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Polybij historiographi Historiarum libri quinque / Nicolao Perotto interprete.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Polybius.
- Standardized Title:
- Historiae. Latin
- Language:
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Rome--History--Republic, 510-30 B.C.
- Rome.
- Rome (Empire).
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Haney, John Louis, 1877-1960 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 592 pages ; 13 cm (16mo)
- Other Title:
- Historiarum libri quinque
- Polybii historiographi Historiarvm libri qvinqve
- Polybii historiographi Historiarum libri quinque
- Fingerprint:
- o-em iso- t-m, beHo (3) 1548 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- [Lyon] : Apud Seb. Gryphium, Lugduni, 1548.
- Notes:
- "Absolui tandem ... delegatum mihi ... munus ... conuersis in Latinum sermonem quinq[ue] libris Polybij, qui soli nobis superstites ex amplissima illius historia remansere"--P. 3 (Perotti's introduction). There are fragments (some extensive) of others of the 50 books extant today, but no complete books except the 5 translated here.
- Translated into Latin by Niccolò Perroto.
- Signatures: a-z⁸ A-O⁸.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of John Louis Haney.
- Cited in:
- Baudrier, H.L. Bib. lyonnaise, VIII, p. 227
- Hoffmann, S.F.W. Bibl. Litt. der griechen, III, p. 272
- Shaaber, M.A. 16th cent. imprints, P507
- OCLC:
- 17261864
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