ÉRASME, Giovanni Battista EGNAZIO
Vitae caesarum quarum scriptores hi Suetonius Tranquillus, Dion Cassius, Aelius Spartianus, Iulius Capitolinus, Aelius Lampridius, Vulcatius Gallicanus, Trebellius Pollio, Flauius Vopiscus, Herodianus, Sex. Aurelius Victor, Pomponius Laetus, Io. Baptista Egnatius, Eutropij libri X. integritati pristinae redditi. Ammianus Marcellinus longe alius quàm antehac unquam / Annotationes D. Erasmi Rot. & Baptistae Egnatij in uitas Caess. Accesserunt in hac éditione Velleij Paterculi libri II. ab innumeris denuo uendicati erroribus. additio indice copiosissimo
Froben|Basilae [Basel] • (Bâle) [Basel] 1546|33 x 22.50 cm|relié
Colophon: Basileae per Hieronymvm Frobenivm et Nic. Episcopvm mense Septembri, M.D.XLVI.
First edition. Decorated with numerous historiated initials. Printer's device on the title page and verso of the final leaf. Absent from French catalogues, but present in English catalogues, 2 copies in Germany at the GBV (union catalogue of northern Germany) and one at the University of Munich. The 1544 edition published in Paris does not include Erasmus's notes and the complete assembly of authors gathered in this edition; the Parisian edition was reissued in 1551 in Lyon by Gryphium, but not this Froben edition, which reproduces only Egnazio's edition. The first edition of Suetonius dates from 1479.
Full sheep binding 17th century, decorated raised spine (red morocco title label). Overall rubbed and worn on boards (numerous scratches), upper headcap missing, 2 upper corners broken and missing. Fine interior condition, with pale dampstaining running through about twenty pages at top center (pp. 29 to 45...). Several pagination errors, same number repeated, leaf skipped without lack...
The evident interest of this edition was to gather together all the writers of antiquity who wrote about the Roman empire, not only Suetonius, but also rarer writers such as Dio Cassius (translated by Merula), Herodian (translated by Angelo Ambrogini Poliziano), Spartianus or Lampidius, Velleius Paterculus, Vulcatius Gallicanus, Ammianus Marcellinus... Two commentators: Erasmus (died in 1536) and Giovanni Battista Egnazio (1478-1553). Froben (1501-1563) is one of the great publishers of the Renaissance and the worthy successor of Johann Froben, the first of the dynasty who established his printing house in Basel in 1491; it was with him that Erasmus was linked and worked, and Jerome Froben merely reaped the fruits. This edition is the alliance of Froben and Nikolaus Episcopius, his brother-in-law.
Gothic manuscript note: "pour le couvent de l'observance des Lyon" and manuscript pagination of the authors.
First edition. Decorated with numerous historiated initials. Printer's device on the title page and verso of the final leaf. Absent from French catalogues, but present in English catalogues, 2 copies in Germany at the GBV (union catalogue of northern Germany) and one at the University of Munich. The 1544 edition published in Paris does not include Erasmus's notes and the complete assembly of authors gathered in this edition; the Parisian edition was reissued in 1551 in Lyon by Gryphium, but not this Froben edition, which reproduces only Egnazio's edition. The first edition of Suetonius dates from 1479.
Full sheep binding 17th century, decorated raised spine (red morocco title label). Overall rubbed and worn on boards (numerous scratches), upper headcap missing, 2 upper corners broken and missing. Fine interior condition, with pale dampstaining running through about twenty pages at top center (pp. 29 to 45...). Several pagination errors, same number repeated, leaf skipped without lack...
The evident interest of this edition was to gather together all the writers of antiquity who wrote about the Roman empire, not only Suetonius, but also rarer writers such as Dio Cassius (translated by Merula), Herodian (translated by Angelo Ambrogini Poliziano), Spartianus or Lampidius, Velleius Paterculus, Vulcatius Gallicanus, Ammianus Marcellinus... Two commentators: Erasmus (died in 1536) and Giovanni Battista Egnazio (1478-1553). Froben (1501-1563) is one of the great publishers of the Renaissance and the worthy successor of Johann Froben, the first of the dynasty who established his printing house in Basel in 1491; it was with him that Erasmus was linked and worked, and Jerome Froben merely reaped the fruits. This edition is the alliance of Froben and Nikolaus Episcopius, his brother-in-law.
Gothic manuscript note: "pour le couvent de l'observance des Lyon" and manuscript pagination of the authors.
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