Agathiou Scholastikou peri tes Ioustinianou Basileas bibloi pente = Agathiae Scholastici de Imperio et rebus gestis Justiniani Imperatoris libri quinque. Ex bibliotheca & interpretatione Bonaventurae Vulcanii cum notis ejusdem. Accesserunt ejusdem Agathiae epigrammata cum versione Latina
Venetiis: ex typogrgraphia B. Javarina, 1729. Folio (leaf 39.0 cm), 2 parts in 1, continuously signed; pp. [16], 131, [1], [28]; [26], 133-307, [11]; engraved vignette title pages, text in Greek and Latin in parallel columns; woodcut ornaments and decoration; sectional title page for Theophylacti Simocattae expraefecti et obseruatoris coactorum Historiarum libri VIII; later full speckled calf, gilt decorated spine in 7 compartments, red morocco label in 1; joints rubbed, but generally a nice clean, and crisp copy. Bookplate Samuel James, Baron Waring. Agathias Scholasticus (530-582/594) was a Byzantine poet and the principal historian of part of the reign of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I between 552 and 558. Theophylact Simocatta (ca. 589–after 641) was an early seventh-century Byzantine historiographer, arguably ranking as the last historian of Late Antiquity, writing in the time of Heraclius (c. 630). Bonaventura Vulcanius (1538-1614) was a leading figure in Dutch humanism. He was a friend of Erasmus and worked for the printer Henri Estienne in Geneva, and for the publisher Froben in Basel. Here, he translates the work of the Greek poet Agathias. This is part of the Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae, begun under the direction of the Jesuit scholar Philippe Labbe in the 17th century, and continued by Charles du Fresne, a French philologist and historian, one of the great universal scholars of the 17th century. See: Graesse I, 587; Brunet I, 1437. Item #73500
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