Shelfmark
Bf.7.20 - Bf.7.21
Title
Veteres de re militari scriptores quotquot extant, nunc primâ vice in unum redacti corpus. I. Flavii Vegetii Renati institutorum rei militaris libri V. II. Sexti Julii Frontini strategematum & strategicôn libri IV. III. Claudius Ælianus de instruendis aciebus. IV. Modestus de vocabulis rei militaris. V. Polybius de militia & castrametatione Romanorum. VI. Æneæ Poliorceticus, seu de toleranda obsidione. VII. Incerti autoris, de re militari opusculum, quod M. Tullio Ciceroni vulgò inscribitur. Accedunt I. Godescalci Stewechii ... in Fl. Vegetium commentarius. II. Ejusdem conjectanea, & Francisci Modii notæ in Sex. Jul. Frontinum. III. Petri Scriverii in Fl. Vegetium & Sex. Jul. Frontinum animadversiones.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Vesaliæ Clivorum : Ex Officina Andreæ ab Hoogenhuysen, 1670.
Physical description
2v., plate (folded) : ill. ; 8vo.
Note
Previously Bf.7.23-24, Bf.7.26-27 and Bf.7.25-26.
Note
Edited by Pieter Schrijver (BL).
Note
"Libellus de vocabulis rei militari" is attributed to Modestus, but is actually a forgery by G. P. Leto, or one of his pupils, based on Vegetius.
Note
Additional engraved title-pages.
Note
Pp 273-276 and 501-550 omitted in pagination of Vol. II.
Provenance
Bookplate of Eton College.
Provenance
Topham stamp; bequeathed to Eton by Richard Topham in 1736.
Provenance
Ms. prize dedication on flyleaf, dated 1680. Name of recipient and school crossed through.
Binding
17th century gold-tooled, Dutch vellum, with central ornament and floral corners. Remains of ties.
Subject
Military art and science Early works to 1800.
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Aeneas, 4th cent. B.C - 4th cent. B.C Tacticus,
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Germany Wesel.
Identifier
B12449