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Quinte Curse, historiographe ancien et moult renommé : contenant les belliqueux faitz d'armes, conduictes et astuces de guerre du preux et victorieulx roy Alexandre le Grant / translaté de latin en françoys, et puis nagueres reveu et concordé avec Plutarque, Justin et autres aucteurs ; nouvellement imprimé à Paris.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Curtius Rufus, Quintus.
- Standardized Title:
- Historia Alexandri Magni. French (Middle French)
- Language:
- French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.
- Alexander.
- Greece--History--Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C.
- Greece.
- History.
- Generals--Greece--Biography.
- Generals.
- Greece--Kings and rulers--Biography.
- Kings and rulers.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 6 unnumbered leaves, 108 leaves : illustrations ; 30 cm (folio)
- Other Title:
- Historiographe ancien et moult renomme
- Fingerprint:
- es*t u-sta a-es ce*o (3) 1534 (T)
- Place of Publication:
- [Paris] : Chez Jacques Keruer a enseigne des deux cochets, 30 cm. (fol)
- Notes:
- Title within woodcut ornamental border; gothic type.
- Woodcut iullustrations on leaves ã2r and ã6v; floriated initials.
- Colophon reads: Cy fine le livre de Quinte Curse, des faitz et gestes d'Alexandre le Grant, nouvellement imprimé à Paris, par Jacques Le Messier, le penultime jour d'octobre, mil cinq cens trente quatre.
- Signatures: ã⁶ A-S⁶.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy bound in full blind-stamped brown leather; author's name and printing date stamped in gold on spine; all edges gilt.
- Culture Class Collection copy has illegible inscription dated 1534 on title page.
- Cited in:
- Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire, II, 451
- Contains:
- Belliqueux faictz darmes, conduictes & astuces de guerre du preux & victorieuz oy Alexandre le grant.
- OCLC:
- 44591549
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