Sexti Ruffi uiri consularis Valentiano Augusto De historia Ro. [i.e. Romana] libellus incipit.
Imprint:
Rome: per Eucharium Silber al[ia]s Franck, anno D[omi]ni 1491 mensis Augusti die xxiii.
Comments
and Notes:
Caption title, from incipit (leaf a1 verso).
Caption title of prefatory letter (leaf a1 recto) reads: Angelus Tiphernas amplissimo d[omi]no Baptiste de Vrsinis Camer[a]e Apostolic[a]e clerico s.d.
Edited by Angelus Tiphernas.
Imprint extracted from colophon (leaf b4 recto).
Leaves printed on both sides; 32 lines per page.
Signatures: a6 b4.
Final page (leaf b4 verso) is blank.
Guide-letters.
With: Vegetius Renatus, Flavius. [De re militari]. Flauii Vegetii, uiri illus., ad Valentinianum Augustum Epitoma institutorum rei militaris. [Rome : Eucharius Silber, 1487]. Bound together subsequent to publication.
Bookplate: Ex libris Joh[ann]is Comitis de Kimberley.
Provenance: From the library of Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, 1674-1722, with his shelf-mark, LL5:34; sold Nov. 1882.
Bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.