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Title

Ortus et occasus veterum regum ac regnorum

Authors

• Gronovius, Joannes Fredericus, 1611-1671

Other related names

• Overmeer, Cornelius ab, scribe

Call number

Ms. Codex 1224
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4324598
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4324598

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin, with some Greek notes in margins

Origin

Date

1713

Place

Netherlands

Summary

A history of ancient kings and kingdoms around the Mediterranean and in Asia. Some of the sections are based upon the Roman historian Justinus' work, and act as a commentary to Justinus.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. i recto).
   

Extent

131 leaves : 150 x 95 (115-130 x 65-75) mm. bound to 160 x 100 mm

Foliation

Paper, 131 leaves; [i-x], 1-227, [228-262]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary gilt calf (Zacour-Hirsch).

Decoration

Later bookplate with initials BVH inside upper cover and coat of arms; floral and vine motif stamped on covers is repeated in ink on title page.

Script

Written in a cursive book hand by Cornelius ab Overmeer (p. 248).

Subjects topical

• History, Ancient--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Commentaries
• Histories
• Manuscripts, Latin--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Table of contents

• 1 — Regnum Assyrium, p. 1
• 10 — Regnum Medorium, p. 10
• 15 — Assyrii reges secundi, p. 15
• 17 — Reges Chaldaeorum ex Ptolemaeo, p. 17
• 22 — Reges Lydorum, p. 22
• 26 — Regnum Aegyptiorum, p. 26
• 47 — Reges Persiarum, p. 47
• 55 — Reges Atheniensium ad Justino libro 2 capitulo 6, p. 55
• 77 — Reges Lacedaemoniorum ad Justino libro 3 capitulo 2, p. 77
• 99 — Reges Thebani ad Justino, p. 99
• 115 — Reges Macedoniae, p. 115
• 143 — Reges Epirotarum, p. 143
• 149 — Tiranni Siculorum, p. 149
• 157 — Reges Battiadae Cyrenensium, p. 157
• 165 — Tyranni Heracleae Ponticae, p. 165
• 171 — Regis Pergameni, p. 171
• 178 — Reges Aegypti post Alexandrium, p. 178
• 190 — Reges Syriae et Asiae post Alexandrium, p. 190
• 211 — Reges Parthorum, p. 211
• 228 — Index in usum huius libelli, p. 228

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover