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‎THUCYDIDES‎

‎Thucydides over den oorlog der Peloponnesers en Atheners. Vertaald door H. Frieseman.‎

‎Amsterdam Te Amsteldam Bij Pieter den Hengst 1786. 8vo. 2 volumes: VIII424; II4851 p. Contemporary marbled boards. 21 cm Ref: STCN ppn 177080426; Geerebaert 841; OiN 372 Details: Backs ruled gilt and with a blue letterpiece in the 'second compartment' Condition: Binding worn especially at the extremes. Backs rubbed. Letterpiece on the back of volume 2 slightly damaged. 1 stamp on the first title. 2 stamps on the second title Note: This is the first translation into Dutch of the work of the Greek historian Thucydides 'perhaps the greatest historian who has yet lived incontestably the greatest in antiquity'. H.J. Rose A handbook of Greek literature London 1965 p. 302 The translation was made by the Dutch schoolman Hendrik Frieseman born ca. 1755. Later in life he succeeded in obtaining the rectorship of the 'Schola Latina' of Harderwijk where he died in 1821. Van der Aa 16252 In his short preface Frieseman tells us that he used for his translation the text of Duker. This must be the very learned edition with text and exhaustive commentary produced by Carolus Andreas Duker Amsterdam 1731. Frieseman tried he says to imitate the compact and succinct style of the Greek historian and tried to avoid the loose and 'agreable' style of the translation of the Frenchmen Ablancourt first published in 1662. He reproaches the famous Ablancourt that he occasionaly seems to contradict and improve Thucydides which is not the task of the translator Provenance: stamp on title: 'Bibliotheek Aloysius-college s'-Gravenhage' and of 'Bibl.-Gymn. Catv.' this must be the Sint Wilbrordus Gymnasium at Katwijk Collation: 4 A-2C8 2D4; pi1 A-2G8 2H2 2I1 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎PLINIUS MINOR‎

‎Caii Plinii Caecilii Secundi Opera quae supersunt omnia. Ad fidem optimarum editionum diligenter expressa. Liber I-X: ex recensione Cortii et Longolii. Panegyricus Nervae Trajano Augusto dictus ex editione T. Hearne‎

‎Glasgow Glasguae In aedibus academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis Academiae typographi 1751. 12mo. 3 volumes in 2: IV1-2751 blank; IV277-6331 blank23 p. index1 blank p. Vellum 13 cm Ref: Gaskell no. 208 p. 163 and especially no. 208 p. 419; ESTC Citation No. T190303; Schweiger 2807: 'Sehr saubrer Abdruck des Textes der Briefe nach Corte und Longolius und des Panegyricus nach Th. Hearne'; Graesse 5346; Ebert 17358; cf. Dibdin 2331 & 332; cf. Moss 2495 Details: 2 thongs laced through the joints. Short title in ink on the back Condition: Vellum slightly soiled and scratched. Some foxing. Paper yellowing 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 on the 24th of August in 79 A.D. He was a nephew of the encyclopedist Pliny the Elder who died observing the eruption from afar overcome by poisonous fumes. Pliny the Younger held under Trajanus a number of magistracies. In 111 or 112 he became governor of Bithynia. From here he was in constant correspondence with the Emperor. His letters which were conceived of as artistic productions are more or less epistolary essays. In the late antiquity and later in the Renaissance the literary letter had a widespread influence. § The Scottish printers Robert and Andrew Foulis chose for this edition of Pliny's 247 letters the best available text at the time. It was produced by the German classical scholar Gottlieb Cortius or Kortte 1698-1731 who made his name producing editions of Latin authors and whose works were provided with very extensive commentaries in the manner of the Dutch scholar Petrus Burmannus. His very critical and elaborate Plinus Minor edition was published in Amsterdam in 1734. Cortius died before he could finish the job. Most publishing work was done by a pupil of his the young German philologist Paul Daniel Longolius 1704-1779. He added also emendations of his own. Longolius published 3 ancient authors in an exemplary manner these Letters of Pliny the Younger and also Diogenes Laertius 1739 and Gellius 1741. ADB 19156/7 His Plinius edition is called by Ernesti the editio optima Ernesti/Fabricius Bibliotheca Latina 2416 For the Panegyricus Foulis used the edition of Pliny the Younger which was produced by the English scholar Thomas Hearne 1678-1735 and which dates from 1703 Oxford. It is called by Dibdin a 'very respectable edition'. § Thousands of panegyrics must have been delivered in antiquity. Only a few of them survive. A panegyric is an elaborate eulogy a formal set-piece oration in praise of an emperors or a high dignitary and was an integral part of the ceremony of politics in the Roman empire. The most influential panegyric speech was delivered in 100 A.D. by Plinius Minor before Trajan and the Senate in Rome in which he thanks the emperor for his election to the consulship. It served as a model of rhetoricians in late antiquity. 'It went on to teach many Renaissance and Baroque ceremonial orators how to address supreme political authorities in public speeches. The Classical Tradition Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 745. His most famous imitator in the Renaissance was Erasmus. By the 18th century the panegyric was treated with suspicion for it easily slid from a showpiece of praise to mindless flattery. 'For Enlightenment critics panegyrics were not to be seen as part of a vital political culture; rather they were a sure index of the constriction of personal liberty and the inevitable bankruptcy of language under autocracy'. The Classical Tradition Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 684 In the 35 years between 1742 and 1776 the learned Foulis brothers who were University Printers to the University of Glasgow produced ca. 590 titles. Circa 100 of them are Greek or Latin editions. The Foulises printed textbooks for the University but also works of learning and general literature. From their presses have come some of the finest specimens of accurate and elegant printing that was produced in the eighteenth century. They once hung up the sheets of an Horace edition 1744 which was being printed in the college of Glasgow and offered a reward to those who could discover an inaccuracy. It seems that this Pliny edition was originally planned in two volumes. On the verso of the titles of volume 1 and 2 one reads: 'Epistolarum libri sex priores' and 'Epistolarum libri quatuor posteriores. Panegyricus Nervae Trajano Augusto dictus'. However at the bottom of page 503 the first page of the Panegyricus is printed 'Vol. III'. It was probably intended later on that the Panegyricus should comprise the third volume 'but no copy has been seen with a separately-bound vol. III nor one with a Vol. III title page'. Gaskell p. 164 The Panegyricus is instead of a title preceded by 2 leaves which only announce the Panegyricus and donot have an imprint. The Foulises produced in this same year also a quarto edition of the Letters of Pliny. Gaskell 207 Collation: Vol. 1: pi2 A-L12; M6. Vol. 2: pi2 N-X12 Y6 minus blank leaf Y6; pi2 leaf pi1 half-title pi2 volume title Z-2D12 2E6 2F12 leaf 2F12 verso blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎OCELLUS‎

‎Betrachtungen des Ocellus von Lukanien über die Welt. Aus dem Griechischen in das Französische übersetzt und mit verschiedenen Abhandlungen über die wichtigsten Punkte der Hauptwissenschaft der Naturlehre und der Sittenlehre der Alten die man als den zweyten Theil der Weltweisheit der gesunden Vernunft ansehen kann begeleitet von dem Herrn Marquis d'Argens Seiner königlichen Majestät in Preussen Kammerherrn Mitglied der königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften und Direktor der philologischen Klasse. Aus dem Französischen des Herrn Marquis in das Deutsche übersetzt.‎

‎Breslau Verlegts George Gottlieb Horn 1763. 8vo. 50462 p. Restored half vellum 17 cm Ref: Hoffmann 32; Ebert 14990; cf. Brunet 4151 for the French edition of 1762; not yet in VD18 Details: The binding is not original but originating from an other book of approximately the same size. The vellum on the boards seems old but the leather on the back is recent. The pastedowns are new and marbled the flyleaves are old but not original. Greek text with facing German translation abundant commentary Condition: The paper is browning & foxed; title spotted its margins thumbed. Small hole in the right margin of the title not reaching text. Right upper corner of 1 leaf torn off with the loss of some letters at the beginning & end of the first sentence. Some words on 1 page erased with ink. Small hole in the last leaf resulting in the loss of some letters. Some pencil Note: This book is a gesture of friendship. It was produced by Jean Baptiste de Boyer Marquis d'Argens for his close friend Frederick the Great Friedrich der Grosse the philosopher/king of Prussia to give him some comfort in tempestuous times when it looked as if he stood on the eve of the fall of his kingdom. 1760/61 were years of disaster for Frederick during the Seven Year's war 1756/1763 an 18th century world war between Prussia Kurhannover and Great Britain against the rest of Europe. In the midst of slaughter the Marquis and Frederick exchanged letters. In a letter of october 1760 Lettre 88 Frederick seemed desparate. La fin de mes jours est empoissonée' he writes. 'Je n'ai ni secours ni diversion ni paix ni rien au monde à espérer. The end of the letter is gloomy. Adieu mon cher Marquis ne m'oubliez pas & soyez tranquille spectateur de ce qu'il plaira à la fatalité & à la brutale rage de nos ennemis d'ordonner de nous. Oeuvres postumes de Frédéric II Tome XI: Correspondance avec le Marquis d'Argens Amsterdam 1789 p. 200 The king meanwhile finds like the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius comfort in philosophy. Je n'ai de soutien au milieu de tant de contrariétés que ma philosophie; c'est un bâton sur lequel je m'étaie. Lettre 92 p. 210 In the summer of 1761 when all seemed lost D'Argens took up his pen and produced for his king this Ocellus edition. 'Ocellus or Occellus of Lucania occurs in Iamblichus' list of Pythagoreans but the work peri tês tou pantos phuseôs bearing his name and known as early as the first century B.C. is undoubtedly spurious. It shows considerable traces of Aristotelian influence and may problably be dated about 150 B.C.' OCD 2nd ed. p. 745 'Ocellus' Schrift über das All soll offenkundig die aristotelische Lehre von der Ewigkeit der Welt und des Menschengeschlechtes mit der Autorität des Pythagoras versehen vielleicht auch die Abhängigkeit des Aristoteles von letzterem belegen'. Neue Pauly vol. 111155 § The Frenchman Jean Baptiste de Boyer Marquis d'Argens 1704-1771 who edited and translated this text is still convinced that its author the philosopher Ocellus lived in the 6th century B.C. That it might be a forgery doesnot enter his mind. The marquis tells in the preface that it is better to read zu Erlernung der alten Weltweisheit Pref. p. 10 the concise original works of the ancients than the more wordy new publications for sie stellen uns die Lehrgebäude der alten Weltweisen nicht in der gehörigen Kürze dar Pref. p. 10. His translation of and commentary on Ocellus illustrate he goes on themes which he the Marquis developed previously. This Ocellus should be considered to be a supplement to the Marquis's Die Philosophie der gesunden Vernunft oder philosophische Betrachtungen über die Ungewissheit der menschlichen Erkäntniss Breslau 1756 a translation into German of his La philosophie du bons-sens ou réflexions philosophique sur l'incertitude des connoissances humaines first published 1737 which saw many reissues and was translated into English Dutch and Italian. Pref. p. 10 Ocellus he tells lived before Socrates Plato and Aristotle and one finds in his work den Grund worauf die späteren Weltweisen hernach ihre Lehrgebäude aufgeführet haben. Pref. p. 11 To prove his point he quotes Plato Philo Alexandrinus Lucianus and Stobaeus. Stobaeus who lived in the 5th century A.D. even wrote a summary of Ocellus' work. He quotes: Ocellus sagt er Stobaeus hält in seinem Buche von der Natur der Welt dafür dass die Welt ewig sey und er beweiset theils diese Meinung theils sucht er auch darzuthun dass die Bewegung die Zeit und die Figur der Welt schon von Ewigkeit her mit der Welt zugleich gewesen sind. Denn die Figur der Welt ist zirkulförmig. Ein Zirkul aber ist sich an allen Seiten gleich und ähnlich und hat also keinen Anfang oder Ende. Die Bewegung ist ebenfalls ewig denn sie geschiehet in einem Kreis und kann also eben so wenig als dieser einen Anfang oder Ende haben. Die Zeit is ebenfalls ewig und unendlich weil dasienige was bewegt wird ohne Anfang und Ende ist. Die Natur leidet also niemals einige Veränderung sie wird weder besser noch schlechter sondern sie bleibet eben so in alle Ewigkeit wie sie von Ewigkeit her gewesen ist'. Pref. p. 19/20 The Marquis proudly tells that his translation is the first one in a modern language. He translates as litteral as possible he says but took the liberty to elaborate on some passages of his translation da ich sonst hätte befürchten müssen das die Uebersetzung vielen Lesern unverständlich würde geworden seyn. Pref. p. 24 The best earlier edition with Latin translation was according to the Marquis produced by the Englishman Thomas Gale Amsterdam 1688. Pref. p. 26 He calls the commentary of the Italian Vizanius Bologna 1646 worthless. The aim of his own commentary is die vornehmsten Punkte der Gottesgelehrsamkeit der Naturlehre und der Sittenlehre zu erörtern und die Uebereinstimmung oder Verschiedenheit der ältern und neuern Gottesgelehrten und Weltweisen in Absicht derselben zu zeigen. Und ich glaube das wenn man unpartheyisch die verschiedenen Meinungen der Alten und Neuen von Zeit zu Zeit untersuchen wollte man daraus eine kurzgefasste Geschichte des menschlichen Verstandes verfertigen könnte'. Pref. p. 27 § The philosopher and author Jean-Baptiste de Boyer Marquis d'Argens was a fierce opponent of the Catholic Church of intollerance and of religious oppression. His books frequently ended up on the Index of forbidden books. His best known work is his Lettres Juives The Hague 1738/42. Frederick the Great king of Prussia invited him to his court. He appreciated him for his attacks upon orthodox religion. There he remained 25 years as a friend and advisor of the king. As the title says D'Argens was Seiner königlichen Majestät in Preussen Kammerherr salary 1500 Reichtaler Mitglied der königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin und Direktor der philologischen Klasse. At the end of his short lemma in Wikipedia French one finds a huge list with his publications. Far more reliable information on D'Argens can be found here: ub-dok.uni-trier.de/argens/bio/bio.htm. D'Argens established relations with the republic of letters in Germany. Especially sein Engagement für den jüdischen Philosophen Moses Mendelssohn ist in der Literaturgeschichte in Erinnerung geblieben. He befriended king Frederick's friend Voltaire mit dem ihn eine zwar zeitweise getrübte aber doch lebenslange Freundschaft verband. His most influential philosophic work was his Philosophie du bon sens which wanted to incite mistrust against all authorities. It saw several translations and 13 editions in the 18th century. This book Betrachtungen des Ocellus was published one year earlier in 1762 in Berlin in French the original title of which is Ocellus Lucanus en Grec et en Français avec des dissertations sur les principales questions de la Métaphysique de la Physique & de la Morale des anciens qui peuvent servir de suite à la Philosophie du Bon sens. Chr.A. Klotz praises in his review in the Acta Litteraria vol. II pars I Altenburg 1765 p. 39/64 the translation of d'Argens. Vidimus Dargensium bene Graecos scriptores e Graeco in Gallicum sermomem vertisse assecutum esse plerumque feliciter sensum auctorum . explicuisse omnia luculenter nihilque ad eorum sententias intelligendas pertineret omisse. p. 41/42 His commentary is very useful and informative immortales Dargensio gratias res litteraria deberet. p. 55. The aim of d'Argens of producing this book was not purely philologic. He didnot want to produce a scientific text. He is a philosopher of the Enlightenment who tries to convince his readers with the help of the ideas of an ancient philosopher that morality is possible without a God. He is an opponent of the religious metaphysics of the German precursor of the Aufklärung the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. § From the correspondence between D'Argens and king Fredrick the Great in the years 1761/62 we learn something about the aim of this book and the motives for its creation. In a letter to Frederick dated 3 november 1761 lettre 121 D'Argens announced his translation to Frederick. J'ai discontinué depuis de deux mois ma traduction de Plutarque que je reprendrai bientôt & j'ai employé ce temps à traduire le plus ancient philosophe Grec qui nous reste appelé Ocellus Lucanus; il a fait un ouvrage sur la nécessité de l'éternité du monde; il vivoit long-temps avant Socrate Platon Aristote &c. Son ouvrage est court mais excellent; j'y ai joint sous le prétexte d'éclaircir le texte plusieurs dissertations qui ne feront pas rire les ennemis des philosophes'. Oeuvres postumes de Frédéric II Tome XI: Correspondance avec le Marquis d'Argens Amsterdam 1789 p. 272/73 Six weeks later lettre 123 24 december 1761 the Marquis explains Frederick that the Ocellus edition with his translation and his dissertations was not produced for the scholarly world. His Majesty will see que je n'ai pas fait la sauce pour le poisson mais que j'a cuit le poisson pour avoir le prétexte de faire la sauce. Passez-moi Sire ce mauvais proverbe parce qu'il explique bien l'idée que j'ai eue en traduisant Ocellus'. Correspondance avec le Marquis de'Argens p. 277/78 From letter 122 it appears that D'Argens has sent to the king in the mean time the preface to his new book. He produced the Ocellus he tells the king almost one year later lettre 176 October 1762 to vent his gal la bile que nos ennemis me faisoient faire about infamous libels with attacks upon the philosophers Voltaire D'Argens et alii and their maecenas at Sans-Souci king Frederick. J'ai composé celles dissertations sur Ocellus pour répondre indirectement à trente libelles qu'on publioit en Allemagne & en France contre les philosophes & cela pour en revenir toujours à celui de Sans-Souci & à ceux qu'il honoroit de ses bontés'. Correspondance avec le Marquis de'Argens p. 385 D'Argens refers to books like L'Anti-Sans-Souci ou la folie des nouveaux philosophes which was published in 'Bouillon' in 1761. This libel targeted the entourage of the king people like Voltaire La Mettrie and D'Argens and indirectly the king himself. We have seen that D'Argens found it his duty to lay aside his work on Plutarch and to support his king in this tempestuous year of 1761 by attacking Frederick's ennemies who rejoiced in his misfortunes. That the king was very pleased with the gesture of D'Argens is proved by the fact that Frederick offered a deluxe gift copy of the French edition of 1762 bound in red morocco leather to his reader Vorleser Henri Alexandre de Catt. It is one of the rare known gift copies of Frederick. The anecdote connected with this gift is too striking to omit. Möchlicherweise hat der König das Buch kurz nach dem Tod der Zarin Elisabeth 5. Januar 1762 seinem Vorleser de Catt geschenkt. Als der König Ende 1761 die Meldung erhielt dass die Zarin schwer erkrankt sei sagte er zu de Catt: 'Sie werden sehen dass sie nicht stirbt und dass ich gegen das Unwetter weiter ankämpfen muss. Ich gehe eine Wette ein dass sie wieder gesund wird'. De Catt war anderer Ansicht. Sie schlossen eine Wette ab und der König versprach seinem Vorleser für den Fall dass er verlieren sollte ein Geschenk. This was the best and most important bet Frederick ever lost. We quote from Wikipedia's lemma Seven Year's War: 'Britain now threatened to withdraw its subsidies if Prussia didn't seriously consider offering to make concessions to secure peace. As the Prussian armies had dwindled to just 60.000 men Frederick's survival was severely threatened. Then on 5 January 1762 the Russian Empress Elizabeth died. Her Prussophile successor Peter III at once recalled Russian armies from Berlin . This turn of events has become known as the 'miracle of the House of Brandenburg'. A photo of this gift copy and the anecdote can be found on: www.die-buecher-des-koenigs.de/pdf/Friedrich_20120111.pdf. This very gift copy was auctioned in 2010 by Jeschke van Vliet Buch- und Kunstauktionen. The price was 11408 Euro. The German version of 1763 of this book is very rare. We found in KVK a few copies in German libraries one in a French and one in an Austrian library. One copy was auctioned in 1974 JAP Jahrbuch der Auktionspreise vol. XXV Collation: a-c8 d1; A8 minus blank leaf A8 B-2F8. nothing missing between A and B all is regular Photographs on request hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 120532

