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Fl. Vegetii Renati...De Re Militari Libri Qvatvor. : Sexti Ivlii Frontini...de Strategematis libri totidem. Æliani de instruendis Aciebus liber vnus. Modesti de vocabulis rei militaris liber vnus. Item picturæ bellicæ CXX. passim Vegetio adiectæ. Collata sunt omnia ad antiquos codices, maximè Bvdæi, quod testabitur Aelianus.

Title
Fl. Vegetii Renati...De Re Militari Libri Qvatvor. : Sexti Ivlii Frontini...de Strategematis libri totidem. Æliani de instruendis Aciebus liber vnus. Modesti de vocabulis rei militaris liber vnus. Item picturæ bellicæ CXX. passim Vegetio adiectæ. Collata sunt omnia ad antiquos codices, maximè Bvdæi, quod testabitur Aelianus.
Author
Vegetius Renatus, Flavius, active 4th century
Publication
Parisiss : Apud Christianum wechelum, 1553.

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Additional Authors
  • Aelianus Tacticus
  • Budé[beta] Guillaume, 1468-1540.
  • Frontinus, Sextus Julius
  • Leto, Giulio Pomponio, 1425?-1497?
  • Modestus
Description
4 p.l., 279(1) p. illus.; 35cm. (f̕.)
Subject
Wood-engraving, French
Note
  • Brunet, V, 1162. See: Fairfax Murray 563. Brun: Livre illustré en France au XVIe siècle, p. 318-319.
  • Issued also with name of Charles Perier in imprint (q. v.).
  • The Modestus treatise is a forgery by Pomponius Laetus or one of his pupils, based on Vegetius.
  • Illustrations: 125 woodcuts, comprising 3 half-page cuts, a full-page cut (Landsknecht) repeated once and 120 full-page cuts depicting military engines, guns, etc. Previously used by Wechel in 1532 and other editions, these woodcuts were probably copied from those in the edition (q.v.) printed at Augsburg in 1529 by H. Steiner.--cḟ Fairfax Murray (German) 420. Publisher's device on t.-p. and p. [180] In this copy p. 157 and 167 are blank, two cuts having been omitted, probablly by accident.
  • With autograph: de Sommyeure.
  • Binding, of calf, gilt; rebacked.
Call Number
Spencer Coll. French 1553+
OCLC
131728084
Author
Vegetius Renatus, Flavius, active 4th century.
Title
Fl. Vegetii Renati...De Re Militari Libri Qvatvor. : Sexti Ivlii Frontini...de Strategematis libri totidem. Æliani de instruendis Aciebus liber vnus. Modesti de vocabulis rei militaris liber vnus. Item picturæ bellicæ CXX. passim Vegetio adiectæ. Collata sunt omnia ad antiquos codices, maximè Bvdæi, quod testabitur Aelianus.
Imprint
Parisiss : Apud Christianum wechelum, 1553.
Added Author
Aelianus Tacticus.
Budé[beta] Guillaume, 1468-1540.
Frontinus, Sextus Julius. De strategematis.
Leto, Giulio Pomponio, 1425?-1497?
Modestus.
Research Call Number
Spencer Coll. French 1553+
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