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Flavii Vegetii Renati ... de re militari libri quatuor / Sexti Ivlii Frontini ... de strategematis libri totidem. Aeliani de instruendis aciebus liber unus. Modesti de uocabulis rei militaris liber itẽ unus. Omnia diligenter ad codices antiquos & emendatos maxime Bvdaei, collata sunt: id quod Aelianus testabitur à mendis compluribus repurgatus.

Accession number
PML 125339.1
Published
Parisiis : Sub scuto Basileiensi[!] in officina Christiani Wecheli. M.D.XXXV [1535]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1988-9.
Notes
Printer's mark on t.-p. and on verso of last leaf.
Octavo edition; also printed in folio in the same year.
Description
359, [17] p. ; 17 cm (8vo)
Inscriptions/Markings
Possible book curse inside upper cover. Inscription on first flyleaf: "Salve mater salvatoris [?]." Some contemporary annotations to first pages. Partial recopying of inscription from upper pastedown to verso of lower flyleaf. Inscriptions (Latin proverbs) inside lower cover read: "Non p[?] patres pro filiis neque filii pro patribus suis sid"; second inscription unidentified; "Sapienter sapit qui periculo alieno sapit Quidquid agas sapienter agas et respice fine"; final inscription unidentified.
Provenance
Ownership inscription by Honoratus Naquis inside upper cover. From the library of the Ramey family (16th-cent. France).
Binding
Contemporary calf over paperboards, blind and gold tooled; manuscript waste; evidence of paper spine label; edges colored red.
Classification
Department