Title: C. Cornelii Taciti Historiarum et annalium libri qui exstant, Iusti Lipsii Studio emendati & illustrati
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Full title:</b> C. Cornelii Taciti Historiarum et annalium libri qui exstant, Iusti Lipsii Studio emendati &amp; illustrati: Ad Imp. Maximilianum II. Aug. P. F. Eiusdem Taciti liber de moribus Germanorum. Iulii Agricolæ vita. Incerti scriptoris dialogus de oratoribus sui temporis. Ad C. V. Ioannem Sambucum.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 8vo. ff. [3] (blank), pp. 762, [6], 92 (last blank), ff. [2] (blank). Signatures: A-Z8 a-z8 Aa-Bb8. Contemporary vellum. Tooled and gilt spine and boards, with central medallion, double ruled border and tooled corners on each board, gilt edges. Printer's device on title page. Engraved initials. Plate of Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow. On p. 609 the ‘Dialogus de oratoribus’ is incorrectly ascribed to Quintilian.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">First Lipsius edition, first issue, with the royal privilege on Bb6 dated 9 August 1574, and colophon (Bb7) dated 30 September (‘pridie Kal. Octobris’) 1574. Six months later Plantin’s second issue added an eight-leaf gathering (*) at the end, with errata on *7 and a new colophon, dated 7 March 1575, on *8 (see H. M. Adams, Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge Libraries. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1967, T31). The magisterial Tacitus, Lipsius’s editorial and exegetical masterpiece, is one of the monuments of sixteenth-century scholarship, and ‘places him in the front rank of Latin scholars’ (J. E. Sandys, A history of classical scholarship. London, 2011, II, p. 304).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the long-standing but now rightly abandoned charge – apparently initiated light-heartedly by Voltaire – that the entire text was a 15th-century forgery by Poggio Bracciolini, see Bib# 1391688/Fr# 63.1 in this collection.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">See also J. Carter &amp; Percy H. Muir (eds.), Printing and the Mind of Man. A descriptive catalogue illustrating the impact of print on the evolution of Western civilization during five centuries. London &amp; New York, 1967, no. 93.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991041310579707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>