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GELENIUS, Sigismund (editor). Notitia utraque cum orientis tum occidentis ultra arcadii honoriique caesarum tempora, illustre vetustatis monumentum, imò thesaurus prorsum incomparabilis... Basel: Hieronymous Froben and Nicolas Episcopius, 1552.
2° (318 x 226mm.). Woodcut printer's device on title and verso of final leaf, 106 woodcut illustrations (85 full-page, 16 half-page). Old calf, tooled in gilt and blind (rebacked old spine laid down). Provenance: Car. Puchot (early inscription on title).
The Notitia Dignitatum is a list of high officials of the Roman empire compiled in about 400AD. The present work is the first complete edition of the text (taken from a manuscript copy at Speier) and the first with illustrations. Also printed are a tract by Andrea Alciati on Roman military and civil organization, the topographical description of Rome by Publius Victor, and a collection of enigmas in the form of a dialogue, the Altercatio Adriani Augusti et Epiceti philosophi. Adams N-354 (variant collation).
2° (318 x 226mm.). Woodcut printer's device on title and verso of final leaf, 106 woodcut illustrations (85 full-page, 16 half-page). Old calf, tooled in gilt and blind (rebacked old spine laid down). Provenance: Car. Puchot (early inscription on title).
The Notitia Dignitatum is a list of high officials of the Roman empire compiled in about 400AD. The present work is the first complete edition of the text (taken from a manuscript copy at Speier) and the first with illustrations. Also printed are a tract by Andrea Alciati on Roman military and civil organization, the topographical description of Rome by Publius Victor, and a collection of enigmas in the form of a dialogue, the Altercatio Adriani Augusti et Epiceti philosophi. Adams N-354 (variant collation).