‎PHAEDRUS‎

‎Phaedri Aug. liberti Fabularum Aesopiarum libri V. Cum integris commentariis Marq. Gudii Conr. Rittershusii Nic. Rigaltii Is. Neveleti Nic. Heinsii Joan. Schefferi Jo. Lud. Praschii & excerptis aliorum curante Petro Burmanno.‎

‎Leiden Lugduni in Batavis Apud Samuelem Luchtmans 1728. 8vo. 2 parts in 1: LXII398;25870 index p. including frontispiece. Calf 21 cm Ref: STCN 296744565; Schweiger 2736; cf. Dibdin 2280; cf. Moss 2394; Graesse 5253; Brunet 4588; Ebert 16595 Details: Back with 5 raised bands. Morocco letterpiece once red in the second compartment. Floral gilt ornaments in the other compartments. Marbled endpapers. Title in red & black. Woodcut ornament on the title. Frontispiece designed by P. Tiedeman and executed by J. Mulder depicting Phaedrus with pen on paper while he listens to his Muse; in the background Aesopus surrounded by fable animals Condition: Back scuffed. Corners bumped Note: The Roman poet Phaedrus 15 B.C. - ca. 50 A.D. occupies in the history of the fable a very important role. He was a slave of Thracian descent and became a freedman libertus of the first Roman emperor Augustus. He composed 5 books probably incomplete of verse fables. His beast-tales are adaptions of the fables of the Greek poet and archfabulist Aesopus or Aisopos 6th century B.C and inventions of his own. Phaedrus prides himself to have elevated the fable into an independent genre of literature. Sometimes he satirizes contemporary conditions and he is always fond of emphasizing the moral of the story. 'The presentation is in general animated and marked by a brevity of which Phaedrus is rightly proud but which sometimes leads to obscurity'. OCD 2nd ed. p. 809 Nevertheless his style is clear pure and simple this in contrast to the swollen rhetoric of his time. He was widely read in the Middle Ages. During the 17th & 18th he was also very much en vogue. Schweiger lists hundreds of editions. Very popular among scholars and students were the Dutch 'Variorum editions' of Phaedrus. This kind of editions offered a 'textus receptus' which was widely accepted and was accompanied with the commentary and the annotations of various specialists taken or excerpted from earlier useful normative or renewing editions. Editions like these 'cum notis Variorum' were useful but never broke new ground. This 'Variorum edition' was produced by the leading scholar Petrus Burmannus 1668-1741. He was professor of Latin at the University of Utrecht from 1696 and at Leiden from 1715. As an editor he was an industrious manufacturer of 'Variorum editions' confining himself to the Latin classics. He edited besides Phaedrus Horace Claudian Ovid Lucan and the Poetae Latini Minores Petronius Quintilian Suetonius. Sandys 2 p. 343/5 Didbin and Moss do not mention this 'Variorum edition' of 1728. They mention only the Burmannus editions of 1698 and 1718. Schweiger had a sharper eye for he observes about this edition of 1728: 'Bloss neuer Titel zur Ausgabe von 1718'. This 1728 edition is indeed exactly the same as the edition of 1718. We compared both editions and must conclude that Luchtmans must have bought the unsold copies of the edition of 1718 from the publisher Scheurleer in The Hague removed the original title added only a new title-page dated 1728 and brought them to the market for the second time Collation: pi1 8 minus leaf 8 2-38 46 51; A-2B8 minus blank leaf 2B8; a-v8 x4 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎PYTHAGORAS- JOCHER,ChrG r G‎

‎De Pythagorae methodo philosophiam docendi disserit atque ad Orationem memoriae Ridelianae sacram die XXV Novemb. A.R.S. MDCCXLI in Auditorio Philosophico hora IX habendam invitat Christ. Gottlieb Ioecher Academiae H.T. Rector et ordinis philosophici exdecanus.‎

‎N.pl. Lipsiae Breitkopf literis Breitkopfianis 1741. 4to. 12 p. Paper wrappers gone. 19.5 cm Ref: NDB 10452; not yet in VD18 Condition: The original green paper wrapper has been removed Note: Invitation of the Rector of the University of Leipzig Christian Gottlieb Jöcher to attent a meeting in the 'Philosophicum Auditorium' in memory of 'Georgius Ridelius von Leuenstern und Seyfersdorf'. p. 12 ADB/NDB does not know him. In Worldcat we found invitations to such meetings to commemorate Ridelius in 1713 1728 1732 1733 & 1748. Ridelius had established a fund for scholarships for students from his own region. At the end of this short essay on Pythagoras Ridelius is called 'Haeriditarius a kind of hereditary peer in Treschen'. Treschen since 1945 Polish Trestno lies in former Silesia in the region of Wroclaw Breslau. Ridelius was an army officer a 'cohortis bellicae capitaneus'. p. 12 Jöcher announces that a promising student who is a benificiary of such a scholarship stipendio liberali one 'Ernestus Fridericus Wuttge Olna-Silesius' will speech in memory of his 'Euergetes'. The essay on Pythagoras which preceeds this invitation was written by the German philosopher librarian and lexicographer Christian Gottlieb Jöcher 1694-1758. It deals with the way in which Pythagoras organized his teachings and classified his students. Born in Leipzig Jöcher was from 1730 professor of philosophy and from 1732 of history of the University of Leipzig. From 1742 onward he was also its librarian. Jöcher however is best know for the 4th edition of his colossal and still indispensable work of reference 'Jöchers Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon' 4th ed. 1874-1787. Jöcher was apparantly interested like Ridelius in the sponsoring of poorer students from different regions. 'Er is ausserdem Aufseher des kurfürstlichen Stipendienwesens und Konvikts sowie Präfekt der Akademischen Dorfschaften'. Jöcher was famous for his occasional speeches and funeral orations. NDB 10452 Jöcher might have promoted the art of rhetoric among his students and have stimulated one of them to hold a splendid speech on a wellknown countryman. § We quote a lemma on Ridelius that we found in 'Des schlesischen Adels anderer Theil oder Fortsetzung Schlesischer Curiositäten' Leipzig/Breslau 1728 page 418: 'Der Freiherr von Riedel. Wie der helle Stern am Himmel im Löwen Löwenstern! also gläntzt dieses vornehmen Hauses Ruhm-würdige Wohlthätigkeit und Liebe zu Gelehrten in und ausser Schlesien. Georgius Ridelius à Löwenstern & Seiffersdorff Haereditarius hereditary peer in Treschen in Castris Episcopi Monasteriensis & ipsius Caesaris Leopoldi Tribunitia Dignitate ornatus stipendium olim legavit perpetuum quo Vratislaviensis vel alius e Silesia oriundus Lipsiae studiis incumbens biennio fruatur simulque ordinavit ut illud merens quotannis die Michaëlis aut non ita diu post Benefactoris memoriam refricet'. The fortified city Münster was the capital and garrison town of the Prince-Bishopric of Münster. Ridelius had in the army of the bishop a rank of 'tribunitia dignitas' garrison commander Ridelius had that rank also in the army of the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I 1640-1705 King of Hungary and Croatia King of Bohemia and King of Serbia. Ridelius might have fought the Ottomans in 1683 near Vienna. What 'office of tribune' meant we couldnot find out Collation: 4 2 Photographs on request unknown‎

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‎PLAUTUS‎

‎M. Acci Plauti Comoediae XX. superstites nunc denuo post omnium editiones ad fidem meliorem codd. & inprimis vetustissimis MSS. Camerarii seu Camerario-Palatinorum ut & doctissimis virorum curas accuratius exactae & novis commentariis illustratae. . Plautina item fragmenta ad similem faciem concinnata & Plauto denique supposita omnia studio & industria Frid. Taubmanni Franci.‎

‎Wittenberg Apud Zachariam Schurerum typis Johannis Gormanni 1612. 4to. 2 volumes: XVIXXIV1320122 index1 printer's mark1 blank p. 19th cent. boards. 24 cm Ref: VD17 1:043513Q. Schweiger p. 764/5: 'Gänzliche Umarbeitung seiner Ausg. . T.'s Commentar ist höchst schätzbar'. Dibdin 2311: Taubmann 'has greatly contributed towards the restoration of the true text of Plautus'. Fabricius/Ernesti Bibl. Lat. 1773 I19/20: 'Praestantissimae ad intelligendum hunc Comicum sunt editiones Taubmannianae . contextum pluribus locis exhibent meliorem ac praeter luculentos commentarios omnium quique ante Plauto manus admoverant industriam delibantes ac vincentes'; Brunet 4708/09; Graesse 5328; Ebert 17191 Details: 19th cent. uniform black boards with red morocco letterpiece on the back. Printer's mark on the title which depicts an intertwined snake feather & laurel with a soaring bird a pigeon on top and is repeated at the end with the addition 'Wittenbergae typis Johannis Gormanni'. The motto reads: 'Simplicitas astu bene fermentata triumphat' Condition: Binding very scuffed worn at extremities. Paper on the boards & the backs partly worn away. Joints of the second volume cracking. Small inkstain on the upper edge of the first 100 pages. Title browned. Regularly old ink underlinings occasional ink annotations by a German hand. Ownership entries on the front endpapers Note: The German humanist Friedrich Taubmann 1565-1613 a man of humble origin was 'Professor Poeseos' Latin at the University of Wittenberg from 1595. He was also an accomplished Neolatin poet. His favorite author meum poeticum cor was the Roman playwright Plautus ca. 250-184 B.C. He considered his much critized first edition of Plautus of 1605 a disaster and asked the publisher to destroy the remainder 2/3 of the copies printed and to replace it by a revised second edition which was indeed published in 1612. Taubmann was above all a compiler of the commentaries of others. He employed the Plautus text of Camerarius for his edition and new material provided by the Flemish classical scholar Janus Gruterus or in Dutch Jan Gruter since 1602 Keeper of the Bibliotheca Palatina at Heidelberg. Gruter had bought from the sons of Joachim Camerarius 1500-1574 for his library 2 manuscripts the 'codex vetus' and 'codex decurtatus' because he realized more than Camerarius himself the exceptional worth of both manuscripts. Taubmann received valuable help from the Keeper who collated the Palatine manuscripts and made good use of them in his second edition. 'In der That beruht der Werth der Taubmann'schen Edition in dem ausserordentlichen Reichthume der commentatorischen Parallelen; nach dieser Hinsicht mag sie heute noch mehr als geschichtliche Aufmerksamkeit beanspruchen. Die zweite Ausgabe war textlich viel sorgsamer und übertraf in Correctheit Typenwahl und Ausstattung die über alle Maassen liederliche erste erklecklich' ADB 37433-440. This second edition of 1612 receives also much praise from Schweiger Dibdin and Fabricius/Ernesti. At the end are added 2 treatises the first by J. Camerarius 'De Fabulis Plautinis' and the second by J.C. Scaliger 'De carminibus Comicis'. Taubmann died the year after the appearance of this great edition leaving a wife and 5 young children. His edition's fame survived him Provenance: On the front flyleaf: 'Laurenz Lersch 1835'. Johann Heinrich Laurenz Lersch 1811-1849 was a German archaeologist and classical philologist. He has a lemma in Wikipedia § Also the name of 'Paul Weiland stud. phil. 1883' Collation: a-b4 2-44; A-4Z4; a-4t4 4u2 Photographs on request Heavy set may require extra shipping costs hardcover‎

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‎LYSIAS & ISOCRATES‎

‎The orations of Lysias and Isocrates translated from the Greek; with some account of their lives; and a discourse on the history manners and character of the Greeks from the conclusion of the Peloponnesian war to the battle of Chaeronea by John Gillies LL.D.‎

