Ausonii Burdigalensis viri consularis, omnia, quae adhuc in veteribus bibliothecis inueniri poterunt, Opera. Adhaec, Symmachi, & Pontij Paulini litterae ad Ausonium script[a]e, tum Ciceronis, Sulpici[a]e, aliorúmque quorundam veterum carmina nonnulla, cuncta ad varia, vetera, nouaque exemplaria, hac secunda editione emendata, commentariisque auctioribus illustrata, per Eliam Vinetum Santonem, Iosephum Scaligerum, & alios, quos pagina tertia ab hac indicat. Indices duo subiuncti praefationi, scriptorum hic contentorum, rerum, & verborùm. Adiunctum est & chronicon rerum Burdigalensium Gabrielis Lurbaei.
Decimus Magnus Ausonius (c.310-c.395)
Category
Books
Date
1590
Materials
Place of origin
Bordeaux
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3031600
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 pts. in 1 v. ([500], 28, [2] leaves, [4] folded leaves of plates) : ill., plan ; 4to. Running number: 5282. Provenance: manuscript initial on third front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript bibliograhic note in the hand of John Mitchell on verso of fifth front fly-leaf (facing title page): "Collatâ hac editione secundâ, cum priore ibidem excusa An. 1580, apparet hanc esse optimam Eliae Vineti editionem. Adde, quod in hac, Lectiones Scaligeri & aliorum Notae in Ausonium, & praeterea, Lurbaei Chronicon Rerum Burdigalensium, in fine adjiciantur". Binding: seventeenth-century full plain vellum over boards; yapp edges; holes in boards for two pairs of ties (missing). Binder's manuscript waste (vellum, red and black letters) lines spine.
Makers and roles
Decimus Magnus Ausonius (c.310-c.395) Saint Paulinus of Nola (353-431) Bishop of Nola, author Sulpicia (1st century B.C.) , author Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), author Quintus Aurelius Symmachus (340-402 AD), author Gabriel de Lurbe (d.1613), author Joseph Juste Scaliger (1540-1609), author Élie Vinet (1509-1587), editor