Pausanias' Accurate Description of Greece 1696 the Latin interpretation of Romulus Amasaeus Greek and Latin Text Manuscript

[Proceeded by Greek title] Pausaniae Graeciae Descriptio Accurata, qua Lector ceu manu per eam regionem circumducitur: cum Latina Romuli Amasaei interpretatione. Acceserunt Gul. Xylandri & Freid. Sylburgii annotationes, ac novae notae Ioachimi Kuhnii. Translated from Latin: Pausanias' Accurate Description of Greece, wherein the reader is, as it were, led by the hand through that region: with the Latin interpretation of Romulus Amasaeus. Added are the annotations of Gulielmus Xylandrus and Friedrich Sylburgius, as well as new notes by Joachim Kuhn.

Author: Pausanias, Gulielmus Xylandrus, Friedrich Sylburgius, Joachim Kuhn

Folio (8.125" x 12.5") 1696. Gulielmus Xylandrus, Friedrich Sylburgius, Joachim Kuhn. Lipsiae (Leipzig): Thomas Fritsch. Half Sea-green leather with corners, double gilt rule to leather edges, over marbled boards. Refreshed endpapers, modern binding. Spine with five raised bands, gilt title to gilt bordered second compartment, large blind stamp floral device centered to each other gilt bordered compartment, double gilt rule to head and foot of spine. A truly beautiful, large book with Greek and Latin text in a double column throughout. Four manuscript pages tipped in with genealogies (?) or word trees (see pic). Marginalia throughout text. 10 volumes bound as one, with index and appendices. Engraved vignette to title page with engraved head- and tail-pieces to first book, but not others.

From Wiki: Greece, a country in southeastern Europe with thousands of islands throughout the Aegean and Ionian seas. Influential in ancient times, it's often called the cradle of Western civilization. Athens, its capital, retains landmarks including the 5th-century B.C. Acropolis citadel with the Parthenon temple. Greece is also known for its beaches, from the black sands of Santorini to the party resorts of Mykonos.

Also from Wiki: Pausanias (/pɔːˈseɪniəs/ paw-SAY-nee-əs; Greek: Παυσανίας; c. 110 – c. 180) was a Greek traveler and geographer of the second century AD. He is famous for his Description of Greece (Ἑλλάδος Περιήγησις, Hēlládos Periḗgēsis), a lengthy work that describes ancient Greece from his firsthand observations. Description of Greece provides crucial information for making links between classical literature and modern archaeology. Not much is known about Pausanias apart from what historians can piece together from his own writing. However, it is mostly certain that he was born c. 110 AD into a Greek family and was probably a native of Lydia in Asia Minor. From c. 150 until his death in 180, Pausanias travelled through the mainland of Greece, writing about various monuments, sacred spaces, and significant geographical sites along the way. In writing Description of Greece, Pausanias sought to put together a lasting written account of "all things Greek", or panta ta hellenika.

From notes: Pausanias was a geographer and traveler. Its history of Greece is a transcendent source for architecture, local history, religious customs, and topography. The work is emphatically called Pausanias' “Editio Optima”. Elegantly written and useful, it contains the most valuable parts of the previous editions; it has the advantage of being divided into chapters, with prefixed plots to each book, and notes by Xylander and Sylburgius accompanying each page. It contains the foreword to the Hanover and Frankfurt editions. ‘Sir James Frazer’

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