| Record ID | cp010055 |
| Voet reference number | 2224 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Author | SOPHOCLES |
| Title page transcription | ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ ‖ ΤΡΑΓΏΔΙΑΙ Z. ‖ SOPHOCLIS ‖ TRAGOEDIÆ VII. ‖ IN QVIBVS PRÆTER MVLTA ‖ menda sublata, carminum omnium ratio ‖ hactenus obscurior, nunc apertior proditur: ‖ opera ‖ GVLIELMI CANTERI ‖ VLTRAIECTINI. ‖ ⊕ 19 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regij, ‖ M.D.LXXIX. |
| Collation | 16mo [86]: A-Z⁸, a-e⁸; pages 1-427, [428-448] (Errors: 256 for 356; 428-448 not numbered with the exception of pages 430-431) |
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| Pages | [1]: Title[2]: Table (greek type)3-5: Greek dedicatory to Georgius Ratallerus by Gulielmus Canterus6-10: Gulielmi Canteri in Sophoclem prolegomena (words in greek type)10-14: E Gul. Canteri novarum lectionum libro V (italic type, parts in roman type)15: Ex eiusdem poematum libro IIII. Sophoclis tragoediarum septem argumenta (italic type, part in roman type)16-17: Epigrammata on Sophocles (greek type)18-21: Life of Sophocles (greek type)22-427: Text (greek type)[428]: Blank[429-436]: Gulielmi Canteri in Sophoclem notae (parts in greek type and italic type)[437-445]: Sophoclis sententiae aliquot insigniores breviter collectae et Latinis versibus redditae a Gulielmo Cantero; Eiusdem Sophoclis aliae sententiae a Stobaeo citatae, et Latinis versibus redditae, ab eodem Gul. Cantero (italic type, parts in roman type and greek type)[446]: ANTVERPIÆ EXCVDEBAT CHRI- ‖ STOPHORVS PLANTINVS AR- ‖ CHITYPOGRAPHVS REGIVS, ‖ ANNO M.D. LXXX[447-448]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 534- A 505- A 744KBR Royal Library of BelgiumCambridgeBiblioteca Nacional de PortugalBritish Library London |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 201 (1579, no. 11) |
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| Note 1 | Greek text of seven tragedies of Sophocles, edited by Gulielmus Canterus, with some additional notes by the same scholar. |
| Note 2 | According to the colophon the printing was finished not in 1579 but in 1580. In fact, the publication was probably finished at the end of 1579 as in his letter to Buyssetius, 10 December 1579, Plantin lists ‘Aeschilus cum notis Guillelmi Canteri Graece 16⁰’ among the works he had already printed (Corr., VI, no. 81, page 114). |
| Note 3 | In a letter of 12-13 September 1581 Plantin promises Fulvius Ursinus to include the Sophocles among the works he will mail to the Roman scholar at the earliest occasion (Corr., VI, no. 942). |
| Note 4 | Listed in M 296, folio 17v (Sophocles graece a Cantero castig[atus], 16⁰, f[euilles] 14, [price:] stuivers 6), and M 321 (sub 1580). |
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