tim00738100

Text-inc Id:

tim00738100

Bod-inc Id:

M-287

Headings:

Modestus De vocabulis rei militaris.

Analysis of content:

1. [a1r] Modestus [pseudo-]: De vocabulis rei militaris [addressed to] Emperor Tacitus. ‘De uocabulis rei militaris'. See M‑285.

Imprint:

Rome: Eucharius Silber, 7 June 1487. 4°. In the same year Silber printed Vegetius (V‑052), Aelianus Tacticus (A‑041), and Frontinus (F‑109). The books were conceived as a unit; see the dedicatory letter from Johannes Sulpitius in his edition of Vegetius, item 1 in this volume ('Tres de ea re scriptores egregios quos nuperrime recognoui, Vegetium, Aelianum, et Frontinum simul coniunxi et ut emendatissimi in tuas et in aliorum manus uenirent effeci . . .'). Goff, CIBN and others list the books under the common heading ‘Scriptores rei militaris'; under such heading are listed in this catalogue two more editions containing the same texts, one printed by Eucharius Silber in 1494 (S‑120), which contains also a Latin translation of Onosander, Strategicus, another printed by Franciscus Plato de Benedictis in 1495-96 (S‑121), edited by Philippus Beroaldus, who rearranged the order of appearance of the texts, but this edition is otherwise based on Sulpitius's.

Collation:

[a⁶].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: im00738100 HC Addenda, 11444; Goff S‑343 (D); BMC IV 108; Pr 3828; CIBN M‑489; Sheppard 3026. LCN: 14513111

Copies:

1. M-287(1) Copy Bound with A‑041(1); see there for details of binding and date of acquisition. Size of leaf: 198 × 127 mm. SHELFMARK: Auct. L 4.12(4).