Collection
Aristeas. Aristeae Historia LXXII Interpretum..., Oxford, E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1692.
Aristea’s Epistole is a false record of the outset of the chronicle of the composition of the Ptolemies’ Ecumenical Library, written in perhaps about 160 to 130 BC by a Jew of Alexandria’s royal court. It does however mention the events of the translation of the Old Testament by the Seventy and is besides the sole source for this process.
The Epistole was initially issued in Latin in about 1473/4 in Naples by S. Riessinger, as translated by M. Palmerius. The Oxford edition is the third with the Greek text, the editio princeps being that of 1561, from Basel by J. Oporinus.
Format:
19 cm
Page description:
pp. [4]+144 and a full page engraving outside the text.
References:
Hoffmann Ι, 244
Entity:
Renaissance – Humanism
Item Type:
Book
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