Cebes

Miniature Book Collection

Subjects:

Ethics — Greece

Miniature books — Belgium — 17th century — Specimens

Ethics

Greece

Genres:

Miniature books (Printing) — Belgium — 17th century

General Notes:

Signatures: A-Q⁸ (Q5-Q8 blank), signed in 5s, except Q4 and Q5, which are unsigned.
Text within two-line border.
Final [8] pages without text, but with borders.
Title page with type ornament rather than printer's device.
Oldfather, W.A. Epictetus, no. 141-142
News-letter of the LXIVMOS, #16 (March 1929), p.9 - "Melbourne, Australia".
Welsh, D.V. Bibl. of miniature books, no. 2673
Purchase; 2022.
Bound in full period vellum, sewn gathers laced into boards. Slight yapp edges. All edges of text block stained red. Blind-tooled double-ruled borders on front and back covers.

Physical Description:

247 pages, 9 unnumbered pages ; 73 mm (32mo in 8s)

Physical Characteristics:

32mo

Call Numbers:

Z232.P71 E653 1616

OCLC Numbers:

40197798