‎London Edinburgh Printed for J. Murray and J. Bell 1778. 4to. XXXVICXXXV1 blank4981 errata1 blank p.; a portrait of Lysias & of Isocrates. Calf 28 cm Ref: ESTC Citation No. T106138; Hoffmann 2490 & 2575: 'eine gute Übersetzung'; Ebert 10628 & 12573; Moss 2119: 'faithful and masterly'; Brunet 31258: 'Traduction fidèle et comme telle fort estimée; Graesse 4315; Ebert 12573; Dict. of British Classicists 2370/2 Details: Back ruled gilt and with 5 raised bands. Red morocco shield with gold lettering in the second compartment. Small and fading gilt coat of arms on the boards within a surrounding banner on which: 'The Society of writers to the Signet'. This is a society of Scottish lawyers Wide margins. Both engravings were made 'ex marmore antiquo in Museo Capitolino'. Edges dyed red Condition: Binding scuffed & scratched. Extremities chafed corners bumped. Joints split but strong. Front hinge cracking. Some insignificant foxing. Old ink inscription on the title reading: 'The Society of Clerks to the Signet' Note: The speeches of the Athenian orators Lysias c. 459-380 B.C. and Isocrates 436-338 B.C. are of great importance for the understanding of the great political issues of the 4th century. Their speeches provide us with a most valuable insight in and commentary on the social and political events in Athens. 'Taken separately their writings are imperfect; when combined they afford a system of information equally extensive and satisfactory'. Preface p. pi3 recto. The English translation of 18 speeches of Lysias and 6 of Isocrates by the Scottish classical scholar and ancient historian John Gillies 1747-1836 is mentioned one of his major contributions to classical scholarship. 'In the long preliminary discourse on the history and private lives and manners of the Greeks during the period 404 to 338 B.C. Gillies specifically adopted Isocrates as his source partly no doubt because it suited his own strongly monarchist views to do so'. DBC 2371 § During the conference 'Revolutions and Classics' of the UCL held in 2016 where scholars examined the manner in which classical texts have been deployed in societies undergoing rapid and radical social change it was argued by the young independent scholar Sebastian Robins that it was Gillies' intention to make available to his contemporaries classical texts that he believed bore immediately on the most pressing political questions of the day: the American Revolutionary War a war which had just begun. This armed conflict between Great Britain and its 13 North American colonies raged from 1775 till 1783 during which the colonies declared in July 1776 independence as the United States of America. The authority of the two Athenian orators Robins says overrules and rectifies that of the contemporary Athenian orator Demosthenes and that of the late antique historian/philosopher Plutarch and others 'on the basis of which some of the most ingenious eighteenth-century writers had raised flattering accounts of Greek virtue and glory. Their speeches moreover contain compelling evidence of the violence prejudice and corruption of the ancient Greeks and of the shortcomings of ancient republican institutions. Champions of the nascent American republic on both sides of the Atlantic Gillies declares' ought on the authority of the speeches he translates to reassess their faith in the relationship between democracy and virtue which he assumed underpinned the Congressional declarion of 1776. § Gillies is best known for his 'History of Ancient Greece' 1786 the first substantial complete survey in English of the whole Greek history to the time of August. It became popular and was quickly translated into German and French Provenance: Stamp of the Scottish 'Society of the writers to the Signet' on the boards Collation: pi4 A-C4 D2 a-3r4; B-3R4 3S2 portrait after leaf L1 and T3 Photographs on request Heavy book may require extra shipping costs hardcover‎

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‎NEPOS‎

‎Cornelius Nepos perperam vulgo Aemilius Probus dictus De vita excellentium Imperatorum. Diesen giebt nach Art seines Plinii und Horatii mit auserlesenen philologischen moralischen u. historischen Anmerckungen auf eine ganz neue nützliche und leichte Weise nebst einer Vorrede und dienlichen Registern heraus M. Caspar Gottschling Siles. Neustadt-Brandenb. Rect. und Bibliothec.‎

‎Brandenburg Zu finden bey Johann Ernst Wohlfelden Buchhändlern. Gedruckt bey Christian Hallen Kön. Preuss. privil. Buchh 1729. 8vo. XLVIII including frontispiece624 p. Vellum 17.5 cm Ref: Not in Schweiger Brunet Ebert Graesse; not yet in VD18 Details: Nice copy. 5 thongs laced through both joints. Short title in ink on the frontcover. Frontispiece by Daniel Fincke depicting the historian Nepos at work while Mars and Athena keep guard. Title in red and black. Latin text on the upper half and German commentary on the lower half of the page. Good quality paper Condition: Vellum somewhat soiled. Small stamp and a name on the verso of the frontispiece. Front flyleaf renewed Note: This is an edition with an accompanying commentary in German of the only surviving complete work of the Roman historian Cornelius Nepos ca. 100-24 B.C. De excellentibus ducibus exterrarum gentium. It is the first collection of biographies from antiquity. It contains the lives of 20 Greek generals and the Carthaginians Hamilkar and Hannibal. An ancient editor added to this collection the lives of M. Porcius Cato and of Pomponius Atticus the friend and correspondent of Cicero. Already in late antiquity this collection was ascribed to the grammarian Aemilius Probus and the editio princeps of 1471 bears his name. In his edition of 1569 the French classical scholar Dionysius Lambinus proved on stylistic grounds that this work must have been written by the contemporary of Cicero Cornelius Nepos alone. Later editions often mention both names and combine the names of the authors with vel seusive or vulgo. § The simple style of writing of Nepos has made him a standard choice for schools. Schweiger mentions numerous editions. The German scholar and historian Caspar Gottschling 1679-1739 is the author of a great number of publications. He used many pseudonymes among which Carolus de Gaule or Charles de Gaule. Since 1710 he was Rektor of the Gymnasium of Neustadt Brandenburg. Best known are his editions of the school authors Nepos Pliny Cicero and Horace. In 1717 he published in Halle his German translation of Nepos. This was followed by his edition of Nepos with a commentary in German. Wellknown is also his contribution to the Land of Cockaigne legend Der Staat von Schlaraffenland which he published in 1710. See for Gottschling Handbuch Gelehrtenkultur der Frühen Neuzeit Bln. 2001 p. 310/11 Provenance: Small oval stamp of Döllinger and the manuscript name of Döllinger dated 1874 on the verso of the frontispiece. This is Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger 1799 - 1890 who 'was a German theologian Catholic priest and church historian who rejected the dogma of papal infallibility. He is considered an important contributor to the doctrine growth and development of the Old Catholic Church though he himself never joined that denomination'. He was educated in the gymnasium at Würzburg and then began to study natural philosophy at the University of Würzburg where his father held a professorship. In 1826 became professor of theology at the University of Munich where he spent the rest of his life. See for Döllinger his long Wikipedia German article Döllinger loved Nepos. He once told about his Gymnasium time: I simply adored Nepos and glowed with enthusiasm for Mithrydates Marcus Aurelius Homer Sophocles and a host of others. Even now by way of a treat I read Greek before I go to bed and sometimes in the morning. And when I take my evening walk in the English Garden I go over the Greek tragedies to myself and find them excellent company. And when asked for his enthousiasm for the English General Gordon the late governor-general of the Soudan whom he thought a figure of heroic proportions . Second to none in moral grandeur and worthy to be placed by the side of Bismarck and of Moltke Döllinger asked rhetorically: Take for instance the case of boys reading Homer or Nepos through for the first time. Do you mean to tell me that they German youths no longer have any feeling of enthusiasm for the heroes of these great works ' Conversations of Dr. Döllinger London 1892 p. 173 and 174 These conversations took place 12 years earlier in the English Garden in Munich. This famous Englisher Garten still exists and has its own Wikipedia article Collation: a-c8 A-2Q8 Photographs on request hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 120479

‎PLUTARCHUS‎

‎T'Leven der doorluchtige Griecken ende Romeynen tegen elck anderen vergeleken door Plutarchus van Chaeronea. Wt de Griecsche sprake overgeset door M. Iaques Amyot Abt van Bellozane ende Raedt des Coninckx van Franckrijck by hem overzien ende verbetert. Mitsgaders het leven van Hannibal Scipio den Africaen uyt het Latyn verfranscht by Carolus Clusius. Voorder het Leven van Epaminondas Philippus van Macedonien Dionysius den Ouden Tyran van Sicilien Augustus Cesar Plutarchus ende Seneca ende noch het Leven vande negen treffelijcke krijgs-oversten beschreven door Aemylius Probus. Met een cort begrijp op elcx leven Leeringen op de kant Chronijck ende Leer-registers alles versamelt ende uytgegeven by Simon Goulart Senlisien. Tesamen van nieus tot gemeen nut verduyscht door A. Van Zuylen Van Nieuvelt ende ten deele by eenen anderen beminder.‎

‎Delft Tot Delft Utrecht Tot Wtrecht By Adriaen Gerritsen van Beyeren ende Felix van Sambrix sic & By David van Hoogenhuysen 1644. Folio. VI5484 leaves. Calf 32 cm Ref: STCN 141469102; Geerebaert 693 records this second edition of the first complete Dutch translation of 1603; OiN 310; Hoffmann 3227; Graesse 5365/66; Ebert 17507 Details: Back gilt & with 6 raised bands. Unsigned engraved architectural frontispiece depicting a chapel in a temple in the niches of which stand 4 statues one of them is Mercurius. The chapel is flanked by Romulus and Theseus the founders of Rome and Athens; in the dome of the chapel is a portrait of Plutarchus. Woodcut printer's mark on the title depicting a three-master on a rough sea motto: 'Durate'. Woodcut initials at the beginning of a 'vita'. To some copies has been added after the title page 1 leaf with a dedication 'Aende Hoogh-Moghende Heeren de Staten Generael' to the States General of the Dutch Republic. This copy doesnot have that dedication Condition: Head & foot of the spine partly worn away. Old leather repairs to the upper part of both joints. Upper joint and hinge cracking but still strong. Leather repairs to 3 corners. 1 bumped corner grazed. Small hole in the leather of the lower board. Front endpapers renewed. Original front flyleaf preserved but worn & with a fold. Margins of the frontispiece thumbed & slightly frayed. Some faint & small waterstains on the lower margin of ca. hundred leaves Note: This translation of 1644 is reissue of the first complete Dutch translation originally published in 1603. § The Greek philosophic stylist Plutarchus of Chaeroneia ca. 46-120 A.D. wrote numerous short treatises on ethics and philosophy. He is however best known as historian and biographer. Plutarch composed with his famous 'Vitae' or Parallel Lives written ca. 100-120 A.D. a work of timeless quality. His aim was not writing history but biography so his chief interest was in the characters of the heroes and villains he portrayed never avoiding a good story. Plutarch exercised a very profound influence on Western civilisation. His 'Vitae' has been one of the most frequently and continuously read books of the Western tradition. The Classical Tradition Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 747. Treacherous to the historian Plutarch has won however since the Renaissance the affection of the many generations to whom he has been a main source of understanding of the ancient world that is early modern Europe discovered the ancient world for a great part through Plutarch's eyes. The Lives could gain an enormous impact by providing later biographers and literary authors an outstanding model. It is very well known for example that authors like Montaigne Corneille Racine Rousseau Schiller and Shakespeare heavily drew upon the Lives. Until the 19th century the Lives were invoked as models of totalitarism anticlericalism by supporters and opponents. 'The founders of American democracy were avid readers of Plutarch as well and some laced their prose with evidence of that fact. Franklin and Hamilton in particular proclaimed their admiration for the Lives' Idem p. 749 § On the continent the 'Lives' were widely read in the French translation of the French humanist Jacques Amyot 1513-1593 who was one of the most famous and influential translators of the Renaissance. Although the son of poor parents he was appointed professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Bourges. He even became bishop of Auxerre. From 1559 till 1565 he worked on his famous translation of the 'Vies Parallèles des Hommes Illustres'. For his translations he visited the 'Bibliotheca Vaticana' and the libraries of Venice to study Greek codices. His translation was considered by some to be so excellent that it even excelled the original Greek. 'Maer sal tot besluyt ghenoech sijn alleen aen te roere hoe dat M. Iacques Amyot s'conincx Raedt in dit groote werck sijnen swaren arbeyt zoo heeft besteedt ende de oversettinge zoo wel getroffen dat veele cloecke mannen meenen dat deselve den Griecxen text in cierlijckheydt overtreffet.' Leaf 3 verso of the preface § This Dutch translation was based on the French text which was reedited by the French calvinist minister author and translator S.G.S. i.e. Simon Goulard Silvanectinus from Senlis 1547-1628. Goulard published an expanded edition of Amyot's French translation in 1587. He added translations of the 'vitae' of Hannibal and Scipio Africanus in the 16th century believed to be the work of Plutarch himself but written by the 15th century imitator of Plutarch Donato Acciaiuoli 1470 and translated into French by the Dutch botanist Carolus Clusius in French Charles de l'Écluse 1561. Goulard also 'produced comparisons where these were missing in Plutarch as well as new Lives of Epaminondas and Philip Dionysius and Augustus Caesar and Plutarch and Seneca'. F. Manzini 'Stendhal's Parallel Lives' Oxford etc. 2004 p. 37/38 § The title of this Dutch translation is more or less an adaptation of the French title page of the edition Paris 1592. The Dutch translation was made the preface reveals by A.V.Z.V. Nieuvelt that is Adam van Zuylen van Nieuvelt and was first published. posthumely in 1603. This edition of 1644 is a line for line reedition of that translation. Van Zuylen van Nieuvelt also translated the 'Cyropaedia' of Xenophon published in 1592. He is a fine example of the Renaissance soldier. He fought in the Eighty Years' War the Dutch war of Independence 1568-1648 against the Spaniards. In 1583 he was for a year baljuw bailiff of Schoonhoven a small city just east of Rotterdam. Later he was captain of an infantery regiment of the son in law of William of Orange Philips of Hohenlohe fighting against the Spaniards in the East of the Netherlands. In 1580 Adam van Zuylen was wounded in the lost and forgotten battle of Hardenberg where the troops of the young republic lost 1500 man. See: members.home.nl/m.tettero/Watergeuzen/Hardenberg.htm Later Van Zuylen campaigned in the province of Friesland and in 1596 he took part in the defence of Hulst a fortified city in Zeeland. There he was taken prisoner by the Spaniards. He died that same year. Still this soldier found time to translate 'Vies Parallèles des Hommes Illustres' of Amyot and Machiavelli's 'Discorsi' and 'Il Principe' also from the French. After his death the manuscript with the translation of Amyot's Plutarch came into the possession of the Leiden publishers Paedts and Bouwens who decided to enlarge this work and to adopt it to the highly successfull French Amyot edition produced by Simon Goulart which contained not only useful notes and some commentary but also a kind of continuation consisting of the biographies of a number of ancient generals and kings. These new additions were translated by an anonymous man of letters. 'Maer alle de voorverhaelde nieuwe byvoegselen van Simon Goulart sijn ten jongsten verduytscht zoo in gedicht als anders by eenen anderen wesende een liefhebber sijner moeder tale'. Leaf. 3 verso of the preface Van der Aa 13393 Collation: 6 A-4Z6 leaf 4Z6 verso blank Photographs on request Heavy book may require extra shipping costs hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 151922

‎CLAUDIANUS‎

‎Cl. Claudiani Principum Heroumque Poetae praegloriosissimi Quae exstant. Caspar Barthius ope XVII manuscriptorum exemplarium restituit; commentario multo locupletiore grammatico critico philologo historico philosophico politicoque ita illustravit ut Auctor pretiosissimus omni aetati scholasticae academicae aulicae politicaeque esse debeat ex commendato commendatissimus.‎

