Shelfmark
Fe.7.16(03)
Author
Title
L. Flori Gestorum Romanorum libri quatuor à mendis accuratissime recogniti. In eundem annotationes Iohannis Camertis, quibus commentarij uice in uniuersam historiæ Romanæ syluam, uti commode licebit. Cum indice..
Varying form of title
L. Flori Gestorvm Romanorvm libri quatuor
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Gestorum romanorum libri quatuor
Publication, distribution, etc.
Argentorati : Apud Iohannem Heruagium, mense Martio anno M.D.XXVIII. [1528]
Physical description
151, [1] leaves ; 16 cm. (8vo)
Note
There is some confusion about the authorship of this work; Adams (J641) gives Lucius Annaeus Florus as the author but there is no evidence in this text to indicate that Lucius Florus is the same author.
Note
Edited by Jacobus Bedrotus and Joannes Camers.
Note
Signatures: A-T⁸ (T8 blank).
Note
Error in pagination: leaf 33 misnumbered 35.
Note
Text printed in italic type; with printed marginalia.
Note
Woodcut historiated initials.
Citation/references note
Adams, L641
Citation/references note
Muller, J. Bibl. Strasbourgeoise, Herwagen 81
Provenance
Booklabel of John Reynolds, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Provenance
Ms. ex-libris on title-page of first item in volume "Liber Edmondi Newton".
Binding
16th-century Flemish brown calf binding; blind panel-stamp in three compartments: (a) two vertical compartments each with a scroll of foliage and fruit, enclosing figures of animals, with legend in border "co[n]fitebor tibi / domine in toto corde meo / quoniam / audisti verba oris mei" (b) five compartments containing figures of a lion, a dog, a boar, a wivern and a dog (c) two vertical compartments as in (a), with legend in border "nisi dominus / edificauerit domum in vanum / laborauerunt / qui edificant eam"; four raised bands; blind fillets at head and tail of spine; wooden boards; ms. waste used for rear pastedown; remains of two pairs of clasps; red morocco spine-label lettered "Sallustii &c Flores".
Copy-specific note
Bound with: C. Salustii et Q. Curtii flores, selecti per Hulderichum Huttenum. Strasbourg : [J. Herwagen], 1528; and with: M. Tullii Ciceronis rhetoricorum, libri quatuor ad Herennium. Paris : Guichard Soquand, 1527.
Copy-specific note
Previously Fd.5.05.
Subject
Rome History Republic, 510-30 B.C. Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Herwagen, Johann, 1497 - 1559? printer.
Added entry--name
Bedrotus, Jacobus, ? - d. 1541 editor.
Added entry--name
Camers, Joannes, 1447 - 1546 editor.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1667 - 1727 former owner.
Added entry--place
France Strasbourg.
Identifier
B32280