Conjectures on Ammonius, De adfinium vocabulorum differentia

Uppsala, first decade of the 18th c.

paper

iii, 24, ii' leaves

200–205 × 155–160 mm

Latin, Greek

1 (ff. 1r–24v) Zacharias Plantin, Ammonius Alexandrinus Grammaticus, Conjectures on Ammonius, Ad adfinium vocabulorum differentia (Περὶ ὁμοίων καὶ διαφόρων λέξεων)

Rubric: Conjecturae et breves stricturae in textum Ammonii Graecum Peri homoíōn kai diaphórōn léxeōn

Note: The Teubner edition by Klaus Nickau does not mention Zacharias Plantin’s emendations of the Ammonius Alexandrinus Grammaticus text.

Edition: Nickau (1966).

1.1 (f. 1v) Paulus Leopardus,

Rubric: Paulus Leopardus Emendationum

Note: Two excerpts, which refer to the alternative authorial attribution of Ammonius’ treatise to Philo Byblius.

Edition: Leopardus (1568), vol. 11, chapter 15, vol. 11, chapter 6.

1.2 (ff. 2r–4v) Zacharias Plantin,

Rubric: none

Incipit: Sit ne libellus περὶ ὁμοίων καὶ διαφόρων λέξεων, qui sub Ammonii nomine circumfertur, ipsius

Explicit: observationes mihi non invideant, publici iuris, si fata ferant, olim faciendas

Note: Introduction to the work, with a dedicatory mention of Georg Wallin the younger, doctor of theology. He was the colleague of Zacharias Plantin in Härnösand and later became the Bishop of Gothenburg.

1.3 (ff. 4v–21r) Zacharias Plantin, Emendations in alphabetical order

Incipit: Ἄβαξ – ἐφ᾽οὗ τὰ πράγματα

Explicit: longe locupletiorem ditioremque reddere possumus Ammonium

Note: ff. 4v–8vΑ; ff. 8v–9rΒ; ff. 9r–9vΓ; ff. 9v–10vΔ; ff. 10v–12vΕ; f. 12vΗ; f. 13rΘ; ff. 13r–14rΙ; ff. 14r–15rΚ; ff. 15r–15vΛ; f. 15vΜ; f. 16rΝ; f. 16rΞ; ff. 16v–17rΟ; ff. 17r–18rΠ; ff. 18r–19rΣ; ff. 19r–19vΤ; ff. 19v–20rΦ; f. 20rΧ; ff. 20v–21rAddenda

1.4 (ff. 21r–24v) Zacharias Plantin,

Rubric: Catalogus vocum differentium ex Suida omissis iis quas explicat Ammonius et apud Suidam leguntur

Physical Description

Support

Binding/Endleaves

Locus: ff. LCI, SL1r–SL3v Locus: ff. SR1r–SR2v, RCI

Support: Western paper

Folding: Quarto

Leaf dimensions: 200 × 155 mm

Two different kinds of paper are used for the endleaves: one coarser for both pastedowns and Locus: ff. SL1r–SL1v, another for the singulions preceding and following the textblock. Endleaf hooks are seen next to the textblock at either end.

Textblock

Locus: ff. 1r–24v

Support: Western paper

Leaf dimensions: 205 × 160 mm

Folding: Quarto

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil in the upper right margin: 1–24

Collation

Textblock

Formula: _Q1–33.IV^f.24

Signatures: none

Catchwords: none

Layout

Locus: ff. 1r–24v

Columns: 1

Written lines: 21–25

Written area: 190 × 130/150 mm

Script

Textblock

Hand 1

(ff. 1r–24v) ⟨Zacharias Plantin⟩, exhibiting a scholarly fluid hand writing both Greek and Latin.

Additions

Binding/Endleaves

(LCI) A label for Linköping Diocesan Library and an acquisition note. (ff. SL1r–SL3v) Blank flyleaves, except for foliation in pencil, Roman numbers I–III.

(ff. SR1r–SR2v, RCI–RCI) Blank endleaves, except for foliation in pencil, Roman numbers IV–V.

Decorations

Textblock

Description:

Written in a dark brown ink; no ornamentation.

Binding

Description:

Contemporary half binding in brown leather and stained cream paper over pasteboard. Sewn on four supports. Spine with raised bands and horisontal line-tooling. Two small spine labels give the handwritten title and an earlier shelfmark: ‘Plantinus Conject’, and ‘LXIX’. At tail the current shelfmark label.

Binding dimensions: 210 × 170 × 10 mm

History

Origin

Autograph by Zacharias Plantin, probably composed in the first decade of the 18th c. in Uppsala, where he was promoted to Ph. Mag. in 1707. He later became a history teacher and a vicar, and ended his career as dean in Umeå. His Conjectures on Ammonius are mentioned in the transactions of the Societas regiae scientiarum Upsaliensis (Kungl. Vetenskaps-societeten i Uppsala) from 1723.