Author
Ammianus Marcellinus
Uniform title
Rerum gestarum libri
Title
Ammiani Marcellini Rerum gestarum qui de XXXI. supersunt, libri XVIII. / Ope MSS. codicum emendati ab Henrico Valesio, & auctioribus adnotationibus illustrati. Necnon excerpta vetera de gestis Constantini & regum Italiæ..
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Rerum gestarum qui de XXXI. supersunt, libri XVIII
Edition
Editio posterior, cui Hadrianus Valesius, historiographus regius, Fr. Lindenbrogii JC. in eumdem historicum ampliores observationes, & collectanea variarum lectionum adjecit; & beneficio codicis Colbertini Ammianum multis in locis emendavit, notisque explicuit: disceptationem suam de hebdomo, ac indicem rerum memorabilium subjunxit. Præfixit & præfationem suam, ac vitam Ammiani à Claudio Chiffletio JC. compositam..
Imprint
Parisiis, : Ex Officina Antonii Dezallier, viâ Jacobeâ ad Coronam auream., M. DC. LXXXI. Cum privilegio regis ad annos XX. [1681]
Physical description
[32], xxxiv, 676, [2], 100, [18] pages ; 35 cm (fol.)
Note
Engraved printer's device with with two cupids supporting a crown, initials DD and the motto "Non coronabitur nisi qui legitimè certaverit" on the title-page.
Note
Signatures: ã-õ⁴ [dagger]-4[dagger]⁴ 5[dagger]1 A-PPpp⁴ QQqq² chi²(chi1+a⁴) b-k⁴ l-p² [paragraph]-2[paragraph]⁴.
Note
The final leaf is blank.
Note
Engraved head-piece on leaf ã2r; woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials; printed marginal notes.
Note
"Fr. LindenbrogiI J.C. Auctiores observationes in Ammianum Marcellinum: et in eumdem collectanea variarum lectionum." has a divisional half-title page and separate pagination and register.
Note
"De Constantio Chloro, Constantino Magno, & aliis imperatoribus excerpta auctoris ignoti" on pages 658 [i.e. 656]-671.
Note
Includes index.
Note
"Privilege ru Roi" on p2r, subscribed "Achevé d'imprimer ... le 15. Avril 1681.".
Citation/references note
CLC, A645
Language
Text in Latin with quotations and examples in Greek.
Provenance
Salisbury Cathedral Library bookplate (19th century) with 13th-century Dean and Chapter seal and inscription “Sarum Cathedral Library.”
Binding
17th-century sprinkled tan calf over paper boards; sewn on six supports; blind fillets forming rectangular frame towards perimeter of boards, with additional vertical fillets towards spine edge; spine with six raised bands, and horizontal blind and gilt fillets; spine label with "Ammianus Marcellinus"; "1681" in gilt at foot of spine; gilt roll around board edges; text block edges sprinkled red; evidence of chain plate at fore-edge of lower board.
Copy-specific note
Index rerum memorabilium (gatherings [paragraph]-2[paragraph]) bound between page xxxiv and page 1.
Subject
Emperors Rome Early works to 1800.
Subject
Rome (Place) History Empire, 284-476 Early works to 1800
Added entry--name
Valois, Henri de, 1603-1676 editor.
Added entry--name
Chifflet, Claude, 1541-1580
Added entry--name
Lindenbrog, Friedrich, 1573-1648
Added entry--name
Dezallier, Antoine, 1642?-1716 printer.
Added entry--uncontrolled related/analytical title
De Constantio Chloro, Constantino Magno, & aliis imperatoribus excerpta auctoris ignoti
Added entry--place
France Paris.
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