C. Cornelii Taciti Opera omnia . Ex editione Oberliniana cum notis et interpretatione in usum Delphini variis lectionibus notis variorum justi lipsii excursibus recensu codicum et editionum et indece locupletissimo Accurate recensita.
Cornelius Tacitus (c.55-after 115)
Category
Books
Date
1821
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3087669
Summary
Bibliographic description
10v. (vii,[1],4561,[3],ccccxxxii p.) . 8vo.. Imperfect: Some leaves have small sections cut away. With manuscript notes, some in an unidentified nineteenth-century hand, but mainly in the hand of G.O. Trevelyan (1838-1928), of which some are transcribed from Macaulay's marginalia in another edition. G.O.T. notes on flyleaf: 'Macaulay's notes and marginal lines (on the outside margins) are transferred from his Bipontine Edition. His notes are marked with an "M". One transcribed note (pp. 226-227) reads: ' "The truth is", Macaulay wrote in 1849, "that I admire no historian much except Herodotus, Thucydides, and Tacitus. Perhaps in his own very peculiar way I might add Fra Paolo". Dates of reading for Macaulay 1836, 1837. GOT's dates of reading include: 'Florence Jan. 22 1901. The day of Queen Victoria's death'; Jan. 25 1901: 'On way from Florence to Rome, Edward the Seventh proclaimed yesterday'. June 22 1920; Aug. 2 1924: 'Read with unceasing zest and admiration. May I live to finish him! But I was 86 last month'; Jan 17 1925. Page 740: 'a rare good writer. But a very difficult one to read, I must confess, as a student of very mature age. (1924)'. December 24 1924: '[...] This is the 4th time in this century that I have read [Tacitus, Herodotus and Thucydides] all through'.. Provenance: Pastedown obscures armorial bookplate of former owner, lettered S.T. Galton (possibly Samuel Tertius Galton, 1783-1844).. Binding: Full leather binding, rebacked; red and green spine labels.
Makers and roles
Cornelius Tacitus (c.55-after 115) Jeremias Jacob Oberlin (1735-1806)