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‎PLUTARCHUS.‎

‎Les vies des hommes illustres grecs et romains compar�es l'une avec l'autre par Plutarque de Chaeron�e. Translat�es par M. Iacques Amyot Conseiller du Roy & par luy reveu�s & corrig�es. Avec les vies d'Annibal & de Scipion l'Africain traduites de Latin en Fran�ois par Charles de l'�cluse. Plus les vies d'Epaminondas de Philippus de Macedoine de Dionysius l'aisn� tyran de Sicile d'Auguste Caesar de Plutarque & de Senecque. Item les vies des excellens Chefs de guerre escrites par Aemilius Probus. Amples sommaires sur chacune vie: annotations morales en marge chronologie divers indices & les vives effigies des hommes illustres. Le tout recueilly & dispos� par S.G. S.‎

‎Paris A Paris Chez Jean du-Carroy 1612. 8vo. 2 volumes: XXXII118147 index;129434 index p. New vellum. 18.5 cm Ref: cf. Hoffmann 3214 Details: Small woodcut portrait of Plutarch on both titles. Every 'Vita' is preceded by a coinlike woodcut portrait Condition: The first letter of several lines on both titles disappears in the left margin because of new endpapers which have been attached to a small paper repair in the gutter. Edges of both titles thumbed. Some stains on the front edge of vol. I. Outer margin of the title and the first gathering of the first volume stained. Paper slightly yellowing Note: The 'Vitae Parallelae' or 'Parallel Lives' form a collection of biographies of ancient historical figures. There are 23 pairs 19 of them with a comparison attached to it. The object of Plutarch was not to write history but to exemplify private virtue and vice in the careers of great men. Hence his careful treatment of education and character and his love for anecdotes. 'Tantalizing and treacherous to the historian Plutarch has won the affection of the many generations to whom he has been a main source of understanding of the ancient world by his unerring choice of detail his vivid and memorable narrative and his flexible and controlled style varying in complexity and richness'. OCD 2nd. ed. p. 849 The 'Lives' in Greek Latin and other translations were for centuries compulsory classic reading for educated people. Many authors playwrights painters drank from this source. � The French humanist Jacques Amyot 1513-1593 was one of the most famous and influential translators of the Renaissance. Allthough the son of poor parents he was appointed professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Bourges. He even became bishop of Auxerre. He first translated into French the romance of Heliodorus 1547. In 1554 his translation of the historian Diodorus Siculus was published and in 1559 the 'Daphnis and Chlo�' of Longus. From 1559 till 1565 he worked on his famous translation 'Vies Parall�les des Hommes Illustres' of the Greek historian/philosopher Plutarch ca. 50 - ca. 120 A.D. For his translations he visited the Bibliotheca Vaticana and the libraries of Venice to study Greek codices. The translation of the 'Vitae Parallelae' is Amyot's greatest success and ranks among the most admired works of the French Renaissance both for itsr new standards of scholarship and for the perceived elegance of its style.The list of reissues and reprints seems endless. His translation was again translated into Dutch and English. Especially the English translation by Thomas North 1535-1604 was influential because it formed the source from which Shakespeare drew the material for his Julius Caesar Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra. It is in the last-named play that he follows the Lives most closely whole speeches being taken directly from North. � An expanded edition of Amyot's French translation was published in 1587 by one S.G.S. 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'�cluse 1561. This S.G.S. is the French calvinist minister Simon Goulard Senlisien born in 1543 in Senlis Oise. See www.idref.fr/026898411 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 � This French edition of 'Vies des hommes illustres' of 1612 is a page-for-page reissue of the edition of 1594 which was published in Geneva by Jacq. Stoer Collation: �8 �8; A-4G8 4H8 minus leaf 4H7 & 4H8; A-4O8 Photographs on request Heavy book may require extra shipping costs hardcover‎

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‎LONGINUS.‎

‎DIONUSIOU LONGINOU PERI HUPSOUS HUPOMN�MA. Dionysii Longini De Sublimitate commentarius quem nova versione donavit notis illustravit & partim manuscriptorum ope partim conjectura emendavit additis etiam omnibus ejusdem auctoris fragmentis Zacharias Pearce A.M. Regiae Majestati a Sacris Domesticis etc. Editio secunda notis & emendationibus auctior.‎

‎London Londini Ex officina Jacobi Tonson & Joannis Watts 1732. 8vo. XXXVI errata3013 variae lectiones19 index1 blank p. Calf. 20 cm Ref: ESTC Citation No. T87458; Hoffmann 2527: 'Pearce hat in dieser Ausg. viel verbessert'; D. St.Marin no. 44: 'a fine critical edition'; Dibdin 2177/8: 'Bishop Pearce is rightly called by Harles 'Longini Sospicator'; Brunet 31152: 'Cette �dition a �t� revue par l'�diteur qui y a ajout� de nouvelles notes et c'est d'apr�s ce texte qu'ont �t� faites les r�impressions de Londres 1743 1753 1773'; Graesse 4252; Ebert 12211 Details: Back with 5 raised bands & with gilt lettered brown morocco label in second compartment. Old paper shelfmark label at the foot. Boards with bouble fillet blindstamped borders in which a double fillet rectangel with corner pieces in which another smaller double fillet rectangel of a darker hue leather which is surrounded by a blindstamped roll of floral motives. Title in red & black. Engraved frontispiece: an orator and his audience in a library. Woodcut initials and headpieces. An engraved headpiece with the coat of arms Thomas Parker Earl of Macclesfield Viscount of Ewelme and Baron of Macclesfield at the beginning of the dedicatio. Paper of excellent quality. � Parallel Greek and Latin texts; all the notes are conveniently printed under the text Condition: Some slight scratching on the boards. Front hinge showing a tendency to start splitting. Some old ink annotations on the front pastedown. Quotation from Pope's 'Essay on Criticism' in old ink on the rear pastedown Note: The literary treatise 'On the sublime' Peri Hupsous of which 2/3 survives and is ascribed by the medieval tradition to Dionysius Longinus was written some time in the first century A.D. 'As a stimulus to critical thought and to the understanding of ancient literature he the author has permanent value'. OCD 2nd ed. p. 619. 'Longinus was ably edited by Zachary Pearce 1690-1774 Fellow of Trinity and ultimately bishop of Rochester'. Sandys II412. It was a new recension and had a new translation and was published in London in 1724. Pearce revised the text for this second edition and added new notes. Of this second edition reissues have been published in London in 1743 1753 and 1773. St.Marin no. 44: 'This scholar's work turned out to be a fine critical edition and was especially valued for the variants which it offers'. This octavo edition 'was published for the sake of general circulation' and has 'propagated universally the critical talents and fine taste of their editor'. Dibdin Provenance: In ink on the front pastedown: 'E libris Capel Berrow e Coll. St Joh. Bapt. Oxon. 1736' This is the English divine Capel Berrow 1716-1782. He matriculated a commoner of St. John's College at Oxford in 1734 proceeded B.A. 1738 and M.A. of Christ's College Cambridge 1758. He became curate of St. Botolph's Aldersgate 1741 and afterwards of St. Austin's and in 1744 was chosen lecturer of St Benedict's Paul's Wharf. In 1766 Capel Barrow was rector of Rossington Northamptonshire. His 'A Lapse of Human Souls in a State of Pre-existence the only Original Sin and the Ground Work of the Gospel Dispensation' published in 1766 is his only book now remembered. See his Wikipedia article Collation: A8 a8 b2; B-X8 Y2 leaf Y2 verso blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎JUSTINUS MARTYR & TERTULLIANUS.‎

‎Justini en Tertulliani Verantwoording voor de Christenen tegens de Heydenen; als mede Minutii Felicis t'Samen-spraak tussen Octavius en Caecilius. Ook zijn hier achter by-gevoegt de brieven van Clemens Romanus en Policarpus.‎

