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‎VALERIUS FLACCUS‎

‎Caii Valerii Flacci Argonautica. Ioan. Baptistae Pii carmen ex quarto Argonauticon Apollonii. Orphei Argonautica innominato interprete.‎

‎Lyon Lugduni Apud Seb. Gryphium 1548. 16mo. 3081 colophon1 blank p. Limp vellum 11.5 cm Ref: USTC 149936; Schweiger 21099 incorrect See note: 'Nachdruck der Strassb. Ausg. Die Vorrede der Aldine u. die des Engentinus sind mit abgedr.'; Graesse 6/2 241; Ebert 23289; cf. Brunet 51045 Details: Printed completely in italics. On the title the printer's mark of Sebastianus Gryphius depicting a griffin which mythological animal symbolizes courage diligence watchfulness and rapidity of execution used as a pun of his family name Gryph or Greif. From the claws of this creature hangs a big rectangular stone symbolizing Constancy beneath which hangs a winged globe symbolizing Fortune. The motto is 'Virtute duce / comite fortuna' 'Virtue thy leader fortune thy comrade' a quote from a letter of Cicero to Plancus Epistulae ad Familiares liber X3 Condition: Vellum soiled and wrinkled. All four textile fastening ties gone. Both pastedowns damaged and detached. Front hinge partly loosening but holding. Front flyleaf removed. Faint dampstain in the first 5 quires. Some small old ink annotations. Right upper corner of leaf d3 p. 53/4 torn off without loss of text. Corners slightly bruised Note: The bibliographies of Schweiger Ebert and Graesse state that this 'Argonautica' edition of 1548 published by Sebastianus Gryphius is a reissue of the Valerius Flaccus edition of 1525 edited in Strassburg by Philippus Engentinus. This is not correct. In the first place this Gryphius has exactly the same title as the Aldus edition of 1523 which was produced by the Italian humanist scholar Giovan Battista Pio latinized as Ioannes Baptista Pius. It contains also the same text that is the preliminary pages the 'Argonautica' of Valerius Flaccus book I-VIII verse 467 and also a continuation of book VIII taken from Apollonius Rhodius' earlier Greek version of the 'Argonautica' translated into Latin by Ioannes Pius. At the end we find a Latin translation of an unknown hand of the 'Orphei Argonautica'. Pius' continuation of Book VIII to X starts where a premature death overtook Valerius Flaccus and prevented him to finish the epic. The poem breaks off abruptly with the pursuit of the Argo by Absyrtus brother of Medea. This continuation is repeated in our Gryphius edition of 1548 but is absent in the Strassburg edition of Engentius as are the preliminary pages. Furthermore the Strassburg edition ends at verse 466 of book VIII: 'Temptat & ipse gemens & tempora currere dictis. FINIS'. This line is the last but one in The Gryphius and Aldus edition in both the last verse is 467: 'mene aliquid metuisse putas me talia velle' The bibliographers were probably mislead by the adoption at the end by Gryphius of the dedication of Philippus Engentinus dated 1525 from his Strassburg edition. § Not much is known about the Roman poet Valerius Flaccus who wrote an epic 'Argonautica' and who died in 92 or 93 A.D. It is agreed by 'practically all modern authorities that the 'Argonautica' was never completed and that its imperfect conclusion must not be put down to mutilation of a manuscript or omission to complete a copy. There is plenty of internal evidence of unrevised work both in the language and the details of the plot and incidents. As to the former there are many passages where it is necessary to mark a lacuna or to supply a line to complete the sense'. Valerius Flaccus with an English translation by J.H. Mozley Cambr. Mass. 1972 p. VIII As all the poets of his time Valerius Flaccus was strongly influenced by Vergil but he 'is a better poet than they in so far he is less excessively rhetorical than Lucan and a more original genius than Statius'. OCD 2nd ed. p. 1105 His 'Argonautica' is indebted to the 'Argonautica' of the Greek poet Apollonius Rhodius who flourished ca. 200 B.C. but it is certainly not a close imitation. The differences are in the portrayal of the characters and the incidents in the story. 'The 'Orphei Argonautica' Orphic Argonautica was once believed to be among the oldest Greek poems but today it is known that the poem is the work of a late Antique author working in the fourth century CE or later and writing in a form of Greek that consciously imitated often wrongly the diction and vocabulary of Homer. The poem of 1376 hexameter verses takes the form of a first-person account of the Argonauts' voyage from the mouth of Orpheus who views himself as the hero addressing the poem to his disciple Musaeus. The poem . found fame in the early modern period along with other Orphic poetry as a prefiguration or distortion of Biblical truths'. The Orphic Argonautica translated by Jason Colavito Collation: a-t8 u4 minus blank leaf u4; u3 verso blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎HESIODUS‎

‎Hesiodi Ascraei Quae exstant ex recensione Joannis Georgii Graevii. Cum ejusdem animadversionibus & notis auctioribus. Accedit commentarius nunc primum editus Joannis Clerici et Notae Variorum scilicet Josephi Scaligeri Danielis Heinsii Francisci Guieti & Stephani Clerici ac Danielis Heinsii introductio in doctrinam Operum et Dierum. Nec non index Georgii Pasoris.‎

‎Amsterdam Amstelodami Apud G. Gallet praefectum Typographiae Huguetanorum 1701. 8vo. 2 volumes in 1: XXVI3511;VIII326 p. frontispiece 2 folding plates. Vellum. 21 cm Ref: STCN ppn 23618525X; Hoffmann 2250; Brunet 3141; Graesse 3263; Ebert 9604: 'it is scarce and belongs to the series 'cum notis Variorum'; Dibdin 235; Moss 1470/71 Details: Greek text and parallel Latin translation. Boards with blind stamped decoration. Title printed in red & black. The frontispiece depicts a bucolic scene with group of nymphs one of them giving a branch of a palm to a shepherd. The plates have as subject the plough and other farmer's tools. Volume 2 contains also 120 pages with extensive notes to Hesiod by Graevius and the Introduction of 64 pages to the 'Works and Days' by Daniel Heinsius. At the end a 140 page index Condition: Vellum soiled. Head & tail of spine somewhat chafed. Upper hinge cracking but strong. Both pastedowns discoloured and detached. Name erased from the front pastedown resulting into a small hole. Front flyleaf removed. All 4 decorative fastening ribbons gone. First title slightly finger soiled Note: Hesiodus from Askra a small town in Boiotia born ca. 775 BC is one of Greek's oldest poets. His poems are in Homeric hexameters and show his interest in ethics and systematization. His work was known throughout antiquity to rhapsodes scholars and schoolboys. The Byzantines compiled scholia from ancient commentaries for elucidation. The Renaissance did not quite appreciate him. Until 1667 circa 18 editions of his 'opera omnia' were published not much. Hesiod's reception chiefly concerns myths and the motifs that he provides and these motifs certainly appealed to mythographers historians of religion poets and painters. 'Hesiodic details of myth saturate European epic and mythopoeic writings perhaps most spectacular in Dante Milton Blake . who make much of Hesiod's infernal regions his Titans and primordial monsters his giant battles'. The Classical Tradition N.Y 2010 p. 435 Of Hesiod survives his 'Theogonia' or 'Theogony' which 'deals with the origin and genealogy of the gods . and the events that led to the kingship of Zeus: the castration of Uranos by Kronos and the overthrow of Kronos and the Titans by the Olympians' OCD 2nd ed. p. 510 The 'Works and Days' or 'Erga kai Hêmerai' of Hesiod which was always most read has been called a 'gospel of labour'. The poet recommends the hard and honest life of a farmer. He 'inveighs against dishonesty and idleness by turns using myth . parable allegory and threats of divine anger. . The poem as a whole is a unique source for social conditions in early archaic Greece.' Idem p. 511 The third poem that has survived is the 'Shield' or 'Aspis' a short narrative poem on Heracles' fight with Cycnus a bloodthirsty son of the god Ares. It derives its name from the long description of Heracles' shield. § 'Artists have never abandoned a fascination with Hesiod on the Muses. In the 19th century the artist Gustave Moreau created many visual representations of their initiation of the poet. Both Rubens and Goya painted famous and harrowing pictures of Kronos Saturn devouring one of his children a motif from the Theogony; William Blake engraved a series after drawings by his friend John Flaxman . Georges Braque chose the 'Theogony' as the subject of 20 etchings'. The Classical Tradition N.Y. 2010 p. 436 § This edition of 1701 is except for a short 'dedicatio' and 'ad lectorem' at the beginning of volume 1 the work of the Dutch/Swiss scholar Johannes Clericus or Jean Le Clerc 1657-1736 mainly a reissue of the Hesiod edition of 1667 that was produced by the Dutch classical scholar of German descent Johann Georg Greffe better known as Graevius 1632-1703 professor of Latin at the University of Utrecht during the last forty years of his life. The Hesiod was his only edition of a Greek classic. Graevius limited his attention mainly to writers of Latin prose and primarily to Cicero. Graevius corrected the text of the 'Works and Days' with the help of two manuscripts owned by Isaac Vossius. One them contained commentary of Tzetzes. From the French scholar Emericus Bigotius he received annotations of J.J. Scaliger and Franciscus Guietus. The first volume contains the Greek text revised by Graevius and a corrected Latin translation. The second Graevius' own annotations and the observations of Scaliger and Guietus and the 'Introductio' to the 'Works and Days' of the Dutch scholar Daniel Heinsius Provenance: On the verso of the front flyleaf 'Ex libris H.J. Borgers'. And on the flyleaf in the rear: 'Wilhelmus Henricus Wicherlink 1741 verus hujus libri possessor'. One H.J. Borgers published in 1826 in Leiden a dissertation: 'Specimen Academicum Inaugurale exhibens Recensionem et Interpretationem M. Tullii Ciceronis Paradoxorum ad M. Brutum'. One H.J. Borgers the same or his father retired in 1854 as prorector of the Gymnasium of Nijmegen where he started his teaching career in 1819. § Dr. Willem Hendrik Wicherlinck 1728-1808 belonged to the elite of the Dutch city of Zwolle. He was a member of the 'Raad van Zwolle' between 1770 and 1795 and a member of 'Gedeputeerde Staten van Overijssel' for Zwolle between 1784 and 1795 Collation: pi1 frontispiece 8 minus blank leaf 8 26; A-Y8 24 2A-V8 2X4 leaf 2X4 blank The catchword on leaf 7 verso regularly connects to the following page 1 recto Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎EURIPIDES‎

‎EURIPIDOU PHOINISSAI. Euripidis tragoedia Phoenissae. Interpretationem addidit H. Grotii; Graeca castigavit e Mstis atque adnotationibus instruxit scholia partim nunc primum evulgata subiecit Ludovicus Casp. Valckenaer.‎

