Sextus Iulius Frontinus uir consularis De re militari. Flauius Vegetius uir illustris De re militari. Aelianus De instruendis aciebus. Modesti Libellus de uocabulis rei militaris.
Frontinus, Sextus Julius. author.; Sulpitius Verulanus, Joannes, active 15th century.; Beroaldo, Filippo, 1453-1505.; Vegetius Renatus, Flavius. De re militari. 1495.; Smith, Robert Metcalf, 1886-1952, former owner.; Benedetti, Francesco de', active 1482-1496, printer.; Aelianus, Tacticus, active 2nd century. Tactica. Latin. 1495.; Modestus. De vocabulis rei militaris. 1495.
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Title
Sextus Iulius Frontinus uir consularis De re militari. Flauius Vegetius uir illustris De re militari. Aelianus De instruendis aciebus. Modesti Libellus de uocabulis rei militaris.
Uniform title
Strategematica
Created/published
[Bologna] : Impressit omni solertia Plato de Benedictis Bononiensis in alma ciuitate Bononiae, [1495-1496]
Description
[196] p. ; 30 cm (fol.)
Associated name
Note
Edited by Joannes Sulpitius Verulanus and Filippo Beroaldo. The authors collected here are from those traditionally known as Scriptores rei militaris.
Frontinus' work is known as Stratagematica; Vegetius' work is commonly titled De re militari; Aelianus' work, written in Greek, is known by the Latin title Tactica; the De vocabulis rei militaris, passing under the name of one Modestus, is believed to have been copied from Vegetius in the 15th cent.
In 4 pts., each one dated: I) 10 July 1495; II) 16 Nov. 1495; III) [n.d.]; IV: [n.d.]; place of publication and publisher statement from general colophon (leaf 2R5v), which is dated: 17 Jan. 1496.
Diagrams of military tactical formations are created by the use of ordinary printer's types arranged in patterns showing the positioning of troops.
Signatures: 2A-2E⁶, 2F⁴, 2G-2M⁶, N⁴, O⁶, 2P⁶-2R⁶ (O3 signed 2O3).
Includes register.
Capital spaces with guide letters.
Frontinus' work is known as Stratagematica; Vegetius' work is commonly titled De re militari; Aelianus' work, written in Greek, is known by the Latin title Tactica; the De vocabulis rei militaris, passing under the name of one Modestus, is believed to have been copied from Vegetius in the 15th cent.
In 4 pts., each one dated: I) 10 July 1495; II) 16 Nov. 1495; III) [n.d.]; IV: [n.d.]; place of publication and publisher statement from general colophon (leaf 2R5v), which is dated: 17 Jan. 1496.
Diagrams of military tactical formations are created by the use of ordinary printer's types arranged in patterns showing the positioning of troops.
Signatures: 2A-2E⁶, 2F⁴, 2G-2M⁶, N⁴, O⁶, 2P⁶-2R⁶ (O3 signed 2O3).
Includes register.
Capital spaces with guide letters.
Cited/described in
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, S-345
BM 15th cent. VI, p. 828 (IB.28930)
Copinger 5330 = 2594
BM 15th cent. VI, p. 828 (IB.28930)
Copinger 5330 = 2594
Includes
Vegetius Renatus, Flavius. De re militari. 1495.
Aelianus, Tacticus, active 2nd century. Tactica. Latin. 1495.
Modestus. De vocabulis rei militaris. 1495.
Aelianus, Tacticus, active 2nd century. Tactica. Latin. 1495.
Modestus. De vocabulis rei militaris. 1495.
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Place of creation/publication
Italy -- Bologna.
Call number
INC S317
Folger-specific note
Folger copy: a few early manuscript notes in brown ink in parts of the book, with brackets and paragraph marks.
A typed description of the book, emphasizing a chapter of medical interest in Vegetius, pasted on a clipping from a bookseller catalog in Italian on front pastedown; gift of Robert M. Smith (Aug. 14, 1951).
In a later vellum binding; inner margin stained in a few gatherings; two blank corners of the 1st leaf cut off without loss of text; manuscript fragment used as reinforcement around last gathering.
A typed description of the book, emphasizing a chapter of medical interest in Vegetius, pasted on a clipping from a bookseller catalog in Italian on front pastedown; gift of Robert M. Smith (Aug. 14, 1951).
In a later vellum binding; inner margin stained in a few gatherings; two blank corners of the 1st leaf cut off without loss of text; manuscript fragment used as reinforcement around last gathering.