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De viris illustribus. Add: Sextus Rufus: De historia Romana.

Accession number
PML 27328
Creator
Victor, Sextus Aurelius.
Object title

De viris illustribus. Add: Sextus Rufus: De historia Romana.

Published

[Rome] : Sixtus Riessinger, [about 1470]; [Naples]; [about 1467-68]

Description

(8vo)

Notes
Authorship unknown. Here attributed to Pliny the Younger, but generally to Aurelius Victor from the sixteenth century. (M.M. Sage, The De Viris Illustribus: authorship and date, Hermes 108, (1980), pp.83-100).
Fava and Bresciano assigned to Naples. On ascription to Rome see BMC IV ix-x. Dated about 1467-68 in CIBN.
Binding
Modern parchment.
Classification
Century
Department