Shelfmark
Fe.9.07
Author
Uniform title
[Historia Alexandri Magni]
Title
Q. Curtii De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum, libri decem. Quorum, qui toti temporis iniuria interciderant, duo priores, veterum exemplariu[m] præsidio restituti sunt. Ad haec. Alexandri Magni vitam ab Ioanne Monacho artificiosa breuitate omnia illius pene complectente, præposuimus. Accessere orationum & rerum memorabilium indices..
Varying form of title
Portion of title: De rebvs gestis Alexandri Magni regis Macedonvm, libri decem
Varying form of title
Portion of title: De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum, libri decem
Varying form of title
Q. Cvrtii De rebvs gestis Alexandri Magni regis Macedonvm, libri decem
Publication, distribution, etc.
Antuerpiae, : In aedibus Petri Belleri, 1579..
Physical description
[38], 440, [30] p. ; 13 cm. (16mo)
Note
Edited by A.B. Cospi who superscribes the dedicatory epistle.
Note
Signatures: A-Z⁸ Aa-Hh⁸ Ii⁶.
Note
Horizontal chain lines.
Note
Title within architectural woodcut border.
Note
Tailpiece and initial; printed marginalia.
Provenance
Booklabel of John Reynolds, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Provenance
Ms. inscription on title-page "Robertus Bassett", possibly Robert Bassett (1574-1641) of Umberley, Devon; Queen's College, Oxford, 1589; Inner Temple, 1590; M.P. for Plymouth, 1593; nighted in Ireland by Essex in 1599.
Binding
Full dark brown calf Oxford binding of c. 1600; blind-tooled oval interlaced stamp on covers; three sewing supports; black morocco spine-label.
Copy-specific note
Ms. list of names on verso of title-page: John; Alexander Marshall; George Kirke; Robert Pitts; John Symonds; Walter ?Weamouth (struck through in ink); Richard ?Beaple (struck through in ink); Nicholas ?Askey; John ?Yeard; "Robe" [i.e. Robert?]; ?Paige.
Copy-specific note
Some ms. marginalia, mostly doodles.
Copy-specific note
Previously Fd.7.08.
Subject
Alexander, 356 - 323 B.C the Great,
Added entry--name
Bellère, Pierre, active 1575 - 1600 printer.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Johannes Monachus,
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1667 - 1727 former owner.
Added entry--place
Belgium Antwerp.
Identifier
B32381