Herodoti Libri Novem Quibus Musarum Indita Sunt Nomina.

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Creator

Herodotus.

Title

Herodoti Libri Novem Quibus Musarum Indita Sunt Nomina.

Publisher

Venice: Aldus Manutius,

Date

September 1502.

Description

The editio princeps of Herodotus, from the library of Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536), and signed sum Erasmi on the verso of the final leaf. The second inscription notes that the volume passed into the hands of Erasmus’s friend, the Belgian scholar Levinus Ammonius (1488–1557) in 1529. The text is annotated throughout in the hands of Erasmus and Ammonius.

Source

From the collections of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University.