| Record ID | cp011373 |
| Voet reference number | 607 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:631744 |
| Author | Sextus AURELIUS VICTOR |
| Title page transcription | DE ‖ VITA ET MORIBVS ‖ IMPERATORVM ‖ ROMANORVM: ‖ Excerpta ex libris SEXTI AVRELII VICTORIS, ‖ à Cæsare Augusto vsque ad Theodosium Imperatorem. ‖ EDITIO VVLGATA. ‖ ANDREAS SCHOTTVS compositis tribus M.SS. cum ‖ Vett. vulgatis emendabat; Scholiis & veris Iconibus ex an- ‖ tiquis numismatis delineatis illustrabat. ‖ Quibus accesserunt & ELIÆ VINETI Notæ. ‖ ⊕ 29 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regij. ‖ CIƆ.IƆ.LXXIX. |
| Collation | 8⁰ [128]: A-H⁸, I⁴; pages 1-123, [124-136] (Errors: 106 for 116) |
| Fingerprint | 157908 - # b1 A2 $&$Fl : # b2 I3 ric |
| Number of sheets | 8.50 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Blank 3-7: Ampliss. viro Augerio Busbequio exlegato Byzantino…Andreas Schottus…(Paris, 16 February 1579) 8: Idem ad librum (italic type, parts in roman type) 9-62: Text (italic type, parts in roman type) 63-106 (= for 116): And. Schotti…Scholia (parts in italic type and greek type, marginals in roman type) 117-123: Eliae Vineti Santonis castigationes…(parts in italic type and greek type) [124-132]: Indices (on two columns) [133-134]: Poems on the book by Carolus Nucelius Noricus and Pe. Pantinus Tiletanus (italic type) [134]: approbation (signed by Waltherus vander Steghen, Antwerp) [135-136]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Illustrations | Woodcuts: 76 medallions (after Roman coins), representing Roman emperors and illustrating the text-part (pages 9-62) |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus (A 1725, A 17142). See also cp011025 |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, pages 200-201 (1579, no. 10) Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 4750 Dekesel, C.E. Bibliothecae Universitatis Gandavensis numismatica selecta 1514-1599, p. 55-57 Verhelst, K. Catalogus 16de-eeuwse drukken Limburgse bibliotheken 40 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12912210USTC 401809 |
| Note 1 | The Historia tripartita edited by Schottus under the title Historiae Romanae breviarium (see cp011025) and this epitome of the last part of the Historia tripartita, the Caesares, edited under the title De vita et moribus imperatorum Romanorum, are presented as two separate books, but formed in fact one publication: in M 164, folio 1 verso, and M 296, folio 1 recto, both works are listed under the title 'Aurelius Victor Andreae Schotti, 8⁰, 1579, f[euilles] 22½ (= 360 pages, that is the 224 pages of the Breviarium and the 136 pages of De vita et moribus), [price:] 7 stuivers' (?; the annotation in M 296, folio 1 recto is nearly illegible; the reference is not noted in M 164, but in M 296, folio 19 verso, is specified 'Victor Aurelius A. Schotti [price:] stuivers 7'). They are almost always found bound together. |
| Note 2 | In the letter to the reader in the Breviarium and in the dedicatory letter to Busbequius in De vita et moribus, Schottus gives interesting details about the genesis of the publication: having fled the troubles in the Netherlands, he settled down in Paris (he was actually living in the house of Busbequius in the French capital in February 1579, as specified in the dedicatory letter), where he was generously helped by the local humanists, who put their libraries at his disposal. He furthermore explains in the letter to the reader that he had become interested in Aurelius Victor by reading a manuscript lent by Theodorus Pulmannus and that later on he received much appreciated advice and help from Joannes Olivarius at Douai and Cl. Puteanus and Nic. Faber at Paris. |
| Note 3 | In the letter to the reader in the Breviarium-edition Schottus mentions in passing that he used three manuscripts (page 19); they are enumerated in the 'Scholia' in the De vita et moribus-edition (page 63): a manuscript lent by Petrus Pithoeus (Pithou), a manuscript indicated as 'codex Floriacensis' lent by Petrus Daniel, and a manuscript put at his disposal by Jacobus Cuiacius (Cujas). |
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