‎Amsterdam Gedrukt by Jan Rieuwertsz Haarlem By Jan Gerritsz. Geldorp Boek-verkopers 1684. 8vo. VIII1831 blank;1171 blank731 blank;471 blank111 blank133 blank Vellum 16 cm 'An interesting collection of translations into Dutch of early Christian works' Ref: STCN ppn 056885253; OiN 236 Justinus 'integrale vert. van Apol. 1-2'; titles of Tertullianus Minucius Clemens Romanus & Polycarpus not in OiN; 6 copies in NCC Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Manuscript title on the back. Woodcut initials. The Letter of Clemens has a separate title page indicating that this is the 3rd impression Condition: Vellum slightly soiled & scratched; upper corner of the front pastedown torn off. A few pinpoint wormholes in the uppermargin of the last 150 p. not affecting the text.� STCN calls for 2 leaves between the preliminary pages and the beginning of the translation and an illustration; these 2 leaves and illustration are lacking in our copy; the 2 leaves contain translated testimonia of Christ from Flavius Josephus 3x Tacitus 2x and the short apocryphical letter of Lentulus to the emperor Tiberius giving a physical and personal description of Christ; the lacking illustration is a portrait of Jesus Christ; the different quality paper and the deviant typeface used in the lacking leaves suggests that they were printed and added later Note: At the beginning of the preface the publisher declares that when he wanted to bring on the market once more the Dutch translation of C. Boon of the 'Apologeticum' of Tertullian & the 'Octavius' of Minucius Felix he asked Dr. Petrus Langedult to produce a new translation of the 'Apologiae' of Justinus Martyr. Langedult also added he tells very extensive notes to 3/4 of his translation. He however died untimely at the age of 37 so the last quarter is without his learned notes. The translated Greek and Latin texts the publisher goes on show how excellent the first Christians were in professing and defending their religion against the Jews and heathens. Tertullian and the others lived short after the Apostles so they can be considered to be their agents. The publisher incites his readers to use the texts against all those who undermine 'our' christian religion 'soo Joden Heydenen als Atheisten'. When and where the translations of Boon were published previously is hard to tell. In Worldcat and in Picarta we found no earlier copies. We only found a reference to an earlier edition of his translation of Tertullian and Minucius Felix in the 'Bibliotheca Furliana' the catalogue of the library of an eighteenth century Rotterdam citizen. There we find the listing of these 2 works translated by C. Boon and published in 1671 in Rotterdam by Ryckhals. In the usual biographic reference works we also found nothing about this 'C. Boon'. More is known about the translator of the Greek text of the 'Apologiae' of Justinus Langedult. He was born in 1640 in Haarlem and established himself there as a medical doctor. He had a great knowledge of Jewish antiquities and the churchfathers and is the author of some poetry and theological works. He died in 1677. His widow and some friends seem to have had some of his work published posthumely e.g. this translation. This translation of Justinus Martyr with learned notes is however not recorded in the lemma about him in the 'Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek. NNBW 5309/10 At the end of the book we find a translation of the first 2 letters which are traditionally ascribed to Clemens Romanus I. He was at the end of the first century AD the 2nd 3rd or perhaps the 4th bishop of Rome. Both letters are also known as the 'epistles of Clement'. The translated letter is addressed to the chuch of Corinth. Its title records that this is already its third edition. A Dutch translation of these epistles was published earlier in 1656 by P. Casteleyn in Haarlem. At the very end we find the short and edifying letter of Polycarpus bishop of Smyrna who died in 156 AD. to the Corinthians and the letter of Polycarpus to the Philippenses Collation: 4 A-L8 M4 leaf M4 verso blank A-M8; A-D8 leaf D8 & D7 verso blank A8leaf A7 verso and A8 blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎ANTHOLOGIA POETICA.‎

‎In usum Gymnasii Amstellodamensis. Edidit R. Van Ommeren. Editio altera.‎

‎Amsterdam Den Hengst 1804. 12mo. VIII205 p. Vellum. 15 cm Catullus' Epith. Pelei et Thetidos Carmen nuptiale. Tibullus' Liber I Elegia 1 3 7 Liber II Elegia 1 2 5 Liber III Elegia 1235. Propertius' liber III Elegia 12357916 liber IV Elegia 3 4691011. Ovid's Heroides 151013 & 14; Amorum liber I Elegia 15; liber II Elegia 6 liber III Elegia 9; Artis Amatoriae liber II vs. 21-97 123-143 liber tertius vs. 687-747; Fastorum liber I vs. 539-583 liber II vs. 83-119 193-243 381-425 685-853 liber III vs. 179-229; Artis Amatoriae liber I vs 101-131 527-565; Fastorum liber III vs. 459-517 liber IV vs. 419-618. Consolatio ad Liviam Augustam. Juvenalis' Sat. 8. Lucretius' liber I vs. 272-330 liber II vs. 1-60 342-376 liber III vs. 1037 et seqq. liber IV vs. 548-598 vs. 958-1023 liber V vs. 930-1154 1240 ad finem liber VI vs. 1088 ad finem. Laberius' Prologus Vellum slightly soiled. Short title in ink on the upper board hardcover‎

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‎MONTGOMERY JAMES.‎

‎The world before the flood a poem in ten cantos; with other occasional pieces. Second edition.‎

‎London printed for Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown Paternoster-Row 1813. 12mo. III-XVI;32813 blank p. Calf. 17 cm Details: Back with 3 gilt raised bands; gilt title in second compartment; other 3 compartments with blindstamped palmette cornerpieces. Both boards with tenfold blindstamped fillet borders within blindstamped floral borders a blindstamped wave/flood pattern in the central panel Condition: Cover shows wear to the extremes. Lacking the half-title before the title with the text: 'The world before the flood with other occasional pieces' Note: James Montgomery 1771-1854 was a British poet philanthropist and campainer for humanitarian causes. He achieved some literary fame with 'The wanderer of Switzerland' in 1806 against the annexation of that country by the French. The abolishment of slavery is the theme of his 'The West Indies' published 3 years later. He created a reconstruction of the world from the creation to the Deluge in his 'The world before the flood' published in 1812. The author states in his preface that he is 'under obligation of no other authority whatever'. The work was a success and sold more than 10000 copies Collation: pi-6 A4 2A8 B4 2B8 etc.- N4 2N8 O2 2O4 P4 leaf P3 verso and leaf P4 blank Between the gatherings A till N there is a regular alternation in the signature of the gatherings each gathering signed A etc. till N numbers 4 leaves and is immediately followed by a gathering signed 2A etc. till 2N numbering 8 leaves Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎JUVENALIS & PERSIUS.‎

‎D. Junii Juvenalis et Auli Persii Flacci Satyrae: cum Veteris Scholiastae & Variorum Commentariis. Accurante Cornelio Schrevelio.‎

‎Leiden Lugd. Batav. Ex officina Hackiana 1671. 8vo. XVI60442 index p. Vellum 20 cm Ref: STCN ppn 840013876; Schweiger 2511; Dibdin 2154; Moss 2158/9; Ebert 11242; Graesse 3520 Details: 5 thongs laced through both joints. Short title in ink on the back. The engraved title which is not signed is used here for the third time. It was first used for the original edition of 1648 for a repetition in 1658 and for this 1671 reissue. In 1648 the engraved title still bears the name of the engraver it is executed by the Dutch Golden Age engraver Reinier van Persijn. The title depicts a complicated allegorical scene: on the left a naked woman sitting on a crocodile holding in her hand a parrot; then a Janus-headed woman with bird feet and a tail holding up in her left hand a Momus-mask and in her right 2 flaming hearts; in the centre sits on a throne an old woman holding in her left hand a sack of money and in her right what seems a little flask; on the right in the foreground a king reaching for that sack; he is accompanied by a priest a farmer and a soldier; in a window central above the old woman we see the ascension of the poet. See for an explanation of the allegory the note below Condition: Vellum age-toned and soiled. Boards worn at the extremities. Front hinge cracking but still strong. Front flyleaf loosening. Name on the front flyleaf. Small old inscription on the rear pastedown. Occasional small ink underlinings. Small wormhole in the right lower corner of the first 14 gatherings never even coming near to the text Note: The Roman poet Juvenalis ca. 55-140 AD was the last and most influential of the Roman satirists. He 'uses names and examples from the After p. 65 has been added a plate showing a allegoric triumph scene with prince Frederik Hendrik of Orange. See for this plate: rkd.nl/nl/explore/portraits/recordfiltersplaats=DenHaag&filterskunstenaar =Vinckboons%2CDavid%28I%29&query=&start=2past as protective covers for his expos�s of contemporary vice and folly'. His main theme is the dissolution of the social fabric. The Classical Tradition Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 501 The satires of the stoic poet Aulus Persius Flaccus form one 'libellus' of 6 satires together 650 hexameters. 'They are well described as Horatian diatribes transformed by Stoic rhetoric'. 'He wrote in a bizarre mixture of cryptic allusions brash colloquialisms and forced imagery'. OCD 2nd ed. p. 805 This edition of 1671 is a 'Variorum' edition. It offers the 'textus receptus' which is widely accepted accompanied with the commentary and the annotations of specialists taken from earlier useful normative or renewing editions. Editions like these 'cum notis Variorum' were useful but never broke new ground. The production of this kind of editions 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. Such a plodder was the Dutch editor Cornelius Schrevelius who taught classics at the Schola Latina at Leiden where he had been raised himself. In 1642 he succeeded his father Theodorus Schrevelius as the rector Moderator of the school. He raised at least 11 kids and fell in 1664 victim to the then raging plague. His first Juvenal edition he published in 1648 and it was reissued by Hackius in 1658 1664 and in 1671. Schrevelius' aim was to promote the studies of his young students and to instill in them a necessary fear optatam metam which would make them useful citizens and the pride of their parents. Juvenal is a suitable author for such an enterprise for he flogs wrongdoers and learns them to avoid the path of wickedness and to embrace honesty. Dedicatio p. 2 verso Especially in shameless times as ours he continues satyre is needed. Decent behaviour and faith have been replaced by deceit and swindle. In a short 'Benigno Lectori' 4 verso and 5 recto Schrevelius tells that he relies for the text on the earlier editions of Robertus Stephanus and Pithoeus and that he excerpted the notes and commentaries of Lubinus Farnabius and Casaubon. In addition he offers he says a complete and emendated edition of the old Scholiast. Schrevelius even used two excellent manuscripts which were lent to him by the Leiden professor Salmasius which he tells helped him to solve many difficult problems. � The engraved title deserves some attention. The easiest description we found was 'an engraved title with many figures'. To us it seems an allegorical scene based on the tenth satire Juvenal's famous declamation on the folly of men in desiring in their prayers from the gods vane things as honor fame wealth power beauty or a long life instead of a sane spirit in a healthy body. 'Whole households have been destroyed by the compliant gods in answer to the masters' prayers. In camp nocitura militia and city nocitura toga alike we ask for things that will be our ruin'. Vss. 7/9 in the Loeb-translation of Ramsay Juvenal offers a list of pityful examples such as the once powerful Sejanus who like the Libyan general Gadaffi many centuries later was 'being dragged along by a hook as a show and joy to all'. Vss. 66/67 translation Ramsay Victims of their lust for power were Alexander the Great Xerxes or the punic conqueror Hannibal the man who was once about to destroy Rome. We assume that the royal figure who reaches out for the sack of money or from whose hands it is being snatched is Hannibal. The clue for this assumption is the woman on the crocodile. Such a woman was in 17th century iconography the common personification of Africa for instance on maps. The fate of this scourge of Rome is treated by Juvenal in evocative language in 20 beautiful verses. It begins like this: 'Put Hannibal into the scales; how many pounds' weight will you find in that greatest of commanders This is the man for whom Africa was all too small'. vs. 147/8. Together with the old woman he is the central figure on the title. The positioning of the three woman brings in mind a Triad a triple diety such as the Graces the Moirai or Fates or the Harpies. The Erinyes the avenging spirits also sometimes form a trinity. The standing woman seems to be a mixture of an Erinye and a Harpy. She has some features of such a Harpy the personification of deamonic powers and an agent of terrible punishment. She is bare breasted and stands on huge bird claws with which she abducts the souls of the dead to their doom. In her right hands she holds instead of the usual horrifying snake a Momus mask which personifies satire and mockery the power to make a fool or ass of someone. In her left hand rest two flaming hearts catholic imagery distastful to the protestants and therefore perhaps reprensenting idolatry. Her double faced Janushead looking to the future and the past might be an image of Time. The old woman on the throne is the central figure on the title. To her all movement on the picture is directed. She has the features of Atropos the riged and inflexible one the oldest of the 3 Moirai or Fates and in iconography often depicted as an old woman. She has power over life and death and represents the fate that cannot be avoided. She holds Hannibal's fate in her hands. She withdraws the sack of money power and offers with her right hand the once mighty suppliant a little flask or small beaker with the invitation to poison himself. Juvenal on Hannibal's unglamorous bleak death: 'What then was his end Alas for glory! A conquered man he flees headlong into exile and there he sits a mighty and marvelous suppliant in the Kings's antichamber until it pleases his Bithynian Majesty to awake! No sword no stone no javelin shall end the life which once wrought havoc throughout the world: no but that which shall avenge Cannae and all those seas of blood a ring containing poison'. Vss 158/165 translation Ramsay The engraver follows for this scene the better known version of the Roman historian Livy. In chapter 51 of the 39th book of his History of Rome 'Ab Urbe Condita' Livy tells that Hannibal took his poison in an 'poculum' cup/goblet/bowl/beaker Provenance: Manuscript ownership entry of 'A.J. Ensched�' on the front flyleaf. Adriaan Justus Ensched� 1829-1896 was a member of a famous Dutch dynasty of printers. His forefather Izaak Ensched� established himself in Haarlem in 1703 and there the firm remained for more than 300 years. The firm was and still is famous for the quality of its printing of bonds and banknotes. In 1810 they printed the first Dutch banknotes. Adriaan Justus entered the firm and kept it flourishing. From 1857 onward he was also Keeper of the archives of the city of Haarlem. He wrote several books on the history of Haarlem and on the history of the Wallon Church in the Netherlands Collation: 8 A-2R8 2S4 2S4 blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎OROSIUS.‎

