Scriptores rei militaris, Bologna, 1496, later half calf

SCRIPTORES REI MILITARIS

Frontinus: Strategemata; Vegetius: De re militari; Aelianus Tacticus: De instruendis aciebus (translated by Theodorus Gaza); Pseudo-Modestus: De vocabulis rei militaris. Edited by Philippus Beroaldus. Bologna: Franciscus Plato de Benedictis, 17 January 1496

Chancery folio (292 x 200mm.), 97 leaves (of 98), AA–EE⁶ FF⁴ GG–MM⁶ N⁴ OO–RR⁶, 37 lines, roman type, initial spaces with printed guides, woodcut printer's device on FF4 and RR5v, later calf-backed marbled boards, early annotations (occasionally washed), lacking first leaf, AA2 slightly worn and repaired

A reprint of Silber's 1487 edition, with a new preface by Filippo Beroaldo.

LITERATURE:

ISTC is00345000

PROVENANCE:

Raimondo Ambrosini (of Bologna, 1864-1914), booklabel on inside front cover