Shelfmark
Ep.4.25
Title
Historia Gotthorum, Vandalorum, & Langobardorum: / ab Hugone Grotio partim versa, partim in ordinem digesta. Præmissa sunt ejusdem prolegomena. Vbi regum Gotthorum ordo & chronologia, cum elogiis. Accedunt Nomina appellativa & verba Gotthica, Vandalica, Langobardica, cum explicatione. Auctorum omnium ordinem tabula contentorum indicat.
Varying form of title
Historia Gotthorvm, Vandalorvm, & Langobardorvm
Publication, distribution, etc.
Amstelodami, : Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, MDCLV. [1655]
Physical description
[8], 148, 932, [100] p. ; 8vo.
Note
Includes index.
Note
Some of the works are translated into Latin from the original Greek.
Note
Grotius's Prolegomena and Elogia have separate pagination and register from the rest of the works. Each of the subsequent works has divisional half-title and continuous pagination and register.
Note
Head- and tail- pieces; initials.
Note
Added engraved illustrated title-page.
Note
Printer's device with motto "Ne extra oleas" on title-page.
Note
Signatures: *⁴ a-i⁸ k² A-Z⁸ Aa-Zz⁸ Aaa-Sss⁸ Ttt⁴ (Ttt4 blank).
Formatted contents note
Contents: Hugonis Grotii Prolegomena. -- Elogia. -- Vandalica et Gotthica Procopii. -- Iornandes De Getarum. -- Isidori, Archiepiscopi Hispalensis, Gothorum, Vandalorum et Suevorum in Hispania, Chronicon. -- Pauli Warnefredi, De gestis Langobardorum libri VI.
Citation/references note
CLC, G1068
Citation/references note
A. Willems, Les Elzevier, no. 1181
Provenance
Topham stamp on t.p. : bequeathed to Eton College by Richard Topham in 1736.
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College.
Binding
Late seventeenth century brown sprinkled calf; blind tooled double fillet border with second vertical line a centimetre from the spine; modern rebacking; earlier red morocco spine label with gold tooled letters reattached; red sprinkled edges; four raised bands.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmarks: Bc.5.22, Bh.7.12.
Subject
Lombards History.
Subject
Vandals History.
Subject
Goths History.
Subject
Germanic peoples Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Elzevir, Louis, 1604 - 1670 printer.
Added entry--name
Paul, ca. 720 - 799? the Deacon, De gestis Langobardorum
Added entry--name
Isidore of Seville, Saint, Historia de regibus Gothorum, Vandalorum, et Suevorum.
Added entry--name
Jordanes, 6th cent - 6th cent Getica.
Added entry--name
Procopius History of the wars. Latin.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Topham, Richard, 1671 - 1730 former owner.
Added entry--place
Netherlands Amsterdam.
Language code
lat grc
Identifier
B37956