Ammianus Marcellinus: (Accursius, Mariangelus, ed.:)

Rerum gestarum libri] a Mariangelo Accursio Mendis quinque millibus purgatus, & Libris quinque auctus ultimis, nunc primum ab eodem inventis.

      Augustae Vindelicorum [Augsburg]: in aedibus Silvani Otmar, 1533. - Folio, pp. [iv] 306 [ii]. One wormhole in second half, almost exclusively confined to space between text lines (sometimes touching a character, never affecting sense). Some intermittent browning. Modern quarter black morocco, light green paper boards, spine in six compartments with raised bands and blind rope roll at head and tail, the second gilt-lettered direct, corners tipped in vellum. The editio princeps of the last five books of the text. The work of the 4th-century AD Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus survives very imperfectly, with the first 18 books lost completely and only one extant significant (though corrupt) manuscript source for the remainder. Both Accursius and Gelen (whose 1533 Basel edition added four of the five books Accursius includes) had access to an alternate manuscript tradition, now lost, which provided the text of the final books. VD16 A 2311. Dibdin (4th edn.) I 255. Schweiger II 2. [Attributes: Hard Cover]