‎Franeker Franequerae Typis et sumptibus Iacobi Brouwer 1755. 4to. XXIV83119 index p. Half calf 22.5 cm Ref: STCN ppn 151473129; Hoffmann 276/77; Schweiger I119; Brunet 21106; Dibdin I545; Moss 1424; Graesse 2523: 'édition excellente'; Ebert 7102 Details: Back with 5 raised bands and a brown morocco lettershield; margins uncut. § Greek text with facing Latin translation commentary in two columns on the lower half of the page; p. 561-815 contain the scholia to the 'Phoenissae' accompanied by Latin commentary; at the end 14 p. 'Prolegomena' to the 'Phoenissae' by Hugo Grotius Condition: Back rubbed; head of spine slightly chafed; paper on covers somewhat scuffed Note: 'With Sophokles Greek tragedy reaches its culmination. Euripides great poet though he was represents the first symptom of the inevitable decline for in him we can recognize a certain impatience with the form he found ready to his hand'. This is how H.J. Rose started his chapter on the Greek tragedian Euripides ca. 480-406 B.C. some 80 years ago. H.J. Rose 'A history of Greek literature' 4th ed. London 1965 p. 177 first published in 1934 That opinion has now been superseded. Euripides' play 'The Bacchae' which drew little attention before 1900 'has come to seem one of the defining models of Greek tragedy and even of tragedy itself rivalling Aeschylus' Oresteia and Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus and Antigone'. The Classical Tradition Cambridge Mass. 2010 p. 347 For this Euripides has to thank the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The upsurge was caused by his 'Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik' 1872 in which he drew attention to the idea of 'the Dionysiac' a key element in the Bacchae. This idea 'has had a massive influence not only on understandings of tragedy but on theories of theatrical performances itself'. Idem ibidem § Euripides' play Phoenissae 'is a complex but well-organized dramatic structure. It does not concentrate solely on the strife and death of the sons of Oedipus as the play's severest critics expected and demanded that it should. Rather it engages a whole ensemble of figures from the families of Oedipus and Creon in exploring themes of selfishness and blindness familial disaster familial loyalty political duties and loyalties divine-human interaction and the lability of human wisdom'. D.J. Mastronarde 'Phoenissae' Cambridge 1994 p. 3/4 § 'Of all the editions of the Phoenissae in reference to critical apparatus the present of 1755 is the most copious and valuable. The version is that of Grotius. MSS. have been consulted; annotations are subjoined. The scholia of which part appears for the first time added; and the whole volume is enriched by every thing which can render it most acceptable to a critical student. . a volume on all accounts deserving of strong recommendation'. Dibdin § The Frisian scholar Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer latinized Ludovicus Casparus Valckenarius 1715-1785 was a pupil of his Tiberius Hemsterhuis a Frisian too and after him the greatest Dutch classical scholar of the 18th century. Hemsterhuis was professor of Greek at the University of Franeker from 1717 till 1740 and from 1740 till 1765 at the University of Leiden. Hemsterhuis was the founder of a Dutch school of criticism the so-called 'Schola Hemsterhusiana' which had in Valckenaer its best known disciple. Valckenaer studied Greek in Franeker under Hemsterhuis and succeeded to his chair in 1741. In 1765 he left for Leiden once again as successor of his beloved teacher. Both created a golden age of Greek studies in the Netherlands. Still a student he edited a Greek lexicon of the grammarian Ammonius 'De adfinium vocabulorum Differentia' Leiden 1739. In Franeker he produced a revised and augmented edition of Fulvio Orsini's 'Virgilius illustratus' Leeuwarden 1747. This title is important for the history of scholarship for its inclusion of the text of the 22nd book of the Iliad of Homer accompanied by an introduction 'variae lectiones' and the 'editio princeps' of scholia of Porphyrius and other hellenistic and byzantine scholars. In 1755 Valckenaer published this Phoenissae edition with his rich commentary and a Latin translation by Hugo Grotius. Among his best works are two other Euripides editions 'Diatribe in Euripidis perditorum dramatum reliquias' Leiden 1767 and 'Euripidis tragoedia Hippolytus' Leiden 1768. Valckenaer also produced editions of the Idylls of Theocritus Leiden 1773 and of the complete works of bucolic poets Theocritus Bion and Moschus Leiden & Kampen 1779. His Callimachus was published posthumously by J. Luzac in Leiden in 1799 Provenance: On the front flyleaf: 'J.P. Ott 1825'. Collation: pi2 -24; 32 A-4D4 4E2 4F-5P4 minus blank leaf 5P4 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎BROUKHUSIUS,J‎

‎Jani Broukhusii Carmina.‎

‎Utrecht Trajecti ad Rhenum Apud Franciscum Halma Academ. Typogr. Ordinarium 1684. 12mo. VIII951 blank p. Vellum 16 cm Ref: STCN ppn 84001225X; Oberlé no. 325 Details: 3 thongs laced through the joints. Woodcut flowery ornament on the title Condition: Vellum age-toned and slightly scratched. Small dent in the spine. Front pastedown detached. Small inscription on the front flyleaf and on the title where someone wrote below 'Carmina' the word 'Quaerendo'. Paper slightly yellowing some spots in the first leaves Note: This is the first edition of the neolatin poetry of the Dutch scholar/soldier Joan van Broekhuizen Janus Broukhusius 1649-1707 who during an adventurous life pursued his classical studies and poetry at leisure. His editions of Propertius 1702 and Tibullus 1707 laid the foundation for his reputation as a classical scholar. He was admired as a latinist for his taste and for his erudition. NNBW 4309/12 As a neolatin poet he is known as the 'Propertius of Holland'. Sandys 2329 His poetry is learned and eccentric combining polish and refinement. § The collection contains a number of poems Broukhusius wrote in 1674 as a marine officer under admiral Michiel de Ruyter during a campaign of the Dutch navy in American waters. Lying anchored at the island of Dominica he translated into Latin Psalm XLIV p. 11/13 and wrote a sea song 'Celadon' about homesickness for the motherland p. 13/15. He returned home with the fleet and continued his soldiering in the Netherlands and in Germany where he fought in several battles and sieges till the Treaties of Peace of Nijmegen of 1678. During the following stay of his regiment at Utrecht he continued his studies of Propertius. He there befriended Johann Georg Graevius professor of rhetoric at the local University to whom he dedicates 2 poems in this collection. At the recommandation of the Burgomaster of Amsterdam Johannes Hudde he was appointed captain of an infantery company at Amsterdam. There he contracted friendship with Petrus Francius professor of rhetoric at the local 'Athenaeum Illustre' and a famous neolatin poet and orator. To him Broukhusius dedicates 6 poems in his book of poetry. To Hudde 2. He also wrote 2 poems the first and the last in this collection for Ferdinand von Fürstenberg Prince Bishop of Paderborn from 1661 to 1683. Broukhusius adopted in this collection also a number of erotic poems he wrote for some ladies a Julia Corinna and especially Delia a Dutch woman of great beauty. He dedicates 6 poems to this mistress. From the Renaissance onward there existed a fashion for imitating the erotic poetry of Propertius. Many humanist elegiac poets produced neolatin poems addressed to some alluring girl as Propertius had done for his Cynthia. Propertius influenced before Broukhusius among others the Dutch erotic poet Janus Secundus and the English poet John Donne and later the German author Goethe and the American poet Ezra Pound Collation: 4 A-D12 leaf D12 verso blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎EURIPIDES‎

‎EURIPIDOU PHOINISSAI. Euripidis tragoedia Phoenissae. Interpretationem addidit H. Grotii; graeca castigavit e Mstis atque adnotationibus instruxit scholia subiecit Ludovicus Casp. Valckenaer.‎

‎Leiden Lugduni Batavorum Apud Samuelem et Joannem Luchtmans 1802. 4to. 2 parts in 1 volume: IV231 blank452;196 p. Vellum. 26 cm. Prize copy Ref: Hoffmann 277; Schweiger I119; Brunet 21106; Dibdin I545; Moss 1424; Ebert 7102 Details: Prize copy Utrecht but without the prize. Back gilt and with 5 raised bands. Boards with gilt borders and the gilt coat of arms of Utrecht within a gilt rectangle adorned with corner pieces. § The first part contains the introduction the Greek text of Euripides' Phoenissae with critical notes and the parallel Latin translation of Grotius followed by the commentary of Valckenaer. The second part contains the Scholia to 'veterum grammaticorum in Euripidis Phoenissas. Ex codd. MStis praesertim Augustano supplevit emendavit . editis locupletavit plus quam ducentis notisque instruxit L.C. Valckenaer' accompanied by Valckenaer's commentary. At the end before the index the 'Scholia peri metrôn' on the Phoenissae with notes in Latin. p.166-182 Condition: Prize removed. Vellum age-tanned and slightly soiled. All four decorative fastening ribbons gone. Occasionally some pencil marginalia. The last 7 gatherings of the 2nd volume p. 125/196 browning and foxing Note: 'With Sophokles Greek tragedy reaches its culmination. Euripides great poet though he was represents the first symptom of the inevitable decline for in him we can recognize a certain impatience with the form he found ready to his hand'. This is how H.J. Rose started his chapter on Greek tragedian Euripides ca. 480-406 B.C. some 80 years ago. H.J. Rose 'A history of Greek literature' 4th ed. London 1965 p. 177 first published in 1934 That opinion has now been superseded. Euripides' play 'The Bacchae' which drew little attention before 1900 'has come to seem one of the defining models of Greek tragedy and even of tragedy itself rivalling Aeschylus' Oresteia and Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus and Antigone'. The Classical Tradition Cambridge Mass. 2010 p. 347 For this Euripides has to thank the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The upsurge was caused by his 'Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik' 1872 in which he drew attention to the idea of 'the Dionysiac' a key element in the Bacchae. This idea 'has had a massive influence not only on understandings of tragedy but on theories of theatrical performances itself'. Idem ibidem § Euripides' play 'Phoenissae' 'is a complex but well-organized dramatic structure. It does not concentrate solely on the strife and death of the sons of Oedipus as the play's severest critics expected and demanded that it should. Rather it engages a whole ensemble of figures from the families of Oedipus and Creon in exploring themes of selfishness and blindness familial disaster familial loyalty political duties and loyalties divine-human interaction and the lability of human wisdom'. D.J. Mastronarde 'Phoenissae' Cambridge 1994 p. 3/4 § This edition of 1802 is a reissue of the Phoenissae edition which was published in Franeker in 1755. The only difference seems to be that the commentary of Valckenaer is not printed below the text but comes after the text. The publisher also decided to omit the 14 p. 'Prolegomena' to the Phoenissae by Hugo Grotius that accompanied the edition of 1755. § Dibdin observes that of all the editions of the Phoenissae in reference to critical apparatus the edition of 1755 was the most copious and valuable. Added are scholia part of which appeared in 1755 for the first time. The whole volume is enriched by every thing which can render it most acceptable to a critical student. The preface is full of learned information Dibdin adds. § The Frisian scholar Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer latinized Ludovicus Casparus Valckenarius 1715-1785 was a pupil of Tiberius Hemsterhuis a Frisian too and after him the greatest Dutch classical scholar of the 18th century. Hemsterhuis was professor of Greek at the University of Franeker from 1717 till 1740 and from 1740 till 1765 at the University of Leiden. Hemsterhuis was the founder of a Dutch school of criticism the so-called 'Schola Hemsterhusiana' which had in Valckenaer its best known disciple. Valckenaer studied Greek in Franeker under Hemsterhuis and succeeded to his chair in 1741. In 1765 he left for Leiden once again as successor of his beloved teacher. Both created a golden age of Greek studies in the Netherlands. Still a student he edited a Greek lexicon of the grammarian Ammonius 'De adfinium vocabulorum Differentia' Leiden 1739. In Franeker he produced a revised and augmented edition of Fulvio Orsini's 'Virgilius illustratus' Leeuwarden 1747. This title is important for the history of scholarship for its inclusion of the text of the 22nd book of the Iliad of Homer accompanied by an introduction 'variae lectiones' and the 'editio princeps' of scholia of Porphyrius and other hellenistic and byzantine scholars. In 1755 Valckenaer published this Phoenissae edition with his rich commentary and a Latin translation by Hugo Grotius. Among his best works are two other Euripides editions 'Diatribe in Euripidis perditorum dramatum reliquias' Leiden 1767 and 'Euripidis tragoedia Hippolytus' Leiden 1768. Valckenaer also produced editions of the Idylls of Theocritus Leiden 1773 and of the complete works of bucolic poets Theocritus Bion and Moschus Leiden & Kampen 1779. His Callimachus edition was published posthumously by J. Luzac Leiden 1799 Collation: pi2 -34 leaf 34 verso blank; A-Kkk4 Lll2; A2 B-Bb4 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎SCALIGER,JJ- HEINSIUS,D J J‎

‎Satirae duae Hercules tuam fidem sive Munsterus Hypobolimaeus et Virgula divina. Cum brevioribus annotatiunculis quibus nonnulla in rudiorum gratiam illustrantur. Accessit his accurata Burdonum Fabulae confutatio quibus alia nonnula hac editione accedunt.‎

