Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Aelianus, Tacticus, active 2nd century
Title:
Aeliani De militaribus ordinibus instituendis more Graecorum / liber à Francisco Robertello Vtinensi in Latinum sermonem versus, & ab eodem picturis quamplurimis illustratus.
Alternate Title(s):
Aeliani De militaribvs ordinibus instituendis more Graecorum
Published / Created:
Impressum Venetijs : Apud Andream, & Iacobum Spinellos, MDLII [1552]
Physical Description:
[8], 65, [3], 73-77, [27] p. : ill. ; 24 cm. (4to)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
U101 .A35 1552
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Place of publication and printers' names from colophon on leaf K3v. Colophon reads: Impressum Venetijs apud Andream, & Iacobum Spinellos. M.D.LII. Mense iulij.

Latin edition: Greek edition published by the same publishers in 1552.

Title within woodcut architectural border; woodcut printer's device of intertwined initials F, A, I, D and S on leaf K3v.

Signatures: pi⁴ A-H⁴ I² K⁴ (K4 blank) ²A-²C⁴

Register of signatures on leaf K3v.

Error in pagination: 46 printed upside down.

Woodcut illustrations within text throughout. Full double-page woodcut illustration on leaves I1v and I2r.

Woodcut initials.

"Aeliani De instruendis aciebus opus ad Diuum Hadrianum: a Theodoro Thessalonicensi latinum factum, & Antonia Panormit[a]e Alphonsi Regis praeceptorum dicatum" (caption title at head of leaf ²A1r) begins new register.

Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, A217

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in limp parchment; title in ms on spine. Bookplates of Maurice Guérin de Challet and of the Bibliothèque de [?] (name scratched off and illegible) on inside of upper board.
Subject Terms:
Military art and science -- Early works to 1800. | Siege warfare -- Early works to 1800. | Military engineering -- Early works to 1800. | Challet, Maurice Guérin de -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:
Woodcuts.
Contributors:
Robortello, Francesco, 1516–1567, tr. | Spinelli, Andrea, fl. 1549–1555, publisher. | Spinelli, Giacomo, fl. 1551–1555, publisher.