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CAESAR, Gaius Julius (100-44 B.C). Commentarii . Edited by Hieronymous Bononius (1454-1517). - RAIMUNDUS MARLIANUS (ca. 1420-1475). Index Commentariorum C. Julii Caesaris. Venice: Theodorus de Ragazonibus, 13 July 1490.
Chancery 2° (289 x 194mm). Roman type. First text page with Arese armorial in lower margin and possibly later illuminated initial, one other later decorated initial, other spaces filled with later pen initial. (Without first blank, lower margin of a2 renewed, retaining coat-of-arms, some light spotting and browning.) Modern vellum, lettered on spine. Provenance: Arese family, Milan nobility (coat-of-arms); early marginal annotations -- Honoratus [--] (inscription dated 1621 pasted over on first leaf) -- André Himpe (De Gulden Passer 2003, no. 38.
Third edition edited by Girolamo Bologni of Julius Caesar's commentary on the Gallic and Civil Wars. De Bello Gallico is his first-hand account of the battle of the Romans against the Gauls; its final chapter describes events after the war and was written by Aulus Hirtius. The De Bello Civili covers the period 49 to 48 B.C., from Caesar's invasion of Italy to Pompey's defeat at the Battle of Pharsalus. It continues with an account on the Alexandrian, African and Hispanic wars, believed to have been written by Aulus Hirtius and Gaius Oppius. HC *4219; GW 5870; BMC V 477; BSB-Ink C-29; Bod-inc C-011; CIBN C-11; Goff C-23.
Chancery 2° (289 x 194mm). Roman type. First text page with Arese armorial in lower margin and possibly later illuminated initial, one other later decorated initial, other spaces filled with later pen initial. (Without first blank, lower margin of a2 renewed, retaining coat-of-arms, some light spotting and browning.) Modern vellum, lettered on spine. Provenance: Arese family, Milan nobility (coat-of-arms); early marginal annotations -- Honoratus [--] (inscription dated 1621 pasted over on first leaf) -- André Himpe (De Gulden Passer 2003, no. 38.
Third edition edited by Girolamo Bologni of Julius Caesar's commentary on the Gallic and Civil Wars. De Bello Gallico is his first-hand account of the battle of the Romans against the Gauls; its final chapter describes events after the war and was written by Aulus Hirtius. The De Bello Civili covers the period 49 to 48 B.C., from Caesar's invasion of Italy to Pompey's defeat at the Battle of Pharsalus. It continues with an account on the Alexandrian, African and Hispanic wars, believed to have been written by Aulus Hirtius and Gaius Oppius. HC *4219; GW 5870; BMC V 477; BSB-Ink C-29; Bod-inc C-011; CIBN C-11; Goff C-23.