‎Frankfurt Francofurti Apud Joannem Naumannum Bibliop. Hamburgensem 1650. 4to. LXXVI including title & frontispiece1111 blank13711 blank31 corrigenda1 blank p. Vellum 21 cm Ref: VD17 3:006469N; Schweiger 2283; Dibdin 1470: 'Barthius commentary is not only superior to every work which preceded it but has never been surpassed by any similar production'; Moss 1376/7: 'rare and held in considerable estimation'; Brunet 288; Ebert 4756; Graesse 2194; Fabricius/Ernesti 3201 Details: 5 thongs laced through both joints. Frontispiece by A. Aubry depicting the Roman emperor Theodosius the Great and his 'Magister Militum' Stilicho who guards 2 little boys Honorius and Arcadius. Title in red and black. Woodcut printer's mark on the title motto: 'Superata tellus sidera domat'. Woodcut initials and headpieces Condition: Vellum soiled and loosening from fore edge of both boards. Upper board slightly curved. Front endpapers worn. Old inscription and name on the front flyleaf. Name below the frontispiece. Name and small stamp on the title. Stain in the upper margin of frontispiece and title leaf Note: 1650 was a lucky year for the last important Roman poet Claudius Claudianus ca. 400. In the same year as Barthius the Dutch scholar Nicolaas Heinsius published an edition of the works of Claudian. Claudianus 'war ein sehr fruchtbarer temperamentvoller Dichter und bietet reichen historischen Stoff in rhetorischem Stil'. Buchwald Tusculum-Lexikon 3rd ed. p. 171/2 As 'tribunus et notarius' he acted as court poet for the emperor Theodosius his general Stilicho and the emperor's sons Honorius and Arcadius. In 400 he was honoured with a bronze statue on the Forum Trajanum in Rome. His work was widely read in the Middle Ages. The humanists also placed him on the center stage. In the beginning of the 20th century philologist lost interest but since the rise of interest in late antiquity in the sixties he is again recognized as one of the great Roman poets. NP. s.v. Claudianus. Caspar von Barth or Barthius 1587-1658 was a child prodigy. He read a lot during his lifetime but seems to have known little. His specialty seems to have been hoarding material. In his youth in 1612 he published his first edition of Claudian. He republished it with many corrections and additions in 1650. The commentary is says Schweiger 'überladen'. The very weight of this book almost 2 kilo's proves that he is right. For some Barthius was a charlatan for others a 'divinum ingenium'. Barthius 'war gelehrt hatte viel gelesen und so auch in seinen Schriften ausgespeichert aber Ordnung Klarheit und Schärfe lässt sich vermissen' is the final judgment in ADB. Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 2 p. 101/2 This edition shows however enough glimpses of genius to deserve the praise most bibliographers assigned to him Provenance: On the front flyleaf the name of Lennart Håkanson professor of Latin Literature at the Univ. of Uppsala 1980-1987. § 2 other names seem to point to Denmark. Under the frontispiece in old ink: 'Axelii Julii Iv. F. Nobilis Dani Dno de Wolstorp etc. Anno 1657'. We found on the internet the following provenance dated 1662 of one 'Axelius Julius Ivari Filius Dus de Wolstorp hujus Libri possessor ' in an edition of 'De anulis antiquis' of 1654. This makes: 'Axelii Julii Ivari Filii Nobilis Dani Domino de Wolstorp'. The 'Domino' is awkward. § In faint ink in the right margin of the frontispiece and on the title: 'J. Mundelstrup'. We found the following title a poem in Latin and Danish on the internet of one J. Mundelstrup: 'a Augustiss. Friderico Qvarto Daniæ . regi gloriosissimam pacem regnis Ao. 1720 vindicatam gratulabatur'. § A small round stamp on in left lower corner of the title: 'A.St.B.' Collation: a4 a2 plus 2a4; meaning that between leaf a2 and a3 has been inserted a second gathering of 4 leaves signed a containing an afterwards composed dedication b-e4 minus the blank leaf e4 f-h4 i2; A-O4 leaf O4 verso blank; A-8K4 8L2; 8M-8P4 leaf 8P4 verso blank Photographs on request Heavy book may require extra shipping costs hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 130046

‎CURTIUS RUFUS‎

‎Q. Curtii Rufi Historia Alexandri Magni. Cum notis selectiss. Variorum Raderi Freinshemii Loccenii Blancardi &c. Editio accuratissima. Accurante C.S.M.D.‎

‎Amsterdam Amstelodami Ex officina Elzeviriana 1664. 8vo. IV93461 blank;7511 p. folding map and folding plate. Mottled 18th century calf 19.5 cm Ref: STCN ppn 094956561; Schweiger 2320; Willems 1325; Berghman 2054; Rahir 1369; Moss 548; Dibdin 375; Graesse 2311; Ebert 5549 Details: Beautiful binding. Back with 5 raised bands and panelled gilt with repeating floral motifs; in the center of the compartments gilt birds visit a bunch of flowers. Brown morocco letterpiece in the second compartment. All 3 edges of both boards gilt. Edges of the bookblock dyed red. Endpapers marbled. Engraved title which depicts a world conquering Alexander on horseback trampling his enemy Darius. He is accompanied by a flying Fama who blows her horn. The plate depicts the 'fons solis' a fountain in the Egyptian oasis of the temple of Ammon cool at midday and warm at the rising and setting of the sun. Alexander visited this famous oracle in order to obtain an answer concerning the divinity of his origin; the map shows the triumphal march of Alexander through Egypt and Asia Condition: Fine. Some rubbing on the upper board. Some light foxing Note: This is a typical Variorum edition. It offers a 'textus receptus' which is widely accepted accompanied with the commentary and the annotations of various specialists taken or excerpted from earlier useful normative or renewing editions. Editions like these 'cum notis Variorum' were useful but never broke new ground. The production of these sometimes overloaded 'dustbins' of knowledge was the specialty of Dutch scholars of the 17th and 18th century. The compilers seldom were great scholars but often hard working schoolmasters. Their involvement in publishing a new edition was limited to the necessary but ungrateful task of the beast of burden. In a 'Variorum' edition of Claudianus published by the same Elzevier a year later we get a glimpse of such a division of labour. There the 'typographus' i.e. Louis and/or Daniel Elzevier tells the reader that a 'vir diligentissimus' the schoolmaster Cornelius Schrevelius excerpted from the best sources all that was necessary for a good understanding of the text. 'Quod ad praestantissimi poetae intellectum pertineret ex optimis Doctissimorum Virorum' follows a number of names of Claudianus editors and commentators 'aliorumque qui antea in eo illustrando elaborarunt notis & commentariis selectissima quaeque excerpsit'. § Quintus Curtius Rufus probably first cent. A.D. is the author of the only surviving monography on Alexander the Great in Latin. He was historian enough to use sources which drew from different traditions conscientiously. His aim was not to write great literature but his 'Historia' certainly possesses great narrative qualities acquired by a thorough knowledge of the epic and historiographic tradition and a training in Roman rhetoric. NP s.v. Curtius This work consisting of 10 books did not survive in its entirety the first 2 books are lost. Now the text of Curtius Rufus is preceded here by a rather strange philological accomplishment by the German scholar Johannes Casper Freinsheim 1608-1660. He endeavoured to repair the loss of the 2 lost books by a composition of his own a feat which was much admired by his contemporaries. He published this new text earlier in his edition of 1640. Moss declares that this supplemented text is 'scarcely descernible from that of Q. Curtius'. This 'Variorum' edition of Curtius Rufus was produced by the above mentioned Cornelis Schrevelius 1608 - 1664 who took his doctoral degree in Paris as a Doctor of Medicine in 1627. Hence C.S.M.D. on the title that is 'Cornelis Schrevelius Medicus Doctor'. He was Rector of the Schola Latina at Leiden Provenance: name in ballpoint on the front flyleaf of Lennart Håkanson professor of Latin Literature at the Univ. of Uppsala 1980-1987 Collation: pi2 a-h8 i4 k2; A-3A8 Photographs on request hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 130180

‎LIBRI DE RE RUSTICA‎

‎Methodus rustica Catonis atq. Varronis praeceptis aphoristicis per locos communes digestis a Theodoro Zvingero typice delineata & illustrata.‎

‎Basel Basileae Petri Pernae opera atque impensa n.d. 1567. 8vo. XXIV4942 blank22 index p. Overlapping vellum 19 cm Ref: VD16 C 1580; Schweiger 275 Details: 2 thongs laced through the joints. Woodcut printer's mark on the title: a woman holding a oil lamp motto: 'Verbum tuum lucerna pedibus meis'. Psalm 119 verse 105 Occasional woodcut initials Condition: Vellum soiled and wrinkled. Small hole in the back and in the upper board. Front endpapers renewed in 19th century. 19th century annotations concerning Zwinger Cato & Varro on the front pastedown and recto of the front flyleaf. Title slightly soiled. Small fold in right lower corner of the title. Small stain at the bottom of the title Note: Theodor Zwinger 1533-1588 or Theodorus Zuingerus also spelled as Zwingerus or Zvingerus was of humble descent. He studied philosophy in Paris under Petrus Ramus. Supported by the printer/bookdealer Perna he later went to Padua where he studied medicin for 6 years. After his promotion in 1559 he returned to his hometown Basel and was appointed professor of Greek and Moral philosophy. In 1580 he became also professor of Medicin. He is best known for his editions of the Nicomachean Ethics of the Greek philosopher Aristotle which he published in 1566 & 1588. Griechischer Geist aus Basler Pressen no. 127 and 128 He produced also a kind of encyclopedia which was much admired in his time 'Theatrum vitae humanae' Basel 1565. As a physician and logician he published his thoughts about the agricultural works of the Roman authors Cato 234-149 B.C. and Varro 116-27 B.C. He tries to analyse their opinions and show their structures in systematic tables like he had previously done with Aristotle. At the end he publishes texts of Cato and Varro on agriculture a fact that escaped many bibliographers. In vol. 1 p. CXXXIX of the Biponti edition of the 'Scriptores Rei Rusticae' edited by J.M. Gesner 1671-1761 it is stated that the text of Cato follows the edition of P. Victorius 1543 and the text of Varro is that of J.J. Scaliger 1565 For Zwinger see ADB 45543/4 where this title is omitted. It is however mentioned in Zedler 64862/4 § Famine with war and the plague was a great problem in Italy France England and Germany during the first half of the 16th century. There were serious food shortages and outbreaks of disease in the 1520th and 1530th. This scourge reached its peak in the crisis of 1545/46 which was perhaps the most terrible year in the history of 16th century Paris. Many thousands died of hunger. This period is marked by a dramatic fall in living standards. The gravity of the situation began to be reflected in the medical and agricultural literature of that time: how to avoid disease and preserve health in times of dearth on a poor diet of gruel bread broth and beer. The French humanist schoolmaster Robert Breton whose ideas were heavily coloured by classical influences published in 1539 his Agriculturae encomium in which he emphasized the need to combine theoretical and practical learning in agriculture. 'The food produced in the countryside he pointed out was absolutely essential to the existence of the towns and the state itself'. H. Heller Labour science and technology in France Cambr. 1996 p. 66 Food especially grain was not only scarce because of the ignorance and poverty of the peasantry but also because of warfare. Towards the middle of this century the provision of an adequate food supply became urgent. 'Beyond assuring the subsistence of the population it as critical to maintaining the momentum of the burgeoning manufacturing sector of the economy. Sustaining profit margins in industry depended on controling wages. Relatively low wages were only possible if the cost of grain . could be contained. As a result one notes a growing preoccupation with agriculture among humanist authors'. Op. cit. p. 65 Between 1529 and 1550 eight Latin editions of the works of Cato Varro Columella and Palladius were published in Paris and Lyon. The result was also a flood of publications on food and crops and suggestions for the development of agriculture on a more rational basis. The basis for reform was laid by Roman gentlemen-farmers and landowners like Cato and Varro who wrote about agriculture and who were also successful practical farmers. Their aim was to bring Roman farming on a higher level. Their works on agriculture are among the chief texts on agriculture and rural life in antiquity. The oldest is the Roman politician Marcus Porcius Cato 234-149 B.C. the source of famous maxims for orators like rem tene verba sequentur and that an orator is a vir bonus dicendi peritus. 'He distinguished himself for fearless and ruthless attacks on those whose way of life did not agree with his own somewhat old-fashioned and puritanical morality'. H.J. Rose A Handbook of Latin Literature London 1967 p. 91 In style and in character he was a typical farmer shrewd hardworking frugal honest sincere but limited. His De re rustica also known as De agri cultura is a kind of commonplace book. It gives us a view of the life of an oldfashioned landowner in that age and offers information on Roman cult and rustic folklore. The second work was written by possibly the greatest scholar Rome produced Marcus Terentius Varro 116-27 B.C. Of the mass of works he wrote only one is preserved to us completely De re rustica and further more parts and fragments of some others. He was a landowner on a large scale who wrote De re rustica in his eightieth year annus octogesimus he tells us in the beginning ut sarcinas colligam ante quam profiscar e vita. It is a philosophic dialogue in 3 books in which he gives sound and practical advice for managing a farm I a stock-ranch II poultry aviary and herb-garden III. 'While giving interesting information on the state of agriculture at that time it is withal a pleasantly discursive book the work of a garrulously entertaining old scholar' H.J. Rose A Handbook of Latin Literature London 1967 p. 222 § The texts of Cato Varro and Columella were edited by Piero Vettori or Petrus Victorius 1499-1585 the foremost representative of classical scholarship in Italy during the 16th century which may well be called the Saeculum Victorianum. J.E. Sandys A history of classical scholarship N.Y. 1964 p. 135 With his publication in 1541 begins for the Scriptores De re rustica according to J.M. Gesner in his Biponti-edition of 1787 a new era the Aetas Victoriana. Vettori whom Fabricius/Ernsti calls the 'saviour' sospitator of the genre concentrated himself with the help of old manuscripts and his own wit especially on Cato and Varro Collation: alfa8 beta4 a-z8 leaves s7 and s8 blank A-I8 K4 minus leaf K4 Photographs on request hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 130040

‎FRIESEMAN,H‎

‎Nieuw Nederduitsch-Latijnsch woordenboek door H. Frieseman lid van het Utrechtsche Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen en Rector van het Veluwsche Gymnasium te Harderwijk.‎

‎Zutphen Bij H.C.A. Thieme 1810. 8vo. 2 volumes: VIII1448 p. Contemporary boards 17 cm Details: Marbled paper on cover Condition: Binding worn especially at the extremities Note: Hendrik Frieseman ca. 1755-1821 was the last rector of the Schola Latina of Harderwijk from 1805 till 1814. The school had only 6 pupils when it closed down. The Schola Latina had become obsolete and lost pupils to the local French school; Frieseman published also the first complete translation into Dutch of Thucydides in 1786. OiN p. 372 Onderzoek naar zeventien Gelderse Latijnse scholen. Zutphen 1985 p. 287 Photographs on request hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 120134

‎SA, MANUEL DE‎

‎Aphorismi confessariorum ex doctorum sententiis collecti auctore Emanuele Sa Lusitano doctore Theologo Societatis Iesu. Nunc accurate expurgati a Reverendiss. P.M. Sacri Palatii Apost. Indicatis Doct. locis annotationibusque per Andream Victorellum Bass. Theol. illustrati & aucti. Permissu Superiorum. Editio ultima prioribus correctior.‎

