Shelfmark
Fe.6.11
Author
Uniform title
[Historia Alexandri Magni. 1545]
Title
Quinti Curtii de rebus gestis Alexandri Magni Macedonum regis historia lucule[n]tissima, multò maiore, quàm hactenus unquam, uigilantia emendata minimeq́[ue] pœnitenda eorum, quæ antea desiderabantur, accessione locupletata: ut clarius proxima cognosces pagella.
Varying form of title
De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni, Macedonum regis
Varying form of title
Qvinti Cvrtii de rebus gestis Alexandri Magni, Macedonum regis
Publication, distribution, etc.
Lugduni : Apud Seb. Gryphium, 1545.
Physical description
329, [23] p. ; 17 cm. (8vo)
Note
Edited by Christoph Bruno.
Note
Gryphius first published this text, better known as Historia Alexandri Magni, in 1541 (with annotations of Erasmus); the text edited by Bruno was first published in 1545.
Note
Signatures: a-y⁸ (y8 blank).
Note
Printer's device on title page with motto "Virtute duce, comite fortuna"; gryphon device on leaf y7v.
Provenance
Booklabel of John Reynolds, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Provenance
Ms. inscription on leaf y7v "John Pope junior his book" dated 1712.
Binding
18th-century quarter calf and blue paper boards; four raised bands; red morocco spine-label; ms. parchment guard at end; ms. fore-edge title "Q: Cur".
Copy-specific note
Ms. annotations in an early hand on final leaves: "Lord have me[r]cy upon us ...".
Copy-specific note
Previously Fd.5.06.
Subject
Alexander, 356 - 323 B.C the Great,
Subject
Generals Greece Biography
Subject
Greece Kings and rulers Biography
Subject
Greece History Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C.
Added entry--name
Gryphius, Sebastianus, 1493 - 1556 printer.
Added entry--name
Bruno, Christoph, ? - -1606 editor.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1667 - 1727 former owner.
Added entry--place
France Lyon
Identifier
B32216