Ammiani Marcellini rerum gestarum qui de XXXI. supersunt, libri XVIII.. Ope MSS. codicum emendati ab Henrico Valesio, & auctioribus adnotationibus illustrati Necnon excerpta vetera de gestis Constantini & regum Italiæ.
Ammianus Marcellinus (c.330 - c.400)
Category
Books
Date
1681
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3176953
Summary
Bibliographic description
[32],xxxiv,676,[2],100,[16]p.. ill.. fol. Large paper. Early note in ink on flyleaf facing title: 'Belle [...] Edition en grand papier trez recherchée, v. Bibliographie de Debare No. 4946.' Some pencil notes in index (perhaps Sir John Gardner Wilkinson). Provenance: Gardner Wilkinson Library. Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate: 'John Gardner Wilkinson Brynfield House.' [i.e. Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1795-1875)]. Old ownership inscription on title page deleted (not legible, but from offset on facing flyleaf appears to be: Ex bibliotheca FF. minorum ... [place not decipherable]). Binding: Seventeenth-century calf, rebacked (worn).
Makers and roles
Ammianus Marcellinus (c.330 - c.400) Friedrich Lindenbrog (1573-1648). Henri de Valois, seigneur d'Orcé (1603-1676) Adrien de Valois (1607-1692)