Apophthegmata philosophorum, ed. Georg Wallin, with handwritten notes

Uppsala, 1752

paper

ii, 37, ix' leaves

195 × 155 mm

Latin, Greek

1 (pp.1–73) Martin Georg Wallenstråle, Annotated edition of Sayings of the Philosophers, ed. Georg Wallin the younger.

Note:

Print title: ‘ ΑΠΟΦΘΕΓΜΑΤΑ ΤΩΝ ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΩΝ, seu Breviter et acute dicta philosophorum, maximam partem, ex Laertio Diogene collecta, in gratiam auditorii privati edidit Georgius Wallin’. The printed text is interfoliated. There are handwritten notes in the blank pages, but also in the margins and between the lines of the printed text.

pp. 1–4 of the commentary contain annotations on Diogenes Laërtius and on the print title.

After p. 37, the annotations in the interleaved pages are less dense, and more pages are left blank. pp. 59–60 have annotations that point to academic controversies in Sweden on ancient and Christian ethics. pp. 35, 38–39, 41–43, 46–47, 50–52, 54–56, 58, 61–73: blank pages.

2 (p.74)

Rubric: Index

Note: A handwritten index of all the ancient authors represented in the printed edition.

Physical Description

Support

Binding/Endleaves

Locus: pp. LCI, 1–4 Locus: pp. 57–74, RCI

Support: Western paper

Folding: Quarto

Leaf dimensions: 195 × 155 mm

The same kind of paper is used for the endleaves and the interfoliated leaves throughout.

Textblock

Locus: pp. 1–74

Support: Western paper

Leaf dimensions: 195 × 155 mm

Foliation

[4]+ 25 printed pages. The interfoliated leaves, including the flyleaves at both ends, are paginated separately in pencil: 1–74

Collation

Textblock

Note: Bound interfoliated. Usually the printed double leaf is set in-between two blank double leaves, so that from pastedown to pastedown there are nine ternions (printed leaves reckoned in, although they are paginated separately). In the first ternion the outer singulion is used for text-hook endleaves. The last printed leaf is attached with paste to p. 57. The last leaf of last ternion not visible but perhaps present under RCI.

Signatures: None in the handwritten pages. The printed edition has signatures A–E on first recto of each text gathering.

Catchwords: Only in the printed edition; none in the commentary.

Layout

Locus: pp. 1–74

Columns: 1

Note: Writing area varies. Sometimes the whole page is filled with annotations; sometimes there are only a few jottings.

Script

Textblock

Hand 1

Martin Georg Wallenstråle, displaying a neat 18th-century hand writing with brown ink throughout.

Additions

Binding/Endleaves

(LCI) Shelfmark information for Linköping Diocesan Library and a citation from Homerus: ‘οὐ χρὴ παννύχιον εὕδειν βουληφόρον ἄνδρα’. A small piece of paper pasted at the upper left corner seems to show the number 32 in brown ink on the reverse. (pp.1–4) First page blank; the rest contain notes in brown ink by the commentator.

(pp. 57–74, RCI–RCI) Notes in brown ink by the commentator on (pp. 57, 59–60, 74–74). The rest of the pages are blank.

Decorations

Textblock

Description:

No decorations.

Binding

Description:

Paper boards covered with floral brocade paper in bronze and orange-red. Bookblock, including added interfoliated leaves, sewn all-along on three flat tape supports made out of strips of parchment. The thread passes around the supports. Two paper labels on spine: the one at head with the handwritten numbers ‘332.a.44’ (uncertain reading), the one at tail is damaged but would have featured the present shelfmark.

Binding dimensions: 198 × 157 mm

Condition: Good.

History

Origin

The volume appears to be Martin Georg Wallenstråle’s notes interfoliating his father’s, Georg Wallin the younger’s, edition of apophthegmata (taken mainly from Diogenes Laërtius’s collection), which was printed in Uppsala in 1729. The printed edition includes a dedication of the work to Georg Wallin the younger’s oldest son, Georg, who died in 1746. According to the handwritten note on the printed title page, we may deduce that the comments were added in 1752.

Provenance

Martin Georg Wallenstråle, was a student at Uppsala in the 1750s and was promoted to fil. magister in 1758. Knighted in 1756, his surname was changed from Wallin to Wallenstråle. The commentary is, thus, in all likelihood, an early specimen of the editor’s son, who later became a librarian in Gothenburg and bishop of Kalmar.