Cornelii Taciti historiae Augustae. Li. XI. Actionum diurnalium..
Tacitus, Cornelius.
Tacitus, Cornelius.Agricola.
Lanterius, Bernardinus.
Lanterius, Bernardinus.
Puteolanus, Franciscus,-1490.
Dal Pozzo, Francesco,-1490
Pozzo, Francesco dal,-1490
Zarotto, Antonio,printer.
Fletcher, Andrew,1655-1716,former owner.StEdNL
Eustachius, Fenonus,former owner.StEdNL
[Milan : Antonius Zarotus,
c. 1487]
The second edition of the collected works of Tacitus containing the Annals, Histories, the Germania and the first printing of the Agricola. The Agricola is Tacitus's biography of his father-in-law, the Roman general, Agricola, under whose leadership the Roman conquest of Britain was completed. Agricola extended Roman occupation northwards as far as Scotland.
The text was edited by Bernardinus Lanterius and Francesco Dal Pozzo (Franciscus Puteolanus). Dal Pozzo was professor of rhetoric and poetry at the University of Bologna.
Signatures: a-d⁸ e-i⁶ K⁸ l-n⁸ o⁶ p-s⁸ t-x⁶ y¹° z⁸ &⁸ A-B⁶. Leaves [160], [176] and [188] are blank. Leaf a2 signed a1, a3 signed a2.
Title from the caption at the head of leaf a1r [i.e. a2r].
Initial spaces.
37 lines.
Type: 5:111Rb
At head of recto of a1 in a late 17th or early 18th century hand: Pane suis deq[ue]? Vacuna partis homo. Marginal annotations in at least two hands on the margins throughout. Inscription Cornel Tacita on the bottom of the textblock.
Annales XI-XVI -- Historiae -- Germania -- Dialogus de oratoribus -- Agricola.
ISTC
Goff
CIBN
IGI
Walsh
Oates
GW
BM 15th cent.,
Pr
Bod-inc
The second edition of the collected works of Tacitus containing the Annals, Histories, the Germania and the first printing of the Agricola. The Agricola is Tacitus's biography of his father-in-law, the Roman general, Agricola, under whose leadership the Roman conquest of Britain was completed. Agricola extended Roman occupation northwards as far as Scotland.
Manuscript inscription "Fenonus Eustachius" in an early hand at the head of leaf a1r. Ink inscription "Fletcher" on the verso of the final blank leaf and rear pastedown: i.e. the signature of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun. Bought by the Library 30 March 2012.
Quarter leather with marbled paper over card and gilt stamped red leather spine label.
Agricola, Gnaeus Julius, 40-93
Germanic peoples
Italy Milan.