Des orateurs; savoir, si les modernes sont inférieurs aux anciens, et pourquoi? Dialogue attribué par quelques uns à Tacite, & par quelques autres à Quintilien, traduit par M. Morabin.
Cornelius Tacitus (c.55-after 115)
Category
Books
Date
1722
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3198559
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], lvii, [3], 262, [2] p. ; 12mo. Running number: 5399. 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)]. Manuscript number or inventiry code on front fly-leaf: "49" or "4g". Manuscript inscription on fly-leaf facing title page: "Morabin" [i.e. catalogue entry written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751)]. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine, with gilt title label. Red stained edges. Comb-marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Cornelius Tacitus (c.55-after 115), author Pliny the Younger (62-c.112 AD), author Marcus Fabius Quintilian (c.35-c.100)., author Curiatius Maternus (fl.74-75 AD), author Jacques Morabin (1687-1762), editor