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Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caesar, Julius.

Contributor:

Eutropius, active 4th century.

Suetonius, approximately 69-approximately 122.

Hirtius, Aulus.

Giocondo, Giovanni, approximately 1433-1515.

Marlianus, Raimundus, approximately 1420-1475.

Vascosan, Michel de, -approximately 1577, printer.

Jay I. Kislak Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Works. 1543

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

History.

Gaul--History--58 B.C.-511 A.D--Early works to 1800.

Gaul.

Rome--History--Republic, 265-30 B.C--Early works to 1800.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Penn Provenance:

Kislak, Jay I. (donor)

Macclesfield, Earls of (bookplate) (stamp)

North Library (bookplate)

Frichot (autograph)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered leaves, 128 leaves, 20 unnumbered leaves : illustrations, maps ; 35 cm (folio)

Other Title:

C. Ivlii Caesaris rervm ab se gestarvm Commentarii

C. Julii Caesaris rerum ab se gestarum Commentarii

Rerum ab se gestarum Commentarii

Rervm ab se gestarvm Commentarii

Fingerprint:

eou- m,c. s-p- qucu (3) 1543 (R)

Place of Publication:

Parisiis : Ex officina Michaëlis Vascosani ..., MDXLIII [1543]

Contents:

(from t.p.) De bello Gallico libri VIII

De bello ciuili Pompeiano libri III

De bello Alexandrino liber I

De bello Africo liber I

De bello Hispaniensi liber I

Pictura totius Galliae, pontis in Rheno, Auarici, Alexiae, Vxelloduni, Massiliae, per Iucundum Veronensem, ex descriptione Caesaris

Veterum Galliae locorum, populorum, urbium, montium, ac fluuiorum breuis descriptio

Eutropii epitome belli Gallici ex Suetonii Tranquilli monumentis quae desiderantur.

Notes:

Signatures: [alpha]⁸ [superscript pi]A⁴ A-V⁶ X⁸, ²A⁸ 2A-2B⁶.

Woodcut illustrations and maps.

Initials.

Printed marginalia.

"Verterum Galliae locorum, populorum, urbium, montium ac fluuioru[m] alphabetica descriptio ... authore Raimundo Marliano ...": Leaves ²A1r-²A8v.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Collection copy has ms. shelf-mark ("II. e. xiii") of the North Library at Shirburn Castle, Shirburn, England, in pencil on front free endpaper; some faded ms. marginal notes in red pencil(?) in gatherings P-S; a few early ms. underlines, marginal marks and notes in brown ink in text; a few ms. marginal pencil marks in text.

Presented to the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts by Jay I. Kislak in 2014.

Kislak Collection copy formerly held in the library of the Earls of Macclesfield at Shirburn Castle, Shirburn, England. With armorial bookplate (arms of the Earls of Macclesfield) of the North Library at Shirburn Castle with ms. shelf-mark ("II. E. 13") on front pastedown; armorial blind stamp of the Earls of Macclesfield on title leaf.

Kislak Collection copy has partially illegible autograph ("Frichot [...] s.") on title leaf.

Kislak Collection copy bound in full 19th-century mottled calf; gold-tooled cover edges; 6 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; gold-stamped red morocco spine label ("CAESARIS COMMENTARIA"); all edges red.

Kislak Collection copy: leaves cropped with occasional damage to ms. marginalia and loss of signature mark on leaf [superscript pi]A2.

Related Work:

Marlianus, Raimundus, approximately 1420-1475. Index commentariorum G. Julii Caesaris.

OCLC:

38704792