‎Leiden Lugduni Batavorum Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium 1617. Colophon at the end: 'Lugduni Batavorum Typis Isaaci Elsevirii anno 1617' 12mo. XXIV619 recte 529203 blank p. Overlapping vellum 13 cm Ref: STCN ppn 832983446; USTC 1028202; Willems 123; Rahir 99; Berghman 1329 Graesse 6/1 273/274; Not in Smitskamp's 'The Scaliger Collection' but it does figure in its list of Scaliger editions p. 120 Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Manuscript title on the back. The first Elzevier edition in small format Condition: Vellum age-toned and soiled. Front hinge cracking. Front flyleaf worn and inscribed. Title dustsoiled and with 2 small ownership entries. Some old marginal notes occasional ink underlinings Note: The French protestant classical scholar J.J. Scaliger 1540-1609 was a genius but was also vain and sharp tongued. Consequently he had many enemies. His greatest enemies were among members of the catholic Jesuit order. Scaliger had turned his back on France and had come in 1592 to Leiden at the request of the authorities of that city and the local University who desired nothing more than his inspiring presence. There he gathered around him a group of brilliant young man among whom H. Grotius. In 1599 young Daniel Heinsius 1580-1655 entered the group and became 'because of his reputedly attractive personality and remarkable gifts' Scaliger's favorite student. P.R. Sellin Daniel Heinsius and Stuart England' Leiden etc. 1968 p. 14 Heinsius rapidly made a name as classical scholar and neolatin poet. In 1609 Scaliger died in his arms. One of Scaliger's foulest adversaries was a former friend Gaspar Schoppe or in Latin Scioppius 1576-1649 who converted to catholicism. He distinguished himself by the virulence of his writings against the Protestants and he even wanted to incite a war against these heretics. In 1607 this man published a vicious attack upon Scaliger with his 'Scaliger hypololymaeus' in English 'Suppositious Scaliger' or rather 'Basterd Scaliger'. 'Dem tobensten Schimpfen wird hier freier Lauf gelassen; Gifte jeder Art von Verunglimpfung und Verdächtigung werden zusammen gebraut'. J. Bernays 'Joseph Justus Scaliger' Berlin 1855 p. 85 Scioppius wanted to throw discredit on Scaliger and weaken his authority so he attacked him at his weakest spot his supposed noble birth. Scaliger had been raised in the belief that he was a descendent of the royal family Della Scala of Verona and he let no opportunity pass to mention the splendour of his ancestry. The validity of his pretentions were however dubious. The challenge of Scioppius was accepted by the favourite pupil of Scaliger Daniel Heinsius who published one year later in 1608 anonymously in defence of his master the 'Satirae duae Hercules tuam fidem sive Munsterus Hypobolimaeus et Virgula divina' two mordant Menippean satires that covered Scioppius who occasionally signed his letters off as 'G.S. a Munster' hence Munsterus with much abuse. As Scioppius himself had done with Scaliger Heinsius smears with the mud of satire his scholarship his name the respectability of his parents and his conversion to catholicism. In the following mockery 'Virgula Divina sive Lucretii Vespillonis apotheosis' inspired by Seneca's Apocolocyntosis Heinsius focusses on the humble origins of Scioppius himself he tells a supposititious child. His 'father' called by Heinsius Vespillo or corpse-bearer/gravedigger See Martial I471 is sentenced to become assistant of Charon. Scaliger has often admitted in his letters that Heinsius was the author of the satires and the editor of the book which opens with a preface dedicated to Scaliger and a section of Scioppius praise of Scaliger from the time when he was still a friend and a protestant then a support letter of the French scholar and friend of Scaliger Isaac Casaubon. Next follow both satires of Heinsius followed by an attack on Scioppius and his ancestry in a mock-biography: 'Vita et parentes Gasp. Schoppii a Germano quodam contubernali eius conscripta' composed by Scaliger himself or by Ianus Rutgerus a friend of Heinsius and a student of Scaliger. The great man himself contributed using the initials of his student Rutgerus auctore I.R. Batavo Iuris studioso also to this own defence a 'accurata Burdonum Fabulae confutatio' 'a precise refutation of the Burdonese story' with the help of charters and documents which should prove his noble origin. Nevertheless the defence of Heinsius and Scaliger made 'einen sehr kühlen Eindruck auch auf die nähreren Freunde Scaligers'. Bernays p. 85. Few wanted to side with him on this matter; the answer of Scaliger was deemed not satisfactory. Scioppius' reputation was damaged too. Heinsius had portrayed him as a parasite and as 'Monster of Münster' labels which he never got rid of. A revised second edition of the 'Satirae duae' was published in the same year in Leiden by Johannes Patius who had also published the first edition. 1609 he already produced his 4th edition. An eludicating survey of the hard to fathom content of both satires can be found in chapter 5 of 'Menippean Satire and the Republic of Letters 1581-1655' of A. R. de Smet Geneva 1996. 'Hercules tuam fidem' is the title of Varro's 39th Menippean satire Provenance: On the title: 'Bern. à Mallinckroth' and also 'Sum J. Niefert'. On the front pastedown a Swedish name 'Henrik Kröijer' and probably one 'R. Berghes' Collation: 12 A-Z12 leaf Z11 verso and Z12 blank. Page numbers 513-529 misnumbered 603-619 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎STEPHANUS, HENRICUS‎

‎De latinitate falso suspecta expostulatio Henrici Stephani. Lectori non metuenda in lat. metuenti./ Tu´ne pudore taces quia barbarus esse vereris/ Eia metum & linguam solue Latinus eris./ Eiusdem De Plauti Latinitate Dissertatio & ad lectionem illius Progymnasma.‎

‎N.pl. Geneva Excudebat Henricus Stephanus 1576. Small 8vo. XVI400 p. Modern vellum 15 cm An attack on Ciceronianism the cult of the usage of Cicero as the only correct Latin Ref: GLN-2585; Schreiber Estiennes n° 198; Brunet 21079; Graesse 2507; Ebert 6974; Renouard p. 144: 15763 Details: Printer's Olive tree device of the Stephanus family on the title motto: 'Noli altum sapere' short for 'Noli altum sapere sed time' in English 'Donot be high-minded but fear'. Epistola Beati Pauli ad Romanos 1120 Edges dyed red Condition: Title slightly foxed; Old name on the title Note: De latinitate falso suspecta a work of the French printer/scholar Henri Estienne latinized as Henri Stephanus 1528/31 - 1598 is a treatise on the Latin language written four years after the Thesaurus Graecae linguae. 'This was an attack on Ciceronianism the cult of the usage of Cicero as the only correct Latin and as such it contributed to an argument that had been going on since the second half of the 15th century. Ciceronianism had its own dictionary that of Mario Nizzoli Nizolius which had first apeared as Observationes in Ciceronem in 1535 documenting approximately 20000 words; 50 or more further editions appeared under various titles in the next hundred years. . The Ciceronians Henri argued condemn certain Latin usages which they suppose to be modern Gallicisms. So for instance they censure the use of pausa supposing it to be a modern formation from French pause - but it is to be found in the ancient fragmentary poets Ennius and Lucilius; a number of examples of its use by Plautus are given in the Latinae linguae thesaurus; Robert Estienne's edition of Plautus contains others; and so on. The cumulative effect was not only to show the weaknesses of a Ciceronianism untempered with the knowledge of other Latin texts and particularly those written before the age of Cicero but also to show the numerous parallels between Latin and French usage. 'This work' as Feugère pointed out 'might on account of the striking analogies between the two languages which it present also be called a Traité de la conformité du français avec le latin'. So it might; and that suggests a reorientation of Henri's thought. No longer was he observing only the analogies between Greek and French. Now he was seeing those beween Latin and French and more specifically between non-Ciceronian Latin and French. And these analogies he realized did indicate genealogical filiation. This struck him particularly as he wrote the treatise on Plautus' Latin usage which is appended to the De latinitate falso suspecta: after commenting on his own affection for Plautus he added: 'For sure it is fitting that the French love the Latinity of Plautus more than any other people do for in many respects his speech has greater affinity with theirs than with anyone else's'. Henri was developing the theory that French may be descended from archaic Latin and may preserve archaic features that had been rejected from formal written Latin by the time of Cicero'; a similar argument was being developed at the same time by the Italian grammarian Lodovico Castelvetro. Henri's argument was like Castelvetro's a development of that of the grammarian Jacques Dubois Jacobus Sylvius that French had along with some Greek and Hebrew loan elements a Latin basis that differed to some degree from classical written Latin - though Dubois did not go so far as to indentify this explicitly as vulgar Latin. Students of French antiquity such as François Hotman proposed in the 1570s and 1580s that French was 'a mixed language resulting from the 'corruption' of Latin mixed with the language of the Gauls and then of the Franks. Henri's argument was more dramatic than theirs: he was not thinking in terms of corruption so much as of the continuation of a variety of Latin that had been spoken and written in the age of Plautus and had lived on as a spoken variety through the Golden Age and the fall of the Roman Empire. Had he ever written De latinitate prisca in which he announced his intention of treating Plautine Latin more fully he might have been able to pursue this point to good effect'. J. Considine 'Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe: Lexicography and the Making of Heritage' Cambridge 2008 p. 63/65 Henri Estienne was indeed way ahead of his time with his suggestion of the existence of a 'sermo cotidianus' in colloquiis familiaribus' Praefatio p. 5 verso. Most Latin scholars of his time did not have an idea of what we understand today by Vulgar Latin. Scholars were imbibed by the artificial language of Latin literature the Latin of the Vulgate and the Church Fathers which one-sidedness prevented them to relate French words to Latin words and to see in Latin the starting-point for French. Classical scholarship had to wait about 150 years before a clear recognition of Vulgar Latin emerged Provenance: Name on the title: 'Goulley' Collation: 8 a-2B8 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎FRONTINUS‎

‎S. Julii Frontini libri quatuor Strategematicon cum notis integris Francisci Modii Godescalci Stewechii Petri Scriverii & Samuelis Tennulii. His accedunt cum P. Scriverii tum aliorum doctorum ineditae observationes curante Francisco Oudendorpio qui & suas adnotationes variasque MStorum lectiones adjecit. Editio altera multo auctior & emendatior.‎

‎Leiden Lugduni Batavorum Apud Sam. et Joann. Luchtmans 1779. 8vo. LXXVIII5701322 blank p. frontispiece. Vellum. 22 cm Ref: STCN ppn 189887621; Schweiger 2369: 'Mit Bereicherungen in den Noten'; Brunet 21409; Graesse 2639; Ebert 7963; Spoelder p. 628 Leiden 5 Details: Prize copy but without the prize. Boards with the gilt coat of arms of the city of Leyden. Frontispiece depicting both sides of a coin from the time of Domitianus 81-96 AD showing a portrait of a bearded man with the name of proconsul Frontinus in Greek; on the tail-side a river goddess holding a reed; below her a text in Greek revealing the names of the issuing magistrates Reginus and Myrton and the place of issue Smyrna. In his 'Ad Lectorem' Van Oudendorp convincingly proves that the portrayed figure on the coin is not Frontinus but Hercules an assumption that is accepted by later numismatics. § The upper quarter of the pages contains the Latin text underneath that the commentary Condition: Without the prize. All four decorative fastening ribbons gone. Vellum soiled back browned. Gilt on the boards a bit worn away. Small bookplate on the verso of the flyleaf small withdrawal stamp on the verso of the title leaf Note: Now that the intensive study of the ancient languages and cultures is in decline it seems hard to imagine that the ancient models once exerted a profound influence on every domain of post-classical life and thought in Europe. One such domain was the art of warfare. Between the end of the 15th and the middle of the 17th century a period in which numerous wars were fought the ancient works on Roman and Greek strategies and tactics were eagerly studied by humanist scholars and the military elite. One such surviving work was written by the Roman civil servant and politician Sextus Julius Frontinus 30-104 A.D. His works 'are essentially practical dealing with professional subjects in a straightforward style admirably suited to his purpose'. During the reign of the emperor Domitian he produced his 'Strategemata' a general manual of 'historical examples illustrating Greek and Roman strategy for the use of officers' which survives in four books OCD 2nd ed. p. 448. In the year 86 Frontinus was created Proconsul of the province Asia Minor. Under Nerva 97 A.D. he was appointed 'curator aquarum' and wrote 'De aquaductu Urbis Romae' an account of the water-supply of Rome. Many inscriptions bear witness of his activities. § The Eighty Years' War or the Dutch War of Independence which lasted from 1568 till 1648 was a revolt of the Provinces of the Netherlands against the political and religious hegemony of Philip II of Spain. In its struggle for political religious and economic freedom the young Dutch republic was confronted with a Spanish imperial army of enormous size. 'Dutch Humanism of the period and its study of classical philology aided the technical and tactical evolution of the Dutch army'. The Classical Tradition Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 978 Works of the Flemish classicist Justus Lipsius 1547-1606 his 'De militia Romana' and 'Poliorcetica' 'inspired and guided Dutch military reform and organization after the pattern of the ancients and on the principles of Roman stoicism the ancient philosophy of discipline and self-control .'. Idem ibidem The great general Prince Maurice of Nassau was in fact a student of Lipsius in Leiden. He understood that whoever knew how to rule the troops with the help of the Roman art of war would be able to dominate the battlefield. 'The princes of Orange studied everything available concerning the military skills practiced by the ancient Greeks and Romans and they spared no trouble work or expense in transferring the tennets found there into practice. They commissioned learned philologists to carry out projects of military science'. Idem p. 979 § Frans van Oudendorp 1696-1761 was the last great Dutch latinist of the 18th century. He was professor of History and Eloquence at the University of Leiden. He produced a valuable and still useful edition of Lucanus 1728 and edited Caesar and Suetonius. His first edition of Frontinus was published in 1731. His son Cornelis published in 1779 at the request of the firm of Luchtmans this second revised and augmented edition Provenance: Bookplate of A. Pitlo showing a radiant sun with the motto 'Plus est en vous'. Designed by Pam Georg Rueter signed with the letter 'R' in the left corner. The Dutch jurist Adriaan Pitlo 1901-1987 was for 30 years professor of private and notarial law. The 'Festschrift' that was made in 1970 on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of his professorate also bears the title 'Plus est en vous' Collation: 6 minus leaf 6 -48 52; A-2X8 leaf 2X8 blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎EMMIUS,U‎

