Ek tōn Diōnos tou Nikaeōs Rōmaikōn historiōn, apo Pompēiou Magnou mechris Alexandrou tou Mamaias, epitomē Iōannou tou Xiphilinou = Dionis Nicaei Rerum Romanarum à Pompeio Magno ad Alexa[n]drum Mamaeae, epitome / authore Ioanne Xiphilino ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cassius Dio Cocceianus.

Contributor:

Xiphilinus, Joannes, the Younger

Estienne, Robert, 1503?-1559, printer.

Swift's Library and Reading Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Greek Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Roman history. Epitome

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Emperors--Rome--Biography--Early works to 1800.

Emperors.

History.

Rome--History--Early works to 1800.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Vienken, Heinz J. (honoree) (Swift Collection copy)

Elias, Susan Homans (honoree) (Swift Collection copy)

Six van Hillegom (bookplate) (Swift Collection copy)

Thorin, Ernest, b. 1834 (label) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

357 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 25 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Dionis Nicaei Rerum Romanarum à Pompeio Magno ad Alexandrum Mamaeae, epitome

Rerum Romanarum à Pompeio Magno ad Alexandrum Mamaeae, epitome

Fingerprint:

**** *-*- *-** (3) 1551 (R)

Place of Publication:

Lutetiae : Ex officina Roberti Stephani, typographi regii, regiis typis, MDLI [1551]

Language Note:

First eighteen words of title transliterated from Greek characters; title page in Latin, text in Greek.

Notes:

11th century abridgment of Cassius Dio's work, by Joannes Xiphilinus.

One of the last Greek texts to carry the Paris imprint of Robert Estienne (I). See Schreiber, Mortimer.

Some copies were issued in the same year with Guillaume Leblanc's Latin translation of this work.

Signatures: a-z⁴ A-Y⁴.

Woodcuts: device; initials; head-pieces.

Errata at end.

Local Notes:

This title is part of The Library and Reading of Jonathan Swift: a Partial Replication, a collection given to the University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library in 2005 in memory of Susan Homans Elias and in honor of the late Heinz J. Vienken.

Swift Collection copy has ms. notes on front free endpaper.

Culture Class Collection copy has label of Parisian bookseller Ernest Thorin: Librairie ancienne et moderne Ernest Thorin ... A Paris.

Cited in:

Adams D513

Schreiber, F. Estiennes, 108

Mortimer, R. French 16th cent., 170

Passmann-Vienken. Swift's Library, I, 529 (pt.1)

Hoffmann, S.F.W. Bibl. Litt. der griechen, III, p. 618

Shaaber, M.A. 16th cent. imprints, D156

Renouard, A.A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne, I, 80-81

OCLC:

68003635