Veteres de re militari scriptores quotquot extant, nunc primâ vice in unum redacti corpus. I. Flavii Vegetii Renati institutorum rei militaris libri V. II. Sexti Julii Frontini strategematum & strategeticôn libri IV. III. Claudius Ælianus de instruendis aciebus. IV. Modestus de vocabulis rei militaris. V. Polybius de militia & castrametatione Romanorum. VI. Æneæ Poliorceticus, seu de toleranda obsidione. VII. Incerti auctoris, de re militari opusculum, quod M. Tullio Ciceroni vulgò inscribitur. Accedunt I. Godescalci Stewechii ... in Fl. Vegetium commentarius. II. Eiusdem conjectanea, & Francisci Modii notæ in Sex. Jul. Frontinum. III. Petri Scriverii in Fl. Vegetium & Sex. Jul. Frontinum animadversiones.
Polybius (c.200 - 118 BCE)
Category
Books
Date
1670
Materials
Place of origin
Wesel
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3218399
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2v.] (v.1: [48],510p.; v.2: [8],604,[50]p.) : ill. ; 8vo. Imperfect: vol.2 only; lacks folded plan. Ink numbered on pastedown: 3916. Provenance: early eighteenth-century armorial bookplate of Richard Banner, with motto: "Nil sine numine". Inscribed on endpaper in late seventeenth-century hand: "Liber Geo: Fulham Cott: Mayo. [?] 2 volumes". Binding: late seventeenth-century mottled calf; remnant of gilt tooling on spine; five raised bands.
Makers and roles
Polybius (c.200 - 118 BCE) Aeneas Tacticus Claudius Aelian (c.170 - c.235) Sextus Julius Frontinus (c. 40-103 AD) Julius Modestus Flavius Vegetius Renatus (fl.late 4th century) Franciscus Modius Pieter Schrijver (1576-1660) Godescalcus Stewechius (1551-1586)