Accession number
PML 125088
Creator
Suetonius, approximately 69-approximately 122.
Published
Parisiis : Apud Simonem Colinaeum, 1527.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1988-9.
Notes
"Annotata in C. Suetonium Tranquillum, per Des. Erasmum Roterdoamum."--[16] leaves following text.
"Illustrissimis Saxoniae Ducibus, Federico sacri imperii electori &c. eiusque patrueli Georgio, Erasmus Roterodamum. S. D."--leaf 2.
Colophon from leaf [16]: Emissum est hoc C. Suetonii Tranquilli, viri vel omnium calculis inter historiographos primates habendi, & memoria handquaquam poenitendae duodecim Caesarum monime[n]tum, ex officina Simonis Colinaei Parrhisiensis typographi. Anno M. D. XXVII sexto Calend. Augusti.
Criblé and bold initials.
Includes index.
Part 2 has title: Ioannis Baptistae Egnatii Veneti, in C. Suetonium Tranquillum annotationes. Des. Eras. Rot. Ioca restituta in Suetonio. Epitome assis Budaici, cuius ope, loca nonnulla Suetonii perperam, exposita & satis abstrusa, intellectui manifesta patabunt.
Printer's device on the title-page (Marque aux Lapins).
Probably this ed. (book not in hand).
Signatures: a-z, &, A-E, a-c⁸ (h1 numb. g1, E8 blank).
"Illustrissimis Saxoniae Ducibus, Federico sacri imperii electori &c. eiusque patrueli Georgio, Erasmus Roterodamum. S. D."--leaf 2.
Colophon from leaf [16]: Emissum est hoc C. Suetonii Tranquilli, viri vel omnium calculis inter historiographos primates habendi, & memoria handquaquam poenitendae duodecim Caesarum monime[n]tum, ex officina Simonis Colinaei Parrhisiensis typographi. Anno M. D. XXVII sexto Calend. Augusti.
Criblé and bold initials.
Includes index.
Part 2 has title: Ioannis Baptistae Egnatii Veneti, in C. Suetonium Tranquillum annotationes. Des. Eras. Rot. Ioca restituta in Suetonio. Epitome assis Budaici, cuius ope, loca nonnulla Suetonii perperam, exposita & satis abstrusa, intellectui manifesta patabunt.
Printer's device on the title-page (Marque aux Lapins).
Probably this ed. (book not in hand).
Signatures: a-z, &, A-E, a-c⁸ (h1 numb. g1, E8 blank).
Description
215, [40] leaves ; 17 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
"antoine rame [sic] non non cest an [sic] vain que nous nous estudions dans ce monde icy a [recher?] chez des honeurs [sic] qui nous conduiron [sic] dans des flammes eternel [sic]" inscription on page 2. Unidentified inscriptions inside upper cover. Annotations in contemporary hand, pp. 8-20, 32-33.
Provenance
"C. Po[?]" inscription on title page. "Joannes Ramey" inscription on title page, with "Ramey" repeated in different hand. "Anthonius Ramey Rhetor" inscription inside upper cover, "Ramey Rhetor Anno.mill.sexcen.nonagesi.7o anno mille[s?]imo" [1697] inscribed on blank leaf preceding part 2. From the library of the Ramey family (16th-cen. France).
Binding
Contemporary leather (calf?) over paperboards, blind tooled; manuscript waste; evidence of paper spine label; sewing structure visible.
Classification
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