C. SuetonI Tranquilli De XII Caesaribus libri VIII / Isaacus Casaubonus recensuit & animadversionum libros adiecit ; additi sunt et Suetonii libelli De illustribus grammaticis & De claris rhetoribus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Suetonius, approximately 69-approximately 122.

Contributor:

Chouët, Jacques, active 1577-1599, printer.

Estienne, Paul, 1566 or 1567-approximately 1627, printer.

Casaubon, Isaac, 1559-1614.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Latin Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

De vita Caesarum

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

History.

Rome--History--Flavians, 69-96.

Rome--History--Julio-Claudians, 30 B.C.-68 A.D.

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

Emperors.

Suetonius, approximately 69-approximately 122. De vita Caesarum.

Suetonius.

Genre:

Printers' devices (Printing) -- Switzerland -- Geneva -- 16th century.

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Heusinger, Konrad 1752-1820 (autograph) (inscription)

Cuno, Sigismund Andreas (autograph)

Physical Description:

40 unnumbered pages, 191 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 32 pages, 28 unnumbered pages, 315 pages, 13 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm (4to)

Other Title:

C. Suetonii Tranquilli De XII Caesaribus libri VIII

C. SvetonI Tranqvilli De XII Caesaribvs libri VIII

De XII Caesaribus libri VIII

Fingerprint:

ums, osam asi- qunu (3) 1595 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Geneva] : Apud Iacobum Chouët, MDXCV [1595]

Notes:

Place of printing from Adams.

Printing device of J. Chouët on title page has motto "In nocte consilium". Work was printed at the Estiennes' Geneva press for Chouet. Cf. preliminary laudatory verses by Paul Estienne and typographical ornaments.

Signatures: [par.]-2[par.]⁴ *-3*⁴ A-2A⁴ a-g⁴ h², ²2A-3S⁴.

Leaf h2 blank.

Suetonius's "De grammaticis et rhetoribus" (on 32 p.) has separate pagination and register with divisional half-title: C. SuetonI Tranquilli Libri duo De illustribus grammaticis & De claris rhetoribus".

"Isaaci Casauboni in C. SuetonI Tranquilli De XII Caesaribus libros VIIII. Animadversiones" (on 315 p.) is the first edition of Casaubon's commentaries on Suetonius. It has separate pagination and register with divisional half-title: "Isaaci Casauboni in C. SuetonI Tranquilli De XII Caesaribus libros VIIII. Animadversiones"

Includes index.

Errata on p. [13] at end.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy with inscription by Konrad Heusinger (1752-1820) reading: C.H. Hoc significat nomen optimi viri[?] et fidelissimi praeceptoris Conradi H[...]ysinger.

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. bibliographic notes, ms. marginal annotations and ms. underlines.

Culture Class Collection copy signed by Sigismund Andreas Cuno on title page: S. A. Cuno [Gr.] [...] Schesing. 1707.

Cited in:

Chaix, P. Imprimés à Genève de 1550 à 1600, 146

Schweiger, F. Classischen bibliographie, II, p. 976

Adams S2053

Cathedral libraries catalogue S1979

Contains:

Suetonius, approximately 69-approximately 122. De grammaticis et rhetoribus.

Isaaci Casauboni in C. SuetonI Tranquilli De XII Caesaribus libros VIIII animadversiones.

C. SuetonI Tranquilli Libri duo De illustribus grammaticis & De claris rhetoribus.

OCLC:

9383205