‎Köln Coloniae Apud Ioannem Crithium Sub signo Galli 1612. 12mo. IV65014 indices p. Overlapping vellum 14 cm Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Woodcut printer's mark of the Jesuit Order on the title Condition: Vellum age-tanned. All four ties gone. Outer edge of the first and last two leaves are slightly thumbed Note: The Portuguese Jesuit theologian and Biblical scholar Manuel de Sá 1530-1596 the latinized form is Emanuel Sa has written three important works which were repeatedly published in most European countries well into the seventeenth century: 'Scholia in Quatuor Evangelia' 'Notationes in totam Scripturam Sacram' and the 'Aphorismi confessariorum'. In 1557 he was appointed professor at the Roman College at Rome where he lectured on the prophecies of Osee one of the minor prophets and the 'Summa' of Thomas Aquinas. Pope Pius V appointed De Sa as a member of the commission in charge of preparing an authentic edition of the Septuagint. His last work the 'Aphorismi confessariorum' first published in Venice in 1595 is considered to be his most important work. In it the entries are arranged as in encyclopedias in alphabetical order. The word 'aphorism' on the title has little to do with the meaning that we give it today. For instance under the heading 'Episcopus' De Sa offers 43 quotes from different authorative sources to explain the duties and power of a bishop. In 1603 the 'Aphorismi confessariorum' were censured and placed on the 'Index Librorum Prohibitorum' of the Catholic Church in English 'List of Banned Books' a list of publications deemed heretical or anti-clerical. This was done apparently because the 'Master of the Sacred Palace' Magister Sacri Palatii thought some of its maxims not in line with opinions commonly held among catholic theologians. As the title of this 1612 edition shows it was later corrected nuper accurate expurgati and removed 'permissu Superiorum' from the Roman Index. The work was for some decades very popular. Between 1595 and 1632 almost every year somewhere a new edition was printed. The Cologne printer Crithius alone published this work in 1600 1609 1612 1615 and 1621. It was even published in Tokyo in 1603 Collation: Ò2 A-Z12 Aa-Dd12 E8 Photographs on request hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 120149

‎EPICTETUS‎

‎Epicteti Manuale et Sententiae. Quibus accedunt Tabula Cebetis & alia affinis argumenti in linguam Latinam conversa a Marco Meibomio. Subjiciuntur eiusdem notae emendationes Claudii Salmasii in Epictetum notae illorum & alius viri docti in Dissertationes Epicteti ab Arriano digestas & varians scriptura codicum manu exaratorum cura Hadriani Relandi.‎

‎Utrecht Trajecti Batavorum Ex officina Gulielmi Broedelet bibliopolae 1711. 4to. 3 parts in 1: XX1511;124; 15259 index1 blank p. Calf. 21 cm Ref: STCN ppn 185671004; Oldfather no. 287; Hoffmann 215; Didbin 2515/6: 'The edition is a valuable and critical one'; Ebert 6775; Brunet 21012/13; Graesse 2484; P.A. Hansen 'A bibliography of Danish contributions to classical scholarship from the 16th century to 1970' Copenhagen 1977 no. 363 Details: Back gilt and with 5 raised bands. Title printed in red and black. Woodcut printer's mark on the title depicting Athena and Hermes motto: 'Suum cuique tribue'. Woodcut initials. Greek text with facing Latin translation. Last 152 pages are filled with the notes of Meiboom 1-32 the notes and emendations of the Enchiridium by Salmasius 33-48 notes and emendations by Meiboom and Salmasius 'in Arriani Epictetum' 49-98 variae lectiones 99-136 and an 'Accessio ad emendationes Meibomianas in Dissertationes Epicteteas Arriani' 137-152. The last 4 pages of the preliminary leaves are owing to a binder's error to be found in the last gathering of the book. § 'Alius' in the title is an old genitive form with a long i Condition: Cover scuffed; back rubbed; corners bumped; front joint starting to split; head & tail of the spine chafed; bookplate on front pastedown Note: There is something odd about this title. Half of the book is printed carefully with the use of beautiful Greek and Roman type and is presented in a balanced layout. The woodcut initials are sharp and elegant. The other half of the book is printed on paper of somewhat lesser quality with the use of dull and conventional Greek and Roman type. The woodcut initials are quite common and worn. This difference has its story and reflects the life and character of its main contributor Marcus Meibom. The 'fine' half was printed in Copenhagen about 40 years earlier than the other half which was printed in Utrecht in 1711. § The Danish philologist Marcus Meibom or Marcus Meibomius was born in 1630 in Tönning in Schleswig-Holstein. He was a scholar with a bad temper and a lot of ennemies. After a turbulent life he died poor in Utrecht in 1710 or 1711. He was 'one of those colourful people who despite numerous initiatives was unable to ascend in the Republic of Letters. He had achieved some fame with an edition of seven classical authors on music which he dedicated to Queen Christina of Sweden and for which he received an invitation to her court in return. He himself had reconstructed instruments from antiquity with which he tried to put on a concert for the court of the Queen; unfortunately the performance generated only hilarity and ended in turmoil. Frustrated Meiboom then attacked a friend of the Queen which forced him to leave'. D. van Miert 'Humanism in an age of science: the Amsterdam Athenaeum in the Golden Age 1632-1704' Leiden 2009 p. 88 Meibom treated everyone crudely and could never restrain his arrogance. The Dutch gentleman/scholar Nicolaas Heinsius called him a 'hungry rogue' and an 'ungrateful person'. D. van Miert p. 89 In 1653 Meibom left Sweden and entered into the service of king Frederic III of Denmark. He was made royal librarian and professor at Uppsala the next year. Michaud 'Biographie Universelle' Vol. 28 Lpz. 1843 p. 520/1 In 1668 he accepted a position at the Athenaeum Illustre at Amsterdam to give public lectures and private tuition with a salary of 1200 guilders a year. One year later in 1670 he was fired. The reason was that as Burmannus reports in a letter 'Meiboom had turned up his nose at the obligation to give private tuition to the sons of the bourgomasters'. D. van Miert p. 90 'Meiboom next dedicated himself to the military shipping trade. He reviewed a book on this subject by Johan Scheffer and wrote a book himself on antique triremes with which he left for England to convince Charles II that these antique vessels would give him supremacy at sea'. D. van Miert p. 91 Of course this untertaking was not successful. He also tried to sell his project to the French but found no one interested. His next great project in England in 1674 was the publishing of the Old Testament with his remarks on the Hebrew text of which he wanted to correct numerous passages. He shocked the English and had to return to Holland poorer than ever. Nevertheless he possessed some very valubable ancient manuscripts which he did not want to sell. He died in Utrecht where his heirs found the unfinished edition of Epictetus printed ca. 40 years before which they sold to the publisher Broedelet. He asked Hadrianus Relandus to finish it. § The part of Meibom opens with the Greek text with facing Latin translation of the Enchiridion then follow the 'Epicteti Sententiae ex Joanne Stobaeo Graece & Latine' the 'Cebetis Thebani Tabula Graece & Latine' and 'Prodicus de Hercule ex Xenophontis Memorabilium libro IIdo secundo Joa. Leunclavio interprete' a allegoric story about Hercules on the crossroads where he has to choose between Virtue and Vice. Meibom finished with 'Hippocratis Epistola' to Damagetus a long letter concerning the madness of the 'laughing philosopher' Democritus. This letter is a founding text in the history of melancholy. Relandus tells the reader in the preface that while he was working on this edition he stumbled upon a traesure thesaurum an Epictetus edition dated 1595 Oldfather 15 from the library of Meibom in the margins of which the French scholar Claude de Saumaise or Claudius Salmasius 1588-1653 had jotted down corrections and emendations to the Enchiridion. General preface leaf 2 and preface to the notes of Salmasius p. 37/38 Salmasius was in Leyden the successor of Scaliger and a prolific author and textual critic. He had produced once an Enchiridium edition himself. Amsterdam 1640 § Michaud tells about Meibom's part of this Enchiridion edition that the 'roi de Danemarck fit imprimer cet ouvrage à ses frais et fit présent de la totalité de l'édition à Meibom qui la garda plus de quarante ans dans son cabinet'. Michaud vol. 28 p. 521 The quality of the printing of Meibom's part of the book seems to affirm the story of Michaud still the question remains why Meibom had transported heavy barrels full of quality printing to Amsterdam in 1668/69 and forgot about it for the next 40 years Boter follows the suggestion of Schweighaeuser in his edition of 1798 Schweighaeuser Lpz. 1798 p. LIXV and argues that Meibom did not think his own work worthy of publication. G. Boter 'The Encheiridion of Epictetus and its three christian adaptations' Leiden 1999 p. 78 This seems hard to believe with regard to such an arrogant and headstrong character. He was very much convinced of his own genius. Graevius wrote in a letter to N. Heinsius that Meibom considered himself a better philologist than Isaac Casaubon Carlo Sigonio Gronovius and Salmasius. D. van Miert p. 91 Modesty and humility were not his strongest points. The flaws in the character of this manic man who led a tumultuous life might be the cause of the abandonment of the project. Moreover when Meibon arrived in Amsterdam and would have asked around in 1669 if someone was interested in publishing his Epictetus' Enchiridium he would have heard that in Amsterdam the publishers Boom and Ravestein were already busy producing an edition for 1670 as did the Van Gaasbeek brothers. Anyway Meibom's heirs sold part of his possessions including the barrels filled with plano sheats of a book which had never been published. The first page of the collection simply said 'Epicteti Manuale Graece & Latine'. The load of paper was bought by the publisher Broedelet who asked the Dutch scholar Hadrianus Relandus for whom he had published several titles to write an introduction and to produce some commentary and an index. 'Relandus did his best he wrote introductions to the different parts added the notes of Meibom and Salmasius which he had found among Meibom's papers and in the margins of some of his books. He added also collations of two manuscripts the 'codex Hafniensis' p. 101-119 of the second part and the 'codex Gerdesianus' p. 120-136 of the second part. That Meibom did a good job was already noted in 1711 in the periodical 'Acta Eruditorum. 'Haec editio est accurata & a mendis typographicis pura literis elegantibus & majoribus impressa'. Acta Eruditorum 1711 p. 374 Furthermore Schweighaeuser dedicates almost seven of his preliminary pages of his famous 1798 edition of the Enchiridium to this work of Meibomius/Relandus. And G. Boter deems Meibomius/Relandus worthy of incorporating them in the short list of 'Studiosi in apparatu critico laudati' of his edition of the Enchiridium published in the normative 'Bibliotheca Teubneriana' series Berlin 2007. Adrianus Reland or Hadrianus Relandus 1676-1718 was a child prodigy. At 13 he enrolled as a student at the University of Utrecht where he studied philosophy classics and oriental languages. In 1700 he was appointed professor of Oriental languages and Holy Antiquities. This 'jewel' of the university remained in Utrecht till his untimely death at the age of 41. He didnot publish much on Oriental languages but wrote some influential works on Hebrew antiquities the 'Antiquitates sacrae veterum Hebraeorum' 1708 & 1712 publisher Broedelet and 'Palestina ex monumentis veteribus illustrata' 1714 publisher Broedelet. His best known work seems to be 'De religione mohammedica' 1705 publisher Broedelet which was reissued several times and was translated into several languages. In this work he broke new ground with an honest and correct approach of this religion. As a consequence the Vatican placed it on the Index of forbidden books Provenance: On the front pastedown the remains of a woodcut bookplate. The lower part with the name of the owner has been removed. It shows the Royal arms of the United Kingdom as used by the Hanover dynasty between 1714 and 1800 during the reign of King George I II & III. See Wikipedia s.v. 'Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom' The shield is oval and rests on a pedestal. Around the oval a belt with the motto of the Order of the Garter 'Honi soit qui mal y pense'. The oval is surmounted with a royal crown. Before the pedestal a banner with the motto of the English monarchs 'Dieu et mon droit'. Right of the shield the Unicorn and left a crowned lion. There is no royal helm beneath the crown The bookplate is probably of a royal or of a library of a public institution and dates from before 1800 Collation: -24 A-T4 2A-2P4 2Q2. A-R4 S4-T4 S-2A4 2B4 leaf 2B2 verso blank the second and third leaf of the last gathering 2B are signed 31 and 32; these 2 leaves ought to have been cut out and bound after leaf 24; we once sold another copy of this book and it showed the same binder's error Photographs on request hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 130463

‎BENEDICTUS‎

‎Den regel van den Heyligen Vader Benedictus Abt ende Patriarch der Monincken in den Westen. Nieuws over-geset uyt het Latijn in de Nederduytsche tale door eenen Religieus van de Abdije van S. Salvator der Ordere van Cisteaux. Tweeden druck.‎

‎Antwerp 't Antwerpen By de Wed. vander Hey op de Meir in den H. Geest. Met Approbatie n.d. ca. 1768 12mo. 1506 p. Calf 12.2 cm Ref: A. Welkenhuysen 'Benedicti Regula belgice over bibliografie van Benedictus-vertalingen en oude drukken van de 'Regel' in het Nederduits' in Zetesis Album amicorum door vrienden en collaga's aangeboden aan Prof. Dr. E. de Strycker Antw. Utrecht 1954 p. 396-415 especially p. 412-415; Bibl. Cath. Neerl. Impr. 1954 p. 469 no. 1528'; not yet in STCV Details: Back with 3 raised bands. Gilt floral motive in the 4 compartments. Engraved printer's mark on the title depicting the radiant dove of the Holy Ghost amidst clouds Condition: Upper corners of the boards abraded. Front flyleaf removed Note: Benedictus of Nursia ca. 480 - ca. 550 A.D. is the Father of western monachism. In 519 he founded on the Monte Casino the Archabbey of the Benedictine Order. Wanting to reform monasticsm he composed ca. 540 his Regula monachorumRules for monks in which he expressed his Ora et Labora-spirituality in 73 chapters. Until this day this Regula exercises influence. 'The Rule is marked by prudence and humanity and leads by observance and obedience to the perfect following of Christ. It is safeguarded and applied by a patriarchal abbot chosen by his monks with full authority who is directed to take counsel and to care for the individual. The chief task and central act of the community is the Divine Office opus Dei which with private prayer spiritual reading and work fills the day. All monks must renounce private ownership though the monastery may own property; the regime is austere but not exacting' L. Dysinger St. John's Seminary Camarillo online article. The first translation of the Regula into Dutch dates from 1373 OiN p. 122. The oldest printed Dutch translation appeared in Bruges in 1625 and was produced by Hendrik vanden Zype since 1616 abbott of S. Andries neffens Brugghe primarily it seems for the female followers of Benedictus in Bruges. There was in that time an open conflict in Bruges between the bischop and the abbess of the Benedictinesses. The aim of this translation seems to have been to put the Benedictinesses of Bruges in their place. In the dedication of the1625 edition we are told that it was made ad utilitatem et commoditatem Religiosarum Benedictinarum. In 1629 a new updated version of this translation was published in Douai in the North of France a catholic bulwark of the Contrareformation against the spreading of the protestantism in the Low Countries. This edition was probably also produced for the Benedictinesses but now of Douai for on the title is a citation of the Church Father Athanasius Logos sôtêrias pros tên parthenon. A new translation of the Regula appeared in 1694 in Antwerp. The Flemish latinist Andries Welkenhuysen has compared the translation of 1625 with the one of 1694 and concluded that the translation was not new at all but that the anonymous Religieus van de Abdije van S. Salvator der Ordere van Cisteaux Cistercian monk of the Abbey of S. Salvator mentioned on the title simply made an aggiornamento of the edition of Bruges. This edition of 1694 was used for a second edition which was published by the widow Vander Hey in Antwerp in 1768. There is no date on the title. Welkenhuysen finds that this second edition is apart from some orthographica identical with that one of 1694. It even repeats the approbatio of 1694 at the end. The date of publication of this second edition is between 1747 the year that Coenraad Ignatius vander Hey died and his wife took over and 1772 the year the widow died. Welkenhuysen has compared all the books printed by the widow vander Hey concerning the wear of the typeface the printer's mark and the bibliographic address. He found that the widow used the copper engraving of the printer's mark of this book the dove of the Holy Ghost only for 3 books 2 times in 1756 and 1 time for this undated book. The exact same wording of the imprint 't Antwerpen by de Wed. vander Hey op de Meir in den H. Geest' occurs only once in an edition of 1768. Therefore Welkenhuysen dates this book ca. 1768. This book seems to be rare. We located only one copy in a Dutch library erroneously dated 1694 a copy in the University Library of Gent and 2 copies in the University Library of Leuven. There is not yet a copy recorded in STCV or Beledimar Collation: A-F12 G6 Photographs on request hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 120535

