1593 ROMAN ANTIQUITIES ILLUSTRATED w/ 117 ENGRAVINGS antique 16th century FOLIO

PANCIROLI, G.

Notitia utraque dignitatum cum orientis, tum occidentis ultra Arcadij, Honorijque tempora... commentarium.

Venice, for F. de Franciscis; 1593

With woodcut printer's mark and 117 text woodcuts


14 lvs, 198 lvs, 2 leaves

- Mortimer 322. Adams, N 355 (under Notitia). - 


"A kind of state manual or auxiliary book for the internal use of Roman authorities in late antiquity" (Pauli).

Notable above all for its beautiful, diverse woodcuts, which are mainly based on or copy those of the Basel Froben edition of 1552.
They illustrate all areas of political, military and private life, show fantasy maps and portraits of the provinces, various technical illustrations, etc.

Later 3/4 vellum over marbled boards. Gilt title to the ribbed spine

 Some slightly stained, occasional toning


Folio. Size about 9 by 13 inches

Text in Latin
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Guido Panciroli or Pancirolli[a] (17 April 1523 – 5 March 1599) was a sixteenth-century Italian antiquarian, historian, jurist and law professor at Ferrara, Padua and Turin.
In his time he was renowned as a legal scholar, teaching students who came from all around Europe.
Posthumously, he was well known for his innovative comparative survey, Rerum memorabilium, iam olim deperditarum, that brought attention to the loss of knowledge since the ancient world.
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