Dion, historien grec, des faictz & gestes insignes des Romains : reduictz par annalles et consulatz commençant au consulat de Lucius Cotta, & Lucius Torquatus (durant lequel Pompée le Grand fit guerre contre les Hiberiens, & deffit Mithridates) & continuant de temps en temps jusques à la mort de Claude Néron ... / premierement traduict de grec en italien par messire Nicolas Leonicene ferrarois & depuis de italien en vulgaire francois par Claude Deroziers de Bourges en Berre ; avec les histoires à chascun liure conuenables.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cassius Dio Cocceianus.

Contributor:

Deroziers, Claude.

Leoniceno, Niccolò, 1428-1524.

L'Angelier, Arnoul, bookseller.

L'Angelier, Charles, -1563, bookseller.

Arnoul & Charles les Angeliers frères, bookseller.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Greek Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Historia Romana. French (Middle French). Selections

Language:

French

French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Italian

Subjects (All):

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

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

History.

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

Emperors.

Cryptography--Early works to 1800.

Cryptography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Collegium Divio-Godranium Societatis Jesu (former owner) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Jesuits (Dijon, France) (former owner) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered leaves, CCLXXXI leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 32 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Des faictz et gestes insignes des Romains

Fingerprint:

o-en n.o- nsul esdi (3) 1542 (R)

Place of Publication:

Nouvellement imprimé à Paris : Pour Arnoul et Charles les Angeliers frères, libraires, ..., MDXLII [1542]

Notes:

Dedication, life of Cassius Dio, and each book are headed by a woodcut ill. within a repeated scroll-work border with masks and fruit. Some of the human figures represented are identified by labels in woodcut or in letterpress. A number of the ill. are repeated, the figures being supplied with different labels as necessary (e.g. those on b5r and k6v, e7r and y8v, p1r and Dd1r, s3r and x6v, Ee4r and FF7r). The ill. preceding the life of Cassius Dio is apparently a metal-cut. The publishers' device appears on the t.p. and in a larger version on the last page.

First translated into Italian from the original Greek by Leoncine and then into French by Deroziers.

Contains references to early methods of cryptography in Bk. XL, 9 and Bk. XLI, 3.

Signatures: ã⁴ a-z⁸ 2A-2L⁸ 2M¹⁰.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has Jesuit inscription on title page "Collego Divio Godranii Societatis Jesu [...]" from the Jesuit College in Dijon (France)

Culture Class Collection copy has Jesuits device "IHS" written in ms. on title page below which are stamped two shields framed by initials "I M" on either side.

Cited in:

Shaaber, M.A. 16th cent. imprints, D153

Galland, J.S. Cryptology, p. 56

Brun, R. Livre illustré en France, p. 185

Grässe, J.G.T. Trésor de livres rares et précieux, p. 394

Hoffmann, S.F.W. Bibl. Litt. der griechen, I, p. 551

Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire, II, col. 713

OCLC:

10467914