Renatus Flavius Vegetius - De Re Militari - 1670

(Militaria;History; Illustrated) PUBLIUS FLAVIUS RENATUS VEGETIUS (IV-V century) et al.
- Veteres de re militari scriptores quotquot extant, nunc primâ vice in unum redacti corpus. I. Flavi Vegetii Renati Institutorum rei militaris libri V. II. Sexti Julii Frontini Strategematum & Strategeticon libri IV. III. Claudius Aelianus De instruendis aciebus. IV. Modestus De vocabulis rei militaris. V. Polybius de militia & castramenatione Romanorum. VI. Aeneae Poliorceticus ... VII. Incerti auctoris, de re militari opusculum, quod M. Tullio Ciceroni vulgò inscribitur. Accedunt I. Godescalci Stewechii ... in Fl. Vegetium commentarius ... II. Ejusdem conjectanea, & Francisci Modii notae in Sex. Jul. Frontinum. III. Petri Scriverii in Fl. Vegetium & Sex. Jul. Frontinum animadversiones. Vesaliae Clivorum (Wesel, Germany), Ex officina Andreae ab Hoogenhuysen, 1670
- God. Stewechii Commentarivs, Ad Flavi[i] Vegeti[i] Renati Libros, De Re Militari : Nunc primum figuris aeneis illustratus. Cui accedunt Loca aliquot A Francisco Modio Brug. In Sexto Julio Frontino Notata. Vesaliae Clivorum (Wesel, Germany), Ex officina Andreae ab Hoogenhuysen, 1670
§ 2 parts in 2 volumes, 8vo (190x110); 1st (Veteres...): [48], 510, [2] (blank) pp.; 78 [2] (blank) pp. Signature: *-***1-8, A-Z1-8, Aa-Hh1-8 (H8 blank), Ii1-7; a-e1-8 (e8 blank); engraved frontisiece, 1 folding plate, several schematic illustrations. 2nd (God. Stewechii ...) [16], 604 (recte 554, due to several misnumbering), [50] pp. Signature: *1-8, A-Z1-8, Aa-Oo1-8, Pp1-4. Engraved frontispiece, richly illustrated with engraved illustrations. Contemporary calf, gilt fillets on covers, dentelles inside covers, leading edges and spines gilt, title-pieces on spine (3 of 4 missing, one damaged), foot of spine of volume 2 missing, of volume 1 damaged, both top of spine damaged. Bindings good, content fine/very fine.
The expression Veteres scriptores de re militari was first used in 1487 to indicate the Roman military writers and, collecting togheter their works, to form a corpus of the military art of the Ancients; the use was maintained. until the 19th century. Works by Vegetius, Sextus Julius Frontinus, Claudius Aelianus, Polybius and others, on Roman warfare, strategy and tactics are included. Editors of this edition are the Dutch scholars Petrus Scriverius (Pieter Schrijver, 1576-1660) and Godescalcus Stewechius (1551-1586); the second volume contains Stewechius’ critical commentary. The commentary by Stewechius was first published in 1585 and an edition by Scriverius in 1606-7 (cfr. Richardot). The foreword of this edition is by Hugo Grotius. The printer, Andries van Hoogenhuysen (1628-1707) worked in several places, Rotterdam, Nijmegen, Amsterdam, and for some years (1667-1676) in Wesel (Duitsland).
 VD 17 1: 047308C; Ebert 23447; Brunet V, 1162; Philip Richardot La datation du "De Re Militari" de Végèce In: Latomus, Jan.-March 1998, 57 (1), pp. 136-147; Van Der Aa Biographisch Woordenboek for Scriverius and Stewechius