Shelfmark
Fe.6.01(2)
Title
De vita et moribus imperatorum Romanorum: excerpta ex libris Sexti Aurelii Victoris, à Cæsare Augusto usque ad Theodosium imperatorem.
Varying form of title
Running title: Sex. Aurel. Victoris Epitome.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Lugd. Batav. : Apud Gaasbequios., MDCLXIX. [1669]
Physical description
132, [8] p. : ill. (ports.) ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Note
Not now attributed to Victor.
Note
Text in Latin; commentary includes quotations and examples in Latin and Greek.
Note
Signatures: A-H⁸ I⁶.
Note
Running title reads: Sex. Aurel. Victoris Epitome.
Note
Printer's device with motto "Intelligentibus" on title-page.
Note
Includes engraved medallion portraits of the Emperors covered within text.
Note
"Jani Gruteri in Epitomam Victoris notae" (caption title); pp. 125-131.
With note
Bound and probably issued with: Sex. Aurelii Victoris Historiæ Romanæ breviarium. Lugduni Batavorum & Amstelodami Apud Danielem, Abrahamum & Adrianum à Gaesbeeck, 1670.
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of Edward Waddington, recording donation to Eton College in 1731.
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College.
Binding
17th-century brown calf boards; blind double fillet borders with additional double fillet parallel to spine and blind-tooled corner ornaments and blind roll-tooled board edges; rebacked in 20th-century calf stained to match; red and blue sprinkled edges.
Copy-specific note
Previously: Cb.6.12, Cb.6.15.
Subject
Emperors Rome Biography Early works to 1800.
Subject
Rome History Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Vinet, Élie, 1509 - 1587 commentator.
Added entry--name
Schottus, Andreas, 1552 - 1629 commentator.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Waddington, Edward, 1670 or 71 - 1731 former owner.
Added entry--name
Gruterus, Janus, 1560 - 1627 commentator.
Added entry--name
Gaasbeckii (Firm) printer.
Added entry--place
Netherlands Leiden.
Language code
lat grc
Identifier
B32201