‎Graecorum Respublicae ab Ubbone Emmio descriptae.‎

‎Leiden Lugd. Batavorum Ex officina Elzeviriana 1632. 24mo. 2 parts in 1: 4266 index;3237 index & privilegium p. Calf 11.5 cm Ref: Willems 364; Berghman 1573; Rahir 345; Ebert 6690 Details: Back and boards with blind tripple fillet borders. Title engraved by C.C.Duysend it depicts around the text of the title a floral cartouche on top of which rests an eagle aquila with spread wings holding in its talons the deadly thunderbolts fulmina of Jupiter. The eagle was called by Aristotle for the lordly manner with which it looked over the earth 'divine among birds'. HA 619b.6 The eagle is flanked by an owl wisdom and two 'kissing' pigeons. The second part has its own title on it a woodcut printer's mark featuring an old man who stands in the shade of a vine-entwined elmtree symbolising the symbiotic relationship between scholar and publisher. The motto is enigmatic: 'Non solus' probably indicating the interdependency of publisher and scholar. They cannot do it alone and need each other Condition: Binding scuffed corners bumped. Endpapers detached Note: Ubbo Emmius 1547-1625 born in Eastern Friesland was appointed professor of History and Greek literature at the newly established University of Groningen in 1614 where he became also the first Rector Magnificus. In his publications and correspondence with eminent scholars of his time he defended the right of a people to revolt an idea that would eventually lead to the French revolution. In the Netherlands he is best known for his Rerum Frisicarum Historia 1592-1616 the first modern study of Friesland and the Frisians in which he refuted many idle tales related by earlier historians of Friesland. Among classicists and ancient historians he is known for his 'Vetus Graecia illustrata' a three volume work which he composed during the last years of his life and which was published posthumously in Leiden in 1626 by the Elzevier brothers. The third volume which describes the particular form of government of every state or commonwealth of Greece was published in 1632 separately by Elsevier as 'Graecorum Respublicae' Provenance: In the center of the upper board have been punched in small type the capitals H A I. The letter A was punched upside down. § On the front flyleaf in pencil the Dutch Jewish name: V. Goldsmid probably 20th century Collation: A-2D8; A-X8 leaves X6 X7 & X8 blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎LYCOPHRON‎

‎Lycophronis Chalcidensis Alexandra. Poëma obscurum. Ioannes Meursius recensuit & libro commentario illustravit. Altera editio aucta & innovata. Accessit Iosephi Scaligeri Iulii Caes. F. versio centum locis emendatior.‎

‎Leiden Lugduni Batavorum Ex officina Ludovici Elzevirii. 1599. 8vo. XVI35018 index p. Calf 19th century 16 cm Ref: STCN ppn 15153098; Willems 39; Rahir 25; Berghman 835; Hoffmann 2569; cf. Smitskamp The Scaliger collection no.93 for the first edition of 1597; Brunet 31247-1248; Ebert 12543; Graesse 4309 Details: Greek text and Latin translation. Back elaborately gilt with four ornamental lozenges. Brown letter label. Boards with a triple gilt fillet border and gilt edges. Edges of the book block sprinkled. Marbled endpapers. The colophon on the last page reads: 'Lugduni Batavorum. Excudebat Ioannes Balduini. VIII. Kal. Maias. anno 1599' Condition: Nice copy some slight wear to the extremities just a bit of rubbing to the joints. Some small old ink marginalia. Last gathering slightly browning otherwise a clean and fresh copy Note: Lycophron 3rd cent. BC was called to Alexandria in Egypt by King Ptolemaeus Philadelphos. There this tragedian wrote his 'Alexandra' or Kassandra ca. 1474 iambic trimeters in which Kassandra tells about the fall of Troy and the fates of the Greek and Trojan Heroes. It is his only surviving work which is full of the extreme and designed obscurity that the Alexandrians who were fond of a style full of learned allusions and playful riddles loved. Rose calls the 'Alexandra' a monstruous riddle. 'In form it is the speech of a messenger a servant of Priam . coming to tell his master that Kassandra = Alexandra has just delivered a mysterious oracle. . The prophecy concerns the whole history of Troy the Trojans and their descendants together with the fates of the Greeks for many generations to come and from beginning to end it calls nothing and no one by any wellknown name personal or geographical'. H.J. Rose A handbook of Greek literature' London 1964 p. 336. For instance Lycophron calls the mythical hero Heracles the 'Lion of the triple evening' expecting the reader to know that Heracles when he was begotten the night was thrice its normal length. § This edition of 1599 is a revised and improved second edition. The first edition was produced two years earlier in 1597 by the then 18 years old Dutchman Joannes Meursius or in Dutch 'Jan van Meurs' 1579-1639. He was a student of the genius Joseph Justus Scaliger born in 1540 who lectured since 1593 in Leiden till his death in 1609. Scaliger helped and encouraged his pupil in the production of this edition. In the preface Meursius tells us that he wouldnot have dared to edit such a dark and difficult text without the help of Scaliger. Scaliger helped him with the commentary and gave him permission to reprint his verse translation with corrections. This metrical and smooth Latin translation had been published previously in Basel in 1566. The last 251 pages of the book contain the commentary of Meursius 'quod sine interprete vix est ut quisquam intellegat'. preface leaf A8 recto Meursius was later appointed professor of History and of Greek 1610/13 at his own university. He is best known for his editions of byzantine authors and for the books he wrote on the history of ancient Greece for example on festivals Eleusis and the antiquities of Athens and Attica. His work was widely used as source by later ancient historians. Sandys 2310/11 Collation: A-Z8 a8 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎NICETAS CHONIATES‎

‎Della Historia di Niceta Coniate delle cose dell'Imperio di Costantinopoli libri VII. Ne' quali si contengono i fatti degl'Imperatori Greci cominciando da Alessio Comneno doue lascia il Zonara fin 'all'anno 1457 nel qual su presa quella Città da Mahomet Secondo. Con le postille a suoi luoghi dinotanti le cose di maggiore importanza. Et con molte altre cose utili & necessarie a Lettori.‎

‎Venice In Venetia Colophon at the end: Appresso Francesco Sansovino 1562 4to. 4 unnumbered leaves 111 leaves. Vellum. 20.5 cm Ref: Edit16 CNCE 31070; Hoffmann 2634 Details: The text is printed in italics. Two vellum thongs laced through the joints at the head & tail of the spine. Short title in ink on the back. Woodcut printer's mark on the title depicting a man who lies on his back and looks at the washing moon high in the sky. Woodcut headpiece at the beginning of the dedication preface and translation. Woodcut initials Condition: Vellum soiled. Binding slightly damaged at the extremities. Old name on the title. A few pinpoint wormholes in the back. Small piece of vellum gone at the right outer edge of the upper board. Lacking the last blank leaf. Both pastedowns worn. Right upper corner of the last flyleaf torn off Note: The Byzantine historian Niketas Choniates Nikêtas Chôniates ca. 1155-1216 was born in Chonai Phrygia Asia Minor and present day Khonas hence his name Choniates 'from Chonai'. He joined his older brother Michael in Constantinople where he embarked upon a political career and became an important civil servant. As governor of Thrace he was personally involved in the events relating to Frederick Barbarossa's passage through Thrace during the Third Cusade in 1189 when he lost his province to the Germans. After the capture of Constantinople and 3 of days of terrible and bloody looting by the Crusaders who were helped by the Venetians 13-15 April 1204 Niketas sought refuge in the home of a friend the Venetian wine merchant Dominicus who came to his rescue. Although a desperate refugee he was a brave man. 'As Niketas' party approached the Church of St. Mokios one of the Crusaders snatched the fair-headed daughter of a certain judge. Stumbling into a mudhole in despair the venerable judge pleaded with Niketas to save his daughter. To Niketas' credit in the face of great personal danger he persued the abductor and forced him to release the girl by appealing to his fellow Crusaders'. 'O City of Byzantium Annals of Nicetas Choniates' translated by H.J. Magoulias Detroit 1984 p. XIV-XV Niketas fled and went into voluntary exile in Nicaea where he settled at the court of the Nicaean emperor Theodore I Lascaris. There he completed a theological treatise the 'Dogmatikê Panoplia' which deals with the theological controversies of his time in some of which he himself had been involved and wrote this valuable account of the events of his lifetime. His account which is said to be impartial begins with the death of Emperor Alexius I Comnenus in 1118 who left his empire in bankruptcy and ends with events of autumn 1207 after the death of Baldwin I the first Latin emperor of Byzantium. 'The final draft of his history was left undone and its abrupt ending may have been due to his approaching death which also may explain his haste to complete it'. Idem p. XVI He considered the Comnenus dynasty a major cause of the empire's destruction and the sack of its capital in 1204. Another chief cause was the deterioration of the Byzantine navy. The Byzantines lost control of the seas to the Venetians. 'One of the historian's Niketas most telling criticisms is that the Muslims treated the conquered Latins in Jerusalem in 1187 with magnanimity while the Christians of the West behaved shamelessly toward their fellow Christians in the East'. Idem p. XXVII The history of the thallasocracy of Venice is closely connected with the Byzantine Empire. Constantinople twice granted her special trade privileges and with the Fourth Crusade and the sack of Constantinople this city state became an imperial power backed by its huge fleet. A considerable part of the loot was shipped to Venice including the famous bronze horses stolen from the Hippodrome which came to adorn the entrance of the San Marco Cathedral. With the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 numerous merchants Jews and Byzantine scholars fled to Venice. It is not strange that 16th century Venice was eager to read about their city's greatness and the collaps of the Byzantine Empire. The 'editio princeps' of the 'Historia' of Nicetas was published in Basel by Wolf in 1557. A few years later in 1562 3 Venetian translations were published. The first one this edition of 1562 was obviously a success for Francesco Sansovino brought in the same year a second augmented edition on the market. His fellow townsman Vincenzo Valgrisi published in 1562 also a translation this time made by Joseppe Horologgi. See Hoffmann 2634 Sansovino who apparantly considered Choniates' 'Historia' to be not elegant enough published in 1562 for his own press his own revision of the not yet published translation of Fausto da Longiano. Preface 4 recto At the beginning of each of the 7 books he proudly claims his part in the historiography of Constantinople for he adds to 'DELLE COSE DELL'IMPERIO DI COSTANTINOPOLI . SCRITTE PARTE DA NICETA CONIATE' printed in capitals in lowercase: '& parte da Francesco Sansovino'. This translation fell on fertile ground in Venice. Interest did not dwindle for in 1568 and 1571 two other editions appeared both translations of L. Dolce. The interest of Sansovino in Niketas may have been aroused by his experiences during his own childhood. He was born in Rome in 1521 and witnessed as a child the sack of his city in 1527 by mutinous troops of Charles the 5th. He and his father fled to Venice. Sansovino studied law in Padua and Bologna and after attempting a career at the court of Pope Julius III he returned to Venice. He was a many-sided author of poetry prose writings on literature history and rhetoric as well as a translator and editor. He opened his own printing house publishing around 30 editions many of good quality between 1560 and 1568. He was widely read during the Renaissance especially his historical works. His best known work is 'Venetia città nobilissima et singolare descritta in XII libri' of 1581 a kind of encyclopedia of the city Provenance: On the title: 'Ex libris Jacobi Alberti .ndini'. The first 2 letters of the last element are illegible Collation: 4 A-Z4 AA-EE4 minus leaf EE4 a blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎PHAEDRUS‎

‎Ezopische Fabelen van Fedrus gevryden slaef des Keizers Augustus. In Nederduitsch Dicht vertaelt en met Aanmerkingen verrykt door D. van Hoogstraten.‎

‎The Hague 's Gravenhage By Gerard Block 1739. 8vo XLVIII2591 blank371 blank p. Vellum. 15.5 cm Ref: STCN ppn 303260319; Geerebaert 1252a; cf. OiN p. 290 Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Title in red & black. Woodcut floral ornament on the title. Woodcut initials Condition: Binding age-tanned and slightly spotted. Small name label on the front pastedown. 1 name and 1 small stamp on the front flyleaf. Paper slightly yellowing. Endpapers foxed Note: David van Hoogstraten 1658-1724 was conrector of the 'Schola Latina' at Amsterdam from 1694 till 1722. He wrote Dutch and neolatin poetry and is well known for his lexicon 'Nieuw woordenboek der Nederlantsche en Latynsche tale' 1704 1719 1736. He published editions and translations of Nepos Terentius and Phaedrus. NNBW 831-833 This is the second edition of Van Hoogstraten's translation of the fables of Phaedrus. The first edition which was published in 1703 in Amsterdam by François Halma was a more ambitious project than this modest and cheaper version. It was in quarto and had engraved plates. One year earlier in 1701 Halma had already produced Van Hoogstraten's scholarly Latin edition of Phaedrus with ample commentary which was specially made for prince Johan Willem Friso 1687-1711 Prince of Orange 1702-1711 and 'stadhouder' of Friesland and Groningen. In the preface to the second edition of this translation the publisher Block tells the reader that this cheaper edition is primarily intended for young readers. He advises all family men to have their children read and reread this book. Van Hoogstraten dedicates his translation to the younger sister of Johan Willem Friso princess Maria Amalia 1689-1771 who was only 13 years old when it was first published. Van Hoogstraten was influential in the field of Dutch language studies in the 18th century with his work: 'Aenmerkingen over de geslachten der zelfstandige naemwoorden' 1700. It was his opinion that the Dutch language equalled the Greek and that it surpassed the Latin having no articles Provenance: The name label is of one 'Herman Spaan'. § On the flyleaf a small stamp: 'Ex libris A. Kerckhoffs'. This might be the Dutch linguist and cryptographer Auguste Kerckhoffs 1835-1903 who was professor of languages at the 'École des Hautes Études Commerciales' in Paris in the late 19th century. See for this interesting man Wikpedia 'Auguste Kerckhoffs' and also 'Kerckhoffs's principle'. § On the flyleaf also the name of 'H.J.' or 'H.I. van Reenen' Collation: -38 A-S8 leaf R2 verso and S8 verso blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 152273

