C. Julii Caesaris rerum ab se gestarum commentarii : De bello gallico libri VIII. De bello civili Pompeiano libri III. De bello Alexandrino liber I. De bello africo liber I. De bello hispaniensi liber I. Ex vetustiss. scriptis codicibus emendatiores. Pictura totius Galliae, Pontis in Rheno, Avarici, Alexiae, Uxelloduni, Massiliae, per Jucundum Veronensem, ex descriptione Caesaris. Veterum Galliae locurum, popularum, urbium, montium, ac fluviorum brevis descriptio
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Type of record: Book
Title: C. Julii Caesaris rerum ab se gestarum commentarii : De bello gallico libri VIII. De bello civili Pompeiano libri III. De bello Alexandrino liber I. De bello africo liber I. De bello hispaniensi liber I. Ex vetustiss. scriptis codicibus emendatiores. Pictura totius Galliae, Pontis in Rheno, Avarici, Alexiae, Uxelloduni, Massiliae, per Jucundum Veronensem, ex descriptione Caesaris. Veterum Galliae locurum, popularum, urbium, montium, ac fluviorum brevis descriptio
Other titles: Rerum ab se gestarum commentarii; C. Ivlii Caesaris rervm ab se gestarvm commentarii; Rervm ab se gestarvm commentarii
Classmark: Ripon Cathedral Library XVIII.D.22
Creator(s): Caesar, Julius
Additional creator(s): Giocondo, Giovanni (1433-1515) (Other); Hirtius, Aulus (Other); Manuzio, Aldo (1515) (Other); Marlianus, Raimundus (1420-1475) (Other)
Related people: Giocondo, Giovanni; Hirtius, Aulus; Manuzio, Aldo; Marlianus, Raimundus
Publisher: Ex officina Rob. Stephani typographi regij
Publication city: Lutetiae
Date(s): 1544
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [xxx], 523, [108] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/265402
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017270879705181
Collection group(s): Ripon Cathedral
Description
"De bello Alexandrino" "De bello africano" and "De bello hispaniense" are ascribed to Aulus Hirtius.
"Veterum Galliae locorum, populorum, urbium, montium ac fluviorum alphabetica descriptio, eorum maxime quae apud Caesarem in Commentariis sunt, & apud Cornelium Tacitum, authore Raimundo Marliano viro clarissime, & sui temporis eruditissimo: 66 pp. at the end.
Printer's device on t.-p.
Text follows the 1513 Aldine edition, and reproduces Aldus's preface to the reader. Estienne's preface claims to have improved the text from ancient manuscripts.
The supplementary commentaries ascribed to Hirtius and others are on p. 388-523.
Two double page maps of France and Spain; five full page woodcuts of Caesar's bridge over the Rhine, and views of Bourges, Alesia, Marseille, and Uxellodunum. These woodcuts were adapted from the Aldine edition, and were used the previous year by Vasicon in his folio Caesar.
Includes index.
Schrieber, F. The Estiennes no. 72.
Additional description
Bound with 1 other publication. Volume contents: 1. Caesar, J.: C. Julii Caesaris rerum ab se gestarum commentarii, 1544. -- 2. Eutropius: Eutropii Epitome belli gallici, 1544
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