Incomincia la historia l'Alessandro Magno figluolo di Philippo Re di Macedonia. Scripta da Quinto Curtio Russo historico eloquentissimo. Et tradotta in vulgare da P. Candido, ...
Quintus Curtius Rufus (d.c.53AD)
Category
Books
Date
1519
Materials
Place of origin
Italy
Collection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 3127172
Summary
Bibliographic description
222 leaves . 8vo.. Not indigenous. Provenance: Sixteenth-century inscription on half-title: Così quagiu sì gode. Res Alessandri Villanij [-]. [A quote from Petrarch?]. Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate lettered The Right Honourable Wilmot Earl of Lisburne. (Not in Franks) [i.e. Wilmot Vaughn (1730-1800), 4th Viscount Lisburne from 1766 to 1776, when he was created 1st Earl]. manuscript pressmark on paper label partly obscuring plate. Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Loosely inserted: slip of manuscript notes by Norris. Binding: Eighteenth-century full calf over boards; gilt fillet and inner border; spine gilt; red and brown spine labels with title 'Q. Curtio. Giunta 1519'; sewn on five raised bands.
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Quintus Curtius Rufus (d.c.53AD)