‎PLINIUS MINOR‎

‎Caii Plinii Caecilii Secundi Epistolarum libros decem cum notis selectis Jo. Mariae Catanaei Jac. Schegkii Jac. Sirmondi Is. Casauboni Henrici Stephani Conradi Rittershusii Cl. Minois Casparis Barthii Aug. Buchneri Jo. Schefferi Jo. Frid. Gronovii Christophori Cellarii aliorumque recensuerunt suisque animadversionibus illustrarunt Gottlieb Cortius et Paullus Daniel Longolius qui etiam universum opus indicibus locupletissimis instruxit.‎

‎Amsterdam Amstelaedami Apud Janssonio-Waesbergios 1734. 4to. Frontispiece LII924;8461191 blank p. Contemporary mottled calf 26 cm Ref: STCN ppn 186700156; Schweiger 2809/10; Brunet 4722: 'bonne édition'; Dibdin 2332; Graesse 5343; Ebert 17356; Fabricius/Ernesti 2416 Details: Back with 5 raised bands and panelled in gilt with floral motives. Frontispiece it depicts Pliny writing a letter. Title in red & black. Engraved printer's mark on title; a mole with the motto: 'Vulgo caeca vocor. Video sed acutius ipso' Condition: Binding rather worn and scratched. Head & tail of the spine damaged. Back rubbed shield in the second compartment gone. Corners bumped. Endpapers chipping and loosening. Right margin of the frontispiece chipped. Title soiled and with a small hole and a small tear in the outer margin. Small tear in the outer margin of the first 5 leaves. Outer margin of last 6 leaves chipping. Some foxing Note: The Roman civilian administrator Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus 61-112 A.D published 9 books of literary letters consisting of short essays character sketches and sensible observations. The letters paint the high society of the young Roman empire. The tenth book contains Pliny's correspondence with the emperor Trajan. Pliny is famous for his description of the eruption of the Vesuvius in 79 A.D. § The German classical scholar Gotlieb Cortius or Kortte 1698-1731 made his name producing editions of Latin authors whose works were provided with very extensive commentaries in the manner of the Dutch scholar Petrus Burmannus to whom this edition is actually dedicated. Dibdin admires the work of Cortius: 'this' he says 'is a very critical and elaborate edition calculated for those who wish to enter minutely into all the niceties of grammatical construction and historical illustration'. Ernesti says that this is a work 'quae est sane luculenta et ut nunc est optima editio'. Cortius died before he could finish the job. Most remaining work was done by a pupil of Cortius the young German philologist Paul Daniel Longolius 1704-1779 from 1735 Rector of the Gymnasium in Hof Saale. He published 3 ancient authors in an exemplary manner the Letters of Pliny the Younger and the works of Diogenes Laertius 1739 and Gellius 1741. ADB 19156/7 The edition of the letters and the commentary is preceded by a 70 pages long biography of Pliny by J. Masson which was first published in Amsterdam in 1709 Collation: pi1 4 minus 4 2-74 minus 74; a-m4; A-5O4 a-p4 leaf p4 verso blank Photographs on request Heavy book may require extra shipping costs hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 140108

‎VELLEIUS PATERCULUS‎

‎C. Velleii Paterculi quae supersunt. Nicolaus Heinsius Dan. F. recensuit et castigationum libellum addidit.‎

‎Amsterdam Amstelodami Ex officina Elzeviriana 1678. 12mo. XXIV11529 index;10812 addenda & index p. engraved title. Vellum 14 cm Prize copy Gouda Ref: Willems 1550: 'Des 5 éditions de Paterculus données par les Elzevier celle-ci est la plus estimée. Elle présente un texte nouveau revu par N. Heinsius'; Berghman 2110; Rahir 1686; Schweiger 21128; Brunet 4430: 'édition préférable'; Fabricius/Ernesti 220; Graesse 5162; Ebert 23478; Prize copy: Spoelder Gouda 2 p. 568 Details: 6 thongs laced through the joints. Back ruled gilt. Boards with double fillet gilt borders. Gilt coat of arms in the centre of the boards. Engraved title it depicts Aeneas with his father Anchises on his shoulders and holding the hand of his son Ascanius; Anchises shows the way he points at the motto: Fata viam invenient a quote from Vergil's Aeneid Book X verse 113; in the background burns Troy. The first part 115 pages contains the text the second part 108 pages the notes of Heinsius Condition: Without the prize. Vellum age-tanned. Gilt fading. Ownership entry on the front pastedown. Inscription on the front flyleaf. Right margin of the title slightly soiled. Occasional pencil stripes in the Latin text Note: The work of the Roman historian Velleius Paterculus ca. 19 BC - after 30 AD commonly called Historia Romana is a valuable source for the reigns of the Roman emperors Augustus and Tiberius. It is the only history written by a witness of their time. Paterculus who served 'under Tiberius in many of his most important campaigns seems to have conceived an unbounded admiration for him and the whole imperial family in whose men he could see nothing but sublime virtues while the enemies were compact of every possible vice'. H.J. Rose 'A handbook of Latin literature London 1967 p. 355 Velleius' adulatory type of history was however condemned by the later historian Tacitus who ignores him. § The Historia Romana consists of 2 books. The beginning of the first is lost from the founding of Rome to the battle of Pydna in 168 BC in which the Romans defeated the Macedonian kingdom. What remains of book one ends with the fall of Carthago in 146 B.C. Book 2 is of greater importance. 'Book 2 covering the period 146 BC to AD 30 becomes more detailed as it approaches the author's own day doubtless because as he tells us he projected a fuller history from the Civil War onwards.' OCD 2nd edition p. 1111/12. Velleius' style is less polished but we are to remember that he was more a soldier than a rhetorician or scholar. Still long time the work of Velleius was considered to be a kind of rhetorical patchwork produced by an opportunistic court historian. However 'erst seit kurzem arbeitet man intensiv an einer Neubewertung des Velleius und seines Oeuvre als eines 'interpretationsfähigen und interpretationsbedürftigen Textes sui generis'. Neue Pauly 12/1 1170/71 § The Dutch neolatin poet and classical scholar Nicolaas Heinsius 1620-1681 is to be ranked in the opinion of the Dutch Latinist Petrus Burman among the best interpreters of this historian. David Ruhnkenius however who allowed Heinsius 'every praise as an editor of the Latin poets thinks him greatly deficient' in his edition of Velleius. Dibdin The suggestions notes and emendations of Heinsius are frequently discussed in the normative Cambridge edition of Velleius Paterculus of A.J. Woodman who observes that Velleius was certainly not a panegyrist but that modern historians sided with Tacitus and have 'invariably tended to accept the criteria which Tacitus laid down for judging the early empire and its rulers. There is no reason why these should be the only valid criteria. The writing of history is an interpretation of various items of evidence: Velleius' own lifetime coincided with the period which he covers in the Tiberian narrative and it is almost always possible to corroborate from other ancient sources the statements which he makes concerning contemporary events. What objection can there be to an historian who recognised the benefits inherent in the imperial system and who devoted his rhetorical skill to the production of a corresponding interpretation of events'. A.J. Woodman 'Velleius Paterculus the Tiberian narrative' Cambridge 1983. p. 53 Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries 25 Provenance: On the front pastedown in a modern hand: 'G. Henderson Essex Court Temple'. Essex Court lies in the Temple an area of central London in the vicinity of Temple Church. Henderson probably a jurist also made the inscription on the front flyleaf. On the front pastedown also an older name: 'Vad: Platii Pigotiani e dono S. fratris 1877'. A mysteryCollation: 12 A-L12 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎SYMMACHUS‎

‎Q. Aurelii Symmachi V.C.P.V et Cos. Ord. Epistolarum ad diversos libri X. Ex nova recensione Joh. Philippi Parei. Accesserunt etiam Electa Symmachiana cum indice. Bound with 2: Calligraphia Symmachiana: in qua omnes phrases & formulae elegantiores quotquot exstant in gravissimo authore Q. Aurelio Symmacho Praef. Urb. In gratiam & usum Philologiae studiosorum inprimis eorum qui Principibus ab Epistolis esse cupiunt per certos titulos locorum communium colliguntur ac disponuntur studio & opera Joh. Philippi Parei. Bound with 3: Electa Symmachiana: in quibus quicquid rerum memorabilium antiquitatisque Romanae in gravissimo authore Q. Aurelio Symmacho Praef. Urb. continentur sub certos titulos reales locorum communium refertur. Studio & opera Joh. Philippi Parei. Bound with 4: Lexicon Symmachianum. . Ad editionem quae prodiit ex nova recensione Joh. Philippi Parei.‎

‎Neustadt Neapoli Nemetum Impensis Joh. Caroli Unckelii librarii Francofurtensis excudebat Heinricus Starckius 1617. 8vo. 4 volumes in 1: 486; 32511 index; 1017 index4 blank; 272 recte 270 p. Contemporary calf. 17.5 cm Ref: VD17 23:242009B: vol. 1 & 3; VD17 3:314636G vol. 2; VD17 3:314634S vol. 3; VD17 23:242011X vol. 4; Schweiger 2991: Vollständige Exx. dieser Ausgabe finden sich sehr selten; Brunet 5612; Graesse 6/1539; Ebert 22078 Details: Back with 4 raised bands. Boards with blind ruled borders. First title in red and black. Woodcut printer's mark on that title depicting Samson between two pillars; Samson died according to Judges 16:30 when he grasped two pillars of the Temple of Dagon and 'bowed himself with all his might'. Judges 16:30 The motto reads: Nostra Fortitudo Nomen Domini. This convolute lacks according to VD17 the 7 page Q. Aurelii Symmachi Vita of Jacques Godefroy. Ebert remarks that this short vita is usually lacking. The titlepage of the last volume bears erroneously the year 1517 Condition: Binding scuffed and worn at the extremities. Corners bumped. Both pastdowns are detached: the binder used a manuscript music sheet for the endpapers. The music and the accompanying text in English seem liturgic Note: The Roman nobleman Quintus Aurelius Symmachus ca. 340 - ca. 402 AD was a prominent civil servant and became the most famous and admired orator of his day. Fragments of his speeches survive. H.J. Rose may call his oratory empty but an eulogy that Symmachus composed for the emperor Theodosius after he had sided with the usurpator Maximus once saved his life. And with his oratory this pagan politician was considered to be the most prominent opponent of Christianity. When Gratianus ordered by imperial edict the removal of the altar of Victoria from the Senate building of Rome he pleaded for the repeal of the edict. Of historic importance is the third letter in the tenth book of this collection of letters in which Symmachus asked for the restoration of this altar. It made a great impression it is said but he was defeated largely through the efforts of the bishop of Milan Ambrosius ca. 339-397 AD. The bishop persuaded the emperor to neglect the plea of this leader of the Roman aristocracy for the restoration of the altar. This was the last battle between Christianity and the other pagan religions of antiquity. The two episcopal letters about this 'cause célèbre' which Ambrosius addressed to the Emperor have been added here at the end of the letters of Symmachus. The collection of letters is arranged in ten books and contains some 900 letters addressed to the leading persons of the period. § The Latin text of this correspondence was edited by the classicist Johann Philipp Pareus 1576-1648 one of the most laborious grammarians Germany ever produced. His best work was done at Neustadt where he was Rector of the local school from 1610 till 1623. Pareus did much for Plautine scholarship. He was also a Symmachus specialist. Pareus published in 1628 a second and in 1642 in Frankfurt a third edition Provenance: The provenance of this book is probably English. The endpapers are the remnants of an English music sheet Collation: A-2G8 2H4; A-X8; A-G8 leaves G7 & G8 blank; A-R8 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎QUINTILIANUS‎

‎M. Fabii Quintiliani Institutionum oratoriarum libri duodecim summa diligentia ad fidem vetustissimorum codicum recogniti ac restituti. Novae huic editioni adiecit Fabianarum notarum spicilegium subcisivum Daniel Pareus Phil. Fil. Accesserunt etiam Quintilianorum declamationes.‎