‎Pauli Orosii presbyteri Hispani Adversus paganos historiarum libri septem ut et Apologeticus contra Pelagium de arbitrii libertate. Ad fidem MSS. et praesertim cod. Longob. antiquiss. Bibliothecae Florentinae Mediceae S. Laurentii adjectis integris notis Franc. Fabricii Marcodurani et Lud. Lautii recensuit suisque animadversionibus nummisque antiquis plurimis illustravit Sigebertus Havercampus.‎

‎Leiden Lugdini Batavorum Apud Gerardum Potvliet 1738. 4to. XXXVIII63430 index p. Calf 25.5 cm Ref: STCN ppn 238889998; Schweiger 2622: 'Neue Recens. der Geschichtsb�cher nach 11 Hdschr. u. �lteren Ausgg.'; Schoenemann p. 502/3: 'quae ad Historiae illustrationem spectant docte ubique apposita sunt ut nihil ex hac parte desiderari possit'; Brunet 4237: '�dition la meilleure que l'on ait de cet auteur elle est peu commune et tr�s recherch�e'; Ebert 12256; Graesse 552 Details: Back ruled gilt and with 5 raised bands & with a red morocco letterpiece in the second compartment. Title printed in red & black and with an engraved numismatic vignet: both sides of a coin of Caesar Augustus. Numismatic text engravings on about 100 p. Condition: Head & tail of the spine gone. Front joint cracked and hanging on 3 bands. Rear joint cracking. Boards scratched corners bumped. Paper partly somewhat browning. Endpapers foxed Note: Paulus Orosius 5th century A.D. was a priest from Portugal. Fled before the Vandals he became a pupil of Augustine. It is on his instigation that Orosius wrote his 'Historia adversus Paganos' the first Christian universal history from the creation of the world to the founding and history of Rome until A.D. 417. His pagan sources for Roman history were Livy Tacitus Suetonius Justinus and Eutropius. We see here the course of history through the eyes of his master Augustine who asked Orosius to write a historiographic 'supplement' to his 'City of God'. The work was apologetic and attacked the pagan complaint that Rome's troubles were caused by her abandonment of the pagan Gods. He proved that there were also sufferings before the rise of Christianity. 'Ego initium miseriae hominum ab initio peccati hominis docere ducere institui' he tells the reader in the first chapter and wanted to demonstrate that the sufferings of humanity diminished since Christ. The History was widely read in the Middle Ages. Neue Pauly 953/4 � An edition of this work was produced by the Dutch scholar Siegbert Havercamp 1684/174 since 1721 professor of Greek at Leiden University. Schoenemann praises Havercamp because he offered also the 'praefationes' of worthy predecessors. Havercamp included the complete commentary on the 'Historiae' of Franz Fabricius of D�ren also called Marcoduranus 1527-1572. Fabricius studied in Paris under Ramus and Turnebus and published much on Cicero. His Orosius edition dates from 1561. Sandys 2268 and ADB 6507 Havercamp also incorporated the commentary of Ludovicus Lautius a Flemish priest who's commentary was published in 1615 in Mainz. Van der Aa 11214 Provenance: In the right margin of the title a small oval embossed ownership stamp of the 'Free Church College Library Glasgow'. The 'Free Church College Library' Glasgow was established in 1856 and renamed 'United Free Church College Library' after the reunion of the 'Free Church of Scotland and United Presbyterian Church' in 1900; then it was renamed 'Trinity College Library' after reunion of the 'United Free Church' and the 'Church of Scotland' in 1929. Now it is incorporated in the University of Glasgow Divinity Hall Library Collation: -24 -34 minus blank leaf 34 A-4O4 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎STATIUS.‎

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

‎Amsterdam Amsterodami. Typis Ludovici Elzevirii 1653. 16mo. VIII424 p. Vellum 12 cm Ref: STCN ppn 852853726; Willems 1166; Bergman 2139; Rahir 1189; Copinger 4491; Schweiger 2965; Dibdin 2424; Fabricius/Ernesti 2335; Moss 2612; Graesse 6/1480; Ebert 21682: 'mit grossem Scharfblick und nach guten H�lfsmitteln verbessert'; Brunet 5512 Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Engraved title: a battle scene from the Thebaid the city of Thebes is in the background the poet sits in front Condition: Vellum very slightly soiled. Occasional small verse numbers in the margins. A small tear in the outer margin of p. 49 Note: His fluent and highly polished verse brought the Roman poet Publius Papinius Statius ca. A.D. 45-96 to the court of the Roman emperor Domitianus. He is best known for his epic the 'Thebaid' which tells the story of the civil war between the sons of Oedipus Eteocles and Polynices contesting power over the city of Thebes. The 'Achilleid' tells the story of the education of Achilles. Statius' 'Silvae' is a collection of 32 occasional poems addressed to his friends celebrating their marriages etc. In his epic work there are frequent imitations of Vergil in word and thought. 'The various episodes highly coloured and rhetorical though they be are generally successful regarded as separate wholes the descriptive passages striking and the narrative lively'. OCD 2nd e. p. 1011/12 The Thebaid was extraordinary popular during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. In Dante Statius even ascends to heaven. The 'Thebaid' was used by Boccaccio and Chaucer and there appeared adaptations in Irish French and Italian. Also Statius' 'Silvae' enjoyed a vigorous afterlife and set a standard for the Neolatin poets of the 16th and 17th century. Composing occasional poetry in imitation of Statius was a common pastime among humanist classicists e.g. Heinsius Scriverius Meursius and in England Milton and Ben Jonson. � The works of Statius were ably edited by the Dutch classicist of German origin Johann Friedrich Gronov or Gronovius 1611-1671 He was the successor of Heinsius at the University of Leiden and was influenced by Vossius Grotius Heinsius & Scriverius. His editions mark an epoch in the study of Livy of Seneca Tacitus & Gellius. His interest to the textual criticism of Latin poetry was due to the discovery of the Florentine MS of the tragedies of Seneca. In his riper years 'the acumen exhibited in his handling of prose is also exemplified in his treatment of the text of poets such as Phaedrus and Martial Seneca and Statius'. Sandys 'History of Classical Scholarship' 2321 As an editor and commentator Gronovius played a pivotal role in the history of the works of Statius. This small and light book of 1653 weighs only 120 grams it is indeed 'pondus non magnum' but especially the notes are 'satis ponderosae' that is really important. They fill merely 68 pages at the end of this volume and of these pages the notes to the 'Thebaid' fill only 41 and are concerned with little more than 200 passages. 'Their scope is almost entirely limited to the emendation of the text of Statius'. For the 'Thebaid' Gronovius consulted at least 11 manuscripts. 'The place given to conjecture though clearly subordinate is by no means negligible. These notes often involve other aspects as well: Gronovius broad conception of emendation leads him to tackle various questions whenever they lend support to his views. . In his eyes the dignity of critical studies does not lie in emendation itself but in the comprehensive knowledge of ancient languages and cultures in which emendation should always be grounded; such knowledge enables the scholar to get the author's genius and thus restore the text from inside'. V. Berlincourt ''In pondere non magno satis ponderosae.' Gronovius and the printed tradition of the Thebaid' in 'The poetry of Statius' Leiden Boston Brill 2008 p. 1-2. Mnem. Suppl. 306 The Gronovius edition became during the 2 following centuries 'the undisputed foundation of almost every later edition until scholars at last began to base their work on a comprehensive study of the manuscript tradition that is until the second Teubner of Otto M�ller in 1870'. Berlincourt p. 7. His work exercised a great influence over later editors and commentators. 'There is little to find fault with in Gronovius' critical method as illustrated by his notes though it is of course still conceived of as being mere emendation of the textus receptus; usually his discussions are well informed his arguments sound and his judgement balanced'. Berlincourt p. 10 Provenance: In pencil written elegantly on the front pastedown: 'Aan Lenus 16 December 1945 Toet en Sem'. On the internet we found on the 20th of november 2012 a book B. Constant 'Le cahier rouge ma vie' Amsterdam Balkema 1945 on offer by a Dutch antiquarian bookseller called Osmose. This bookseller gives Sem & Toet their surname. This book by Constant shows the following dedication: 'Aan Eg. zonder wiens hulp we de winter van '45 niet zoo goed waren doorgekomen. Toet en Sem Hartz'. This book once belonged to Samuel Sem Louis Hartz 1912-1995 an important Dutch graphic designer of Jewish origin who worked all his life for the firm of Ensched�. He married in 1936 Toet Juch whom he had met at the 'Kunstacademie' at Amsterdam. They survived the war in hiding. Database Joods Biografisch Woordenboek. Toet was still alive in 2007. Hartz has a lemma in Wikipedia. Here we find that he published in 1955 'The Elseviers and their contemporaries an illustrated commentary'. For Ensched� Hartz designed poststamps and banknotes. The graphic designer Van Krimpen was one of his friends. In hiding Hartz designed the 'Emergo' a typeface for his own private press the 'Tuinwijkpers'. Important parts of his personal archives now belong to the Library of the University of Amsterdam and the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum. Hartz apparantly knew Latin for the occasional verse numbers in the margins are from his hand. At the end on the pastedown an old and elegant ownership entry in ink of 'Gerhardus ab Hoeclum'. There are several Gerards or Gerrits van Hoeclum. The Van Hoeclums were an old and respected family in the Dutch province of Gelderland Collation: 4 A-2C8 2D4 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎AUGUSTINUS.‎

‎D. Aurelii Augustini Hipp. Episc. libri XIII Confessionum. Ad 3 MSS. Exempl. emendati. Opera et studio H. Sommalii e Societate Jesu. Bound with: Divi Aurelii Augustini Hippon. Episcopi Meditationes Soliloquia et Manuale. Meditationes B. Anselmi cum tractatu De humani generis redemptione. D. Bernardi Idiotae viri docti De amore divino. Omnia ad mss. exemplaria emend. & in meliorem ordin. distributa opera ac studio R.P. Henrici Sommalii Societatis Iesu Theologi.‎

‎Ad 1: Cologne Coloniae Agrippinae Apud Balthasarem ab Egmont et Soc. 1683. Ad 2: Cologne Sumptibus Cornelii ab Egmondt et Sociorum 1702. 12mo. 2 volumes in 1: 42726 index3 blank; 41022 p. Vellum 12 cm Ref: Cf. Schoenemann 2342& 2346; Bardenhewer 4452. STCN suggests that both works were printed in Amsterdam by the publishing house of Blaeu Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Short title in ink on the back. Engraved titles the first one depicts a standing Augustine on a cloud above him God and dove the Holy Ghost. On the second title a preaching bishop Augustine with at his feet a winged putto carrying a burning heart pierced by an arrow which refers to Confessiones IX2 where it is said of God: Sagittaveras tu nostrum cor caritate tua or You had pierced our hearts with the arrows of your love Condition: Vellum age-toned. One very minute hole in the back. Paper slightly yellowing Note: Aurelius Augustinus 354-430 AD bishop of Hippo is undoubtedly the greatest and the most influential of the Church Fathers. He was trained in classical rhetoric and ancient philosophy and 'left his distinctive mark on most aspects of western Christianity. . Augustine's major works are landmarks in the abandonment of classical ideals'. OCD 2nd ed. p. 148. 'Es war um 400 als Augustinus daran ging die Geschichte seines geistigen und sittlichen Werdens von fr�hester Kindheid an bis zum Empfang der Taufe oder bis zum Tode der Mutter zur Darstellung zu bringen'. Bardenhewer 4451. He did so in his 13 books of Confessiones an autobiography more or less in the form of a prayer. According to Bardenhewer who calls this work 'ein Kunstwerk von unvergleichlichem Reize' would Laudations to God be a more precise translation of this title than Confessions. The editio princeps appeared in 1470. The number of later editions is countless. Bardenhewer mentions this edition of the Belgian Jesuit Henricus Sommalius or Henri de Sommal 1534-1619 first after the editio princeps of 1470. It was first published in 1607. Bardenhewer 4452 Worldcat numbers between 1607 and 1767 44 editions of this work of Sommalius. His edition of 1600 of the medieval theologian Thomas a Kempis is his best known and lasting contribution. He even has a short lemma in Wikipedia. � The second volume in this binding consists of a collection of 3 Pseudo-Augustine medieval devotional texts the Meditationes Manuale and the Soliloquia. They have long been ascribed to Church Father Augustine. Sommalius and his contemporaries were convinced that these 3 works were genuine. The material and the style show similarities to his Confessiones and that is why this collection crept into the Opera Omnia of Augustine. These 3 tracts are the work of the German benedictine monk Eckbertus Schonaugiensis Abbas Abt Ekbert von Sch�nau 1120-1184. The collection was very popular in the Late Middle Ages because there existed a wish to return to the roots of early Christianity. lib.ugent.be/fulltxt/RUG01/001/309/891/RUG01-001309891_2010_0001_AC.pdf See on these spuria works of Pseudoaugustine also Bardenhewer 4452 and Schoenemann 2342 Collation: A-2E8 2F4 leaf 2F3 verso blank leaf 2F4 blank; A-2D8 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎EUSEBIUS.‎

‎Kerkelyke geschiedenissen zedert den dood van onzen Zaligmaker tot aan den volkomen bloeistand van 't Kristendom. Waar in van de prediking der Apostelen; de Heilige Schrift des N. Verbonds; de opvolgeren der Apostelen; de uitmuntende mannen in de vornaamste kerken en hunne schriften; de vervolgingen; martelaren; scheuringen; ketteryen en andere zaken de eerste Kristen Kerk betreffende berigt wordt gegeven: In het Grieksch beschreven door Eusebius Pamfilus . Nu vertaald en met vele aantekeningen opgehelderd door Abraham Arent Vander Meersch; .‎