‎HUET,PD P D‎

‎Histoire du commerce et de la navigation des anciens. Par M. Huet ancien Evêque d'Avranches sous-Précepteur de feu Mr. le Dauphin & l'un des quarante de l'Académie Françoise. Seconde édition revue.‎

‎Paris Chez Antoine-Urbain Coustelier 1716. 8vo. XXIV44650 index p. Old marbled boards. 17 cm Ref: Sandys 2292/3 Details: Margins uncut woodcut illustration on the title Condition: Binding worn. Back faded. 2 old paper labels on the back. Library stamp on the title Note: The French cleric and scholar Pierre Daniel Huet 1630-1721 was coadjutor in the tuition of the Grand Dauphin the son of Louis XIV future king. He was also general editor and organiser of the wellknown series of Delphin Classics. Among patrologists he is best known for his edition in 1668 in Rouen of Origenes' 'Commentaria in Sacras Scripturas'. In the preface to this history of ancient commerce Huet explains that it was commissioned by 'monsieur Colbert ministre et sécretaire d'état'. Il ne falloit pas Monsieur une autorité moindre que la vôtre pour me faire quitter les autres études qui m'occupent . pour en entreprendre une autre si differente & vous rapporter l'Histoire du Commerce & de la Navigation des Anciens'. Colbert did so Huet tells in his quality of 'Intendant general du Commerce & de la Navigation de ce France Royaume'. Préface p. 1/2 Colbert 1619-1683 who was a kind of minister of Finance improved the state of French manufacturing and brought the economy back from the brink of bankruptcy during the rule of king Louis XIV who fought many expensive wars. Colbert succeeded in creating a favourable balance of trade and in increasing France's colonial holdings. Colbert saw that if his country wanted to compete with the Dutch Republic and England he had to promote French industry and commerce. He worked 'to ensure that the French East India Company had access to foreign markets so that they could always obtain coffee cotton dyewoods fur pepper and sugar. In addition Colbert founded the French merchant marine'. Wikipedia Colbert died in 1683 and Huet's histoire was only published in 1716 33 years after his death by the Parisian publisher François Fournier who owned according to the 'Extrait du Privilege du Roy' the right to print this title. He apparantly gave his colleague Antoine-Urbaine Coustelier permission to publish another edition. At the end of the 'Privilège du Roy' has been added 'Imprimé pour la seconde fois le 1. Sept. 1716'. p. b4 verso In the 'avertissement du libraire' immediately after the title the publisher confesses that monsieur Huet then 86 years old thought this work 'si peu convenable à son âge & à la profession' that he wanted it rather to lay buried in dust on the shelves in his 'cabinet' than publish it. It was only after the prayers of his friends lovers of literature and supporters of the interest of the state that he gave permission to publish this work of his youth. p. a1 recto & verso Huet apparantly took the trouble to revise his work and prepare it for an second edition. It was a success. It was reissued in France in 1727 and 1763 translated into English 1717 German 1763 & 1775 and Italian 1737 Provenance: Stamp on the title: 'Ex bibliotheca Comit. de Krassow-Divitz'. This book probably comes from the library of Karl Reinhard Adolph Graf von Krassow 1812-1892. There may however be other members of this noble family who once owned this book Collation: a8 b4; A-2H8 Photographs on request hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 120065

‎SENECA‎

‎L. Annaei Senecae Opera quae extant omnia a Iusto Lipsio emendata et scholiis illustrata. Editio quarta atque ab ultima Lipsi manu. Aucta Liberti Fromondi scholiis ad Quaestiones Naturales & Ludum de morte Claudii Caesaris quibus in hac editione accedunt eiusdem Liberti Fromondi ad Quaestiones Naturales excursus novi.‎

‎Antwerp Antverpiae Ex officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti 1652. Folio. XVIXXXVI9111 blank p.; portrait of Lipsius; engraved title; a bust of Seneca and a plate of Seneca standing in a tub both plates by C. Galle after Rubens. Calf 41 cm. Ref: STCV: 6608951; Schweiger 2902: 'Gesuchteste Ausgabe des Lipsius aber nicht weiter als Wiederholung der von 1632'; Brunet 5276/77: 'Édition estimée. Les 3 premières éditions Antverpiae ex off. Plantiniana 1605 1615 et 1632 sont moins complètes.'; Dibdin 2397: 'excellent notes of Lipsius'; Moss 2578: 'it is certainly a very elegant publication'; Fabricius-Ernesti 2115; Ebert 20860: 'Beste und gesuchteste der von Lipsius besorgten Ausg.'; Graesse 6/1 348/49: 'très recherchée'; Spoelder 642 Middelburg 4 Details: Prize copy but lacking the prize. Gilt back with 7 raised bands red morocco shield in the second compartment. Borders of both boards gilt and with the coat of arms of Middelburg in the center. Portait of Lipsius engraved by Cornelius Galle. Engraved architectural title the text of it is flanked by the statues of Greek philosopher Zeno the founder of the Stoic school whose doctrine of suicide as a 'reasonable exit' from life in response to incurable disease or inexorable pain Seneca accepted and Zeno's pupil Cleanthes; in the upper frieze reside pictures of Hercules Pallas and Ulysses at the feet of Cleanthes and Zeno are the portraits of Seneca and Epictetus. The full page 'Seneca standing in his bath' is engraved by Cornelius Galle and made after the famous painting of Rubens 'the death of Seneca'. The full page portrait of Seneca was engraved after a drawing of Rubens. A smaller engraved portrait of Seneca 11.5x13.5 cm on page XXIV after the Italian scholar and antiquarian Fulvius Orsinus imago quae a Fulvio quidem Ursino prodita est. Woodcut initials. § The 'Officina Plantiniana' issued 2 'Opera' editions of Seneca in 1652. This is the second issue probably printed by Petrus III Bellerus for Balthasar Moretus. Bellerus printer's device is found on f. X6 verso and f. Y4 recto Condition: Binding somewhat scuffed and scratched. Front joint beginning to split. Head and tail of the spine chafed. Corners slightly bumped. The school prize has been removed. Edges of both flyleaves browning. Some leaves yellowing a few are browning. Faint waterstain in the right margin of the last 6 gatherings Note: The Roman philosopher and politician Lucius Annaeus Seneca ca. 4 BC - 65 AD has ever since antiquity been controversial. He was 'attacked for his Latin style his political compromises and his wealth. . Seneca . devoted himself to philosophy finally being charged with complicity in the conspiracy of Piso in 65. His suicide ordered by Nero is described by Tacitus . The death scene 'imago vitae suae' 'the image of his life' has been a significant element in Seneca's influence on posterity. . His style was urgent colourful and pointed appropriate for the fragmented ethical and political ambiguities of his time and it ultimately proved to be an effective vehicle for the Latin Church Fathers'. 'The classical tradition' Cambridige Mass. 2010 p. 873 By the 4th century Seneca's reputation as an author and as a philosopher had recovered. He is praised by Boethius d. ca. 524 and has through the works of Cassiodorus d. ca. 585 and Martin of Braga d. ca. 579 influenced medieval and Renaissance philosophy. From the 13th century onward he was widely read especially after the invention of printing. A Senecan Renaissance was advanced with the editions of Erasmus who did much to improve the text. Seneca's reputation was further enhanced by the magnificent edition of his 'Opera' produced by the Flemish scholar Justus Lipsius and published in 1605 by the Flemish 'Officina Plantiniana' lead by Balthasar Moretus. This edition and the later ones of 1615 1632 and 1652 were adorned with elaborate title pages and portraits engraved by T. Galle and C. Galle. The worth of Lipsius' editions lies in the preface and commentary. 'His commentary while economical by modern standards was fuller than that by Erasmus. Lipsius died before he could finish his commentary on 'Quaestiones Naturales'. The first edition of Lipsius' Seneca 1605 included a commentary by M.A. Muretus d. 1585 replaced by that of Libertus Fromond in later editions. The introductory paragraphs to each section of Seneca's prose were lucid concise and often enthusiastic. 'Legite iuvenes senesque!' is a frequent exhortation typical of Lipsius' primary goal which was to teach'. Idem p. 875 'Moretus had been Lipsius' student and he was a friend of Peter Paul Rubens whom he commissioned to design for the 1615 edition and its successors a portrait of Lipsius and two full-page engravings of Seneca one of an ancient bust believed to be of Seneca and owned by the artist and the other of Seneca entering the bath in which he died. The latter engraving was related to Rubens's 1608 painting of Seneca's death which further spread the fame of Seneca as a martyr to tyranny who died true to his philosophical principles'. Idem ibidem § Justus Lipsius the greatest Latin scholar of his time came in 1579 to the recently founded University of Leyden 1575 to teach Latin. He resided there with great distinction as honorary Professor of History from 1579 till 1591. According to J.E. Sandys his greatest strength lies in textual criticism and exegesis. J.E. Sandys History of Classical Scholarship N.Y. 1964 vol. 2 p. 303. Lipsius edited only Latin prose writers. He was not attracted to Latin verse. The 'Opera omnia' of this edition do not include Seneca's tragedies Collation: -24 A-C6 A-4G6 leaf 4G6 verso blank; leaf 1 portr. Lipsius 2 engraved title 23 Seneca in bath 24 bust of Seneca Photographs on request Heavy book may require extra shipping costs hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 150629

‎HERODOTUS‎

‎Herodoti Halicarnassei Historiae libri IX: et de vita Homeri libellus. Illi ex interpretatione Laurentio Vallae adscripta hic ex interpretatione Conradi Heresbachii; utraque ab Henr. Stephano recognita. Ex Ctesia excerptae historiae. Apologia Henr. Stephani pro Herodoto. Accedit in hac editione Spicilegium Frid. Sylburgii ad Henr. Stephanum virum clariss.‎

‎Frankfurt Francofurti Apud haeredes Andreae Wecheli 1584. 8vo. LXXII59288 p. Pigskin 18.5 cm Ref: VD16 H 2515. Weitere Nummern: VD16 C 6157 VD16 E 4005 VD16 H 2533; Hoffmann 2236; Graesse 3256; Ebert 9560 but see also 9542 Details: Latin translation only. The binding of this book is important in the context of the cultural history of Lutheranism. The binding dates from the last 2 decades of the 16th century. The back has 4 raised bands. The boards are decorated with blind stamped triple fillet borders and a row consisting of floral motives and some tiny portraits. The central panel of the upper board shows a fine example of a well preserved portrait of Johann Friedrich I the Magnanimous der Grossmüthige Elector of Saxony Kurfürst und Herzog von Sachsen 1503-1554 in full armour with 3 lines of text at the bottom: 'Victus eras acie fidei con / stantia tandem victorem / ante homines fecit et ante deum'; on the lower board the blindstamped impressive and also well preserved coat of arms of this Elector of Saxony who became after his death a kind of protestant Saint. He still is for the 3rd of March the day he died is still commemorated in the evangelical church of Germany. Because the portrait of this nobleman also figures on a book held in the Penn Libraries where it is described as 'Elector of Saxony possibly August I 1526-1586' Cicero Philosophical works 1565 copy in Rare Book & Manuscript Library Call no.: LatC C4855.10 1565 we will investigate this in some detail. Johann Friedrich I was an ardent follower of Martin Luther with whom he corresponded. He was a lifelong promotor of the reformatory movement and one of the movement's most important political leaders. Johann Friedrich was defeated and taken prisoner on the 24th of april 1547 by troops of the emperor Charles V in the neighbourhood of Mühlberg battle of Mühlberg 'mannhaft fechtend am Backen verwundet'. On this wound on the cheek and the resulting scar see below On the 10th of May he was sentenced to death. This sentence was not carried out. Johann Friedrich had however to abdicate but he refused to be converted to Catholicism. In captivity his political role came to an end but in prison he became a protestant Saint. 'Mit diesem jähen Sturzen war Johann Friedrichs politische Rolle zu Ende. Nicht aber seine politische Bedeutung für das evangelische Deutschland. Die heitere Ruhe mit dem er sein Unglück hinnahm die Unerschütterlichkeit seiner religiösen Überzeugung . machten ihn zum leuchtende Vorbilde seiner Glaubensgenossen .'. Charles V tried to force him to accept catholicism he humiliated him but 'Alles erklärte er J.Fr. habe er bisher hintangesetzt um das Wort Gottes lauter und rein zu erhalten. Obwohl er bereits Alles verloren und ein armer Gefangener geworden solle ihn doch Gott davor behüten dass er nun zu letzt noch davon abweichen die erkannte Wahrheit verleugnen und das Papstthum annehmen solle'. The duke was released in 1552 and his way home was a real triumph. 'Die Heimkehr des fürstlichen Martyrers über Nürnberg und Bamberg glich einem Triumphzuge; wohin er kam strömte das Volk ihm entgegen. . Zu Jena empfingen ihn Professoren und Studenten der neubegründeten Universität'. . Melanchthon wrote after his death: 'Die Bekenntniss und Beständigkeit Herzog Johann Friedrichs hat unsere Kirche mehr gefrommt als vielleicht die Victoria hat dienen mögen'. German quotations: ADB 14 p.326/330 In 1551 Matthes Gebel made a medal with the portrait of a bearded duke with a clearly visible scar on his left cheek. There is also an engraved portrait with a scar made in 1547 the year of the battle of Mühlberg. This scar on the left cheek which is apparantly part of the iconography of the Duke is also clearly visible on the blindstamped portrait on the front of this book. So our conclusion must be that this portrait belongs to Johann Friedrich I. The coat of arms on the backcover was made after an engraving of Lucas Cranach a friend of Johann Friedrich. In Jena there is a statue of Johann Friedrich the socalled 'Hanfried-Denkmal' to commemorate the founding of the University in 1558 of which Johann Friedrich had been the driving force. The 'Deutsches Historisches Museum' holds a number of paintings 1630 which depict the life of this protestant Saint in 28 scenes. § Wechel's woodcut printer's mark on the title depicting the winged horse Pegasus gracefully arched over a caduceus and 2 intertwined cornucopiae Condition: Cover soiled and worn at the extremities. Some damage to the head and tail of the back and to the upper board. Corners heavily bumped. 2 old ownership inscriptions on the title. Small inscription with references to Cicero on the front pastedown. Small inscription on the verso of the title. Occasional old red ink underlinings. Occasional marginalia in the Apologia probably made by Christoph Richter see below Note: This book is a reissue of a revised Latin translation of Herodotus' 'Historiae' made by Lorenzo Valla and published by the French humanist/scholar Henri Estienne or in Latin Henricus Stephanus in Geneva in 1566. Stephanus plays an important role in the history of the reception of Herodotus. In 1474 the Latin translation of Valla was first published. 1502 saw the 'editio princeps' of the Greek text. In the same time the work of the detractors and critics of this Greek historian came on the market especially Plutarch's 'De Herodoti malignitate' 1509 but also works of Aristotle Herodotus is ignorant Flavius Josephus he is a liar Strabo he likes to tell simple stories Lucianus does not tell the truth Gellius he invents stories. The supporters of Herodotus were in the minority. We only mention Cicero who called him 'Pater historiae'. When Henri Estienne was planning to publish a new revised Latin translation of Herodotus he decided to try his talents as a critic on Herodotus and wrote in his defence his 'Apologia pro Herodoto' to accompany this revised translation which was published by him in Geneva in 1566. This treatise is full of philological niceties and Latin and Greek quotations to be read by a humanist forum. See 'Henrici Stephani Apologia pro Herodoto. Henri Estienne Apologie für Herodot nach der Erstausgabe Genf 1566 herausgegeben und übersetzt von Johannes Kramer' Meisenheim am Glan Hain 1980 p. VII. A copy of this book is sold together with this 1584 edition § In the introductory letter of the German classical scholar Fredericus Sylburg we are told that this 1584 reissue was published no not for the money but because there arose a demand for a Latin translation of Herodotus from Eastern Europe 'e Pannonia superiore Boiemia & aliis quibusdam locis' leaf a2 recto. It was brought on the market not to compete with the folio edition of 1566 but for people who could not afford such an expensive book and prefered a smaller and cheaper edition 'nostra vero tenuioris fortunae hominibus' leaf a2 recto. Sylburg added he says occasional marginal notes to the text of his own and other scholars Provenance: The provenance theme of this book is Saxonian and Lutheran. 1: An old and long inscription written on the front flyleaf: 'Tout avec Dieu. Pour temoigner ma tres bonne amitie et affection que je porte a Monsr. Jean Trölschen je luy ay donne ceste livre priant de le prandre a bon gre et demeurant jusque au tombeau Son bien humble et bien affectione serviteur M. Jean Ernst Gerard Jenensis'. There are two Lutheran theologians bearing the name 'Johannes Ernst Gerhard' father 1621-1668 and son 1662-1707. Both were born and educated in Jena. The Father was appointed professor 'Historiarum' in Jena in 1652 his son taught theology in Jena and became professor in Giessen in 1700. ADB 8772 Who the receiver 'Jean' or 'Johannes' or 'Hans Trölschen' was we could not find out. § 2: On the title in old ink 'Ex libris M. Johann Rolle . Vicar'. § 3: Below the imprint an old ink inscription: 'Sum ex libris Christoph. Richteri Altenburg' continued with a verse from the New Testament in Greek: 'Hêmôn gar to politeuma en ouranois huparchei' 'For our converstation is in heaven' Ep. ad Ephesios 320. Christoph Richter 'Altenburger Baumeister' was the architect of the 'Gottsackerkirche zur Auferstehung Christi' in Altenburg. This Lutheran church was built in late renaissance style between 1639-1650. See the 'Liste der Kirchen im Altenburger Land' in Wikipedia § 4: Old ink inscription on the blank lower margin of the verso of the title: 'Hunc librum dono accepi a Dn. N. Joh. erased Christ. Ungewittero ut monumentum aeternae suae benevolentiae J.W. Riedesel'. This might be the Hessian protestant theologian Christoph Ungewitter 1681-1756 who was 'Hofprediger' of the 'Landgraf' of Kassel. ADB 39/303 The receiver of this book may be the jurist and diplomat 'Johann Wilhelm Freiherr von Riedesel zu Eisenbach' 1705-1782 of Hessian nobility. NDB 21570-72 He was 'Reichskammergerichtsassessor' in Wetzlar. Much on him is to be found in: 'Reichspersonal Funktionsträger für Kaiser und Reich' edited by A. Baumann Köln 2003. § 5: On the front flyleaf in pencil '27 december 1960' written by the Flemish linguist Walter Couvreur 1914-1996 professor of Indoeuropean linguistics at the University of Gent. The place of acquisition he wrote on the flyleaf at the end: 'Frankfurt Mineur' Collation: alpha-delta8 eta4; a-z8 A-T8 V4 leaf V3 missigned V2 Photographs on request hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 130080

