Fl. Vegetii Renati viri illustris De re militari libri quatuor. Sexti Ivlii Frontini viri consvlaris De strategematis libri totidem. Aeliani De instruendis aciebus liber unvs. Modesti De vocabulis rei militaris liber vnus
Subtitle: item picturae bellicae cxx passim Vegetio adiectae
By: collata sunt omnia ad antiquos codices, maximè Budaei, quod testabitur Aelianus
Contributors: Frontinus, Sextus Julius; Aelianus, Tacticus, 2nd cent; Modestus; Budé, Guillaume, 1468-1540
Publisher: Sub scuto Basiliensi ex officina Christiani Wecheli
Published: 1535
Place of publication: Parisiis
Language: lat
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: Military art and science; Early works to 1800
Other titles: De re militari libri quatuor.; De strategematis libri totidem.; De instruendis aciebus liber unvs.; De vocabulis rei militaris liber unus.
Work titles: De re militari
Notes: The 3rd Wechel ed., following those of 1532 and 1534; see Mortimer.

The so-called "Modesti libellus De vocabulis rei militaris" is believed to have been derived from Vegetius in the 15th cent. by Pomponius Laetus or one of his pupils.

In Roman, with italic marginalia.

Wechel's Pegasus device appears on t.p. and on last p. On the t.p. verso is a full-page cut of a lansquenet with a tablet at lower left bearing the title: Vegetivs de re militari. This cut is repeated on a4v and Q1v. Letter diagrams of troops in battle array in Aelianus. For the descent of the ill. from Heinrich Steiner's Augsburg ed. of 1529 and Hans Knappe's Erfurt ed. of 1511, see Mortimer. Initials.

Signatures: a⁴ A-Y⁶ Z⁸.

Includes indexes.

Mortimer, R.  French 16th cent. 487