Florum libri IIII. [...] per Christophorum Vladeraccum Ducissilvium.

Antwerp, Plantin Press (Joannes [I] Moretus), 1597

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Lot description

16mo: 173-[3] pp. (toned, title soiled and with edges frayed).

Old boards covered with marbled paper, flat spine with paper label (sm. def.). Good copy.

Anthology of quotations from the plays of Plautus by the ’s-Hertogenbosch schoolmaster Chr. Vladeraccus (1524-1601). Woodcut mark on title and at the end. Fully annotated by the schoolboy Johannes Liropius (1599), with at the end 17 ff. with Latin poems and quotations.
Ref. Imhof P-10. - BT 6563.
Prov. Jesuit ownership entry on title.
Joined: 1. Seneca - Les sentences du tresexcellent philosophe Seneque, des quatre vertus cardinalles nouuellement traduictes de Latin en Françoys. Lyon, B. Rigaud & J. Saugrain, 1556. 16mo (final bl. partly cut off; some staining). Contemp. blind-stamped vellum (sm. def.). Probably unrecorded ed. (?) of the transl. by Cl. de Seyssel (1st 1527 as "Des motz dorez"). - 2. Cicero - Selectae Ciceronis et plinii epistolae. In usum scholarum Belgicae. Brussels, "typis Regiae Academiae", 1778. 12mo. Contemp. gold-tooled green morocco. Ref. STCV 7026704. - 3. Velleius Paterculus - Historuae Romanae libri duo. Ibid., 1778. 12mo. Similar binding as 2. Ref. STCV 7050786. (4 vol.)