Flauij Vedati [i.e. Vegeti] Renati viri illustris Epitome de re militari incipit : in epitoma i[n]stituto[rum] rei militaris de co[m]me[n]tarijs Catho[n]is, Augusti Traiani, Adriani necno[n] et Ianie Frontoni [i.e. Julii Frontini] in quatuor p[ar]tes dist...
Imprint:
Utrecht: [Nicolaus Ketelaer and Gerard Leempt, 1473 or 1474]
Comments
and Notes:
Imprint from Goff.
Leaves printed on both sides; 31 lines per page.
Signatures: [a-d10 e-f8]
Spaces for initials; spaces left for the insertion of Greek.
Imperfect: Dibner Library copy lacks the first five leaves, including the blank leaf at front; leaves [2]-[5] replaced by photographic reproductions from a Harvard College library copy; final blank leaf also wanting?
Rubricated throughout.
Bookplate: Ex biblio. dimicat. Egerton Castle; stamp of Egerton Castle at head of t.p.
Bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.
Modern full leather binding; gilt-lettered spine; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt; re-backed; binding signed: Bound by J. Clarke.
Smithsonian
Call Number:
U101 .V42 1473
ISTC
Goff
Hain-Copinger
GW
Proctor
Polain
UKBYIV00104000-B
V-0104
Author:
Vegetius Renatus, Flavius
Short
Title:
De re militari.
(1487)
Title:
Flauii Vegetii, uiri illus., ad Valentinianum Augustum Epitoma institutorum rei militaris ex commentariis Catonis, Celsi, Traiani, Hadriani, et Frontini liber primus[-quartus]. [Sexti Iulii Frontini uiri consolaris Strategematicon liber primus[-quartus]. ...
Imprint:
Rome: [Eucharius Silber, 1487]
Comments
and Notes:
No collective t.p.; titles taken from captions to each of the 4 works, in order of their appearance in the volume.
Edited by Joannes Sulpitius Verulanus. The authors collected here are traditionally known as the Scriptores rei militaris.
The 4 parts were undoubtedly also sold separately. Because of their lack of pagination and signing, it would be difficult to determine a proper order for the parts (they are found in various combinations; cf. Goff and BM 15th cent.).
Imprint from Goff. Each work has its own colophon; all 4 read the same up to the date: Impressum Rom[a]e per … Eucharium Silber alias Franck. The dates in the 1st 2 colophons are expressed entirely in words; in modern reckoning they are respectively 29 Jan. 1487 and 15 Feb. 1487. The latter 2 colophons have dates anno 1487 die vero prima Iunii and anno Domini 1487 septimo Idus Iunii [7 June].
The ill. (military tactical formations in the work by Aelianus) are created by the use of ordinary printer's types arranged in patterns showing the positioning of troops.
Leaves printed on both sides.
Unsigned gatherings.
Pages [117]-[118] and [213]-[214] are blank; Dibner Library copy is wanting p. [117]-[118].
Guide-letters.
Imperfect: Holes torn in leaf [10] of Aelianus, with some loss of text; outer margins of Modestus damaged and repaired, with slight loss of text.
With: Rufus, Sextus. De historia Romana]. Sexti Ruffi uiri consularis Valentiano Augusto De historia Ro. libellus incipit. Impressus Rom[a]e : per Eucharius Silber al[ia]s Franck, anno D[omi]ni 1491 mensis Augusti die xxiii. Bound together in this volume, subsequent to publication, between the works by Aelianus and Modestus.
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.
Eighteenth-century binding of full red morocco; gilt-tooled covers, spine and inside dentelles; marbled endpapers.
Smithsonian
Call Number:
U101 .V42 1487
ISTC
Goff
Hain-Copinger
GW
Proctor
Polain
S-0343
15913 (A); 11444 (D)
0
3824
3476
Author:
Vegetius Renatus, Flavius
Short
Title:
De re militar
(1494)
Title:
De re militari / Vegetius. [Sexti Iulii Frontini uiri consularis Strategematicon liber primus[-quartus]. Modestus De re militari ad Theodosium Augustum. Aeliani De instruendis aciebus opus ad diuum Hadrianum a Theodoro Thessalonicense latinum factum, & An...
Imprint:
Rome: Eucharius Silber
Comments
and Notes:
This collection of tracts is sometimes known as the Scriptores rei militaris.
Listed in ISTC as being in Burndy Library
