Appiani Alexandrini sophistae, De ciuilibus Romanoru[m] bellis historiarum libri quinque. : Eiusdem libri sex: Illyricus, Celticus, Libycus, Syrius, Parthicus, & Mithridaticus & Romanae historiae prooemium. P. Vellei Paterculi Historiae Romanae duo volumina.
Appianus of Alexandria (95-c.165)
Category
Books
Date
1538
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3031840
Summary
Bibliographic description
[36], 283, [1]; [20], 41, [1] p. ; fol. Running number: 4880. Provenance: manuscript inscriptions on title page: [1] "B W[?] 486"; [2] "Empt[us] ... [inked out] Solidis 13 Jul. Ao. 1604. in[?] Auctione gerardi nur[?] octoris"; [3] inscription inked out at foot of title page; and [4] in the blank shield at the foot of the title page border a manuscript printer's mark with the initials "VB" and "IK". With manuscript marginal annotations in Latin in different sixteenth or seventeenth-century hands and underscoring of text. Binding: eighteenth-century[?] mottled calf; double gilt fillet border; gold-tooled spine with fillets, stamps, and gilt title on brown goatskin label.
Makers and roles
Appianus of Alexandria (95-c.165), author Marcus Velleius Paterculus (c.19 BC – c.30 AD), , author Pier Candido Decembrio (1399 - 1477), editor Beatus Rhenanus (1485-1547), editor Oronce Fine (1494-1555), artist and engraver