‎London Londini Typis E.G. Impensis R. Whitakeri 1641. 8vo. 2 parts in 1: 5696 index1 blank; 7222 blank; 58 index2 blank p. Modern half vellum 18 cm 'Practical humane fascinating still of signifance'. Ref: ESTC Citation No. R16191; Schweiger 2839; Fabricius/Ernesti 2273; cf. Graesse 5527 for the edition Franktfurt 1629 with exact the same title Details: Back with 3 raised bands Condition: Endpapers renewed. Old ownership entries and some small notes on the title. Paper yellowing. Right lower corner of 3/4 hardly visibly waterstained. Small hole in the blank margin of p. 13/14 Note: The Roman orator Marcus Fabius Quintilianus ca. 35 - ca. 100 A.D. was under emperor Vespasian probably the first holder of the chair of Latin rhetoric in Rome paid by the fiscus. salarium e fisco accepit Suetonius Vesp. 17-19 His most celebrated work is the 'Institutio Oratoriae' in 12 books. It 'covers the complete training of the orator from the earliest preparation by the grammarian to his most mature aspirations for oratorical preeminence'. The Classical Tradition Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 827 The ideal was a public speaker who was skilled not only in eloquence but who was also a good man. This is summarized in the famous maxim that an orator is a 'vir bonus dicendi peritus'. Quintilian still makes all that has been written on education from Rousseau to the latest pseudo-psychologist rather worthless. H.J. Rose A handbook of Latin literature London 1967 p. 399 'Book 1 discusses childhood education. . In book 2 the boy enters the school of rhetoric'. In book 3 follows an account of the art of rhetoric 'its origin its parts and its functions. Book 4-6 deal with the detailed structure of a speech . Book 7 is concerned with arrangement dispositio and status-lore. Book 8 discusses style . while in book 9 figures of thought and speech are illustrated'. Book 10 contains a critique of Greek and Latin writers. 'Book 11 discusses memory delivery gesture and dress . The concluding book shows the complete Orator in action a man of highest character and ideals . Roman gravitas at its noblest'. OCD 2nd ed. p. 907 The 19 'Declamationes maiores' which have come down to us under the name of Quintilian are certainly not his work. The 'Declamationes minores' a corpus of 145 smaller rhetorical exercises are probably the work of a contemporary rhetorician. § The 'Institutio Oratoria' of Quintilian was known throughout the Middle Ages especially in the summarizing works of the encyclopedists like Cassiodorus and Isidorus of Sevilla. In 1416 the Italian humanist Poggio Bracciolini discovered in Sankt Gallen a complete text after which Quintilian came 'to exert a deep and lasting influence on rhetorical theory and practice'. The Classical Tradition p. 829 The treatise influenced authors like Erasmus and Vives. The humanist Poliziano lectured on him and Lorenzo Valla preferred him to Cicero. His ideas were absorbed by Piccolomini Agricola Erasmus De pueris instituendis and Melanchthon. He was also used by Ben Jonson Discoveries Alexander Pope Essay on criticism Du Bos and Goethe. 'Seine Wirkung geht mit der Verfehmung der Rhetorik im 19. Jh. zurück doch bleibt Quintilian eine respektierte Grösse bis heute'. Neue Pauly 10719 § Daniel Pareus German philologist historian and schoolmaster son of the classical scholar Johann Philipp Pareus was born in 1605. He must have been a young scholar of some promise for the Dutch professor Gerard Vossius who endeavoured to find publishers for his works failed to gain him a professorship in the Netherlands. He then went to Kaiserslautern and founded there a Latin School but not yet 30 years old he was in 1635 murdered at the occupation of that city by soldiers or stabbed by a gang of brigands. In his short career he produced an edition of Musaeus 1627 Herodian 1627 'Mellificium Atticum' a collection of sentences of Greek authors reduced into commonplaces 1629 notes on Quintilian first published in 1629 Heliodorus's Aethiopica notes on Lucretius. He added his 'Animadversiones' to his father's edition of Sallust. His historical works are: 'Universalis historiae profanae medulla' 1631 'Universalis historiae ecclesiasticae medulla' 1633 and his excellent 'Historia Palatina' on the history of the 'Pfalz' 1633. ADB 25167 Provenance: On the title in faint ink: 'Sum conventus Angiae' and 'Bibliothecae Augustianae Angiae' and 'Fr. Jodocus Anthonii Ord. Eremit. S. Augustini' who wrote also beneath the imprint 'Requisitus Lovanii 1643' and 'Fr. Leverd prior'. The city of Enchien Flemish Edingen in the province Hainaut Belgium once housed a convent of the 'Ord. FF. Eremitarum S.P.N. Augustini'. This Augustine convent rue des Augustins no. 2 still is a monument. Frater Jodocus perhaps was the librarian of the convent he records that it was acquired in Louvain in 1643. § On front flyleaf the name of 'Lennart Hakanson' 1939-1987 professor of Latin at the university of Uppsala. He published in Lund in 1974 'Textkritische Studien zu den grösseren Pseudoquintilianischen Deklamationen' Collation: A8 -A1 B-2N8 leaf 2N8 verso blank. A-2Y8 between 2O and 2P has been inserted a gathering of two leaves signed pp; leaf 2Y8 blank; 3A-3C8 3D6 leaf 3D6 blank § There are two issues of this edition of 1641: ESTC R233485 and ESTC R16191. The first one starts with the 'Institutio Oratoriae' followed by the 'Declamationes' the other is the other way round first the Declamationes and then the 'Institutio Oratoriae'. R16191 calls for a title page with a heart-shaped ornament and with the printer's error 'accesserum' instead of 'accesserunt'. Our copy has the construction of R16191 but has the title page of R233485 which shows a flower-shaped ornament and has the corrected 'accesserunt'. This title page is a cancel this means that the faulty title was removed and replaced by another corrected title Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎THEODORETUS CYRRHENSIS‎

‎Theodoreti Opera Omnia graece et latine ex recensione Iac. Sirmondi denuo edidit Graeca e codd. locupletavit editiones antiquiores adhibuit versionem latinam recognovit et varias lectiones adiecit Io. Ludou. Schulze. Tomos II. Title completely in Greek‎

‎Halle En Chalêi têi Magdebourgikêi En tôi Tupographeiôi tou Orphanotropheiou Halae Sax. 1770. 8vo. 2 volumes: XXIV16942 blank p. Half calf. 22 cm 'Biblical exegesis' Ref: Hofmann 3494; Graesse 6/2118; Ebert 22796; Brunet 5786; not yet in VD18 Details: Backs with 5 raised bands. Marbled boards. Greek text and Latin translation in 2 columns. Volume two of five Condition: Bindings scuffed backs skilfully repaired and rubbed. One of the shields on the back of the first volume has gone. Corners bumped boards chafed. Paper foxed and yellowing. Lacking the volume 1 and 3/5 Note: Theodoretus 393-466 A.D. is one of the most successful writers of the Eastern Church. He was 'from 423 bishop of Cyrrhus Syria. From 428 he was involved in the Christological controversy between his friend Nestorius and Cyrill of Alexandria. He became Cyrill's leading critic. Deposed by the monophysite Council of Ephesus 449 he was rehabilitated at Chalcedon in spite of strenuous protests 451 but his attacks on Cyrill received posthumous condemnation under Justinian at the Council of Constantinople 553. His well-composed letters written in elegant prose are informative about both secular and ecclesiastical matters. His 'Graecarum Affectionum Curatio' is painstaking and thorough in contrasting Christianity and paganism. His 'Church History' from Constantine to 428 contains many invaluable documents. The 'Religious History' contains biographies of ascetics. The rest of his work is biblical exegesis and theological controversy both of which he conducted well'. OCD 2nd edition p. 1055 § Theodoretus' exegetical commentaries are according to Quasten among the finest specimens of the Antiochene School and remarkable for their combination of terseness and lucidity. In his interpretation of Holy Scripture Theodoretus adopts a middle course avoiding the radicalism of Theodore of Mopsuestia and his excessive literalness and allowing an allegorical and typological explanation whenever this appears preferable. Quasten 3539 § Theodoretus' 'Opera Omnia' was produced by the German scholars J.L. Schulze and J.A. Noesselt and reprinted in J.P. Migne 'Patrologia Graeca' volumes 80-84. The contents of this second volume was reprinted in volume 81 1864 of the 'Patrologia Graeca'. § This second volume contains: 'Explanatio in Canticum Canticorum; Succincta in Esaiam Prophetam interpretatio; In divini Jeremiae prophetiam interpretatio; Liber XI Baruch; Liber II Lamentationes Jeremiae; In divini Ezechielis prophetiam interpretatio; Commentarius in visiones Danielis Prophetae; Commentarius in Duodecim Prophetas; Enarratio in Hoseam Prophetam; Interpretatio Ioelis Prophetae; Commentarius in Amosum Prophetam; Interpretatio Abdiae Prophetae; Interpretatio Ionae Prophetae; Interpretatio Michaeae Prophetae; Interpretatio Nahumi Prophetae; Interpretatio Prophetae Habacuc; Interpretatio Sophoniae Prophetae; Interpretatio Aggaei Prophetae; Interpretatio Zachariae Prophetae; Interpretatio Malachiae Prophetae' Provenance: Small label on the front pastedown: 'Sold by William Brown130 Old Street London. Libraries purchased'. Brown specialized in Theology. In 'The Ecclesiastical gazette or Monthly register of the affairs of the Church of England' vol. VII June 1845 p. 280 we found an advertisement of him for a catalogue of books relating to 'Ecclesiastical History the Roman Catholic controversy' and a catalogue 'Foreign theological ecclesiastical and biblical literature' Collation: 8 b4; A-5O8 chi 1 after 2T6 = half title of volume 2; leaf 5O8 the last leaf is blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎SULPICIUS SEVERUS‎

‎Sulpitii Severi Opera omnia quae extant.‎

‎Amsterdam Amstelodami Ex officina Elzeviriana 1656. 12mo. 3333 p. 19th century calf. 13 cm Ref: STCN ppn 852876300; Willems 1207; 1526; Rahir 1233; Brunet 5322; cf. Graesse 6/1376; Ebert 21999; Schoenemann 2391 Details: Nice binding. Back with 4 raised bands. Engraved title depicting Martinus of Tours on horseback ready to cut his cloak in two for a beggar Condition: Binding slightly worn. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Paper slightly yellowing Note: The Latin historian Sulpicius or Sulpitius Severus was born in Aquitania ca. 360 A.D. He organized under the influence of Bishop Martinus of Tours a sort of monastic life on his own estate for himself and his friends. His extant works are a vita S. Martini Turonensis 'which is an apology for ascetism'; and this Sacrae Historiae a kind of universal chronicle to A.D. 402 'which is an important source for the history of 4th-century events . The whole book is an interesting attempt to present a 'breviarium' of history from the Christian point of view: it uses Christian chronographers especially St. Jerome but also Pagan writers. J. Bernays suggested that for the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D 70 Sulpicius followed the lost account of Tacitus. Sallust and Tacitus are his models in the matter of style'. OCD 2nd 3d. p. 983 After the text of the Sacrae Historiae follows the Continuation written by the humanist Johannes Sleidanus 1507-1556 taken from his De quattuor summis imperiis. This treatise of 90 pages deals with the history of the chruch in the Middle Ages until Charles V. After the Continuatio follow three letters on Saint Martin's miracles and death and three dialogues of Sulpicius Severus which compare Saint Martin's feats and virtues with those of the Egyptian hermits. § This Sulpicius edition is a line by line reissue of the Elzevier edition of 1643. Texts of Sulpicius were apparantly in demand for the Elzeviers of Leiden and Amsterdam produced three editions of the Sacrae Historiae 1626 1635 & 1643 and four editions of Sulpicius' Opera 1635 1643 1656 & 1665 Provenance: Armorial bookplate on the front pastedown. Underneath this bookplate a label: 'Ex libris Gulielmi Gaskell Rouse A.M. Ex Aede Christi; Oxon. Anno 1861'. 'William Gaskell Rouse was born c. 1827 in Old Windsor Berkshire. He appears in the 1871 Census aged 44 a Church of England Clergyman living with his wife Gertrude aged 34 in Offley Hertfordshire with three servants. Gertrude was born in St Kitts West Indies and her maiden name was Gertrude Maria Grace Payne daughter of Charles Gillies Payne and Mary Elizabeth Salusbury. William died in 1871'. Rouse studied in Eton and Christ Church Oxford. See the site gaskellfamilycom § The armorial bookplate bears the motto: 'Omne bonum Dei donum' 'Every good is the gift of God'. On the shield are placed in horizontal bars two birds and a rosette. Upon the shield rests a bust of what looks like a bearded Greek philosopher Collation: A-O12 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎SLEIDANUS,I‎

‎I. Sleidani De quatuor summis imperiis libri tres; Postrema editione hac accurate recogniti.‎