‎POEMATA PYTHAGORAE, & PHOCYLIDIS‎

‎Poemata Pythagorae & Phocylidis. Cum duplici interpretatione Viti Amerbachii. Bound with: Theognidis Megarensis Sententiae cum versione latina ita ut verbum verbo conferri possit addita earundem explicatione a Philip. Melanth. in Schola Wuiteberggensi. And: Sibyllinorum Oraculorum libri VIII. Addita Sebastiani Castalionis interpretatione Latina quae Graeco eregione respondeat. Cum annotationib. Xysti Betuleij in Graeca Sibyllina oracula et Sebastiani Castalionis in translationem suamque annotationes numeris marginalibus signantur.‎

‎Ad 1: Strasbourg Argentorati Apud Christianum Mylium 1565. Ad 2: Leipzig Lipsiae Ioannes Rhamba excudebat 1569. Ad 3: Basel Basileae Per Ioannem Oporinum n.d. Colophon at the end: 'Basileae Ex officina Ioannis Oporini Anno Salutis humanae 1555 Mense Augusto 8vo. 3 volumes in 1: Ad 1: 16341 blank p. Ad. 2: 951 blank p. Ad 3: 33321 blank p. Vellum 17 cm Ref: Ad 1: VD16 P 5452; Hoffmann 3330 not this year 1565; Schweiger 1282 also not this year. Graesse 5516. Ad 2: VD 16 ZV 19766; Hoffmann 3510; Schweiger 1316. Ad 3: VD16 S 6278; Griechischer Geist aus Basler Presse 462 but see also 460 and 461; Hoffmann 3396; Schweiger 1287: 'Enth. Verbess. aus e. Mscr. des Marcus Antimachus zu Florenz. Andere Varr. welche nicht in den Text aufgenommen sind stehen am Rande'. Brunet 5370; Ebert 21169; Graesse 6/1398 Details: Three rare texts in an unattractive binding. Ad 1: Printer's mark on the title depicting a furious swan within a laurel wreath. Ad 2: Woodcut round portrait of Melanchthon on the title. Ad 3: Greek text with opposing Latin translation; woodcut initials Condition: Vellum dyed red soiled and very worn; endpapers gone. This was a convolute consisting of 4 volumes. One of them was once removed leaving an open space exposing the 3 broad bands of an ancient manuscript to which the book has been sewn. First title soiled and with an old manuscript note in the blank margin; its right edge of the first leaves thumbed. Occasional old ink underlinings and marginalia of the hands of 2 or 3 'adolescentes studiosi'. On the last page in old ink the first 10 lines of a poem of the Hungarian humanist Janus Pannonius 1434-1472 known all over Europe 'De paparum creandorum ritu immutato' in which he ridiculed the pope Note: Ad 1 & 2: The 'gnome' or 'sententia' the pithy expression of a general thought is probably as old as human speech. In literature it is allready found in Homer e.g. the much quoted proverb 'A multitude of masters is no good thing; let there be one master'. Ilias II204 Early Greek poets among whom Theognis and Phocylides are supposed to have summarized the ethic doctrines in short 'gnomai' sayings which according to Aristotle are more credible than certain long argumentations. Famous Greek expressions of a striking thought everyone knows are 'gnôthi seauthon' and 'mêden agan'. The 'gnome' was used occasionally in poetry or prose but as a literary form it can be traced back to the Greek poets Phocylides and Theognis. Phocylides of Milete wrote hexametric and elegiac 'gnômai'. According to Suda he lived ca. 540 B.C. The 200 or so hexameters of his 'Poema nouthêtikon or 'poema admonitorium' were ascribed to Phocylides in the 16th century. It was first published under his name in 1495. In the 16th century this didactic ethical poem was a very popular schoolbook as it had been on Byzantine schools for centuries. This edition was probably also meant for young students or schoolboys it should be studied carefully by 'adolescentes studiosi'. A great number of editions almost one every year translations and commentaries were produced by schoolmasters in the 16th century. 'Die Richtung der Zeit ging recht ernstlich dahin die Jugenderziehung auf eine Vereinigung biblischer Glaubens- und Sittenlehre mit klassischer Reinheit der Form zu gründen' J. Bernays Ueber das Phokylideische Gedicht' in 'Jahresbericht des jüdisch-theologischen Seminars' Breslau 1856 p. I The 'poema admonitorium' then ascribed to Phocylides was often combined with Theognis whose work was already a schoolbook in antiquity. Was Theognis purely pagan the reading of Phocylides was more in line with biblical ethics. The christian ethics found in the work of a noble pagan poet who lived in the 6th century before Christ proved the correctness of the bible it was thought. The German classical philologist Friedrich Sylburg 1536-1596 was the first to doubt the attribution of the 'poema admonitorium' to Phocylides. And in 1606 the French genius Joseph Scaliger proved on stylistic grounds and with respect to the content that the real author was perhaps a Christian. After this the interest in the poem waned and finally it sank into oblivion. Nowadays the author is called 'Pseudo-Phocylides'. Of the Greek elegiac poet Theognis also flourishing ca. 540 B.C. survive 1389 lines. As with Phocylides there is dispute about their authenticity. 'We may conjecture that it was popular if not composed in aristocratic circles in Athens in the 5th century' C.M Bowra concludes for part of the work of Theognis. OCD s.v. Theognis Theognis' songs were probably sung at symposia during the 5th and 4th century B.C. In this time the anthology of verses was formed which has come down to us. The Greek text of Theognis and its accompanying metrical Latin translation in distichs was produced by the German classical scholar and reformer Philippus Melanchthon 1497-1560 also known as the intellectual leader of Lutheranism. At the age of 21 he became professor of Greek at the University of Wittenberg. This convolute contains also the Golden verses carmen aureum or carmina aurea which are attributed to the Greek philosopher Pythagoras. They were well known among educated readers in Antiquity. In the Renaissance the verses found like Phocylides and Theognis a place in schoolbooks. Nowadays the verses are relativily unknown among classicists. The 'carmen aureum' consists of 71 didactic hexameters. Every scholar who looked at these verses seems to have his own opinion about its author origin and date. Quot homines tot sententiae It is however clear 'from the testimonia that the Golden Verses was highly regarded in late antiquity as a concise formulation of principles of the philosophical life. The Neoplatonists starting with Iamblichus probably all used the poem as a propaedeutic moral instruction preparing the way for philosophy proper'. 'The Pythagorean Golden Verses'. With introduction and commentary by J.C. Thom Leiden 1995 p. 13 The testimonia indicate also that the authorship of the poem was already problematical in antiquity. p. 15 The editor and translator of the Golden Verses and Phocylides is the German humanist Veit Amerbach or in Latin Vitus Amerbachius 1503-1557 who was first a Lutheran but later converted to catholocism. He studied in Wittenberg where he met Luther and Melanchthon. Later he turned against his former friends. Ad 3: Interest in the oracles of the Sibyl was at its height in the sixteenth century. Before 1600 messages of this prophetess were 'widely diffused and her fame led to depiction by noted artists such as Van Eyk Perugino Pinturichio Michelangelo and Raphael and even to musical settings of her verses'. The Classical Tradition Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 884 The first female seer known as Sibyl appeared in the 6th century B.C. in connection with Erythrae a Greek city in Asia Minor. In the first century B.C. the Roman scholar Varro listed already 10 different Sibyls. The collection of Greek prophecies of the Sibyl of Cumae Sibyllini libri the Sibylline books had an official place in Roman religion and were meant to guide the Romans through political and natural crises. In 83 B.C. the collection was destroyed by a fire in the temple of Iuppiter on the Capitolium. A new collection of ficticious oracles under the prestigious name of the Sibyls was formed in late antiquity. 'The Sibylline books that became important in the later Western tradition were the product of Jews and Christians who seized on this form of revalatory literature for their own purposes'. The Classical Tradition p. 884 These Greek hexameters proclaimed the superiority first of Judaism and then of Christianity. The verses criticized pagan gods and pagan immorality and predicted their impending doom. Christians of the East and the West used the oracles as evidence that God had employed pagan female seers to announce the coming of Christ. The Sibylline oracles were widely used by many church fathers Augustinus accepted even the Sibyl as a member of the 'City of God' because of the acrostic poem that hymned Christ's return. In the late Middle Ages new Sibylline prophecies were produced to promote forms of apocalypticism. The 16th century editors of the oracles were convinced of their religious worth and their authenticity. Italian humanists and platonists considered the oracles to belong to the 'prisca theologia'. 'But the 1599 Paris edition of Joseph Koch expressed doubts about the antiquity and authority of the verses'. A 'battle of books' ensued in the 17th century as classical scholars such as Isaac Casaubon and Richard Simon mounted arguments against the authenticity of the oracles'. Nowadays they are 'studied for what they tell us about Judaism and Christianity in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds'. The Classical Tradition p. 885 This is the third and most complete edition of the Oracula Sibyllina which the Basler publisher Johannes Oporinus produced. The first one of 1545 the 'editio princeps' of these prophecies contains the Greek text only. The second of 1546 offers a Latin translation only and the third of 1555 combines the Greek text and Latin translation. The Augsburger poet classical scholar and 'Schulrektor' Sixt Birk or in Latin Xystus Betuleius 1501-1554 is the editor of the 'editio princeps' ca. 4200 Greek hexameters in 8 books which he had found in a manuscript that the government of Augsburg had recently acquired in Venice. The manuscript he says 'recens est: eleganter quidem & splendide sed . parum orthographice scriptus'. p. 16/17 of the prefatory letter The verse collection consists of ancient pagan jewish and christian prophecies. In his introductory letter of 1545 which is reprinted in the 1555 edition Betuleius declares that he used the manuscript to elucidate many references to the oracles of the Sibyls in the 'De Divina Institutione' of Lactancius. He is convinced of the christian nature of the oracles in which the will of God has found an expression. 'Misit benignissimus Deus . suae voluntatis interpretes'. p. 8 Betuleius honestly declares that he lacks the time and the erudition to produce a commentary and a translation into Latin. 'Non dubito quin futuri sint qui his vaticiniis licet multis in locis truncatis & mutilis vel interpretatione vel enarratione sint lumen aliquod illaturi'. p. 8 The next year 1546 saw already the hoped for Latin translation of this difficult text. It was produced by the French humanist scholar Sebastian Castellio also known as Sebastianus Castalio or in French as Sébastien de Châtillon 1515-1563. He was rector of the school in Geneva but had to leave the city because he was a defender of religious tolerance and was accused of undermining the prestige of the calvinist clergy. Reduced to utter poverty he went to Basel in 1544 and began proof-reading for the publisher Oporinus and producing Greek Hebrew and Latin translations. This Latin translation the second book on the oracles which Oporinus published must have been among his first jobs for Oporinus. In 1551 Castellio published his Latin translation of the Bible. In Basel Castellio's fortunes improved and in 1553 he was appointed professor of Greek. In the dedication which precedes the translation of the oracles Castellio defends the authenticity and the divine nature of the Sibylline oracles. 'Haec igitur oracula Sibyllae' . vera sunt'. p. 18 He used for his translation the original Greek manuscript which Betuleius had sent to Oporinus and 2 other manuscripts. Castellio offers also variant readings contributed by the Italian scholar Marcantonio Antimaco or in Latin Marcus Antonius Antimachus 1473-1552 who was a prolific humanist translator of Greek texts and who was the owner of one of the two manuscripts 'qui vetus habet exemplar' p. 17. Castellio's translation of the Sibylline Oracles is 'zwar metrisch doch nicht weniger wörtlich als eine Prosaübersetzung. An einigen Stellen habe er den Text verbessern können an andern Lücken belassen oder Teilübersetzungen in Prosa bieten müssen'. Griechischer Geist aus Basler Presse no. 461 Castellio raises in his preface the problem that the Sibylline books may be forgeries 'either relatively recent ones of from the early Christian period. Both possibilities he denies saying that it would have been too difficult for any recent forger and that Ancient references to Sibyls as well as Virgil's 4th Eclogue argue against an earlier one. . At all events the publication of these texts set in motion a slow but inexorable process of textual criticism which meant that by the 17th century scholars were prepared to say that Lactantius and even St. Augustine had been mistaken in believing these oracles to be of great antiquity'. J. Britnell 'The rise and fall of the Sibyls in Renaissance France' in 'Schooling and Society' edited by A.A. MacDonald & M.W. Twoney Leuven 2004 p. 179 Castellio added also his annotations to the text. The third Oporinus edition of the Sibylline oracles of 1555 was also edited by Castellio and contains the introductions to the editions of 1545 1546 and of 1555 the Greek text of Betuleius corrected by Castellio and his Latin translation printed parallel to the Greek text. Castellio added his own notes and those of Betuleius. At the end we find the 'iudicia' of Eusebius and Augustine concerning the Acrostiches of Sibylla Erithraea; included is also the acrostichon of the Sibylla 'IESUS CHRISTUS DEI FILIUS SERVATOR CRUCS' p. 290/91 and other Sibyllan prophecies on Christ; Castellio added also a Latin verse translation of 5 1/2 pages of the so-called 'Carmen Mosis' a long prophetic poem Deuteronomium chapter 32 which is said to have found a place in the Ark of the Convenant. Castellio erroneously refers to this 'Song of Moses' as 'Exodus chapter 32'. p. 328 Collation: Ad 1: A-K8 L4 leaf L4 verso blank Ad 2: A-F8 leaf F8 verso blank. Ad 3: a-x8 leaf x8 verso blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 151943

