Shelfmark
Fd.4.07
Author
Uniform title
[Rerum gestarum libri]
Title
Ammiani Marcellini Rerum gestarum qui de XXXI. supersunt, libri XVIII. Ope MSS. codicum emendati ab Henrico Valesio, & auctioribus adnotationibus illustrati. Necnon excerpta vetera de gestis Constantini & regum Italiæ.
Varying form of title
Other title: De Constantio Chloro, Constantino Magno, & aliis imperatoribus excerpta auctoris ignoti
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Rerum gestarum qui de XXXI. supersunt, libri XVIII
Edition
Editio posterior, / cui Hadrianus Valesius, historiographus regius, Fr. Lindenbrogii JC. in eumdem historicum ampliores observationes, & collectanea variarum lectionum adjecit; & beneficio codicis Colbertini Ammianum multis in locis emendavit, notisque explicuit: disceptationem suam de hebdomo, ac indicem rerum memorabilium subjunxit. Præfixit & præfationem suam, ac vitam Ammiani à Claudio Chiffletio JC. compositam.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Parisiis, : Ex officina Antonii Dezallier, viâ Jacobeâ ad Coronam auream., M.DC.LXXXI. [1681]
Physical description
[32], xxxiv, 676, [2], 100, [18] p. ; Fo.
Language
Text in Latin with quotations and examples in Greek.
Note
Includes index.
Note
"De Constantio Chloro, Constantino Magno, & aliis imperatoribus excerpta auctoris ignoti": p. 658-671.
Note
"Fr. Lindenbrogi[i] J.C. Auctiores observationes ..." has divisional half title page and separate pagination and register.
Note
Head- and tail-pieces, initials; printed marginal notes.
Note
Engraved printer's device with with two cupids supporting a crown, initials DD and motto "Non coronabitur nisi qui legitimè certaverit" on t.p.
Provenance
Booklabel of Nicholas Mann, recording donation to Eton College in 1754. Ownership inscription: Nic. Mann.
Binding
Contemporary English dark brown sprinkled sheep; gold tooled decorative roll along board edges; gold tooled decoration on spine, with floral punches and bead roll; red morocco spine label with gold tooled letters and frame; six raised bands; red sprinkled edges.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Da.2.5.
Subject
Emperors Rome Early works to 1800.
Subject
Rome History Empire, 284-476 Early works to 1800
Added entry--name
Dezallier, Antoine, 1642? - 1716 printer.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Valois, Henri de, 1603 - 1676 editor.
Added entry--name
Mann, Nicholas, ? - -1753 former owner.
Added entry--place
France Paris.
Language code
lat grc
Identifier
B28951