Aldus Press Venedig 1521

ALDUS PRESS. SUETONIUS TTRANQUILLUS, GAIUS. (De vita caesarum). in hoc volumine haec continentur. c. suetonii tranquilli xii caesares... Venetiis (in aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Soceri) 1521.

8:o. (60), 1-320 ll. Title and last leaf verso with woodcut printer´s device.
Later (17th century) full vellum. Ll. 41-43, 46-50 and 55-56 cut in the margins, probably inserted later. Title somewhat spotted, some foxing, about 10 leaves harder. Old marginal annotations. Bookplate of Seved Tegefors.

A reprint of the 1516 Aldus edition, with Erasmus Roterodamus commentaires.
Contents:- ff. A1r: title (verso blank).- ff. A2r-A4r: Dedication letter by Johannes Baptista Egnatius to Jean Grolier, the secretary of the French King.- ff. A4v-B4v: Contents of the lives of the twelve first emperors: Caesar, Octavius, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasianus, Titus, and Domitianus.- ff. B4v-B7r: Translations of Greek words in the lives of Suetonius.- ff. B7v-B8r: The live of Suetonius (B8v blank).- ff. C1r-D7v: Annotations by Joannes Baptista Egnatius (f. D8 blank).- ff. E1r-F7v: Annotations, arranged in alphabetical order, by Erasmus (f. E1r-E2r: preface by Erasmus.- ff. F8r-G6r: Alphabetical index on Eutropius.- ff. G6v-H4v: Alphabetical index on Paulus Diaconus.- ff. 1-180: Text of Suetonius.- ff. 181-207v: Sextus Aurelius Victor, Excerpts from De vita et moribus imperatorum Romanorum ... à Caesare Augusto usque ad Theodosium Imp. - ff. 208-274r: Eutropius, De gestis Romanorum lib. X.- ff. 274v-320r: Paulus Diaconus, De gestis Romanorum liber [XI-XVIII] ad Eutropius historiam additus (8 books as a continuation of Eutropius).- f. 320r: Colophon, 320v: Printer´s device.

From the library of Seved Tegefors (1915-2012, county medical officer in Torsby, Värmland).