Shelfmark
Fq.09.09 - Fq.09.10
Additional shelfmark
Fq.09.11
Additional shelfmark
Fq.09.12
Author
Uniform title
[Works]
Title
C. Cornelius Tacitus ex I. Lipsii accuratissima editione.
Varying form of title
C. Cornelivs Tacitvs ex I. Lipsii accuratissima editione
Publication, distribution, etc.
Lugduni Batavorum, : Ex officina Elzeviriana., Anno 1634.
Physical description
2 v. ([20], 786, [30] p.) : ill. (port.) ; 13 cm. (12mo)
Note
Engraved title-page, depicting Tacitus(?) with allegorical figure of River Tiber(?); portraits of Augustus, Livia and Tiberius on p.[20].
Note
Volume 2 begins p. 433 (leaf T1); no divisional title. Cf. Willems.
Note
Five pages of preliminaries (*3 recto, *5 recto, *6 verso, *7 recto and *9 recto) printed in red and black.
Note
Signatures: *¹⁰ A-Ll¹².
Note
Head-pieces, initials.
Citation/references note
Copinger, 630
Citation/references note
Berghman, 145
Citation/references note
Willems, A. Elzevier, 415
Provenance
[Fq.09.09 - Fq.09.10] Engraved armorial bookplate of Syston Park.
Provenance
[Fq.09.09 - Fq.09.10] Anonymous engraved armorial bookplate on flyleaf: crest of a demi-lion rampant and motto "Tout bien ou rien".
Provenance
[Fq.09.09 - Fq.09.10] Pencil price: £2.2-.
Provenance
[Fq.09.11] Pencil note recording purchase in 1912, probably by Francis Warre Cornish, with price "4/6".
Provenance
[Fq.09.12] Pencil note on flyleaf recording purchase in 1905, probably by Francis Warre Cornish.
Provenance
[Fq.09.12] Pencil price inside front cover: £1.17.6, with ?inventory number.
Provenance
[Fq.09.12] Partial booklabel of ?William Rawlings inside front cover with partial surname or estate name "--lumb".
Provenance
[Fq.09.12] Ms. partial date inside front cover: 1852.
Provenance
[Fq.09.12] Curatorial notes in pencil, possibly Warre Cornish's hand: "Duplicate. ... Original binding old morocco."
Binding
[Fq.09.09 - Fq.09.10] 18th-century red straight-grained morocco; single gold fillet borders; smooth spine; marbled endpapers; gilt edges.
Binding
[Fq.09.11] ?17th/18th-century vellum laced case binding, laced at head and tail; traces of ms. spine title. Bound in one volume.
Binding
[Fq.09.12] 17th-century dark red morocco; border of gold double fillets; gilt and gauffered edges; smooth spine; remains of dark red linen ties.
Copy-specific note
[Fq.09.09 - Fq.09.10] Previously: EC D2.2-EC D2.3, EC D1.2(?)-EC D1.3.
Copy-specific note
[Fq.09.11] Previously: EC D2.4.
Subject
Rome History Julio-Claudians, 30 B.C.-68 A.D.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Warre Cornish, Francis, 1839 - 1916 former owner.
Added entry--name
Officina Elzeviriana printer.
Added entry--place
Netherlands Leiden.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B39706