In hoc volumine haec continentur. Neruae & Traiani : at[que] Adriani Caesarum uitae ex Dione / Georgio Merula interprete ; Aelius Spartianus, Iulius Capitolinus, Lampridius, Flauius Vopiscus, Trebellius Pollio, Vulcatius Gallicanus, ab Ioanne Baptistae Egnatio Veneto diligentissime castigati ; Heliogabali pri[n]cipis ad meretrices elega[n]tissima oratio ; eiusdem Io. Baptistae Egnatij De Caesaribus libri tres a dictatore Caesare ad Co[n]stantinum Palaeologum, hinc à Carolo Magno ad Maximilianu[m] Caesare[m] ; eiusdem in Spartiani, Lampridij[que] uitas, & reliquorum annotationes ; Aristidis Smyrnaei Oratio de laudibus urbis Romae a[b] Scipion Carteromacho in Latinum uersa ; in extrema operis parte addita Co[n]flagratio Veseui montis ex Dione, Georgio Merula interprete.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Egnazio, Giovanni Battista, approximately 1478-1553.

Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444.

Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536.

Merula, Giorgio, -1494

Aristides, Aelius.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus.

Torresanus, Andreas, de Asula, 1451-1529, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Greek Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Scriptores historiae Augustae.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Emperors--Rome.

Emperors.

Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

History.

Penn Provenance:

Montanari, Giacomo, 1570-1631 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Krumbhaar, E. B. (Edward Bell), 1882-1966 (bookplate) (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered leaves, 422 leaves, 2 unnumbered leaves ; 16 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Neruae et Trajani

In hoc volvmine haec continentvr. Neruae & Traiani

Fingerprint:

a,r- o.i- otta momn (3) 1519 (R)

Place of Publication:

Venetiis : In aedibus Aldi et Andreae Soceri, mense augusto, MDXIX [Aug. 1519]

Notes:

Printer's device on title page and verso of last leaf.

Printed in 1519 and 1521 from editions of 1516, with the addition of the annotations of Erasmus taken from a similar title printed in Basle by Froben in 1518. Volume 2 issued in 1521 under title: In hoc volumine haec continentur. C. Suetonij Tranquilli XXX Caesares.

"Heliogabali principis ad meretrices elegantissima oratio" attributed to Leonardi Bruni.

Imprint from colophon.

Signatures: *⁸ a-zz⁸, A-G⁸ (2o8 and D4 blank)

Leaf d3 signed c3.

Leaves 361, 363, 365 and 367 omitted in foliation with leaves 362, 364, 366 and 368 duplicated.

Printer's device identified as Zappella 38 in EDIT16.

With Egnazio's preface to Jacobus Minutius.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of Edward Bell Krumbhaar.

Culture Class Collection copy signed "Hic liber Bagnacauallo" underneath which is signed "Jacomo Bagnacauallo" possibly belonging to Giacomo da Bagnavacallo, 1570-1631 (also known as Giacomo Montanari, 1570-1631).

Culture Class Collection copy wanting Bruni's text "Heliogabali pri[n]cipis ad meretrices elega[n]tissima oratio" on leaves 291-296.

Cited in:

Adams S781

Renouard, A.A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde, p. 87, no.8

Fock, Bibliotheca Aldina, 37

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 217

EDIT16 CNCE 17204

Shaaber, M.A. 16th cent. imprints, B158

Catalogue of Ahmanson-Murphy Aldine Collection, UCLA, no. 181

Related Work:

Egnazio, Giovanni Battista, approximately 1478-1553. De Caesaribus libri tres.

Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444. Heliogabali principis ad meretrices elegantissima oratio.

Aristides, Aelius. Oratio de laudibus urbis Romae.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus. Roman history. Latin. Merula.

Contains:

Cassius Dio Cocceianus. Conflagratio Vesevi montis.

OCLC:

228674929