Cl. Aeliani, et Leonis Imp. Tactica, siue De instruendis aciebus; Graece & Latine. Quorum hic Graecè primum opera Iohannis Meursii, ille ex Sixti Arcerii noua interpretatione Latina: ambo autem notis et animaduersionibus in lucem exeunt. Accedunt praeliorum aliquot descriptiones, & nonulla alia; additis tabulis Aeneis & Modesti libello de vocabulis militaribus.
Tacticus Aelianus
Category
Books
Date
1613
Materials
Place of origin
Leiden
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3031845
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. in 1. ([16], 214 [i.e. 212]; 447 [i.e. 437], [3], 7, [1] p., [3] folded leaves of plates) : ill. ; 4to. Running number: 5031. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "β½'." [i.e. beta½ = Greek number 2½]. Binding: seventeenth-century plain vellum over boards; yapp edges; manuscript spine title. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Tacticus Aelianus , author possibly Claudius Aelian (c.170 - c.235) , author Emperor Leo VI, Byzantine Emperor of the East (fl.866-912), author Modestus , author Sixtus Arcerius, author Sir John Cheke (1514-1557), editor Johannes Meursius (van Meurs) (1579-1639)., editor