3 vol. Folio. 954, 780, and 380 leaves, title printed in red and black, half-title in each volume, title in Vol. I only; engraved
arms of the University of Cambridge on the title-page, engraved head-pieces and initials, all by S. Gribelin,
Greek and
Latin text in double columns, notes in double columns below. At the end of the third volume is a Catalogus Auctorum veterum, quibus
in Notis ad Suidam usi sumus: additis eorum Editionibus.
Graesse VI, 526.
Ebert 21979.
Sandys II, 446.
Bowes 368.
Oxford Classical Dictionary, page 866.
Jefferson bought a copy with other books from the library of the Rev. Samuel Henley. It is included (described as 3. v. fol.
injured) in the list appended to his letter to Henley dated from Paris, March 3, 1785, and is in the separate list made by Jefferson of the books in this purchase.
Suidas is the name of the lexicon, not of the author, and was compiled at the end of the tenth century.
Aemilius Portus, 1550-1614, a Greek born in Ferrara, was for a time professor of Greek at Heidelberg. He was the compiler of a number of
lexicons.
Ludolf Küster, 1670-1716, German scholar, was educated at Berlin, Frankfurt, Paris and Cambridge and became a friend of Dr. Bentley. “In
1705 he produced an edition of Suidas in three folio volumes, published by the Cambridge Press. This was founded on the editor’s
collation of three Paris MSS, together with corrections by Bishop Pearson and other aid supplied by Bentley, and was completed
in the short space of three years.”--Sandys.
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Etymologicum magnum
Graecum.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 165, no. 134, Etymologium Magnum Græcum, fol.
ETYMOLOGICUM MAGNUM.
Μ(`ε)γα Ετυμολογικον. Magnvm Etymologicvm
Græcæ Linguæ, nunc recens summa adhibita diligentia excusum, et innumerabilibus penè dictionibus locupletatum. Qvas vt facilivs
cognoscere lector possit, singulis manus Index est apposita. Adeo vt ferè nihil in hoc libro desiderari iam possit ab ijs,
qui
græcis literis nauant operam.
Venetijs: [
Paulus Manutius] apud
Federicum Turrisanum,
m. d. xlix
. [1549.]
Folio. 178 leaves, Aldine anchor device on the title and on the verso of the last leaf, ornamental initials and headpieces;
Greek text in double columns,
Latin preface. A copy was not available for examination; the above information was obtained from the card of the University of
Illinois in the National Union Catalog, and from other sources.
Graesse II, 510.
Brunet II, 1086.
See Sandys I, 415.
This is the
second edition of the
Etymologicum Magnum, which was first printed by Callierges in Venice in 1499. The work was compiled between 1100 and 1250 and was founded on
the
Etymologicum Genuinum
with additions from the
Etymologicum Gudianum
and other compilations[.] An edition was printed in 1594, edited by Sylburg.
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Stephani thesaurus linguae
Graecae.
4. v.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 167, no. 132, as above.
ESTIENNE,
Henry.
Θησαυρος της Ελληνικης Γλωσσης. Thesavrvs
Graecae Lingvae, Ab Henrico Stephano constructus. In qvo præter alia plvrima quæ primus præstitit, (paternæ in Thesauro
Latino diligentiæ æmulus) vocabula in certas classes distribuit, multiplici deriuatorum serie ad primigenia, tanquam ad radices
vnde pullulant, reuocata. Thesavrvs Lectori, Nunc alii intrepidè vestigia nostra sequantur: Me duce plana
