Shelfmark
Fd.7.09
Author
Uniform title
[Pharsalia]
Title
M. Annæi Lucani De bello civili, vel Pharsaliae libri decem, / Gregorii Bersmani studio & opera ex quatuor manu exaratis codicibus emedati, scholijsq[ue] illustrati.
Varying form of title
Portion of title: De bello civili
Publication, distribution, etc.
Lipsiae. : Imprimebant haeredes Ioannis Steinmanni, impensis Henningi Grosii bibliopolae., 1589.
Physical description
[24], 533, [3] p. ; 18 cm (8vo).
Note
Printer and publisher from colophon.
Note
Head- and tail-pieces; marginal notes.
Provenance
Booklabel of John Reynolds, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Provenance
Inscription on first page: Sam. Northcote his Booke 1653.
Binding
Contemporary dark brown calf Oxford binding; blind tooled double fillet border; oval centrepiece with strapwork (no. xv); initials 'SN' cut into leather of front board; blind tooled single fillet on spine with two areas of hatching; red morocco spine label with gold tooled lettering; red sprinkled edges; holes for ties; four raised bands.
Copy-specific note
Inscription on final page (part trimmed): Sallmon is a foole and a stinking bratt and a mori[s] barsard... .
Subject
Pharsalus, Battle of, Farsala, Greece, 48 B.C.
Subject
Rome History Civil War, 49-45 B.C.
Added entry--name
Grosse, Henning, 1553 - 1621 publisher.
Added entry--name
Bersmann, Gregor, 1538 - 1611 editor.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
Added entry--name
Haeredes Johannis Steinmanni printer.
Added entry--place
Germany Leipzig.
Identifier
B45902