Raphaelis Regii Epistolae Plynii, qua libri naturalis historiae Tito Vespasiano dedicantur, enarrationes ; eiusdem De q[ua]tuor Persii locis, uno Valerii Maximi, duobus Tullii De officiis, ac tribus Oratoriis q[uae]stio[n]ibus disputatio ; eiusdem De quibusdam Quintiliani locis cum quodam Calfurnio dialogus ; eiusdem Loci cuiusdam Quintiliani ac eius Cicerouis [i.e. Ciceronis] ad Atticum epistolae, cuius initium est, Epistolam hanc co[n]uicio efflagitarunt codicilli tui, enarratio

Regius, Raphael · [Venice : Guilelmus Anima Mia, Tridinensis] · 2 pictures

A 1490s Venetian printed scholarly commentary by Raphael Regius on Pliny the Elder's Natural History and related classical texts, written in Latin for humanist scholars and students. The pictures are a framed woodcut of Atlas kneeling under a celestial armillary sphere with astrological lines and labels, and a later library bookplate with a red compass rose and a fleur-de-lis, which a designer might take as a model for dense radial linework and emblematic framing.

Pliny, the Elder. Naturalis historia · Quintilian · Cicero, Marcus Tullius · Valerius Maximus · Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works · Rhetoric, Ancient -- Early works to 1800 · Incunabula -- Specimens

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