Dean Gaisford's Copy   Sturz (F. William)Ed. Etymologicum G...

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Dean Gaisford's Copy  

Sturz (F. William)Ed. Etymologicum Graecae Linguae Gudianum  et Alia Grammaticorum Scripta e Codicibus Manuscriptis nunc Primum Edita, Lg. 4to Leipizig (Apud Joa. Aug. Gottl. Weigel) 1818. Dean Gaisford's interleaved copy with his copious notes in red ink, & signed on title. Cont. hf. calf, lacks label. 

Based on a m/ss in the Herzog August Bibliothek at Wolfenbűttel, this was the first printed edition of the complete text of the Etymologicum Gudianum, a Greek lexical encyclopaedia compiled in southern Italy during the tenth century.  “Not only is the Gudianum a rich and valuable source of citations from lost Greek works, it represents the high point of medieval encyclopaedia-writing and Greek scholarship.”  It was one of the main sources of the 12th-century Encyclopaedia Magnum, and Sturz’s edition was a key reference work for Gaisford’s edition of this work.
Pasted at end: “Collatio Etymologici Fraiectini” by C.M. [Cornelis Marinus] Francken, 7 pp, MS copy sent to Gaisford by Dr Gehle, 1845.