BEQUEATHED TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL BY ITS MASTER
MAXIMUS OF TYRE.
Μαξιμου Τυριου φιλοσοφου Πλατωνικου λογοι μα. Maximi Tyrii philosophi Platonici sermones sive disputationes xli. Graecè nunc primùm editae.
[Geneva,] Henri II Estienne, 1557.
8vo, pp. [viii], 363, [1]; woodcut Estienne device to title-page, capital spaces with guide letters; a very good copy in contemporary English vellum; early inscriptions (partly in Greek) to title deleted in ink, early ownership inscriptions ‘Sum Thomae Woodde’ and ‘Franc. Plomer’, later inscription to fore-edge of title noting the book as the gift of ‘Jos. Worting’ ‘in usum Scholae Guilsburiensis’, numbered 172 (see below); scattered marginal markings in pen, one annotation in pencil on p. 44.
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Μαξιμου Τυριου φιλοσοφου Πλατωνικου λογοι μα. Maximi Tyrii philosophi Platonici sermones sive disputationes xli. Graecè nunc primùm editae.
Editio princeps of the forty-one theological and ethical dissertations of Maximus of Tyre, a sophist who was reputedly the tutor of Marcus Aurelius; it is sometimes found bound with the Latin translation of Cosimo Pacci, revised and reprinted by Estienne.
Provenance:
1. Probably the Thomas Woodde, of Shropshire, who matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford in 1604/5 and was later at St Edmund’s Hall.
2. Joseph Worting, master of the grammar school at Guilsborough, Nottinghamshire, c. 1700–1718. The school had been founded in 1688 by John Langham of Cottesbrooke, a successful London grocer, but local demand for classical languages was limited, and it became a fee-paying boarding school in the eighteenth century, its decline hastened by competition from an English writing school in the town. Worting left a moiety of an estate at Cold Ashsby to Christ’s Hospital in his will of 1722, as well as, it seems, a bequest of books to his own school.
GLN-2041; USTC 450461; Adams M-939; Renouard 115: 2; Schreiber 141a.