‎Amsterdam Amsterodami Apud Ioannem Ianssonium n.d. between 1631 and 1664 8vo. 309241 blank p. 12mo. Vellum 12 cm Details: Back with 4 raised bands. Two thongs laced through the joints. Engraved title depicting some mythological figures and a small portrait of Alexander the Great Condition: Vellum age-toned. Front flyleaf gone. Three pinpoint holes on the rear joint. A small tear in lower margin of title which is thumbed. Paper foxed and with some brown stains. One old ink annotation Note: The German humanist diplomat and historian Johannes Sleidanus Sledanus Sleidan was born between 1506 and 1508 in Schleiden hence his name a city South of Cologne. He is best known for his 'De statu religionis et reipublicae Carolo Quinto Caesare Commentarii' published in 1555 which made him the historian of the Reformation. It was so impartial that it pleased no one. The book was placed by the pope on the Index and the Lutherans were not pleased either. Still it remains the most valuable contemporary history of the times of the Reformation and it contains the largest collection of important documents. Less controversial is Sleidanus world history 'De quatuor summis imperiis babylonico persico graeco et romano' published in the year of his death 1556. NDB 24 499/500 The idea of four empires is an old one. In the Old Testament an angel tells Daniel who was in slavery in Babylon how to interpret a dream he had. Daniel had dreamed of a winged lion a ferocious bear a panther with four wings and four heads and an unnamed alien monster with iron teeth that devoured everything. The angel: 'These four great beasts are four kings who shall arise out of the earth'. On the day of judgement the last of the four kings will lose his power and will vanish and the kingdom will be given to the saints. Late medieval exegesis explained the fours beasts as follows the lion was the Babylonian kingdom the bear was identified as the dominion of Persia and the winged panther was the reign of Alexander and his diadochi. The beast with the iron teeth was the Roman empire. All these kingdoms stood on feet of clay. As the divine vision of Daniel provided only for four kingdoms the Holy Roman Empire of Sleidanus' days had to be a continuation of the Roman Empire of the past. The German emperors with the divine legitimation of the Bible continuated merely the Roman empire. Sleidanus' historical chronicle is based on the order as revealed in Daniel's vision. 'His concern is the historical legitimation of the German imperial reign through its continuity with the Roman empire'. He thus gave biblical dignity to the German imperial constitution and thus legitimated the protestant Reformation. W. Schmidt-Biggemann 'Philosophia perennis: Historical Outlines of Western Spirituality in Ancient Medieval and Early Modern Thought' Dordrecht 2004 p. 399-400 This world history of Sleidanus was immensely influential. In the next 150 years more than 60 editions were published. Sleidanus succeeded in creating with both his historical works a common historic identity for the protestants in a hitherto Catholic world. History had at the beginning of the Reformation to be repossessed and rewritten to underline the Protestant claim for legitimacy and authority. His History of the four Empires contained enough condemnations of the popes to suit the taste of his public. This undated Janssonius edition is probably a pirate edition of an Elzevier production published between 1631 and 1664 the year Janssonius died. Willems no. 358 dated 1631 no. 763 dated 1655 & no. 1179 dated 1654. All three Elzeviers editions have the same number of pages as this one of Janssonius Collation: A-X8 leaf X8 verso blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎STATIUS‎

‎P. Papinii Statii Opera ex recensione et cum notis I. Frederici Gronovii.‎

‎Amsterdam Amsterodami. Typis Ludovici Elzevirii Sumptibus Societatis 1653. 16mo. VIII424 p. Overlapping vellum 12 cm Ref: This edition is 'the most significant stage in the evolution of the printed text of the Thebaid before the late nineteenth century.' Berlincourt Classical quarterly 2016 66 1 p. 376-383; Willems 1166; Bergman 2139; Rahir 1189; Copinger 4491; Schweiger 2965; Dibdin 2424; Fabricius/Ernesti 2335; Moss 2612; Ebert 21682: 'mit grossem Scharfblick und nach guten Hülfsmitteln verbessert' Details: Engraved title: a battle scene from the Thebaid the city of Thebes is in the background the poet in front Condition: Vellum slightly soiled. Small owner's inscription on the title Note: His fluent and highly polished verse brought the Roman poet Publius Papinius Statius ca. A.D. 45-96 to the court of the Roman emperor Domitianus. He is best known for his epic the 'Thebaid' which tells the story of the civil war between the sons of Oedipus Eteocles and Polynices contesting power over the city of Thebes. The 'Achilleid' tells the story of the education of Achilles. Statius' 'Silvae' is a collection of 32 occasional poems addressed to his friends celebrating their marriages etc. In his epic work there are frequent imitations of Vergil in word and thought. OCD 2nd e. p. 1011/12 § The Thebaid was extraordinary popular during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. In Dante Statius even ascends to heaven. The 'Thebaid' was used by Boccaccio and Chaucer and there appeared adaptations in Irish French and Italian. Also Statius' 'Silvae' enjoyed a vigorous afterlife and set a standard for the Neolatin poets of the 16th and 17th century. Composing occasional poetry in imitation of Statius was a common pastime among humanist classicists e.g. Heinsius Scriverius Meursius and in England Milton and Ben Jonson. The works of Statius were ably edited by the Dutch classicist of German origin Johann Friedrich Gronov or Gronovius 1611-1671 He was the successor of Heinsius at the University of Leiden and was influenced by Vossius Grotius Heinsius & Scriverius. His editions mark an epoch in the study of Livy of Seneca Tacitus & Gellius. His interest to the textual criticism of Latin poetry was due to the discovery of the Florentine MS of the tragedies of Seneca. In his riper years 'the acumen exhibited in his handling of prose is also exemplified in his treatment of the text of poets such as Phaedrus and Martial Seneca and Statius'. Sandys History of Classical Scholarship 2321 As an editor and commentator Gronovius played a pivotal role in the history of the works of Statius. This small and light book of 1653 weighs only 120 grams it is indeed 'pondus non magnum' but especially the notes are 'satis ponderosae' that is really important. They fill merely 68 pages at the end of this volume and of these pages the notes to the Thebaid fill only 41 and are concerned with little more than 200 passages. 'Their scope is almost entirely limited to the emendation of the text of Statius'. For the Thebaid Gronovius consulted at least 11 manuscripts. 'The place given to conjecture though clearly subordinate is by no means negligible. These notes often involve other aspects as well: Gronovius broad conception of emendation leads him to tackle various questions whenever they lend support to his views. . In his eyes the dignity of critical studies does not lie in emendation itself but in the comprehensive knowledge of ancient languages and cultures in which emendation should always be grounded; such knowledge enables the scholar to get the author's genius and thus restore the text from inside'. V. Berlincourt 'In pondere non magno satis ponderosae.' Gronovius and the printed tradition of the Thebaid' in: 'The poetry of Statius' Leiden Boston Brill 2008 p. 1-2. Mnem. Suppl. 306. The Gronovius edition became during the 2 following centuries 'the undisputed foundation of almost every later edition until scholars at last began to base their work on a comprehensive study of the manuscript tradition that is until the second Teubner of Otto Müller in 1870'. Berlincourt p. 7. Gronovius' work exercised a great influence over later editors and commentators. 'There is little to find fault with in Gronovius' critical method as illustrated by his notes though it is of course still conceived of as being mere emendation of the textus receptus; usually his discussions are well informed his arguments sound and his judgement balanced'. Berlincourt p. 10 Provenance: On the lower margin of the title we read the name of one 'I.N. Arntzenius' 'J.N. Arnstzenius' or F.N. Arntzenius' Collation: 4 A-2C8 2D4 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎PRUDENTIUS‎

‎Aurelii Prudentii Clementis Viri Consularis rerum divinarum religionis Christianae iuris item civilis & militaris peritia excellentis opera.‎

‎Lyon Lugduni Apud Ioan. Tornaesium et Guil. Gazeium 1553. 8vo. 5191 blank p. Contemporary pigskin over wooden boards. 13.5 cm Prudentius hat sich in der lyrischen in der epischen und in der didaktischen Poesie versucht und allenthalben Grosses geleistet Bardenhewer Ref: Cartier 'Bibliographie des éditions des De Tournes' no. 258; Graesse 5467; Ebert 18063 Details: Contemporary pigskin over wooden boards. Back with 3 raised bands. Boards decorated with a row of blind-tooled rolls comprising floral motives and 10 portraits in medallions; there are 2 kind of portraits of 'Iusticia' and of 'Lucrecia'; Iusticia holds what looks like a disk before her face and Lucrecia stabs herself in the breast with a dagger. If this disk which is as big as her face is a mirror the cutter of the stamp made a mistake for the usual attributes of Justitia are the sword scales or blindfold. If this disk represents however a kind of blindfold to cover her face he chose an attribute we could not find in any work on iconography. A mirror is rather an attribute of Prudentia. The central panel is adorned with floral motives. On the title the round printer's mark of 'De Tournes': a double ring formed by two vipers a male and female; the female crushes the head of the male; in the middle a shield with the motto: 'Quod tibi fieri non vis alteri ne feceris'. Cartier p. 138/39 type Vip. o. Woodcut initials Condition: Binding scuffed and soiled corners bumped. Front hinge cracking but strong. 3 owner's inscriptions on the title one of them erased with ink. The vipers of the printer's mark are coloured pale green Note: The Roman poet Aurelius Clemens Prudentius born 348/49 died after 405 A.D. and of Spanish origin was besides a man of letters also an industrious public servant. He was a fervent Christian who had not cut himself off from the culture of the ancient world. 'He regarded the pagan literature and art not as things to be rejected but as part of the inheritance into which Christian Rome enters'. 'Prudentius' ed. H.J. Thomson Cambr. Mass. 2000 vol. 1 p. IX Loeb Classical Library 'It is as a poet in whom is embodied a reconciliation between the new faith and the old culture and in whom Christian thought claims rank in the world of letters that Prudentius is historically important'. Op. cit. p. X He 'was a pioneer in the creation of a Christian literature and has the credit of originating new types of Christian poetry the literary hymn the moral allegory and what has been called the Christian ballad'. Op. cit. XII His hymns are odes in which pagan mythology is replaced by stories from the Bible. By the great English scholar Richard Bentley he was described as 'Christianorum Maro et Flaccus'. All we know about him comes from Prudentius himself. For an edition of his work published in 404 or 405 he wrote a preface of 45 lines of poetry in which he informs the reader about his carreer and motives to write poetry. Prudentius was much read in the Middle Ages. His influence is also visible in medieval art. More than 300 manuscripts with his work survive. § The 'editio princeps' of Prudentius dates from 1495. This Lyonese edition of 1553 is based on the edition of Basel 1527 edited by the German humanist and classical scholar Johannes Sichardus 1499-1552. In Basel he lectured from 1525 till 1527 on Cicero Livius and other Roman classics. In the preface to the Prudentius edition dated 1527 and which is repeated in the edition of 1553 Sichardus complains about earlier editions of Prudentius which had suffered from mutilated manuscripts and amateur 'sciolo nescio quo' scholars. He has however managed to restore Prudentius in his original splendour Pristinio autem nitori restituimus. He did so not relying solely on his genius which is a tricky sometimes even unsound way to emendate genus emendandi satis lubricum ne dicam interim pestilens but with the help of an old manuscript ex codicibus vetustioribus which was lend to him by one Vuerinherus Vuoflinus Wernerus Woflinus. This manuscript is now held in Bern 'Bern Burgerbibliothek Cod. 264' place of origin: Bodensee Reichenau/St. Gallen/Konstanz and written ca. 900. Near the end of this edition of 1553 we find: 'In Aurelii Prudentii Clementis V.C. Psychomachiam scholia per Ioannem Sichardum' 10 p. De Tournes added from another source after this section of scholia: 'Erasmus Roterodamus castissimae puellae Margaretae Roperae s.d.' dated 1523 and the 'Commentarius in hymnum Prudentii de natalis puero Iesu per Erasmum Roterodamum' together 57 p. Provenance: Weissensee provenance On the title: 'Erdmann Wilhelm Ferber Gosecka. Thur.' We found a New Year's message of him dated 1757 'Licht in Finsterniss beym Wechsel des Jahres'. He is described on the title as Diakonus 'und ausserord. Colleg. der Landschule zu Pforta'. In the 'Personal-Codex des Weissensee'r Kreises' Weissensee 1868 p. 1 it is recorded that Magister Erdmann Wilhelm Ferber was 'Pfarrer' and 'Superintendent' in Weissensee from 1771 till 1799. Goseck lies in Thüringen between Leipzig and Jena. § Below the printer's mark the name of probably the next owner: 'Ern. Andr. Christp. Callenberg'. Ernst Andreas Christoph Callenberg was Rector of the 'Stadtschule' at Weissensee from 1784 till 1822. 'Personal-Codex des Weissensee'r Kreises' Weissensee 1868 p. 6 In the 'Wittenbergsches Wochenblatt zum Aufnehmen der Naturkunde und des ökonomische Gewerbes auf das Jahr 1778 6 Stück Freytags den 13 Februar 1778' on page 48 under the heading 'Gelehrte Nachrichten Von der Wittenbergschen Universität und Stadt' he is mentioned a member of 'Predigercollegium' of the 'Schloss- und Universitätskirche with the addition 'aus Thüringen'. In 1775 he signed a 'Album Amicorum' with 'Kallenberg'. There he reveals the place of his birth 'Gebeser' nowadays Gebesee a small city north of Erfurt. § On the front pastedown in pencil: '15 sept. 1965' written by the Flemish linguist Walter Couvreur 1914-1996 who was an Orientalist and professor of Indoeuropean linguistics at the University of Gent. It indicates the date of aquisition. The place of acquisition he wrote on the flyleaf at the end: 'Leipzig Zentralantiquariat' Collation: A - 2I-8 2K-4 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎EUNAPIUS‎

