Ex recognitione Des. Erasmi Roterodami. C. Suetonius Tranquillus. Dion Cassius Nicaeus. Aelius Spartianus. Iulius Capitolinus. Aelius Lampridius. Vulcatius Gallicanus V.C. Trebellius Pollio. Flauius Vopiscus Syracusius
Subtitle: quibus adiuncti sunt, Sex. Aurelius Victor. Eutropius. Paulus Diaconus. Ammianus Marcellinus. Pomponius Laetus Ro. Io. Bap. Egnatius Venetus.
Contributors: Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.; Merula, Giorgio, d. 1494.; Woensam, Anton, d. 1541.
Publisher: In aedibus Eucharij Ceruicorni
Published: 1527
Place of publication: Coloniae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 695
Subjects: Roman emperors -- Biography.; Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D.
Other titles: Scriptores historiae Augustae. 1527.
Work titles: De vita Caesarum
Notes: The selections from Dio Cassius are translated by Giorgio Merula.

Colophon: Coloniae in aedibus Eucharii Ceruicorni, impensa M. Godefridi Hittorpij ... anno M.CCCCC.XXVII. undecimo calend. Martii [19 Feb. 1527], Adolpho Rincho, Alberto Keio Coss.

Signatures: [alpha]-[gamma], [], a-3b, 3c, 3d-3l, 3m.

Numerous errors in paging, including p. 695 misnumbered 673.

Title within illustrated woodcut border signed with the initials of Anton Woensam. Cf. Pflugk-Harttung 87.

Errata: verso of prelim. leaf 18.

"Oratio Heliogabali Ro. Imperatoris habita in concione ad meretrices, quam a Leonardo Aretino compositam pleri[que] credunt": p. 330-333.

Includes the collection of biographies of Roman emperors, Caesars, and usurpers known as the Scriptores historiae Augustae.

Includes indexes.

BM STC German, 1455-1600 p. 842.