‎Amsterdam Te Amsteldam By F. Houttuyn 1749. 4to. Frontispiece XLVI584L11636 p. 2 folding maps. Vellum. 26.5 cm Ref: STCN ppn 82986403 STCN does not mention the cancel of leaf 2Y4 p. 359/360 which our copy has; OiN p. 180 Details: Title printed in red & black. The frontispiece by J.C. Philips depicts an allegorical scene of the battle between False and True Religion. 15 engravings in the text 2 folding maps 43x30 cm of the Roman empire under Constantine the Great and of Asia Minor Condition: Vellum wrinkled & soiled. Back worn. The vellum seems ill-fitting it looks as if the binder has tried to make the vellum of an other book fit to this binding. The interior is ok. New endpapers. The maps are slightly waterstained Note: Eusebius Caesariensis ca. 263-339 became bishop of Caesarea in 313 shortly after the Great Persecution of christians which lasted from 303 till 313. Eusebius was not an original thinker or historian. Nevertheless he has 'mit Gelehrsamkeit und gr�ndlicher Quellenkenntnis zu vielen Gebieten Beachtliches in einer grossen Anzahl von Schriften beigetragen'. N.P. 4310 The most important of his works is his 'Historia Ecclesiastica' the History of the Church. The first 7 books run up to 280 A.D. books 8 & 9 describe the Great Persecution and book 10 offers the events from 313 till 324; Eusebius developped the idea that a christian emperor has as a successor of Christ divine power. � This is the first Dutch translation of this work. The book contains also a translation of the appendix to book 8 'De martyribus Palestinae'. Then follows a translation of 50 p. of Hieronymus' Latin version of the 'Chronicon' of Eusebius and of its continuation by Hieronymus. At the end 116 p. of annotations by Vander Meersch. � Abraham Arent vander Meersch 1720-1792 was professor of Theology and Church history at Amsterdam. He lectured also on philosophy. He was succeeded by Daniel Wyttenbach in 1771. See for a vita NNBW vol. 10; and 'Gedenkboek van het Athenaeum en de Universiteit van Amsterdam 1632-1932' p. 684 Collation: -64 frontispiece after leaf 1 minus blank leaf 64 A-2X4 2Y4 cancel leaf 2Y4 2Z-3A4 3B4 leaf chi 1 after 3B3 3C-4D4; a-f4 g2 minus blank leaf g2; A-T4 2 maps after leaf P2 Photographs on request Heavy book may require extra shipping costs hardcover‎

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‎POMEY F.‎

‎Pantheum mythicum seu fabulosa deorum historia hoc epitomes eruditionis volumine breviter dilucideque comprehensa. Auctore P. Francisco Pomey e Societate Jesu. Editio septima denuo recensita a quamplurimis erroribus repurgata & aeneis figuris ornata.‎

‎Utrecht Ultrajecti Apud Guilielmum vande Water 1717. 8vo. XVI29814 p. frontispiece & 26 engraved plates. Calf. 16 cm "Prize copy' Ref: STCN ppn 20819178X; Brunet 4793; Michaud 34 p. 12: 'la meilleure �dition est celle qu'a publi�e Sam. Pitiscus' Details: Prize copy probably of a Belgian Jesuit College. Back with 5 raised bands between gilt fillets & floral rolls. Black morocco gilt lettered shield in the second compartment. Boards with gilt fillet borders. Within the fillet border a gilt row consisting of ears of corn and quadrangles. A gilt lyre in all 4 corners. A gilt oval laurel wreath with in its center the gilt text PRAEMIUM. Edges of the boards gilt. Marbled endpapers. Title in red & black. Woodcut printer's mark on the title. Engraved frontispiece depicting deities. 26 engraved plates with mythological scenes Condition: Wear to extremes back somewhat rubbed. Prize gone. Front hinge cracking but still hanging on 2 ties Note: This is the 6th edition of the most popular and authoritative mythology manual of the 17th and 18th century. It was first published in Lyon in 1659. There are more than 40 editions and it was translated into English French Spanish and Polish. The manual was produced by the French Jesuit schoolmaster Fran�ois Antoine Pomey 1618-1673 who lectured humanities and rhetoric at several colleges. He is also the author of a number of schoolbooks and dictionaries. His 'Pantheum Mythicum' became to be regarded as an essential work which provided the indispensable ornaments of formal discussion. It was also popular as a schoolbook for the stories formed a body of moral precepts hidden under the mask of agreable fiction. 'Perinde quasi alius esse debeat cum omnibus tum mihi maxime ac studium & propagatio Divinae gloriae'; In the praefatio to this 6th edition the Dutch classicist of German origin Samuel Pitiscus Samuel Petiski 1636-1727 tells the reader that the publisher had sold within 4 years 1300 copies of the 5th edition of 1697. To surpass this tremendous success he asked him to produce a new edition purged from all erroneous inventions and extensions of later editors and mistakes of ignorant printers. Pitiscus really was the expert for the job. He produced editions of several Roman historians and did also lexicographic work. He was well acquainted with the 'Romanae Antiquitates' of Rosinus and Dempster and in 1713 he published an encyclopaedic 'Lexicon Antiquitatum Romanarum' Collation: 8 A-T8 V4 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎SCALIGER JJ. J. J.‎

‎Illustriss. viri Iosephi Scaligeri Iulii Caes. � Burden F. Epistolae omnes quae reperiri potuerunt nunc primum collectae ac editae. Caeteris praefixa est ea quae est De gente Scaligera; in qua de autoris vita; & sub finem Danielis Heinsii De morte eius altera.‎

‎Leiden Lugduni Batavorum Ex officina Bonaventurae & Abrahami Elzevir 1627. XXIV8871 blank p. Calf 18 cm Ref: STCN ppn 840010095; Willems 288; Berghman 1393; Rahir 253; Smitskamp Scaliger Collection 166; Graesse 6/1 289; Ebert 20438 Details: Back with 5 raised bands. Gilt letterpiece in the second compartment. Boards blind tooled with double fillet. Elsevier's printer's mark on the title depicting an old man who stands in the shade of a vine- elmtree symbolising the symbiotic relationship between scholar and publisher; the motto: 'Non solus' probably indicates the interdependency of publisher and scholar Condition: Head of the spine slightly damaged. Small piece at the foot of the spine gone. Corners bumped. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Rear pastedown detached. Faint dampstain in the title leaf and second leaf Note: The place of Josephus Justus Scaliger 1549-1609 in the history of classical scholarship is royal. His preeminence is summarized masterly in the blurb text of the dustjacket of the intellectual biography of Anthony Grafton 'Joseph Scaliger A study in the history of classical scholarship' Oxford 1983/93. 'In an age of great classical scholars Joseph Scaliger was the greatest. His early work as an editor of Latin texts won the attention of the learned throughout Europe and contained technical innovations that remain of interest. His Later work as the founder of the discipline of historical chronology involved him in the superhuman task of trying to reconstruct every sophisticated calender and to date every significant event in human history. Along the way he emended hundreds of corrupt passages in classical texts collated scores of manuscripts quarrelled with dozens of his rivals failed humiliatingly . to prove that he was descended from the della Scala of Verona - and dashed off in his spare time works that would remain standard for centuries like Gruter's Corpus of inscriptions the publication of which Scaliger oversaw. His work was perhaps most important in that it showed that the Bible and the events it recorded could not be understood except in the light of the writings of the pagans and the methods of classical scholarship'. � In 1593 Scaliger 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 and lend lustre to Leyden and its Universtiy. Scaliger spent the last 16 years of his life in Leiden as the jewel of the University. There he enjoyed also the friendship of a great numbers of pupils and admirers. To his circle belonged H. Grotius D. Heinsius the Dousae and in France Du Thou and Casaubon. Scaliger died in the arms of his favourite pupil and closest friend Daniel Heinsius who wrote a funerary oration for him. The correspondence in this edition of 1627 reflects his relations with contemporary scholars and scientists and the scholarly circles in which he moved. He corresponded with Salmasius Heinsius Casaubon Lindenbrogius Gruter Lipsius Labbaeus and many others. � Scaliger had inherited from his father Julius Caesar Scaliger a profound belief in his descent from the noble Veronese family Della Scala. The correspondence opens with a 58 page letter addressed to Dousa and is on this matter 'De vetustate gentis Scaligerae in qua & de vita utriusque Scaligeri'. Here Scaliger tries to prove his princely descent Provenance: Beautiful engraved bookplate designed by the French artist graphic designer poet and type designer George Auriol: 'Ex libris Alexis Nathan' motto: ' ad majorem mei Gloriam'. Depicted is a peacock with a enormous tail; See for the Art Nouveau artist George Auriol Wikipedia Collation: 8 24; A-3I8 3K4 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎NEPOS.‎

‎Cornelii Nepotis Vitae excellentium Imperatorum cum notis selelectis Boecleri Bosii Buchneri Ernestii Gebhardi Heidmanni Lambini Loccenii Longolii Magii Ravii Savaronis Schefferi Schotti nec non excerptis P. Danielis. Hisce accedit locupletissimus omnium vocabulorum index studio & opera J.A. Bosii. Suas notas addidit Augustinus van Staveren. Editio altera longe auctior.‎

