Ek tōn Diōnos tou Nikaeōs Rōmaikōn historiōn, apo Pompēiou Magnou mechris Alexandrou tou Mamaias, epitomē Iōannou tou Xiphilinou. = Dionis Nicaei Rerum Romanarum à Pompeio Magno ad Alexa[n]drum Mamaeae, epitome authore Ioanne Xiphilino. Ex bibliotheca regia.
Cassius Dio Cocceianus (155 - 235)
Category
Books
Date
1551
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3039019
Summary
Bibliographic description
357, [3] p. ; 4to. Running number: 4799. Printer's device hand-coloured in red (basilisk) and green (vine). Provenance: manuscript initial on front pastedown: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript prices in pencil on front pastedown: "-3-" and "-4-". Manuscript booksellers' codes on title page: "F.3 / 615", "Can: S.P" and "e F". Occasional manuscript marginalia and underscoring of text in red pencil. Binding: seventeenth-century sponged calf; double blind fillet border, with blind cornerpiece stamps; blind roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine, with gilt title on brown leather label. Head of spine missing. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Cassius Dio Cocceianus (155 - 235) Robert Estienne (1503-1559) Guillaume Leblanc (d.1588) Joannes Xiphilinus (1010 - 1075)