1601 ROMAN HISTORY by Johannes Cuspinianus antique FOLIO w/ GILT COAT of ARMS

IOANNIS CUSPINIANI

UIRI CLARISSIMI, POETAE et MEDICI , ac D. MAXIMILIANI
Aug[usti] oratoris,
De Caesaribus atque imperatoribus romanis, opus insigne : ab innumeris, quibus antea scatebat, mendis uindicatum :
una cum Volphgangi Hungeri, iureconsulti doctiss. annotationibus,
quibus innumera cum huiusce autoris, tum aliorum quoq[ue] historicorum loca & restituuntur, & explicantur

Frankfurt; 1601


Folio. Size 9 by 14"


Leather binding, richly gilt spine with raised bands , marbled endpapers , red edges.

Both covers with embossed gilt Roman Empire coat of Arms

Front endpaper with old manuscript (dated 1767) Latin prize inscription from the gymnasium in Brussels, awarded to Petro Wielemans

Minor wear of binding, toning to interior

Text in Latin
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Johannes Cuspinianus ( 1473 –  1529), born Johan Spießhaymer (or Speißheimer), was a German-Austrian humanist, scientist, diplomat, and historian. Born in Spießheim near Schweinfurt in Franconia, of which Cuspinianus is a Latinization, he studied in Leipzig and Würzburg. He went to Vienna in 1492 and became a professor of medicine at the University of Vienna. He became Rector of the university in 1500 and also served as Royal Superintendent until his death.

A leading scholar, he was the author of De Caesaribus et Imperatoribus and was also given a poet's laurel wreath by Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor. He was part of an intellectual circle that included Joachim Vadianus and Stiborius. He rendered important service as the discoverer and editor of classical and medieval historical texts. His unfinished Austria (1527-8) was an important historical-geographical regional survey of Lower Austria.
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