Fe.7.09
[In laudem Iustini. Latin. 1581]
Corippi Africani grammatici De laudibus Iustini Minoris Augusti libri quatuor. Thomas Dempsterus à Muresk. IC. recensuit, lacunas suppleuit, mendi expurgauit, commentarium adiecit, quo historia & antiquarii ritus elucidantur, variiq; scriptores explicantur, restituuntur. : His accessit pro corollario Constantini Manassis Gr. carmen politicum in Iustinnum Minorem imp. quod nunc primum prodit cum versione metrica Fed. Morelli interpr. reg.
Portion of title: De laudibus Iustini Augusti Minoris libri quatuor
Corippi Africani grammatici De Lavdibvs Ivstini Minoris Augusti libri quatuor
Parisiis, : Apud Petrum Rezé in monte D. Hilarij., M.DC.X. [1610]
[16], 274, [26] p. ; 17 cm. (8vo)
Signatures: *⁸ A-S⁸ T⁶ (T6 blank).
Topham stamp on title-page: bequeathed to Eton College by Richard Topham in 1736.
Unidentified armorial bookplate with chevrons, roses and three stags trippant, and motto "Prudens simplicitas" on binding leaf facing the title-page.
Late 17th/early 18th-century sprinkled calf binding; blind-tooled borders formed of double fillets with corner fleurons; gold-tooled spine with semicircular ornaments and small fleurons; four raised bands.
Imperfect: wanting leaves T5 and 6.
Previously Bb.7.30.
Justin II, Emperor of the East,
Rezé, Pierre, fl. 1601 - 1610 printer.
Dempster, Thomas, 1579? - 1625 editor.
Topham, Richard, 1671 - 1730 former owner.
France Paris.
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