Virtus romana, siue Illustrissimorum et fortissimorum ducum et imperatorum Romanae monarchiae vitae & res gestae, annexa perspicua enarratione praecipuorum & admirandorum euentuum qui ab vrbe condita vsque ad monarchiam augusti intra a[n]nos scilicet septingentos & quinquaginta circiter contigerunt. Cura Ioannis Rosae ... Nunc primum in lucem prodit, consensu haeredum authoris, recensente Nicolao Reusnero ...
Johann Rosa (1532-1572)
Category
Books
Date
1604
Materials
Place of origin
Frankfurt am Main
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3199449
Summary
Bibliographic description
[24], 244, [76] p. ; 8vo. Running number: 5468. Imperfect: wanting final two blank leaves. 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)]. Binding: eighteenth-century mottled calf; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gilt spine with dolphin and crown stamps within fillet panels, roll pattern at head and tail; gilt title on brown leather label on spine. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Johann Rosa (1532-1572), author Elias Reusner (1555-1612) Nikolaus Reusner (1545-1602), editor