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Caij Julij Caesaris inuictissimi i[m]peratoris co[m]mentaria : seculo[rum] iniuria antea difficilia [et] valde mendosa : nunc primum a viro docto expolita [et] optime recognita : additis de nouo apostillis : una cu[m] figuris suis locis apte dispositis : nec non regulata tabula q[ua] oia loca flumina, montes, vrbes, oppida, i[n]finita p[re]lia [et] quaeq[ue] digna cognitu mirifice demo[n]strat

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Possibly the first illustrated edition of Caesar's works, edited by the Albanian scholar, Lucas Panaetius
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lat
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[4], 110, [8] leaves
Note
  • Imprint from colophon, which reads: Habes lector peritissime Caesaris co[m]me[n]taria antea impressorum iniuria trunca : & mendosa : Nunc autem a uiro docto optime recognita: & in pristinum candorem redacta: Impressa mira diligentia Venetiis per Augustinu[m] de Zannia de Portessio Anno reconciliatae natiuitatis .M.D.XI. die .XVII. Augusti
  • Signatures: a4 b-f8 g10 h-n8 o-p6 q8
  • Woodcuts: title vignette of a battle scene, within 4-panel frame featuring leaves, flowers, urns, and putti; two additional large woodcut vignettes within decorative frames: one is the title-page battle scene repeated at head of "De bello Gallico;" the other, at head of "De bello civili," depicts a seated Lentulus addressing a group of men, presumably the Senate, with caption "Lentulus" in the block (this latter cut was apparently used here for the first time); 12 smaller woodcut vignettes at head of each book within those sections; two large and numerous smaller historiated white-on-black initials
  • The illustrations, with one exception, are reproduced from the edition of Livy 1493, as reprinted by Bartholomaeus de Zanis in 1502. For description, cf. Masséna d'Essling, Livres à fig. vénit. III (1909) p. 231-232, no. 1727
  • Title (in gothic type) and frame surrounding title vignette printed in red; text and printed marginal notes in roman type
  • Verso of t.p. contains editor Lucas Panaetius' dedicatory epistle to Rosello de Rosellis
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Caij Julij Caesaris inuictissimi i[m]peratoris co[m]mentaria : seculo[rum] iniuria antea difficilia [et] valde mendosa : nunc primum a viro docto expolita [et] optime recognita : additis de nouo apostillis : una cu[m] figuris suis locis apte dispositis : nec non regulata tabula q[ua] oia loca flumina, montes, vrbes, oppida, i[n]finita p[re]lia [et] quaeq[ue] digna cognitu mirifice demo[n]strat
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Caij Julij Caesaris inuictissimi i[m]peratoris co[m]mentaria
Title remainder
seculo[rum] iniuria antea difficilia [et] valde mendosa : nunc primum a viro docto expolita [et] optime recognita : additis de nouo apostillis : una cu[m] figuris suis locis apte dispositis : nec non regulata tabula q[ua] oia loca flumina, montes, vrbes, oppida, i[n]finita p[re]lia [et] quaeq[ue] digna cognitu mirifice demo[n]strat
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Language
lat
Summary
Possibly the first illustrated edition of Caesar's works, edited by the Albanian scholar, Lucas Panaetius
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Citation location within source
  • 1503
  • p. 135
  • CNCE 8146
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  • Sander
  • BM STC Italian, 1465-1600
  • EDIT 16
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illustrations
Index
no index present
LC call number
PA6235
LC item number
.A2 1511
Literary form
non fiction
Label
Caij Julij Caesaris inuictissimi i[m]peratoris co[m]mentaria : seculo[rum] iniuria antea difficilia [et] valde mendosa : nunc primum a viro docto expolita [et] optime recognita : additis de nouo apostillis : una cu[m] figuris suis locis apte dispositis : nec non regulata tabula q[ua] oia loca flumina, montes, vrbes, oppida, i[n]finita p[re]lia [et] quaeq[ue] digna cognitu mirifice demo[n]strat
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Publication
Note
