B32191
Language code
lat, grc
Shelfmark
Fe.5.13-Fe.5.14.
Author
Suetonius
Collective uniform title
Works., 1690
Title
Caji Suetonii Tranquilli Opera, et in illa commentarius Samuelis Pitisci, quo antiquitates Romanæ, tum ab interpretibus doctissimis, Beroaldo, Sabellico, Egnatio, Ursino, Grutero, Torrentio, Casuabono, Marcilio, Boxhornio, Graevio, Babelonio etiam explicatæ, tum ab illis neglectæ, ex auctoribus idoneis permultis, Græcis & Latinis, veteribus & recentioribus, perpetuo tenore explicantur. Huic accedunt index auctorum obiter explicitorum, & rerum absolutissimus: Imperatorum, Imperatoresque arctissimo gradu contingentium icones: & figuræ ex veterum monumentis ad historiam illustrandum depromptæ in æs eleganter incisæ.
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Opera
Varying form of title
Other title: Caii Suetonii Tranquilli Opera
Publication, distribution, etc.
Trajecti ad Rhenum, :, Ex officina Francisci Halmæ, Academiæ typographi,, M DC XC. [1690]
Physical description
2 v. ([44], 932 p., [20] leaves of plates (1 fold.); [2], 924, [2] p., [19] leaves of plates (1 fold.)) :, ill. (geneal. tables, ports.) ;, 20 cm.
Note
Text in Latin with quotations and examples in Greek.
Note
Commentary based on earlier commentators like Beroaldus, Gruter, Casaubon, Boxhord, et al.; also included is the text of the Monumentum Ancyranum with commentary.
Note
Signatures: v. 1: *-2*⁸ 3*⁶ A-3M⁸ 3N² ; v. 2: pi² (-pi2) A-3L⁸ 3M⁶ chi1.
Note
With an unsigned final leaf of directions to the binder in vol. 2 with caption title "Bericht aan den binder ontrent het stellen der platen."
Note
Vol. 1 has added engraved title-page reading: "C. Suetonii Tranquilli Opera, et in illa commentarius exhibente Samuele Pitisco".
Note
Letterpress title-pages in red and black.
Note
Imprint date made with turned Cs.
Note
Printer's device with motto "Vivitur ingenio" on title-pages to both volumes.
Note
Errata: vol. 2, p. 924.
Note
The plates include twelve portraits of the emperors numbered I-XII (I-IV in vol. 1, V-XII in vol. 2).
Provenance
Booklabel of John Reynolds, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Provenance
Ms. inscription of John Reynolds at head of added engraved title-page.
Binding
Contemporary brown calf binding; blind double fillet borders; inner frame of blind triple fillets with blind-tooled corner fleurons; blind roll-tooled spine decoration; red morocco spine-labels; four raised bands.
Copy-specific note
Imperfect: wanting the portrait of Titus (pl. XI) in vol. 2 and with a duplicate of the portrait of Augustus (pl. II) bound in its place.
Copy-specific note
Misbindings: Leaf 3*4 of the vol. 1 prelims. (containing a dedication in verse to Pitiscus signed "Henr. Chr. Hennin") is misbound after p. 914 in vol. 2; the final signature of vol. 2 is misbound with leaf 3M2 following 3M3, and 3M4 following 3M5; the directions to the binder are inserted before 3M6.
Copy-specific note
Previously: Fd.4.18-Fd.4.19.
Subject
Emperors, Rome, Biography, Early works to 1800.
Subject
Male (Place), History, Flavians, 69-96.
Subject
Male (Place), History, Julio-Claudians, 30 B.C.-68 A.D.
Added entry--name
Halma, François, printer.
Added entry--name
Orsini, Fulvio
Added entry--name
Graevius, Joannes Georgius
Added entry--name
Boxhorn, Marcus Zuerius
Added entry--name
Casaubon, Isaac
Added entry--name
Torrentius, Laevinus
Added entry--name
Gruterus, Janus
Added entry--name
Egnazio, Giovanni Battista
Added entry--name
Sabellico
Added entry--name
Pitiscus, Samuel
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, former owner.
Added entry--name
Augustus, Monumentum Ancyranum.
Added entry--place
Netherlands, Utrecht.
B32191
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