Ammiani Marcellini Rerum gestarum qui de XXXI supersunt, libri XVIII. Ope MSS. codicum emendati ab Frederico Lindenbrogio & Henrico Hadrianoque Valesiis cum eorundem integris observationibus & annotationibus, item excerpta varia de gestis Constantini & regum Italiæ. Omnia nunc recognita ab Jacobo Gronovio, qui suas quoque notas inseruit & necessariis ad Ammiani illustrationem antiquis nummis ac figuris curavit.
Ammianus Marcellinus (c.330 - c.400)
Category
Books
Date
1693
Materials
Place of origin
Leiden
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3031860
Summary
Bibliographic description
[48], 514, [14] p., [19] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; fol. Running number: 4863. Abraham Gronovius's presentation copy to Sir Richard Ellys. Provenance: manuscript presentation inscription on front pastedown: "To Sr. Richard Ellys, from Mr. Abraham Gronovius, who believed he wanted this book, & sends it him by Sr. Rd's very humble servant. Isaac Lawson" [i.e. from Abraham Gronovius (1695-1775), son of the editor Jacobus Gronovius, to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742), via Isaac Lawson (d. 1747). Isaac Lawson, physician, was a student at Leiden University from 1730 and became a good friend of Linnaeus -- cf. DNB]. Binding: seventeenth-century blind-tooled vellum; triple fillet border mitred at the corners to a double fillet panel with small cornerpiece stamps; centrepiece stamp; blind-tooled spine, with gilt title on brown goatskin label. Red and blue sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Ammianus Marcellinus (c.330 - c.400) Jacobus Gronovius (1645-1716), editor Friedrich Lindenbrog (1573-1648)., editor Adrien de Valois (1607-1692), editor Henri de Valois, seigneur d'Orcé (1603-1676), editor Romeyn de Hooghe (Amsterdam 1645 -1708), engraver (printmaker) Anthony van Zylvelt (Amsterdam c.1640 - after 1695) , engraver (printmaker)