Fl. Vegetii Renati viri illustris De re militari libri quatuor. Sexti Iulii Frontini viri consularis De strategmatis libri totidem. Aeliani De instruendis aciebus liber unus. Modesti De vocabulis rei militaris liber unus. Item picturae bellicae cxx. passim Vegetio adiectae. Collata sunt omnia ad antiquos codices, maximè Budaei, quod testabitur Aelianus..
Vegetius Renatus, Flavius.
Frontinus, Sextus Julius.De strategmatis.
Aelianus,Tacticus,active 2nd century.De instruendis aciebus.
Leto, Giulio Pomponio,1428-1497.De vocabulis rei militaris.
Modestus.De vocabulis rei militaris.
Budé, Guillaume,1468-1540.
Rothes, George Leslie,Earl of,-1558,former owner.StEdNL
Parisiis, : Apud Christianum Wechelum, sub Pegaso, in vico Bellouacensi.,
anno M. D. LIII. [1553]
Modesti libellus De vocabulis rei militaris, ad Tacitum Augustum (pages 274-279) has been identified as a forgery written by Pomponius Laetus or one of his pupils, based upon Vegetius. cf. Mansell NV0070788; NV0070790.
With printer's device on verso of final leaf.
Pages 20, 63, 64, 72, 95, 109, 151, 223, 257-260, 268 and 278 misnumbered 10, 93, 94, 71, 55, 100, 131, 228, 157-160, 258 and 273 respectively.
Includes index.
Front and back boards are gold tooled: G. Erll of Rothes. Inscription on titlepage: Codex M. Guil Ryndei. Titlepage also bears an inscription from Psalm 94 in the same hand. (Durkan and Ross, p. 122).
Military art and science
Military art and science