1607 TACITUS HISTORY antique VELLUM SPINE FOLIO

OPERA QUAE EXSTANT. JUSTUS LIPSIUS POSTREMUM RECENSUIT. ADDITI COMMENTARII [...] [AND] DISPUNCTIO NOTARUM MIRANDULANI CODICIS AD CORN. TACITUM. EDITIO SECUNDA. ACCESSIT C. VELLEIUS PATERCULUS CUM EIUSDEM LIPSII AUCTIORIBUS NOTIS.

by TACITUS, Publius Cornelius

Antwerp; 1607

3 parts in 1 volume

Folio: 9 3/4 by 15 1/4"

[16]-547-[32, 1 bl.], 36, 84-[14] pp.

Moretus edition of Lipsius’ most extensive Tacitus text-with-commentary

With hole in blank bottom margin of title.


19th-c. 3/4 vellum, marbled paper on covers, gilt flat spine with morocco label

Large engraved printer's device on general title.

Woodcut mark at end and on part titles.

Provenance:

 Alexander Thomson of Banchory (1798-1868), Scottish advocate, agriculturalist, antiquary, author, philanthropist and traveller (armorial bookplate and small gilt device at tail).

Text in Latin

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Publius Cornelius Tacitus,  known simply as Tacitus (c.AD 56 – c.120), was a Roman historian and politician.
Tacitus is widely regarded as one of the greatest Roman historians by modern scholars.

The surviving portions of his two major works—the Annals (Latin: Annales) and the Histories (Latin: Historiae)—examine the reigns of the emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero, and those who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors (69 AD).
These two works span the history of the Roman Empire from the death of Augustus (14 AD) to the death of Domitian (96 AD), although there are substantial lacunae in the surviving texts.

Tacitus's other writings discuss oratory (in dialogue format, see Dialogus de oratoribus), Germania (in De origine et situ Germanorum), and the life of his father-in-law, Agricola (the general responsible for much of the Roman conquest of Britain), mainly focusing on his campaign in Britannia (De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae). Tacitus's Annals are of interest for providing an early account of the persecution of Christians and the earliest extra-Biblical reference to the crucifixion of Jesus.

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