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PLUTARCHUS (ca. 45-ca. 120). Vitae parallelae , translated from Greek into Latin by Franciscus Philelphus, Johannes Tortellius, Lapus Biragus, Donatus Acciaiuolus, Antonius Pacinus, Guarinus Veronensis, Leonardus Brunus, Franciscus Barbarus, Leonardus Justinianus, Alamannus Rinuccinus and Jacobus Angelus de Scarperia. - Donatus ACCIAIUOLUS (1429-1478). Vita Hannibalis . - Vita Scipionis Africani . - Vita Caroli Magni . - CORNELIUS NEPOS (ca. 100-ca. 25 B.C.). Vita Titi Pomponii Attici . - Leonardus BRUNUS ARETINUS (1369-1444). Vita Ciceronis . - Vita Aristotelis . - AELIUS DONATUS (fl. 4th century). Vita Virgilii . - GUARINUS VERONENSIS (1374-1460). Vita Platonis . - HERODOTUS (pseudo-). Vita Homeri , translated from Greek into Latin by Peregrinus Allius. -- PLUTARCHUS ( pseudo -). Vita Homeri , translated from Greek into Latin by Peregrinus Allius. - ISOCRATES (436-338 B.C.). Evagoras , translated from Greek into Latin by Guarinus Veronensis. - XENOPHON (ca. 428-ca. 354 B.C.). Agesilaos , translated from Greek into Latin by Baptista Guarinus. - FESTUS (fl. late 4th century). Breviarium rerum gestarum populi Romani . Edited by Johannes Antonius Campanus (1429-1477). [Strassburg: The R-Press (Adolf Rusch and Johann Mentelin), between 1473 and 1477]. 2 volumes, royal 2 o (390 x 275 mm). Collation: [1 1 2 2 1 0 3 8 4-13 1 0 14 8 15-26 1 0 27 8 28 1 0; 29 1 0 30 1 2 31-40 1 0 41 6 42-52 1 0] ([Vol. I]blank, 1/2r editor's dedication to Cardinal Francesco Todeschini-Piccolomini, table, 1/3r preface by Francesco Filelfo to Plutarch's life of Theseus, preface by Donato Acciaiuolo, life of Hannibal, blank; [Vol. II] preface by Guarino Guarini to the life of Nicias, preface by Guarino Guarini to the life of Dion, preface by Leonardo Bruni, life of Cicero, preface by Donato Acciaiuolo to the life of Demetrius,v blank). 514 leaves. 49 lines. Type 1:103R. 8-line initial spaces, a few of four or five lines, some with printed guide- letters. Carefully executed Lombard initials in red or blue, many with elegant void ornamentation, paragraph signs in red or blue, capitals slashed in red. Rubrics, running titles, and foliation supplied in red. Manuscript signatures and catchwords, some manuscript guide letters. Notes for rubricator visible in margins. (Occasional smudges from the print shop, small losses to ca. 6 blank margins, detached and laid down inside back cover of vol. 1, 30/5.8 disjoint, first line of 51/2v imperfectly inked.) Binding : contemporary Louvain binding of blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, each cover divided by quadruple fillets into a blank frame and a central panel, the latter tooled with triple fillets to a saltire pattern, the intersections of fillets marked by a small star in a circle, each compartment filled with a single tool, either a wyvern in a square frame or a rectangle containing a bird and a bow-and-arrow with four stars and the letters "ve", the two central lozenges of each cover with the bust of a young man with long hair and a cap, the mark of JOHN OF WESTPHALIA or the binder who worked for him (Goldschmidt 25, cf. also 26), preserving a number of deckle edges, brass edge and corner protectors to tail edges of volumes, remains of two clasps to each volume, original manuscript label on vellum under horn with brass frame mounted on front cover of each volume (scuffed with occasional loss of leather, discreet repair to front cover of vol. 1, rebacked, free endpapers renewed). Provenance : contemporary marginalia, including emendations to text -- Johannes Moeselaer (d. 1499), bachelor of theology and regent of the Paedogogium castri , one of the four divisions of the arts faculty at Louvain University, rector of the university in 1482: inscription (see below), his bequest to -- Herent (near Louvain), Augustinian Canons of Bethleem: partially deleted inscription, I ( Pertinet volumen istud Monasterio Canonicorum Regularium in Bethleem iuxta Lovanium ex legato Honorabilis viri Magistri Johannis Moeselaer