VALERIUS MAXIMUS (fl. 30 CE). Exempla quatuor et viginti nuper inventa ante caput de ominibus. Venice: Aldus Manutius and Andreas Torresanus, October 1514.

VALERIUS MAXIMUS (fl. 30 CE). Exempla quatuor et viginti nuper inventa ante caput de ominibus. Venice: Aldus Manutius and Andreas Torresanus, October 1514.

Second Aldine edition of a classic of Silver Age Latin, the Charles W. Clark copy. Valerius Maximus created this commonplace book of Latin quotations arranged by subject for use in the rhetorical schools. Circulated originally under the title Factorum ac dictororum memorabilium libri IX, this edition takes its title from the second issue of the first Aldine edition, which added twenty-four new exempla from a manuscript discovered by Johannes Cuspinianus. Popular throughout antiquity and the Middle Ages, this anthology provides a valuable glimpse into Roman life and learning during the reign of Tiberius. Ahmanson-Murphy 128; Renouard Alde, 69:9.

Octavo (149 x 89mm). Woodcut Aldine device on title and final leaf. 18th-century English calf with gilt armorial (rebacked). Provenance: John Wyndham Bruce Pryce (1809-1868; bookplate) – James Lewis Knight Bruce (1791–1866; bookplate) – Charles W. Clark (1871-1933; catalogue II, no. 97; sold to:) – A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952).

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