‎Leiden Lugduni Batavorum Apud Sam. et Joan. Luchtmans 1773. 8vo. XXXII including frontispiece832176 index p.; text-illustrations on 11 p. Vellum 22 cm Ref: STCN ppn 238342476; Schweiger 2302: 'vielfach verbesserte und bereicherte Ausgabe'; Dibdin 2246: 'a very elaborate edition' 'It is in great repute'; Moss 2320; cf. Ernesti/Fabricius I107; Ebert 5273; Brunet 2289; Spoelder p. 490 Amsterdam 9 Details: Prize copy including the printed prize. Back gilt. 6 thongs laced through both joints. Boards with gilt borders gilt corner pieces and the gilt coat of arms of Amsterdam. Engraved frontispiece dated 1794 executed by J. Visscher. Engraved printer's mark on the title depicting Athena motto: 'Tuta sub Aegide Pallas'. Small text engravings portraits illustrations on 11 p. Condition: Vellum soiled. All 4 ties gone. Excellent paper Note: This is an edition with commentary of the only surviving complete work of the Roman historian Cornelius Nepos ca. 100-24 B.C. 'De excellentibus ducibus exterrarum gentium'. He is the author of the first surviving ancient collection of biographies. 'De excellentibus etc.' contains the lives of 20 Greek generals and the Carthaginians Hamilkar and Hannibal. The collection served probably as a model for Plutarch's 'Vitae Parallelae'. In his own days and in late antiquity Nepos was considered to be a source of importance. The churchfather Hieronymus included him in his 'De viris illustribus' 392 A.D. in his list of great authors and historians. Already in late antiquity this collection was ascribed to the grammarian Aemilius Probus and the 'editio princeps' of 1471 bears his Probus' name. The simple style of writing of Nepos has made him a standard choice for schools. The biographies provided the pupils also models of behaviour. Schweiger mentions numerous editions. This edition is a socalled 'Variorum' edition an edition which contained everthing a student required. Such an edition offers the 'textus receptus' which is widely accepted accompanied with the commentary and the annotations of specialists taken from earlier useful normative or renewing editions. Editions like these 'cum notis Variorum' were useful but never broke new ground. The production of this kind of editions was the specialty of Dutch scholars of the 17th and 18th century. The compilers seldom were great scholars but often hard working schoolmasters. The Dutch schoolmaster who skillfully excerpted compared and contrasted the material of brighter minds is in this case Augstinus van Staveren 1704-1772 who was rector of the 'schola latina' at Leiden since 1750. Nevertheless he proudly announces in the preface that he also has consulted in his search for 'variantes lectiones' 4 manuscripts of the Library of the University of Leiden and the collations of 2 English manuscripts. This second edition of Van Staveren's Nepos was published posthumously. In the short 'dedicatio' to the second edition written by Carolus Antonius Wetstenius J.C. we read that Van Staveren who was already halfway asked him short before his death to complete the second corrected and augmented edition. Van Staveren whom he calls 'vir amicissimus' was once his teacher Westein tells us. Van Staveren had already skipped 'quaedam suaque non pauca' to prevent the book from being too overloaded. Van Staveren is known for this edition of Nepos which saw several later reissues and for his 'Auctores Mythographi Latini' which was published in 1742. Not much is known of Carolus Antonius Wetstein 1742-1797. He was a Leyden lawyer and also an accomplished Neolatin poet. Van der Aa 20159 The bibliographers donot mention his involvement in the editing of his teacher's Nepos. The frontispiece or rather the copper plate for this frontispiece has a story of almost 150 years. It was first used in 1658 then 1675 1687 1704 1705 1728 1734 this book of 1773 and finally in 1793 Provenance: The prize is for Henricus Oort: 'Ingenuo optimaeque spei adolescentulo Henrico Oort. Hoc virtutis ac diligentiae praemium in classe sexta nova decreverunt Ampliss. Dd. Coss. & Scholarchae Amstelaedamenses'. It is signed by the Rector R. van Ommeren 29th of March 1793. Young Henricus Oort 1778-1849 received this book also for his diligence. That is what he was diligent. He took holy orders in the 'Nederlandsch Hervormde Kerk' and worked tirelessly for his church. He was also a diligent member of all kind of Societies. Van der Aa 14142 Collation: -28 A-3R8 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎THUCYDIDES.‎

‎Thucydidis Atheniensis Historiae de bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo e Graeco sermone in Latinam linguam conversi a Vito Winsemio patre artis medicae Doctore & Graecae linguae Professore in inclyta Academia Witebergensi. Nunc denuo ad exemplum ab ipso authore ante obitum diligentissime recognitum recusi & editi.‎

‎Wittenberg Witebergae 1580. 8vo. XL848 p. Overlapping vellum. 18 cm Ref: VD16 T 1123; Hoffmann 3557. Schweiger 1328; Graesse 6/2151; Ebert 22947 Details: Latin translation only. Short title in ink on the back. Woodcut printer's device of Samuel Selfisch on the title: it depicts Samuel anointing David behind David lies his harp Samuel I1613; Samuel and David are depicted within a floral festoon in both upper corners are two putti looking on; at the feet Samuel and David rests a shield with a big S in its centre. Good quality paper. Condition: Vellum aged and somewhat soiled. All four ties gone Note: The German scholar Vitus Winshemius 1501-1570 or Veit Winsheim is called after his hometown Windsheim. His original name was Veit Oertel or �rtel. He is also known as Herr Vitus Oerthl von Winssheim. The young man went to Wittenberg to study and soon caught the attention of Melanchthon and Luther. He was given financial support by his hometown with a grant of 20 gold guilders a year. His appointment to professor of Greek at his university followed in 1541 later he became professor of Medecine too. In 1538 Winsemius' teacher Melanchthon who praised him for his knowledge and modesty asked him to publish a new revised edition of his Latin Syntax. He later produced mediocre according to Bursian translations of several Greek authors. ADB 43 p. 462/3 also Eckstein p. 621 In 1569 Winsemius published a new Latin translation of Thucydides. Eleven years later it was published for the second time. His son who's name was also Veit who was a jurist and also a professor in Wittenberg produced an edition which had been revised by his father shortly before he died in 1570. This edition of 1580 has 2 dedications the first of the son and the second of the father both for Augustus since 1553 Elector of Sachsen 1526-1586. From the dedications we learn the following that Winsemius produced the translation near the end of his life 'in mea decrepita senecta'. 'Vixi hic Wittenberg annos iam pene 50' he tells the reader elsewhere in his preface. Winsemius filius proudly tells us that his father was closely connected to monarch August familiariter notus and that he published the book on his own expense meoque sumptu atque impensis. Winsemius senior undertook the translation because he was not satisfied with the already existing translations. They were mutilated and too obscure. He calls Thucydides a great historian and emphasizes that we must learn from the mistakes and successes of the Greek so eloquently described. However 'et quidem negari non potest esse multa perplexa atque intellectu difficilia in libris Thucydidis'. This harshness in diction strange and oldfashioned syntax and vocabulary deter people from reading the great author he explains. Winsemius filius wanted to honour the memory of his father with this book. He not only took the trouble of publishing the translaton anew and on his own expense but he did so with great care. He hired a first class publisher who could take care of printing with clear printing type and who knew how to produce a pleasant type page. The son ordered also to buy paper of good quality. VD16 says that this publisher was Matth�us Welack who was active from 1576 till 1593. How VD16 knows this we could not find out. This cannot however be correct. Welack was a busy printer and publisher in Wittemberg that is true but the printers' mark on the title is definitely that of the publisher Samuel Selfisch 1529-1615. Welack's printer's mark also shows a Salomon and David scene Collation: a-b8 c4; A-3G8Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎VERGILIUS.‎

‎Publius Virgilius Maroos Wercken. In Nederduitsch dicht vertaelt door J. v. Vondel.‎

‎Amsterdam Voor de weduwe van Abraham de Wees Ter druckerye van Thomas Fontein 1660. 4to. XXVIII565 3 p. frontispiece. Overlapping vellum. 21 cm Ref: STCN ppn 854225382; Geerebaert CXLIII12II; OiN 379; Schweiger 21226 Details: A good copy. 6 thongs laced through the joints. A fine engraved frontispiece by Jacob Matham. It offers scenes from the work of Vergil. Printer's mark on the title. At the beginning of the dedication the engraved coat of arms of Cornelis de Graeff 'Burgermeester' of Amsterdam Condition: Vellum slightly soiled Note: This is the first edition of the verse translation into Dutch by J. van den Vondel of the Bucolics Georgics and the Aeneid of the Roman poet Vergil 70-19 BC works which were already classic in antiquity. In the Middle Ages Vergil was also widely read. Of no other Latin author survive so many manuscripts as of Vergil. Vergil 'became a European classic not only in the sense that he was a central author for many European readers for many centuries but also in the further sense that his works crucially helped such readers to define themselves as Europeans' The Classical Tradition Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 965. Vergil's work was used for opera's Orfeo for epics Paradise Lost by painters et alii. He was served well by many translations in every European language. Vergil's classic work was translated in prose by a Dutch classic the playwright and poet Joost van den Vondel 1587-1679 the most famous poet of the Dutch Golden Age. His translations of Vergil Ovid Horace and some plays of Euripides met a great success and were reissued many times. They show that 'imitatio' of classical authors was also of interest for vernacular poets. The humanist poet exercised his talents by 'translatio' and by doing so he tried to emulate with the ancient authors. In 1646 Vondel had already published a prose translation of Vergil Collation: -34 42 A-4B4 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎MARTIALIS.‎

‎M. Valerii Martialis Epigrammata paraphrasi et notis Variorum selectissimis ad usum Serenissimi Delphini interpretatus est Vincentius Colleso J.C. numismatibus historias atque ritus illustrantibus exornavit Lud. Smids M.D.‎

