This object has been completely digitized. Red goatskin, gold-tooled, with the arms of Eugene of Savoy on cover and his monogram on spine.įf. All the nations of the Gauls are fully devoted to religious ceremonies, and on the account of this cause, those who are afflicted more seriously by illnesses and those who are engaged in battle and danger, either sacrifice men for victims, or they vow that they will sacrifice them and use Druids as ministers to these. The first one or two lines of some books (as well as occasional lines within the text) are underlined in red. Other decoration consists of 2-line calligraphic initials, paragraph marks, line fillers (spirals and heraldic dragons), page and chapter headings, all executed in red. 256r) with a pink ground with gold filigree. In his Commentarii de bello gallico (Commentaries on the Gallic War), Julius Caesar (100-44 B.C. 25r) with one leaf of spiky acanthus added, and once (f. Julius Caesar: De Bello Gallico Some of the best prose of the late Republic comes from politicians concerned with enhancing their own position in a world racked by civil conflict. Cant speak for the Caesar specifically, but the Loeb translations range from. Three smaller miniatures, 12- or 14-line, occasionally cut off at the upper edge so as to fill only part of a line of text frames rectilinear, otherwise identical to those described above Beneath, 2-line initials, blue, with white highlights, filled with trilobe leaves, as above, once (f. The standard for all facing page translations is the Loeb Classical Library. Ten half-page miniatures, each in an arched frame composed of two thin bands, gold and red highlighted with white, edged in black, the arch with tiny cusps beneath, initials, 6-, 4-, or 3-line, blue or blue and red with white highlights on a gold ground of irregular shape conforming to the letter, edged in black, with serifs protruding into the left margin filled with green and/or red and crimson trilobe leaves on curling stems with white and/or yellow highlights, or with a blue, green, crimson, and gold diapered ground with white highlights. Script: Written in neat batarde script by Hellin de Burchgrave. Watermarks: similar to Briquet Armoires: Trois fleurs de lis 1741. The Alpine.Commentarii de Bello Gallico English: Commentaries on the Gallic War, also simply Bellum Gallicum English: Gallic War, is Julius Caesars firsthand account.The Gallic Wars By Julius Caesar Translated by W. ![]() Written for Jacques Donche, counselor of Charles the Bold of Burgundy Commentaries on the Gallic Wars, Commentarii de Bello Gallico, which were a common.Publisher London, Whittaker Pages 536. Manuscript on paper (trimmed), with parchment bifolios interspersed, of Julius Caesar, Commentary on the Gallic Wars, translated into French by Jean Duchesne. Commentarii de bello Gallico (Latin Edition) Latin Edition by Gaius Iulius Caesar Jan 18, 2020.
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