Rome: Eucharius Silber, 15 Feb. 1487. 4°.
In the same year Silber printed Vegetius (V‑052), Frontinus (F‑109), and Modestus (M‑287). The books were conceived as a unit; see the dedicatory letter from Johannes Sulpitius in his edition of Vegetius in copy number 1, in which the four items are bound together ('Tres de ea re scriptores egregios quos nuperrime recognoui, Vegetium, Aelianum, et Frontinum simul coniunxi et ut emendatissimi in tuas et in aliorum manus uenirent effeci . . .'). Goff, CIBN and others list the books under the common heading ‘Scriptores rei militaris'; under such heading are listed in this catalogue two more editions containing the same texts, one printed by Eucharius Silber in 1494 (S‑120), which contains also a Latin translation of Onosander, Strategicus, another printed by Franciscus Plato de Benedictis in 1495-96 (S‑121), edited by Philippus Beroaldus, who rearranged the order of appearance of the texts, but the edition is otherwise based on Sulpitius's.
Venice
Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen
1476
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Secundo folio: a3r: iudicio semper damnati illorum interpretationem, melioremque; a8r: eedem sunt, aut ratione contrariorum, et per excessum defectumque dif
Scriptores Rei MilitarisScriptores rei militaris, sive Scriptores veteres de re militari (ed. Philippus Beroaldus).
Imprint:
Bologna: Franciscus Plato de Benedictis, 1495-6. Folio.
In four parts, dated: (I) 10 July 1495; (II) 16 Nov. 1495; (III) [n. d.]; (IV) [n. d.]; (general colophon) 17 Jan. 1496.
