Les vies des plus grands, plus vertueux, et excellentes capitaines, et personnages grecs et barbares / faictes par Aemylius Probus autheur ancien ; et mises en francois par B. de Girard Seigneur du Haillan, secretaire de Monseigneur le Duc d'Aniou, & de Bourbonois frere du Roy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nepos, Cornelius.

Contributor:

Du Haillan, Bernard de Girard, seigneur, 1535?-1610.

L'Huillier, Pierre, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Latin Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Vitae excellentium imperatorum. French

Language:

French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)

Subjects (All):

Classical biography--Early works to 1800.

Classical biography.

Generals--Greece--Biography.

Generals.

Greece.

Generals--Rome--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Armorial bindings (Binding)

Printers' devices (Printing) -- France -- Paris -- 16th century.

Penn Provenance:

William Salloch (Firm) (label)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 159 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 23 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Vies des plvs grands, plvs vertvevx, et excellentes capitaines, et personnages grecs et barbares

Fingerprint:

ceu- itr- f-is Tofo (3) 1568 (A)

Place of Publication:

A Paris : A l'oliuier de Pierre l'Huillier, rue sainct Iacques, 1568.

Notes:

Woodcuts: device on title page; initials; head- and tail-pieces.

Device of printer L'Huillier is olive tree around which is a ribbon bearing the motto: "Oliva fructi fera in domo Dei psalis"; stone in lower right foreground bears his monogram.

By Cornelius Nepos, previously attributed to Aemilius Probus.

Signatures: [dagger]⁴ A-V⁴.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in limp vellum with unidentified gilt armorial stamp on covers.

Culture Class Collection copy has bookseller's label: William Salloch, Pines Bridge Road, Ossining, New York.

Cited in:

Adams N173

BM STC French, 1470-1600, p. 4

BN XXXII, p. 478

OCLC:

30801445