Shelfmark
Fd.4.06(01)
Additional shelfmark
[Another copy]: Fd.4.08(02)
Author
Title
Cornelii Nepotis Opera quæ quidem exstant historica virorum domi militiæque illustrium Græcorum Romanorumque explicata pridem studio And. Schotti Antverp. Soc. Iesu. Nunc denuo doctorum hominum accessionibus locupletata. Seriem auersa pagina exhibet.
Varying form of title
Opera quæ quidem exstant historica virorum domi militæque
Publication, distribution, etc.
Francofurti, : Apud Claud. Marnium, & hered. Jo. Aubrii., M D C I X. [1609]
Physical description
222, [2], 23, [6] p. ; Fo.
Note
Contains the Origo gentis Romanæ and De viris illustribus (the latter of which has been successively ascribed to Pliny the Younger, Suetonius, Cornelius Nepos, and Sextus Aurelius Victor), but only fragments of Cornelius Nepos.
Note
Printer's device on title-page and verso of final leaf; initials.
Note
"Andreae Schotti Antuerpiani in Aemilium Probum seu Corn. Nepotem De vita excellentium imperatorum notae" has half-title and separate pagination.
Note
Includes index.
Note
Includes printed register on verso of final page.
Provenance
[Fd.4.06(01)]: Booklabel of John Reynolds, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Provenance
[Fd.4.06(01)]: Ownership inscription, front flyleaf: E libris Va Jeffery, 1688.
Provenance
[Fd.4.06(01)]: Two further ownership inscriptions on t.p., R Wishearst[?] and one illegible.
Provenance
[Fd.4.08(02)]: Booklabel of John Reynolds, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Binding
[Fd.4.06(01)]: 17th century stiff parchment; yapp edges; black morocco spine label with gold tooled letters; five sewn bands.
Binding
[Fd.4.08(02)]: Mid-seventeenth century Dutch stiff vellum binding; gold tooled single fillet border and inner frame with diagonals, and fleur-de-lys fleurons at each corner; strapwork centrepiece with floral ornamentation; gold tooled single fillet on spine, with single fleuron in each compartment; black morocco spine label with gold tooled letters and frame; thumb index along fore-edge, of vellum tabs.
Copy-specific note
[Fd.4.06(01)]: Bound with one other item.
Copy-specific note
[Fd.4.06(01)]: Previous shelfmark: Fd.4.9.
Copy-specific note
[Fd.4.06(01)]: Price given: Prt. 10s.
Copy-specific note
[Fd.4.08(02)]: Previous shelfmark: Fc.1.11.
Copy-specific note
[Fd.4.08(02)]: Bound with one other item.
Subject
Classical biography Early works to 1800.
Subject
Generals Greece Biography.
Subject
Generals Roman Biography.
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Pliny the Younger.
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Marnius, Claudius, ? - d. 1610 printer.
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Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
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Germany Frankfurt
Identifier
B28945