‎PLAUTUS‎

‎M. Accius Plautus ex fide atque auctoritate complurium librorum manuscriptorum opera Dionys. Lambini Monstroliensis emendatus; ab eodemque commentariis explicatus. Nunc denuo plurimis quae in praecedentibus editionibus irrepserant mendis repurgatus; multisque in locis in gratiam antiquariorum illustratus. Additi quoque sunt duo indices copiosissimi. Prior verborum locutionum & sententiarum; posterior eorum quae commentariis D. Lambini continentur.‎

‎Geneva Coloniae Allobrogum Apud Petrum & Iacobum Chouët 1622. 4to. VIII92051 index1 blank p. Calf 25 cm Ref: Schweiger 2765; Fabricius/Ernesti 118; Moss 2461; Ebert 17188; cf. GLN 15-16 no. 3810; cf. Dibdin 2310/11; Graesse 5328; Ebert 17188 Details: Back with 4 raised bands. Gilt letterpiece in the second compartment. Boards blindtooled. Title with woodcut architectural borders. Occasional woodcut headpieces and initials Condition: Binding very scuffed that is: hinges cracked head & tail of the spine chafed back rubbed boards scratched corners bumped outer edge of upper board abraded. Paper age-toned occasionally foxed. Small inscription on the front flyleaf Note: The French scholar Denys Lambin Dionysius Lambinus in Latin 1520-1572 earned his fame in the field of Latin scholarship with his great editions of Horace 1561 Lucretius 1564 and Cicero 1566. He was 'Professor Regius' of Greek at the 'Collège de France' from 1561 till his death. The 19th century English editor and commentator of Lucretius H.A.J. Munro ranks him as one of the best scholars of his time. He says that 'The quickness of his intellect united with his exquisite knowledge of the language gave him great power in the field of conjecture and for nearly 3 centuries his remained the standard text'. Munro DRN 4th ed. vol. 1 p.14/15. Lambinus' 'reading was as vast as accurate and its results are given in a style of unsurpassed clearness and beauty' Munro adds. In 1576/77 4/5 years after his death appeared at last his edition of the comedies written by the Roman playwright Plautus 250-184 B.C. It is his last great work in which he showed great critical learning and ability to discover hidden meanings and innuendo. He fell ill exhausted by the weight of his studies and had only time to complete 13 of the 21 plays. This is told in an address to the reader by Iacobus Helias or Jacques Hélias or Jacques Hélie who was the successor of Lambinus as 'Regius professor' of Greek literature from 1572 till 1590 and who completed the work of his colleague. The difficulties Helias says in collating manuscripts mending the text of Plautus and writing a commentary are enormous. The text is corrupt and deformed by mistakes and there is a host of different readings caused by the ignorance and negligence of later generations. Helias lists the humanist scholars who shared with Lambinus their observations on difficult places not forgetting himself. Lambinus had not left his work on Plautus ready to print. Helias completed the work partly by transcribing what remained of the observations of Lambinus on the subsequent comedies. He complemented what was left open and supplied and corrected many quotations. Sometimes he had to work out what Lambinus had only sketched. Finally Helias added 2 indices one for the text of Plautus and the other for the commentary. Lambinus collated for his edition a number of manuscripts and collected many passages from the ancient grammarians. This is how Lambinus' Plautus is valued in modern scholarship: 'Many valuable emendations go back to Denis Lambin .; his later comments reveal that he had lost energy and acumen due to his ailments'. Plautus Vol. 1 Loeb Classical Library no. 60 Cambr. Mass. 2011 p. CXIV. Lambinus' successor Helias left no trace in the history of scholarship except for completing the work of his colleague. This edition of 1622 produced by Chouët is a reissue of this important edition of 1576/77. Provenance: Written on the front flyleaf: 'Sum H. S.s J.U. doctoris anno 1642'. Who the 'juris utriusque doctor' was who acquired this book in 1642 we cannot decipher; he was probably a Dutchman or someone from the Rhine valley for the same hand wrote at the top of the same page: 'Emptus quatuor florinos'. § In another hand: 'Ex Biblioth. V. Ampl. J. van Buuren' Collation: q4 A-Z8 Aa-Zz8 AA-KK8 LL4 MM-PP8 QQ2 leaf QQ2 verso blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 140110

‎SCALIGER,JJ- J J‎

‎Prima Scaligerana nusquam antehac edita cum praefatione T. Fabri.‎

‎Utrecht Ultrajecti Apud Petrum Elzevirium 1670. 8vo. X1011 blank p. Modern half vellum 16 cm Ref: Willems 1605: one of the few Elzevier-editions from Utrecht; Rahir 1782; Berghman 1339; Not in the 'Scaliger Collection' Smitskamp Leiden 1993 only mentioned in the register p. 128. Not in Brunet Graesse or Ebert Details: Boards with marbled paper. Woodcut printer's mark on title depicting a celestial sphere Condition: Small stamp on the title Note: The place of Josephus Justus Scaliger 1549-1609 in the history of classical scholarship is royal. His preeminence is best understood from the entry which the French classicist Isaac Casaubon made in his diary after the death of this great man: 'Exstincta est illa seculi nostri lampas lumen litterarum decus Galliae ornamentum unicum Europae'. His erudition was considered by his contemporaries to be a wonder of mankind. 'He not only exhibits a remarable aptitude for the soundest type of textual emendation; but he is also the founder of historical criticism. His main strength lay in a clear conception of antiquity as a whole and in the concentration of vast and varied learning on distinctly important works' Sandys History of Classical Scholarship p. 199-204. He was one of the first to point the way to a sounder method of emendation founded on the genuine tradition of MSS. In 1590 he filled the vacant place left by Justus Lipsius at the young the University of Leiden. 'His disinclination to lecture was duly respected; all that the authorities at Leyden desired was his living and inspiring presence in that seat of Protestant learning' Sandys p. 202. On this honorary post he produced works that made him immortal. His immortality was further ensured by the publication after his death of the Prima Scaligerana a collection of table conversations in which observations of great scientific value can be found and which is an exeptional and much-quoted source in the historiography of the late humanistic republic of letters. The complicated history of this Prima Scaligerana and Secunda Scaligerana is explained best online at The Warburg Institute research/projects/scaliger/scaligerana. The table conversations were originally penned down by a friend of Scaliger the medicin François de Saint-Vertunien Franciscus Vertunianus. 'Soweit sie also mündliche Aeusserungen Scaligers enthält umfasst die Sammlung die Periode 1574 bis 1593.' . Nach Vertunians Tode 1607 blieben diese Aufzeichnungen unter seinen Papieren in Poitiers liegen bis sie um das Jahr 1669 ein dortiger Advokat de Sigogne an sich brachte und dem Tanaquil Faber nach Saumur zur Herausgabe schickte'. BernaysJ. Joseph Justus Scaliger Berlin 1855 p. 232 They left the press in Saumur in that same year under a fake imprint i.e. 'Groningae apud Petrum Smithaeum 1669' this to escape the attention of the authorities of the church and the state. This work was edited by the French classical scholar Tanneguy Lefebvre or in Latin Tanaquillus Faber 1615-1672. In the short preface to this work M. Lefebvre explains also why this edition was called: Prima Scaligerana. That was because the edition of another collection of Scaligerana which was published a few years earlier 1666 & 1668 contained material of a later date than his edition. The Dutch printer Pieter Elzevier one of the last Elzeviers of this celebrated family of booksellers publishers and printers of the 17th century published in 1670 this reissue of the Groningen edition of 1669. There exists an editio altera priore emendatior with the imprint Ultrajecti Apud Petrum Elsevirium 1671 which is however a counterfeit executed in France and considered a false Elsevier Collation: A-G8 Photographs on request hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 120508

‎CAPELLE,AG VAN A G‎

‎Commentatio de Regibus et Antiquitatibus Pergamenis.‎

‎N.pl. n.d. Amsterdam 1842 VIII172 p. 1 plate with coins 1 folding lithographed map. Contemporary blue stiff wrappers. 28 cm Note: The Dutch schoolmaster Arend Gerard van Capelle 1795-1852 was conrector and later rector of the Gymnasium of Amsterdam the precursor of the 'Barlaeus Gymnasium'. His dissertation of 1817 was on Hellenistic history 'De Zenobia Palmyrenorum Augusta'. He published also an edition of Terentius 'P. Terentii Afri Comoediae quas ad fidem optimarum editionum denuo castigavit illustravit edidit Arentius Gerardus Van Cappelle' Amsterdam 1838. unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : 152696

‎CUPERUS,G‎

‎Gisb. Cuperi Harpocrates sive Explicatio imagunculae argenteae perantiquae quae in figuram Harpocratis formata representat Solem. Ejusdem Monumenta antiqua inedita. Multi auctorum loci multae inscriptiones marmora nummi gemmae varii ritus & antiquitates in utroque opusculo emendantur & illustrantur. Accedit Stephani Le Moine Epistola de Melanophoris.‎

‎Utrecht Trajecti ad Rhenum Apud Franciscum Halma Acad. Typogr. 1687. 4to. VIII29414 index p. frontispiece 6 plates of which 5 folding text engravings. Vellum. 20.5 cm Ref: STCN ppn 833724266; Brunet 6 no. 22603; Cicognara 3212; Ebert 5512; Graesse 2308 Details: 5 thongs laced through both joints. Engraved frontispiece it depicts Harpocrates standing on a pedestal around him gods like Apollo Hermes Serapis and Isis and in the foreground Tempus who shovels for Egyptian antiquities. Title printed in red and black. Woodcut printer's mark on the title motto: 'vivitur in genio' 'only through his genius man survives'. 3 woodcut headpieces 3 cul de lampe vignettes text engravings on 39 pages small woodcuts on 2 pages; 6 plates depicting ancient monuments Condition: Vellum soiled and slightly stained. Front flyleaf gone Note: This title of 1687 is a philological tour de force of the Dutch classical scholar Gisbertus Cuper or Cuperus in Dutch Gijsbert Kuiper 1644-1716. He was professor of Latin and Greek literature at the 'Athenaeum Illustre' of Deventer from 1668 till 1681 and at the same time mayor of this old city which once had been a member of the Hanseatic League. Cuper has his own lemma on Wikipedia in Dutch only. In this title Cuper examines a deity of Egyptian origin Harpocrates who was imported into Rome in the second century B.C. and who was connected with the mystery cult of the Egyptian goddess Isis. Cuper's research began he tells us in the preface with a small silver statuette which he saw in the famous collection of his friend and scholar Johannes Smetius whom he visited in 1674 in Nijmegen. The statuette was found in the ground of the collector's hometown Nijmegen. It is a sculpture of a small boy almost naked and with a lotus flower on his head. He is winged and wears a small quiver on his back; the boy holds the index finger of his right hand against his lips as if to enjoin silence. p. 1: 'manus dextrae digito indice premit vocem & silentia suadet' From his right arm hangs a small bucket situla and around his left arm coils a snake. His left hand rests on a club around which another snake coils and to which a goose has been attached. At the boy's right foot sits a rabbit or hare. At his left foot a small bird of prey accipiter vel alia avis. p. 2 As soon as Cuper saw this aenigmatic figurine he decided to examine it for he could not imagine that all those attributes had been added without any intention. He recognized the boy from a Egyptian hieroglyph as Harpocration whom Egyptian superstition brought to Rome. He immediately realized also that this boy did not ask for silence non silentium tantum digito suadens but that he represented the Sun verum Solis imaginem referens. p. 2 In the rest of the book Cuper closely examines all the relevant passages concerning Harpocrates' iconography in ancient authors in mythology on gemmae coins inscriptions amulets etc. to prove his point that Harpocrates's finger was misunderstood from the Roman scholar Varro to Augustine and that the boy was not a diety of Silence at all. The boy did not ask for silence he argues but was a representation of the rising sun because the ancient Egyptians greeted and honoured it's appearance by pressing their index finger against their lips. The 'Harpocrates' was first published in 1676 in Amsterdam 'apud Theodorum Pluymer'. This 1687 edition is a reissue considerably augmented with 'Gisberti Cuperi Monumenta antiqua inedita' ca. 70 pages in which Cuper discusses recent finds. He offers a description and image of the finds and tries to explain matters with the help of ancient sources and the work of contemporary scholars. At the end has also been added 'Ad Gisb. Cuperum De Melanphoris epististola' 30 pages written by the French orientalist Stephanus Le Moine 1624-1689 who lectured in Leiden from 1676. His letter is a treatise on the black clothes melamphoroi which the members of the Isis fraternities wore when they lamented the fate of their goddess. This book of Cuper is tough reading the Latin is difficult and it abounds in philological pedantry. The Latin text of the second part of the book Cuper's 'Monumenta antiqua inedita' can be found on: stilus.nl/cuper/ where one can also download a translation of it into Dutch by Leo Nellissen who is an expert on Smetius Collation: 4 including frontispiece; A-Z4 Aa-Pp4 Qq2 Photographs on request hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 151911

‎CEBES‎

‎KEBÊTOS THÊBAIOU PINAX. Cebes des Thebaners Gemählde mit erklärenden Anmerkungen und einem vollständigen Wortregister. Für Schulen bearbeitet von Johann David Büchling.‎

‎Meissen Bey Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Erbstein 1796. 8vo. 176 p. Contemporary boards 18 cm Ref: VD18 11454512; Hoffmann 1443; not in Graesse or Ebert Details: Schoolbook with an introduction of 34 p. At the end an index verborum of 54 p. Greek text on the upper half of the page German notes on the lower half Condition: Cover worn at the extremities. Paper slightly yellowing. Two ownership inscriptions on the front endpapers Note: The dialogue Cebetis tabula dates from the first century A.D. it was attributed to the philosopher Cebes a student of the Athenian Socrates. In it an ancient temple painting which caught the attention of two visitors is explained by an old man. It is an allegorical picture on which the dangers and temptations of human life are symbolically represented. It shows that happiness can only be reached by a proper education and a virtuous life. This once popular ethical work is now almost forgotten. But in the 16th 17th and 18th century it was widely read especially by clerics and schoolboys. This edition of Büchling is meant for beginners is told in the introduction. Experience in Privatuntericht and in the classroom has learned Büchling the usefulness of this text. § The German schoolmaster Johann David Büchling 1762-1811 was born in Halle. He produced school editions of a great number of Roman and Greek school authors e.g. Sallustius Aesopus Palaephatus Cicero Anacreon Theophrastus and Nepos Provenance: On the front pastedown 'Bibl. Scholae Cathedr. Gustrov acc. 1812'. Güstrow is a small city in Mecklenburg Vorpommern. The Cathedral School Domschule had a large library which was dispersed after WW II. The building from 1575 still exists. On the flyleaf difficult to read: 'Wilhelm . Ludewig Land Grübenhagen den 26ten Märtz 1797' Collation: A-L8 Photographs on request hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 120525