Shelfmark
Fd.6.06
Author
Uniform title
[Rerum gestarum libri]
Title
Ammiani Marcellini Rerum gestarum qui de XXXI supersunt, libri XVIII. / Ope MSS. codicum emandati ab Frederico Lindenbrogio & Henrico Hadrianoque Valesiis cum eorundem integris observationibus & annotationibus, item excerpta vetera de gestis Constantini & regum Italiæ. Omnia nunc recognita ab Jacobo Gronovio, qui suas quoque notas passim inseruit & necessariis ad Ammiani illustrationem antiquis nummis ac figuris curavit..
Varying form of title
Added title page title: Ammianus Marcellinus cum notis integris Henrici et Hadriani Valesiorum, Frider. Lindenbrogii, Jac. Gronovii
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Rerum gestarum qui de XXXI. supersunt, libri XVIII
Publication, distribution, etc.
Lugduni Batavorum. : Apud Petrum vander Aa., M DC XCIII. [1693]
Physical description
[68], 724, [20] p., [18] leaves of plates (3 folded) : ill. (engr.), ports. ; 4to.
Language
Text in Latin with notes printed beneath in Latin and Greek, in double columns.
Note
Includes index.
Note
The 6 leaves of plates depicting coins are numbered I-VI; other plates include medallion portraits and depictions of battles.
Note
With engraved title page vignette; engraved and woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials.
Note
With engraved frontispiece portrait of Jacobus Gronovius; 3/4 length, enclosed in an oval frame; signed: "A. v. Zylvelt fec."
Note
Added engraved title page: "Ammianus Marcellinus cum notis integris Henrici et Hadriani valesiorum, Frider. Lindenbrogii, Jac. Gronovii."
Note
List of plates and instructions for binding on verso of last leaf.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Edward Waddington, recording donation to Eton College in 1731.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton College.
Binding
Contemporary brown sprinkled calf; gold tooled along board edges; blind tooling on boards; red morocco spine label with gilt lettering ; five raised bands.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Cb.6.12.
Subject
Rome History Empire, 284-476.
Added entry--name
Zylvelt, Antony van, ca. 1640 - 1695 engraver.
Added entry--name
Aa, Pieter van der, 1659 - 1733 printer.
Added entry--name
Gronovius, Jacobus, 1645 - 1716 editor.
Added entry--name
Valois, Adrien de, 1607 - 1692 commentator.
Added entry--name
Valois, Henri de, 1603 - 1676 commentator.
Added entry--name
Lindenbrog, Friedrich, 1573 - 1648 commentator.
Added entry--name
Waddington, Edward, 1670 or 71 - 1731 former owner.
Added entry--place
Netherlands Amsterdam.
Language code
lat grc
Identifier
B30672