‎EUNAPIOU TOU SARDIANOU BIOI philosophôn kai sophistôn. Eunapius Sardianus De vitis philosophorum et sophistarum Hadriano Iunio Hornano interprete. Graeca cum mss. Palatinis comparata aucta & emendata Hieronymi Commelini opera. Nunc recens accedunt eiusdem auctoris Legationes e bibliotheca Andreae Schotti Antverpiani.‎

‎N.pl. Geneva Oliva Pauli Stephani 1616. 8vo. 16915 index1 blank p. 18th century boards. 17 cm Ref: Hoffmann 265; Renouard Stephani 497 erronously dating 1612; Schweiger 1114; Graesse 2518; Ebert 7069; Brunet 21094 Details: Woodcut printer's mark on the title depicting a man on his knees under an olive tree he is praying; some branches are broken off and are falling down; from the mouth of the man comes on a banner the motto: 'rami ut ego insererer defracti sunt' 'the branches were broken off that I might be graffed in'. Romans 1119 The text is printed in 2 colums Greek text with opposing Latin translation Condition: Binding soiled and worn. Back chafed. Title page foxed. Paper yellowing Note: The Greek neo-Platonist Eunapius was born in Sardes ca. 345 A.D. He was an admirer of the last pagan emperor Julian and a convinced opponent of christianity. His historical work survives owing to its anti-christian tenor only in excerpts. Still extant are the 'Lives of the Sophists' written about A.D. 396. 'They follow Philostratus' model Life of Apollnius and on the basis of first-hand information deal mainly with 4th century Neoplatonists. Eunapius gives an idealized picture in order to compete with the biographies of Christian saints'. OCD 2nd ed. 416 The 'editio princeps' was published in 1568 in Antwerp. This edition already had the Latin translation of the humanist Hadrianus Junius or in Dutch Adriaen de Jonghe who was born in 1511 in Hoorn. From the presses of the Flemish scholar/printer Hieronymus Commelinus 1550-1597 came the next Eunapius edition Heidelberg 1596. It was reissued with exact the same title by Paulus Stephanus in 1616. Commelinus a native of Douai and a protestant had to flee because of the persecutions. In 1569 he is a student in Heidelberg and in 1572 he surfaces as bookseller in Geneve where he cooperates with Pierre de St. André Officina Sanctandreana. He immatriculates for the second time in Heidelberg in 1585 and is invited in 1587 by the Prince-Elector Elector Palatinus to establish a printshop as typographus principis'. Commelinus' special interest were the publishing of classical texts edited by great scholars like Casaubon Scaliger and Gruter. He often did so with the help of manuscripts from the local 'Bibliotheca Palatina'. Commelinus himself was also active as an editor. In the short preface to this Eunapius edition Commelinus tells how he found 2 Greek manuscripts in the Library of the Prince-Elector now known as Bibliotheca Palatina compared them with the text of the 'editio princeps' which was edited quite insufficiently Eunapiio ita misere affecto and how he in doing so could correct and supplement Eunapius. Collatis itaque Palatinis duobus cum editione Iunii quae tuto potuere correxi supplevi Leaf a2 recto. Commelinus printshop produced in 10 years nearly 140 editions. This 1616 edition was produced by Paul Estienne who had taken over the Estienne-firm in Geneva after the death of his father Henri Estienne Henricus Stepanus II. With him ends the Geneva branch of the printer's dynasty of the Estiennes. Renouard lists between 1603 and 1627 only 27 editions Provenance: On the front pastedown in pencil: '13 maart 1963' written by the Flemish linguist Walter Couvreur 1914-1996 who was an Orientalist and professor of Indoeuropean linguistics at the University of Gent. It indicates the date of aquisition. The place of acquisition he wrote on the flyleaf at the end: 'Groningen Bouma'. The price was 8 guilders Collation: A - L-8 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎VENERES BLYENBURGICAE,‎

‎sive amorum hortus: in quinque areolas divisus & fragantissimis CXLVIII celeberrimorum poetarum flosculis refertus opera Damasi Blyenburgy Batavi H.F. Part 1: Venerum Blyenburgicarum sive Horti Amoris areola prima: Ad amicam; 2: Areoloa secunda: Laudes; 3: Areola tertia: Ad se ipsum; 4: Areola quarta Ad Venerem & Cupidinem; 5: Areoloa quinta: Ad animum mentem mortem et similia.‎

‎Dordrecht Dordraci Ex typographia Isaaci Canini impensis Davidis Episcopii 1600. 8vo. 5 parts in 1: XVI865 recte 8711 blank84 appendix p. Contemporary limp overlapping vellum 16 cm Ref: Brunet 1982: 'Ce recueil de pièces érotiques est un des plus agréables que nous ayons en ce genre mais il y manque nombre de morceaux qui auraient dû y figurer'; Graesse 1444; Gay-Lemonnyer 31308 Details: 2 thongs laced through the joints. Manuscript title on the back. Each part has its own title followed by a dedication preface and list of contents Condition: Binding age-tanned worn spotted and somewhat wrinkled. All four ties gone. Front flyleaf removed. First title thumbed and showing a small hole at the imprint. Paper foxed and yellowing some gatherings browning Note: This is the first edition of one of the most important 17th century anthologies of erotic Neolatin poetry from 148 poets. The collection was compiled by the Dutch man of action and letters and neolatin poet Damas Heymansz. Blyenburg born Dordrecht 1558 deceased while traveling to Bohemia in or after 1616. Damas was in 1586 enrolled as a law student at Leiden and followed an intellectual career. In his youth he published a poem in praise of the neostoic treatise De Constantia of Justus Lipsius 1584 who was a professor at Leiden. He corresponded with many scholars. From a letter to Bonaventura Vulcanus professor of Greek at Leiden it seems that he participated in one of the first trips to the East Indies as a captain. In 1594 we find him in America where he entered into the service of the first British governor of Virginia. Damas published the works of Fulgentius of Ruspe Amsterdam 1610 & 1612 published an anthology of 200 Latin poets Cento ethicus ex variis Poetis hinc inde contextus Leiden 1599 and compiled another anthologyVeneres Blyenburgicae Dordrecht 1600 2nd edition 1613 Amsterdam. NNBW 4175/76; and www.regionaalarchiefdordrecht.nl/achtergronden/familie-van-blijenburg-15e-17e-eeuw/ The Veneres Blyenburgicae divided into 5 areolae flower-beds contains on more than 900 pages 1137 erotic poems of 148 poets of Alciatus Bonefonius Dousa Erasmus Gruterus Hessus Lotichius Muretus Marullus Politianus Robortellus Sannazarius Janus Secundus and many others Collation: 1 8 A-O8; 2 P-Z8; 3 2A-2P8; 4 2Q-2X8; 5 2Y-3N8 3O8 minus blank leaf 3O8 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎GRAEVIUS,JG J G‎

‎Jo. Georgii Graevii Praefationes et Epistolae CXX. In usum latinae eloquentiae studiosorum collectae & editae a Jo. Alberto Fabricio D. & Eloqu. Prof. Adjuncta est Petri Burmanni V.Cl. oratio dicta in Graevii funere.‎

‎Hamburg Hamburgi Sumtu Christiani Liebezeit Typis Spiringianis 1707. Small 8vo. XVI6373 blank p. Vellum 17 cm Ref: Not yet in VD18; Sandys 2327ff. Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Engraved portrait of Graevius before the title made after an engraving of G. Valck of ca. 1705 engraved in its turn after an oil painting by Gerard Hoet painted between 1675 and 1699. Title in red & black Condition: Vellum somewhat spotted. Renewed endpapers; some old ink underlinings; small wormhole in the right margin of the last two blank leaves Note: Johann Georg Graeve or in Latin Johannes Georgius Graevius 1632-1703 was born in Germany and educated at Schulpforta. He was professor of Eloquence at Duisburg from 1657 at Deventer and at from 1662 at Utrecht 'where he lived and worked for the last 40 years of his life'. He limited his attention mainly to writers of Latin prose Cicero Suetonius Caesar Justinus Florus. He is remembered for his 'Inscriptiones antiquae' and famous for his three 'Thesauri' in which important works of previous scholars were collected and reprinted the 'Thesaurus eruditionis scholasticae' 1710 the 12 folio volumes of the 'Thesaurus antiquitatum Romanarum' 1694-99 and the 9 volume 'Thesaurus antiquitatum et historiarum Italiae' 1704. 'The latin style of his prefaces his speeches and his letters is elegant'. The letters contain a treasure of information on classical authors. The German editor of this collection the bibliographer Johannes Albertus Fabricius 1668-1736 was a friend and a great admirer of Graevius. 'Quanta in illo Viro quamque accurata & dilucida cognitio Antiquitatis quanta utriusque linguae peritia'. He is particularly lyrical about Graevius' eloquence and Latin style. 'Eloquentia vero tam singularis tamque exquisita ut sermo ejus a Musis videatur ipsis & Gratiis elaboratus esse'. Dedicatio p. :5 recto Provenance: On the pastedown of the lower board a small label: 'Sammlung Otto Fritz Böhme'. Elke von Radziewsky made of this Collection of the antiquarian bookseller Otto Fritz Böhme a interesting bibliography: 'Sammlung Otto Fritz Böhme Drucke aus Offizinen im Raum der ehemaligen Ost-Hanse' Hamburg Otto Fritz Böhme 1986. It presents more than 1700 entries of publications from the 15th to the 19th century arranged according to printing places from Altona to Zerbst Collation: pi1 portrait 8 minus leaf 8; A-2R8 2R7 verso blank & 2R8 blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎GAUTRUCHE,P‎

‎Historia poetica ad faciliorem poetarum et veterum auctorum intelligentiam; a R. Patre P. Gautruche soc. Jesu Gallice conscripta. Post septimam editionem latine reddita ab Uno eiusdem Societatis. In gratiam Poetices Candidatorum.‎

‎Tyrnau Tyrnaviae Typis Academicis 1728. 12mo. VIII180 recte 179;20 index1 blank p. Vellum 13 cm Details: Woodcut printer's mark of the Jesuit Order on the title Condition: Vellum slightly soiled and spotted. Back very slightly damaged. Old shelf number with ink on the front board. Front flyleaf removed. Wormholes in the inner margin of the endpapers at the end and of the last 3 leaves with some loss of letters in the index. Modern stamp & old name on the front pastedown Note: The contribution of the Jesuit order to the cultural history of Central and Eastern Europe was more significant than it was to the West. The small town of Trnava in Slovakia or Tyrnau or in Hungarian Nagyszombat and especially its Jesuit University founded there in 1635 was one of the catholic strongholds in Central Europe in the time of the Counter-Reformation. Its main purpose was the stemming of Protestantism or Lutheranism in what was then called the kingdom of Upper Hungary which was a part of the Habsburg empire. Here the order of the Jesuits trained its teachers and missionaries who spread catholicism and Habsburg culture succesfully eastward. Their most important weapons in spreading the autocratic ideology of that era were diplomacy and education. 884 members of the Jesuit order were active in Upper Hungary ca. 1750. They were leading 30 gymnasia 6 academies and 2 universities that of Trnava and of Kosice. For more than 150 years the Jesuit University of Trnava carried on its activity throughout Royal Hungary. Its University Press published more than 5000 titles. After the Order had been dissolved in 1777 the University was transfered to Buda. § This collection of prose narrations of mythological stories necessary for a perfect understanding of the Greek and Latin poets and other ancient authors was compiled to facilitate the study of young students. The collection was originally published in French as 'L’Histoire poétique pour l’intelligence des poètes et des auteurs anciens' by the French Jesuit Pierre Gautruche 1602-1681. It was translated into Latin after the 8th French edition and consists of 3 books the first treats the Gods the second the semi-gods the third is on religious ceremonies. p. A4 recto The French and the Latin version saw at the end of the 17th century and the first half of the 18th century many reissues. It was also translated into English Provenance: On the front pastedown a green stamp of 'Univ. Doz. Dr. Mag. F.F. Schwarz Professor. A 8810 Graz Panoramagasse 2A' with a handwritten date of acquisition '1973'. Franz Ferdinand Schwarz was from 1982 till 1996 professor of classical philology at the University of Graz where he was born in 1934. He died in his hometown in 2001 after a long illness. See his wikipedia lemma 'Franz Ferdinand Schwarz' In old ink on the front pastedown: 'Ex libris Francisci Caroli Wernerth anno .' Year illegible Collation: A-H12 I6 K2In the pagination has been omitted no. 113 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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