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Subject(s)

• Military art and science—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Military art and science—Rome—History—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Dedicatee

• Trajan, Emperor of Rome, 53-117 [Browse]
• Hadrian, Emperor of Rome, 76-138 [Browse]
• Conti, Pietro Paolo de', 15th century [Browse]
• Beccadelli, Antonio, 1394-1471 [Browse]

Editor

• Sulpitius Verulanus, Joannes, active 15th century [Browse]

Translator

• Gazēs, Theodōros, approximately 1400-approximately 1475 [Browse]

Printer

• Silber, Eucharius, active 1480-1510 [Browse]

Series

Early European books. [More in this series]

Notes

• Title from incipit on p. [1].
• Colophon reads: Impressum Rom[ae] per Venerabilem uirum Magistru[m] Eucharium Silber : alias Franck. Anno domini Millesimoquadringentesimo octogesimo septimo. Quinto decimo kal[endas]. Martii.
• Part of the collection Scriptores rei militaris, sive Scriptores veteres de re militari, Goff S343, often issued together. Cf. ISTC.
• Edited by Johannes Sulpitius Verulanus, who dedicated it to Petrus Paulus de Comite: see dedicatory letter in Flavius Vegetius Renatus. De re militari. Rome : Eucharius Silber, 29 January 1487.
• The Greek original was dedicated to Emperor Traianus, erroneously referred to as Hadrianus in Greek manuscripts and in Gaza's translation.
• The illustrations of military tactical formations are created by the use of ordinary printer's types arranged in patterns showing the positioning of troops.
• With initial spaces and printed guide letters; without foliation, catchwords. All gatherings unsigned.
• Reproduction of original in: Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze -- Incunabula.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest, 2010 Mode of access: World Wide Web. Available to subscribing institutions.

Language note

Translated from Greek into Latin by Theodorus Gaza.

References

• BM 15th cent., IV, p. 107
• BSB-Ink, A-62
• CIBN, S-171
• Goff, S343 (B)
• GW, 310
• ISTC, ia00096495

Other title(s)

• Aeliani de instruendis aciebus opus ad Divum Hadrianum a Theodoro Thessalonicense latinum factum et Antonio Panormitae Alphonsi Regis praeceptori dicatum
• Scriptores rei militaris.

OCLC

809799323

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