Hoc volumine continentur : Commentariorum de bello Gallico libri VIII ; De bello ciuili Pompeiano libri III ; De bello Alexandrino liber I ; De bello Africano liber I ; De bello Hispaniensi liber I ; Pictura totius Galliae, & Hispaniae, ex C. Caesaris Commentariis : nomina locorum urbiumq[ue] & populorum Galliae, & Hispaniae, ut olim dicebantur Latine, & nunc dicantur, iuxta litterarum ordinem : pictura pontis in Rheno, item Auarici, Alexiae, Vxelloduni, Massiliae / cum correctionibus Pauli Manutii.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caesar, Julius.

Contributor:

Giocondo, Giovanni, approximately 1433-1515.

Manuzio, Paolo, 1512-1574, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Latin Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Works 1559

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

History, Military.

Rome--History--Civil War, 49-45 B.C.

Rome.

Gaul--History--Gallic Wars, 58-51 B.C.

Gaul.

Rome--History--Republic, 265-30 B.C.

Rome (Empire).

History.

Rome--History, Military--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Printers' devices (Printing) -- Italy -- Venice -- 16th century.

Penn Provenance:

Sheringham, H. T. (Hugh Tempest), 1876-1930 (bookplate)

Lamont, A., (autograph)

Castel Durante (Italy) (stamp)

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered leaves, 318 leaves, 2 unnumbered leaves : illustrations, maps, plans ; 17 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Hoc volvmine continentvr

Hoc volumine continentur : Commentariorum de bello Gallico libri VIII

Commentariorum de bello Gallico libri VIII

Fingerprint:

s,i- e.o- i-uæ glCæ (3) 1559 (R)

Place of Publication:

Venetiis : Apud Paulum Manutium, Aldi f., MDLIX [1559]

Notes:

Edited by Giovanni Giocondo.

Printed in italic type.

Full imprint from colophon.

Signatures: a-b⁸ A-2R⁸.

Aldine printer's device (Zappella 38) of anchor and dolphin on title page and verso of last leaf.

The anonymous "Bellum Africum" and "Bellum Hispaniense" as well as Aulus Hirtius' "Bellum Alexandrinum" and his continuation of Caesar's "De Bello Gallico" have been traditionally included in the Caesarian corpus and are present in this work.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of British angler and writer H.T. Sheringham, with text inside circular design of two fish reading: "Ex libris Hugh Tempest Sheringham date [blank], no. [blank]"; copy also with autograph of "A. Lamont" and two ownership stamps, one reads "Property of Department of Classical Studies University of Pennsylvania" with the other: "Loci Castri Durantis."

Cited in:

Renouard, A.A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde (3rd ed.), p. 179, no. 21

EDIT 16 CNCE 8176

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600 p. 320

Adams C44

Contains:

Hirtius, Aulus. De bello Gallico. Liber 8

Hirtius, Aulus. Bellum Alexandrinum.

Bellum Africum.

Bellum Hispaniense.

OCLC:

611902425