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Notitia utraque cum orientis tum occidentis ultra Arcadii Honoriique caesarum tempora, illustre vetustatis monumentum . Edited by Sigismund Gelenius (1497-1554). Basel: Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus Episcopus, 1552. 2° (324 x 217 mm). Collation: * 8 a-o 6 p 4 q-r 6 . 110 leaves. Roman type. Woodcut and metalcut historiated initials in various sizes. Large woodcut printer's device on title page and verso of last leaf, 106 woodcut illustrations, of which 85 full-page and 16 half-page. (Some discoloration, occasional staining or soiling, title with 2 filled marginal wormholes, worm track in quire g touching text, hole to p4, last leaf torn and stained, a few woodcuts embellished in a childish hand, ink doodles at end.) 18th-century vellum over flexible pasteboard, morocco lettering-piece, mottled edges, earlier front flyleaves preserved (minor wear and soiling). Provenance : early inscription on title page, deleted and washed; effaced early inscription on flyleaf; "Illustrissimo Domino Marchione Virginio Natteri(?) Joseph M(aria) Cevebanus(?) Congregationis Oratorii Prep(ositus)", 18th-century inscription on second flyleaf. FIRST COMPLETE AND FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION of the Notitia dignitatum , a list of high officials of the Roman empire, compiled ca. 400 A.D. Sigismund Gelenius based his edition on a manuscript at Speier. The edition also includes a tract by Andrea Alciati on Roman military and civil organization, Victor Publius's topographical description of ancient Rome, and a collection of enigmas in the form of a dialogue, the Altercatio Adriani Augusti et Epicteti philosophi . In the Cambridge copy as described by Adams quire p contains 6 leaves; the present copy is one of a number of copies with a variant collation in which the complete quire p contains 4 leaves. Adams N-354.