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Rome; 1494.] MILITARY WRITERS.
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153. Scriptores De Re Militari. Printed hy
JEucharius Silher. Rome. 1494. Quarto.
This is an impression of some little importance; as it contains the
first printed text (although a version) of the Strategicum of Onosander.
Fabricius and Ernesti appear to have been ignorant of this edition;
which is copiously and particularly described by Audiffredi, and to
whom Seemiller seems to have been indebted for his own account of
it: Edit. Rom. p. 329 ; Incunab. Tijpog. fasc. iv. p. 43. The recto of
the first leaf gives the title to Vegetius, in capital letters. The reverse
contains the address of Verulanus. On the recto of fol. 36, we read
the imprint to Vegetius.
Romae impressum per Eucharium Silber Alamanum. Anno
a natali christiano. M.cccc.xciiii. die. xxm. Octobris.
Frontinus follows; having an imprint of the date of 1494, 3d of Nov.
Modestus and iElian are without dates: but the texts of these four
authors terminate on x vi inclusively, in fours. Onosander begins
on A recto :
Onosander ad. Q. Veranium de optimo Imperatore
eiusq; officio p Nieolaum Sagundinu e grteco in la-
tinum traductus.
and extends to D iv inclusively; in foui’s. On the reverse of D iv,
we read as follows :
Onosandri De optimo Imperatore: eiusq; officio.-p Nicolaum
Sagundinum e graeco in latinu Traducti. Finis.
Audisffedi makes no doubt of the whole impression being executed
by Silber; and the exact conformity of the types renders sueh a
conelusion very probable. The ornamental capital initials are sirnilar
to those of which fac-similes are given at p. 357 of vol. ii. Harles
erroneously affixes the date of 1493 as that of the earliest appearance
of the version of Onosander. Introd. Ling. Grcec. vol. ii. p. 34. The
present is a fair eopy; in red morocco binding.
21
153. Scriptores De Re Militari. Printed hy
JEucharius Silher. Rome. 1494. Quarto.
This is an impression of some little importance; as it contains the
first printed text (although a version) of the Strategicum of Onosander.
Fabricius and Ernesti appear to have been ignorant of this edition;
which is copiously and particularly described by Audiffredi, and to
whom Seemiller seems to have been indebted for his own account of
it: Edit. Rom. p. 329 ; Incunab. Tijpog. fasc. iv. p. 43. The recto of
the first leaf gives the title to Vegetius, in capital letters. The reverse
contains the address of Verulanus. On the recto of fol. 36, we read
the imprint to Vegetius.
Romae impressum per Eucharium Silber Alamanum. Anno
a natali christiano. M.cccc.xciiii. die. xxm. Octobris.
Frontinus follows; having an imprint of the date of 1494, 3d of Nov.
Modestus and iElian are without dates: but the texts of these four
authors terminate on x vi inclusively, in fours. Onosander begins
on A recto :
Onosander ad. Q. Veranium de optimo Imperatore
eiusq; officio p Nieolaum Sagundinu e grteco in la-
tinum traductus.
and extends to D iv inclusively; in foui’s. On the reverse of D iv,
we read as follows :
Onosandri De optimo Imperatore: eiusq; officio.-p Nicolaum
Sagundinum e graeco in latinu Traducti. Finis.
Audisffedi makes no doubt of the whole impression being executed
by Silber; and the exact conformity of the types renders sueh a
conelusion very probable. The ornamental capital initials are sirnilar
to those of which fac-similes are given at p. 357 of vol. ii. Harles
erroneously affixes the date of 1493 as that of the earliest appearance
of the version of Onosander. Introd. Ling. Grcec. vol. ii. p. 34. The
present is a fair eopy; in red morocco binding.