Title: Eutropii Breviarium historiæ Romanæ, Cum Pæanii Metaphrasi Græca. Messala Corvinus De Augusti Progenie. Julius Obsequens De Prodigiis. Anonymi Oratio Funebris Gr. Lat. In Imp. Constant. Constantini M. fil. Cum variis Lectionibus & Annotationibus
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. ff. [2] (blank), pp. [18], 163, [13], [1] (blank), 19, [1], 32, [12], 13, [1]. Contemporary vellum. Manuscript spine title. Edges sprinkled in red. Armorial bookplate of James Lewis Knight Bruce, Roehampton. Manuscript note on first board and seller pasted note. Stamp of Dawson bookshop. In Latin and Greek. "Anonymi oratio funebris" is edited by Fédéric Morel.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Contains the ‘Libello de progenie Augusti,’ falsely attributed to Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus but in fact a 16th-century production on the offspring of Augustus, Emperor of Rome.</span><br /></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/alma991039105409707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>