‎Amsterdam Amstelaedami Apud G. Gallet Praefectum Typographiae Huguetanorum 1701. 8vo. XXXII600;56;142 p. 22 plates Vellum. 20 cm Ref: STCN ppn 175529442; Schweiger 2599; Brunet 31492: '�dition assez recherch�e'; Dibdin 2231; Moss 2303: 'A valuable edition and ornamented with very elegant figures'; Graesse 4425; Ebert 13261 Details: 5 thonghs laced through the joints. 'Martialis' in old ink written at the head of the spine. Woodcut ornament on the title. 126 engravings of ancient Roman coins on 22 plates Condition: Vellum soiled. Occasional pencil crosses at the beginning of an epigram. Small stamp on the front flyleaf. Same stamp on the title Note: The Roman epigrammist Martial ca. 41-104 A.D. embraced in his 14 books of epigrams 'many topics: flattery of social superiors satire of man's foibles eroticism'. The Classical Heritage Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 565/66 Contemporaries valued his work for its frankness and wit. Later Renaissance authors mined his work and sparked a resurgence of Neo-Latin and vernacular epigrams throughout Europe. This book was originally published for the education of the Dauphin Delphinus the young crown prince of France the future king Louis XV. Great care was bestowed on the editing and printing of the series. 39 editions of Latin authors from Cicero to Ausonius also difficult ones like Festus and Manilius were published by leading or promising French scholars. They were also meant for a broad public and offered introductions reliable and readable texts easy interpretations and philological educational and historical notes without too much philological niceties or textual criticism. The series was a huge success. This particular edition of Martial was a weak link in the series and had consequently little success for it was reissued only once in 1701. It was originally produced by the otherwise unknown French jurist Vincentius Collesso or Vincent Collesson and was first published in Paris in 1680. 'Cette �dition ne repr�sente . pas un progr�s dans l'histoire du texte de Martial puisque'elle s'apparente aussi bien pour le texte que pour le paratext � une compilation'. 'La collection Ad usum Delphini' Grenoble 2000-2005 vol. 2 p. 227/235 It is in fact a compilation or better a Variorum-edition. Collesso based his edition on the work of the Dutch latinist Hadrianus Junius 1511-1575 published in 1559 and 1568. Martial's obscenity created a dilemma for editors. Censors banned and expurgated the poems. The solution of Collesson concerning this moral danger was elegant he omitted from the main text without any explanation 151 'pornographic' epigrams the socalled 'Obscoena' and hid them at the end of the text before the index. The obscene poems were however only accompanied by notes and were printed without the 'interpretatio' in easy Latin. This in order not to hurt the tender soul of the Dauphin and the taste of the civilized reader. This edition of 1701 is the only reissue of the Martial of Collesso. It was produced by the Dutch scholar Ludolf Smids who enriched and elucidated the text with engravings of numerous coins. At the end as in the original edition of 1680 we find on 56 pages the 'epigrammata obscoena'. Ludolf Smids 1649-1720 became Doctor of Medicin in 1673 in Leiden. He went to live in Amsterdam where he spent more time on the study of history antiquities poetry and numismatics than as medical practioner. He wrote plays poetry and several books on numismatics. Van der Aa 17/2 760 Provenance: Stamps on the title and front flyleaf: 'Bibliotheca viri F.J. Corstens'; In: 'Verslag van den Staat der Hooge- Middelbare en Lagere Scholen in het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden over 1881-1882' 1882 page 107 we found a Dutch classicist F.J. Corstens who taught in 1881/82 Greek and Latin at a kind of 'Progymnasium' the 'Bijzondere school van voorbereidend hooger onderwijs met vierjarigen curcus te Elburg' Collation: - 28 A-2O8 2P4 a leaf chi1 inserted after 2B6 a kind of short praefatio by Smids; a-c8 d4; 2a-i8 minus blank leaf i8 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎MACROBIUS.‎

‎Macrobii Ambrosii Aurelii Theodosii viri consularis & illustris in Somnium Scipionis libri II. Eiusdem Saturnaliorum libri VII. Ex vetustissimis manuscriptis codicibus recogniti & aucti. Edited by Joach. Camerarius.‎

‎Basel Basileae Ex officina Ioan. Hervagii 1535. Cum privilegio Caesaris ad quinquennium. Folio. XL3342 p. Vellum 30 cm Ref: VD16 ZV 20513; Schweiger 2586: the first mentioned copy with the privilegium and the corrections. 'Neue sch�tzbare Recension von Joach. Camerarius nach 2 Handschriften'. Dibdin 2220: 'under the care of the celebrated Camerarius and by the help of several important MSS. there was hardly a verse in the poets quoted but what received very considerable emendation. . A volume thus intrinsically valuable will not fail to find a purchaser at a reasonable price'; Ebert 12716; Graesse 4330 Details: Later vellum 18th century. Brown morocco shield on the back. 2 thongs laced through both joints. Large printer's mark of Hervagius Johann Herwagen the elder on the title and a different one on the verso of the last leaf both depicting a three headed Hermes on a pillar. Woodcut initials 8 woodcuts and a woodcut map of the world in the text Condition: Some small and almost invisible repairs of the vellum. Corners of the shield on the back partly gone. Title browning paper yellowing some slight foxing. Wormhole in the right uppercorner of ca. 80 p. not coming near any text. Pastedowns affected by a few small unobjectional wormholes Note: Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius a Roman senator and a classical scholar of the early 5th century A.D. 'was a notable link between the cultures of antiquity and the Middle Ages'. This edition contains his 2 most important works the 'Saturnalia' and his 'Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis' the 'Dream of Scipio' a commentary on a part of 'De Republica' of the Roman orator Cicero. The 'Saturnalia' is a learned compilation in 7 books cast in dialogue form in which the cultural life of the former generation is idealized. Macrobius' aim is to provide his son with all the necessary hard to come by scientific knowledge. He did so in the form of a banquet. Macrobius was inspired by the Ciceronian dialogues 'De Oratore' and 'De Republica'. 'Set during the Saturnalia of 383 it gathers several conspicuously non-Christian members of the aristocracy and their entourage to discuss matters ridiculous . and sublime . above all the poetry of Virgil. Quarried from mostly unnamed sources - including Gellius Seneca Plutarch and the tradition of scholastic commentary today known from Servius the discussion presents Virgil as the master of all human knowledge'. More influential in the Middle Ages and Renaissance was the commentary of Macrobius on the 'Somnium Scipionis'. Macrobius uses Cicero's text De Republica 610 ff as the starting point for a thoroughly Neoplatonic treatment of especially cosmology and the soul's ascent to the One with direct debts to Porphyry and Plotinus.' Discussed are matters of mathematics physics cosmology astronomy geography and ethics. He thus forged a kind of compendium of science and philosophy which transmitted classical knowledge to the medieval world and was to hold a central position in the intellectual development of the West during the Middle Ages. His books belong to the basic sources of the scholastic movement and of medieval science. His work left traces in the works of Dante Chaucer Vives and Spenser. Source for M. and the quotations: 'The Classical Tradition' Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 553. � Joachim Camerarius 1500-1574 holds one of the foremost places among the German classical scholars of the 16th century. Gudeman calls him even 'der bedeutendste Philologe Deutschlands im 16. Jahrh.' Grundriss der Geschichte der klassischen Philologie Lpz. 1909 p. 216 He held professorships at Nuremberg T�bingen and Leipzig. 'His numerous editions of the Classics without attaining the highest rank are characterized by acumen and good taste'. Sandys 'History of Classical Scholarship' 2 p. 266/67 Camerarius was a man of vast knowledge. He also wrote on history theology mathematics astronomy and paedagogy. He seems to have been just the man for editing the encyclopaedic works of Macrobius. Camerarius had evidently a high opinion of himself and his talents. Such we gather from the following distich on the titlepage: 'Qui tamen et nostri numerum vult scire laboris annumeret versus totius ille libri' i.e. he left his mark in every line of verse in Macrobius. This book contains furthermore an interesting Macrobian map a map which for a 1000 years formed the basis of world geography. It was first printed in 1482 showing the continents in the 'Alveus Oceani' a big Europe and a rather small Africa and Asia. The round map is typically divided in 5 climatic zones. It shows the pre-Renaissance view of the world Antipodeans and all. Our map shows the awakening of the passion for exploration and the cartographic progress in this period. Africa and Asia have grown hugely and Europe has shrunk considerably. The lines of the climatic zone on the first map of 1482 were straight suggesting a flat earth on our map the lines are convex indicating a world which is really a round ball. And the Antipodean part has gone. No sign however of America. The literature on the development of the Macrobian world view is immense Provenance: On the front flyleaf in pencil '7 januari 1961' written by the Flemish linguist Walter Couvreur 1914-1996 who was an Orientalist and professor of Indoeuropean linguistics at the University of Gent. It indicates the date of aquisition. The place of acquisition he wrote on the flyleaf at the end: 'Turijn Bottega d'Erasmo' Collation: alpha - beta6 gamma8 a-z6 A-E6 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎NEPOS.‎

‎Cornelii Nepotis Vitae excellentium imperatorum cum integris notis Jani Gebhardi Henr. Ernestii & Jo. Andreae Bosii. Et selectis Andreae Schotti Dionysii Lambini Gilberti Longolii Hieronymi Magii Jo. Savaronis aliorumque Doctorum; necnon Excerptis P. Danielis. Hisce accedit locupletissimus omnium vocabulorum index studio & opera Jo. Andr. Bosii confectus curante Augustino Van Staveren qui & suas notas addidit.‎

