Veteres de re militari scriptores quotquot extant, . nunc primâ vice in unum redacti corpus. I. Flavii Vegetii Renati institutorum rei militaris libri V. II. Sexti Julii Frontini strategematum & strategeticôn libri IV. III. Claudius Ælianus de instruendis aciebus. IV. Modestus de vocabulis rei militaris. V. Polybius de militia & castrametatione Romanorum. VI. Æneæ Poliorceticus, seu de toleranda obsidione. VII. Incerti auctoris, de re militari opusculum, quod M. Tullio Ciceroni vulgò inscribitur. Accedunt I. Godescalci Stewechii ... in Fl. Vegetium commentarius. II. Eiusdem conjectanea, & Francisci Modii notæ in Sex. Jul. Frontinum. III. Petri Scriverii in Fl. Vegetium & Sex. Jul. Frontinum animadversiones.
Polybius (c.200 - 118 BCE)
Category
Books
Date
1670
Materials
Place of origin
Netherlands
Collection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 3023623
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2v.] (v.1: [48],510p.; v.2: [8],604,[50]p.) . ill.. . 8vo. Imperfect: in v.1, pp.[495]-510 are bound after prelims, before p.1. Calf, with rules (seventeenth-century). Spines lettered: Vigetius de re militare vol: I (II) [all sic]; lettering instructions to binder on pastedown (17c. hand; also "Vigetius").. Provenance: Bookplates: Belton House (earl's coronet & crests), pasted over: John Brownlowe, viscount Tyrconnel. Old Belton pressmark on pastedown: D/6.
Makers and roles
Polybius (c.200 - 118 BCE) Aeneas Tacticus Claudius Aelian (c.170 - c.235) Sextus Julius Frontinus (c. 40-103 AD) Julius Modestus Flavius Vegetius Renatus (fl.late 4th century) Franciscus Modius Pieter Schrijver (1576-1660) Godescalcus Stewechius (1551-1586)