Dionysius Periegetes, De situ orbis liber, Antwerp, Plantin, 1575, contemporary limp vellum

Dionysius Periegetes

Περιηγηςις... De situ orbis liber, interprete Andrea Papio Gandensi... Musaei Hero et Leander, eodem interprete. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1575

8vo (177 x 115mm.), title with woodcut Plantin device, parallel text in Greek and Latin, woodcut initials, notes in Spanish on final verso, contemporary limp vellum, modern lettering on spine, stubs of two pairs of ties, title-page damaged and repaired, first quire becoming loose

This edition contains the Latin translation of the editor, Papius, alongside the original Greek, followed by the sixth-century Latin version of Priscian with notes by Papius.

LITERATURE

USTC 406267; Voet 1084