Dionysiou Halikarnasseōs Peri Syntheseōs Onomatōn = Dionysii Halicarnassei De Structura Orationis Liber
by Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Dionysiou Halikarnasseōs Peri Syntheseōs Onomatōn | |
Title page from Dionysiou Halikarnasseōs Peri Syntheseōs Onomatōn, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary. | |
Author | Dionysius of Halicarnassus |
Published | Londini: Impensis R. Knaplock, in Cœmeterio Paulino |
Date | 1728 |
Language | Latin |
Pages | 263, 43 p. |
Desc. | 8vo (23 cm.) |
Location | Shelf H-2 |
Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library
Listed in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as Dionysius Halicarnasseus. and given by Thomas Jefferson to his grandson Thomas Jefferson Randolph. The Brown Bibliography[7] lists the 1615 Hanover edition of Dionysii Halicarnassei Scripta qvæ extant Omnia based on one of the copies Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress.[8] George Wythe's Library[9] on LibraryThing states "Precise work/edition unknown." Unable to verify a specific title or edition, the Wolf Law Library purchased Dionysiou Halikarnasseōs Peri Syntheseōs Onomatōn when a copy became available.
Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy
Bound in contemporary full roan with red morocco label on gilt-decorated spine. Includes the armorial bookplate of "Dav. Durrell, A.M. Coll. Pemb." with the motto "Dos est magna parentum virtus" (The virtue of parents is a great dowry" (Horace)) on the front pastedown. A second motto is written on the printed bookplate in Arabic: "لا فخر بالمال والنسب بل فخر بالعلم والأدب" (Nobleness is not in wealth and lineage, rather nobleness is in knowledge and culture). The rear pastedown includes the inscription "Prosperum felix sellus virtus appellatur." Purchased from Rulon-Miller Books.
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See also
References
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica Online, s.v. "Dionysius of Halicarnassus," accessed November 7, 2013.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ William Smith and Charles Anthon, "Dionysius of Halicarnassus" in A New Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography, Mythology, and Geography, Partly Based Upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, rev. ed. (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851), 6.
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica Online, s.v. "Dionysius of Halicarnassus."
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.
- ↑ E. Millicent Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 1:23-24 [no.48].
- ↑ LibraryThing, s.v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on April 21, 2013.