This is a biography of the first twelve rulers of the Roman Empire: Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus and Domitian. While it offers some of the most valuable contemporary insights into this period that have survived, the narrative is sometimes exaggerated and based on unreliable sources. This copy is the sixth printed edition of Suetonius' work, and is accompanied by poems on the same subject by Ausonius, a fourth-century Roman poet and teacher of rhetoric.

Bibliographic description
Chancery paper 4to. [164] leaves. Single columns of 32 lines. No signatures. No decoration; printed guideletters for initials. 

Binding description
?18th-centruy full leather calfskin binding. Covers decorated with double blind fillets to form two concentric borders; blind floral tools at the corners; gilt fillets on board edges and turn ins. Spine with 5 cords (possibly recessed), 5 false raised bands, decorated with blind fillets and tools as well as gilt titling. Double core headband in green, cream and pink. Gilt textblock on all edges.