Plutarchi historiographi greci liber De viris clarissimis
By: e greco sermone in latinum diuersis plurimoru[m] interpretationibus viror[um] illustrium translatus incipit
Publisher: The R-Printer (Adolph Rusch)
Published: 1473
Place of publication: Strasbourg
Language: lat
Translated from: grc
Number of pages: 514
Subjects: Biography
Work titles: Lives
Notes: Title from incipit (leaf [3]r); imprint from ISTC.

Dated about 1473-1475 by P. Needham, who considers the work of the "R-Printer" to be by J. Mentelin in association with A. Rusch. Cf. ISTC.

Edited by J.A. Campanus.

Some of the biographies are by other authors. Cf. ISTC.

Signatures: [1¹² 2¹⁰ 3⁸ 4-13¹⁰ 14⁸ 15-26¹⁰ 27⁸ 28¹⁰; 29¹⁰ 30¹² 31-40¹⁰ 41⁶ 42-52¹⁰ (1₁, 28₁₀ blank)].

Initial spaces, some with guide-letters.

Includes the text of Sextus Rufus, Breviarium rerum gestarum populi romani.

Hain-Copinger 13124*.

Goff P-831.

Proctor 242.

BM 15th cent., I, 62 (IC.647).

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), ip00831000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 69.