A leaf from a printed edition of Lives, Teachings, and Sayings of Famous Philosophers by Diogenes, translated by Ambrogio Traversari, published Venice : Nicolas Jenson (Impressum Venetiis : per Nicolaum Ienson Gallicum), 1475. The leaf is foliated 6 in a later hand, encompassing text "a musis asseritur. Orphea..." to "Nullum enim hominum...". Inclusions of Greek text.
Type of Resource
Still Image
Rights Statement
No Copyright - United States
Digital Publisher
Jenson, Nicolas, approximately 1420-1480
Abstract
Rare Book collection copy: no. 46.
Rare Book collection leaf from "Vulgate Bible (Dominican. Paris, ca. 1240)" appears to be from 4 Kings (that is, 2 Kings, in Authorized notation), spanning most of Ch. XVII and the first half of Ch. XVIII.
Rare Book collection leaf from "Book of Hours (France, ca. 1460)" appears to be from the Office of Our Lady, Lauds.
Title from "Annotated chronological index."
Publication information from Chalmers, Checklist, in Disbound and dispersed : the leaf book considered. Chicago : Caxton Club, c2005.
Forty monted leaves, with annotated chronological index, boxed.
"Deluxe edition limited to fifty numbered sets ..."--Label inside cover of box.