  • Imprint from colophon, which reads: Habes lector peritissime Caesaris co[m]me[n]taria antea impressorum iniuria trunca : & mendosa : Nunc autem a uiro docto optime recognita: & in pristinum candorem redacta: Impressa mira diligentia Venetiis per Augustinu[m] de Zannia de Portessio Anno reconciliatae natiuitatis .M.D.XI. die .XVII. Augusti
  • Signatures: a4 b-f8 g10 h-n8 o-p6 q8
  • Woodcuts: title vignette of a battle scene, within 4-panel frame featuring leaves, flowers, urns, and putti; two additional large woodcut vignettes within decorative frames: one is the title-page battle scene repeated at head of "De bello Gallico;" the other, at head of "De bello civili," depicts a seated Lentulus addressing a group of men, presumably the Senate, with caption "Lentulus" in the block (this latter cut was apparently used here for the first time); 12 smaller woodcut vignettes at head of each book within those sections; two large and numerous smaller historiated white-on-black initials
  • The illustrations, with one exception, are reproduced from the edition of Livy 1493, as reprinted by Bartholomaeus de Zanis in 1502. For description, cf. Masséna d'Essling, Livres à fig. vénit. III (1909) p. 231-232, no. 1727
  • Title (in gothic type) and frame surrounding title vignette printed in red; text and printed marginal notes in roman type
  • Verso of t.p. contains editor Lucas Panaetius' dedicatory epistle to Rosello de Rosellis
Dimensions
33 cm.(fol.)
Extent
[4], 110, [8] leaves
Lccn
26019382
Note
Spec. Coll. copy: bound in 18th-century calf-backed marbled boards. From the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps; sold at Sotheby's Biblioteca Phillippica, New Series, Part XX, November 29, 1977, lot 5408. Purchase, Cumberland Rare Books,
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  • (OCoLC)32245076
  • ucoclc32245076
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Caij Julij Caesaris inuictissimi i[m]peratoris co[m]mentaria : seculo[rum] iniuria antea difficilia [et] valde mendosa : nunc primum a viro docto expolita [et] optime recognita : additis de nouo apostillis : una cu[m] figuris suis locis apte dispositis : nec non regulata tabula q[ua] oia loca flumina, montes, vrbes, oppida, i[n]finita p[re]lia [et] quaeq[ue] digna cognitu mirifice demo[n]strat
Publication
Note
  • Imprint from colophon, which reads: Habes lector peritissime Caesaris co[m]me[n]taria antea impressorum iniuria trunca : & mendosa : Nunc autem a uiro docto optime recognita: & in pristinum candorem redacta: Impressa mira diligentia Venetiis per Augustinu[m] de Zannia de Portessio Anno reconciliatae natiuitatis .M.D.XI. die .XVII. Augusti
  • Signatures: a4 b-f8 g10 h-n8 o-p6 q8
  • Woodcuts: title vignette of a battle scene, within 4-panel frame featuring leaves, flowers, urns, and putti; two additional large woodcut vignettes within decorative frames: one is the title-page battle scene repeated at head of "De bello Gallico;" the other, at head of "De bello civili," depicts a seated Lentulus addressing a group of men, presumably the Senate, with caption "Lentulus" in the block (this latter cut was apparently used here for the first time); 12 smaller woodcut vignettes at head of each book within those sections; two large and numerous smaller historiated white-on-black initials
  • The illustrations, with one exception, are reproduced from the edition of Livy 1493, as reprinted by Bartholomaeus de Zanis in 1502. For description, cf. Masséna d'Essling, Livres à fig. vénit. III (1909) p. 231-232, no. 1727
  • Title (in gothic type) and frame surrounding title vignette printed in red; text and printed marginal notes in roman type
  • Verso of t.p. contains editor Lucas Panaetius' dedicatory epistle to Rosello de Rosellis
Dimensions
33 cm.(fol.)
Extent
[4], 110, [8] leaves
Lccn
26019382
Note
Spec. Coll. copy: bound in 18th-century calf-backed marbled boards. From the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps; sold at Sotheby's Biblioteca Phillippica, New Series, Part XX, November 29, 1977, lot 5408. Purchase, Cumberland Rare Books,
Other physical details
ill. (woodcuts)
System control number
  • (OCoLC)32245076
  • ucoclc32245076

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