Sex. Aurelii Victoria Historiae Romanae breviarium, cum Schotti, Machanei, Vineti, Lipsii, Casauboni, Gruteri &c. integris notis
A 1670 Latin edition of Sextus Aurelius Victor's brief history of imperial Rome, printed in Leiden and Amsterdam by the Gaasbeeck brothers and annotated by earlier scholars for a learned readership. The pictures are engraved portraits of emperors set inside beaded medallion frames, each in profile with a laurel wreath and a Latin legend running around the rim, which a designer could borrow for coin-style borders and classical roundels.

















































