B11603
Language code
lat, grc
Shelfmark
Ba.8.19
Main entry - uniform title
Kalilah wa-Dimnah., Greek & Latin
Title
Specimen sapientiæ Indorum veterum. Id est, liber ethico- politicus pervetustus, dictus Arabice, Kalilah wa-Dimnah Græcë Stephanites kai Ichnelates, nunc primum Græce ex mss. Cod. Holsteiniano prodit, cum versione nova Latina, opera Sebast. Gottofr. Starkii.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Berolini :, Sumtibus Joh. Michæl. Rüdigeri. Stanno Ulrici Liebperti,, 1697.
Physical description
[32], 508, [36]p ;, 8vo.
Note
Previously Bd.7.19 and Ba.9.12.
Note
Text in Latin and Greek.
Note
The Codex Holsteinianus is Simeo Sethus' Greek translation, ca. 1100 A.D., of an Arabic version of a Sanskrit original, sometimes known as the Fables of Bidpai.
Note
Two words in title transliterated from the Arabic, and three from the Greek.
Provenance
Bookplate of Eton College.
Provenance
Topham stamp; bequeathed to Eton by Richard Topham in 1736.
Binding
18th century blind-stamped, panelled calf.
Added entry--name
Simeo Sethus.
Added entry--name
Starcke, Sebastian Gottfried
Added entry--title
Fables of Bidpai
Added entry--place
Germany, Berlin.
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