Nicolai Reusner Leorini IC. comitis palat. Caes. Symbolorum imperatoriorum classis prima. : Qua symbola continentur impp. ac Caesarum Romanorum Italicorum, à C. Iulio Caesare, vsque ad Constantinum Magnum. Opus philologicum et politicum, vereque regium ac imperatorium: omnibus omnium ordinum, & cum primis ciuilis sapientiae studiosis lectu futurum vtile; ac iucundum.
Reusner, Nikolaus,1545-1602.
Londini : Apud Ioannem Billium,
Anno M.DC.XIX [1619]
The plan of the work is to assign a motto to every emperor [from Julius Caesar to Ferdinand II], and then to discuss the motto and character of the person together: so that in effect the book is largely a discussion of proverbs of the nature of Erasmus's Adagia. Madan, I, p. 173.
Part 1: page 4 misnumbered 6; part 2: pages 49, 72-3, 102 and 113 misnumbered 64, 73-4, 01 and 11.
In three parts; each part has separate title page and separate paging; signatures are continuous.
Signature L4r is a separate title page, with same imprint, reading: Nicolai Reusneri Leorini Silesij, Symbolorum imperatoriorum classis secunda. Qua continentur symbola impp. Caesarumque Romanorum-Graecorum: a Fl. Constantino Magno, vsque ad Carolum Magnum, primum Caesarem Germanicum. Opus aureum, et vere politicum, ac regium.
2A1 is a separate title page, with same imprint, reading: Nicolai Reusneri Leorini IC. comitis palat. Caes. Symbolorum imperatoriorum classis tertia. Qua symbola continentur impp. Caesarumque Romanorum-Germanicorum; à Carolo Magno, primo Caes. Germanico, vsque ad Rudolphum 11. Caes. Austriacum. Opus iucundissimae et vtilissimae lectionis.
Some pages marked, stained and tightly bound.
STC (2nd ed.)
ESTC
There is an inscription on the titlepage that reads, "Ja Glasguen" with the lower case greek letters lambda and beta beneath it.
Roman emperors
Proverbs, Latin
England London.