C. Iulij Caesaris Rerum ab se gestarum commentarij. Ad codicum uetustissimorum fidem summa diligentia castigati. Reliqua sequens docebit pagella.
Gaius Julius Caesar (100/102 BCE - 44 BCE)
Category
Books
Date
1549
Materials
Place of origin
Lyon
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3030682
Summary
Bibliographic description
695, [137] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 16mo. Imperfect: lacks final quire (pp. [122-137]). Eighteenth-century pencil references to text on back pastedown. Ink and later pencil annotations. Sixteenth-century manuscript inscription at foot of titlepage bisqued out. Provenance: Eighteenth-century manuscript inscription on (1) front pastedown and (2) flyleaf: (1) 7-6; (2) CY [possibly Charles Yorke (1722-1770, younger brother of the 2nd Earl of Hardwicke; Lord Chancellor, 1770)]. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled goat over boards, single gilt fillet on spine, black spine label, yellow painted edges.
Makers and roles
Gaius Julius Caesar (100/102 BCE - 44 BCE) Aulus Hirtius (c.90-43BC), author Giovanni Giocondo (1433-1515), editor Raimundus Marlianus (1420-1475), editor