‎Leiden Lugduni Batavorum Apud Samuelem Luchtmans 1734. XVI including frontispiece765187 p. Half calf 21.5 cm Ref: STCN ppn 189887893; Schweiger 2300/1; Dibdin 2246; Moss 2320; Ernesti/Fabricius I107: 'Optima hodie et nitidissima est'; Graesse 2271; Brunet 2289 Details: Back gilt and with 5 raised bands. Black morocco shield in the second compartment. Boards marbled. Margins preserved uncut. Frontispiece executed by J. Visscher depicting Clio with a pen in her hand receiving advice from Kronos scythe at hand Fama blows her trumpet; title in red and black; printer's mark on title depicting Athena motto: 'Tuta sub Aegide Pallas'; small engravings of portraits and objects in the text on 11 pages Condition: Binding rubbed and scuffed. Head and tail of the spine damaged. Small library shelf number label on the upper board. Half of the front flyleaf cut off vertically. Flyleaf at the end gone. 12 gatherings are somewhat browning Note: This is an edition with commentary of the only surviving complete work of the Roman historian Cornelius Nepos ca. 100-24 B.C. 'De excellentibus ducibus exterrarum gentium'. He is the author of the first surviving ancient collection of biographies. 'De excellentibus etc.' contains the lives of 20 Greek generals and the Carthaginians Hamilkar and Hannibal. Nepos corresponded with Cicero and was close with Cicero's friend Atticus. The collection served probably as a model for Plutarch's Vitae Parallelae. In his own days and in late antiquity Nepos was considered to be a source of importance. The churchfather Hieronymus included him in his 'De viris illustribus' 392 A.D. in his list of great authors and historians. Already in late antiquity this collection was ascribed to the grammarian Aemilius Probus and the 'editio princeps' of 1471 bears his name. The simple style of writing of Nepos has made him a standard choice for schools. The biographies provided the pupils also models of behaviour. Schweiger mentions numerous editions. This edition is a socalled Variorum edition an edition which contained everthing a student required. Such an edition offers the 'textus receptus' which is widely accepted accompanied with the commentary and the annotations of specialists taken from earlier useful normative or renewing editions. Editions like these 'cum notis Variorum' were useful but never broke new ground. The production of this kind of editions was the specialty of Dutch scholars of the 17th and 18th century. The compilers seldom were great scholars but often hard working schoolmasters. The Dutch schoolmaster who skillfully excerpted compared and contrasted the material of brighter minds is Augstinus van Staveren 1704-1772. He was rector of the schola latina at Leiden since 1750. He is known for this edition of Nepos which saw several later editions and his 'Auctores Mythographi Latini' which was published in 1742. The frontispiece or rather the copper plate for this frontispiece and the text engravings which belong to this edition have a long history. The same plates were used for almost 150 years by different publishing firms. The plates were first used for by Hackius edition of 1658 and then the reissue of 1675. The next users were the Blaeu brothers in 1687 thereupon probably Mortier in 1704 not seen by us then Janssonius van Waesberge in 1705 and then by Samuel Luchtmans who seems the last owner in 1728. Luchtmans used the plates in 1734 again for his new edition of Van Staveren next for the second edition of 1773 and finally for the 'editio minor' of Van Staveren which was published in 1793 Collation: - 28 A-3N8 3O4 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎JUVENALIS.‎

‎D. Iunii Iuvenalis Aquinatis Satirae XVI. Recensuit et annotationibus instruxit Ernestus Guilielmus Weber Weissenseas Philos. Dr. et Professor Gymnasii Wimariensis.‎

‎Weimar Wimariae In novo Bibliopolio vulgo Landes-Industrie-Comptoir 1825. 8vo. X3802 corrigenda p. Half calf 22 cm Ref: Schweiger 2505: 'Neue Recognition des Textes. Ruperti's Text liegt zum Grunde. Die Interpunktion ist vereinfacht. Die schwierigen Stellen sind trefflich erl�utert'; Graesse 3521; Not in Spoelder p. 554 Enkhuizen Details: Prize copy of the Gymnasium of Enkhuizen including the prize printed on thick paper. Spine divided by double gilt fillets. Gilt lettered shield in the 'second compartment' Condition: Binding worn at the extremes. Owing to a binder's error the pages in the 23rd and 24th gathering from p. 353 to 376 have been mixed up and 4 of those leaves have been bound double Note: The Roman poet Juvenalis ca. 55-140 AD was the last and most influential of the Roman satirists. He 'uses names and examples from the past as protective covers for his expos�s of contemporary vice and folly'. His main theme is the dissolution of the social fabric. The Classical Tradition Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 501 � This Juvenal edition of 1825 was produced by the German schoolmaster Ernst Christian Wilhelm Weber born in 1796 in Wissensee. In 1815 he went to Leipzig to study classical philology under Gottfried Hermann. In 1819 he published in Jena a dissertation 'Animadversiones in Juvenalis Satiras'. In 1820 he was appointed rector of the Gymnasium of Weimar and 3 years later he received the title of professor. In 1826 the firm of Teubner published his edition of Persius. Another contribution to classical scholarship is his edition of Demosthenes' 'Oratio in Aristocratem'. ADB 41287/89 Provenance: The folding prize 19x28 cm with the coat of arms of Enkhuizen has been printed for the greater part; names and the occasion have been added by hand; it reads: 'Ingenio Magnaeque Spei Adolescenti Christiano Cramer Hartman propter insignes in artibus humanioribus progressus praemium hoc litterarum virtutis et diligentiae testimonium Gymnasii Enchuisani Curatores donarunt cum in secundam classem transscriberetur ad diem 6 Septembris 1830'. It is signed by 'R.J. Jungius S. Muntendam Duyvensz' and by 'Me Gymnasii Rectore' A. Hirschig. Spoelder does not mention this kind of prize copy without the coat of arms on the boards but with the coat of arms on the prize. Christiaan Cramer Hartman was born in Averhorn in 1817. He died in Utrecht in 1886. See for him 'pondes.nl/detail/i_d.phpinum=14460294' This is about all that is to be found on Christiaan. His diligence and virtue brought him only a public notice of his marriage with Johanna Spruyt in Utrecht in the 'Opregte Haarlemsche Courant' of the 3rd of May 1862 in Utrecht Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎AMMONIUS.‎

‎AMM�NIOU peri Homoi�n kai Diaphor�n lekse�n. De adfinium vocabulorum differentia. Accedunt opuscula nondum edita Eranius Philo 'de Differentia Significationis'. Lesbonax 'de figuris grammaticis'. Incerti scriptores 'de soloecismo & barbarismo'. Lexicon 'de spiritibus dictionum ex operibus' Tryphonis Choerobosci Theodoriti etc. selectum. Ammonium ope MS. primae editionis Aldinae & aliunde emaculavit & notis illustravit reliqua ex codd. MSS. Bibliothecae Lugduno-Batavae nunc primum vulgavit Ludovicus Casparus Valckenaer. Bound with: Ludov. Casp. Valckenaer. Animadversionum ad Ammonium grammaticum libri tres. In quibus veterum scriptorum loca tentantur & emendantur. Accedit specimen scholiorum ad Homerum ineditorum ex codice Vossiano Bibliothecae Lugduno-Batavae.‎

‎Leiden Lugduno Batavorum Apud Johannem Luzac 1739. 8vo. 2 volumes in 1: VIIIXXXI3264; VIII24915 index2 blank p. Vellum 20.5 cm Ref: Hoffmann 1125; Brunet 1239; Ebert 536; Graesse 1105 Details: Six thongs laced through the joints. Both titles printed in red & black. Engraved printer's mark on title designed by F. v. Bleyswyck depicting a ship heading for Scylla and Charybdis; its motto: 'nec dextrorsum nec sinistrorsum' or 'Neither to the right nor to the left' referring to Deuteronomium ch. V32/33: 'Custodite igitur et facite quae praecepit Dominus Deus vobis: non declinabitis neque ad dexteram neque ad sinistram: sed per viam quam praecepit Dominus Deus vester ambulabitis ut vivatis et bene sit vobis et protelentur dies in terra possesionis vestrae' Condition: Vellum age-tanned and slightly soiled. Small name on the title. Old ink inscription on the front flyleaf. Front hinge cracking but strong; paper of pastedowns cracking Note: The Frisian scholar Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer 1715-1785 was a pupil of his fellow Frisian Tiberius Hemsterhuis and after him the greatest Dutch classical scholar of the 18th century. Hemsterhuis 1685-1766 advised his students in Franeker and later in Leiden to use especially the lexica of the ancient lexicographers. These works could be of great use for the understanding of textual problems and for the amending of texts of classical authors and they were of great help to gain a profound knowledge of the Greek language and its vocabulary. For his first fruits Valckenaer chose an unpublished work of the Greek grammarian Ammonius who lived probably in the first or second century A.D. This edition the 'editio princeps' of 'De adfinium vocabulorum differentia' made his name. In the preface Valckenaer explains that Ammonius suffered grievous wrongs at the hand of French scholar/printer Henri Estienne who ignored his usefulness in the appendix of his celebrated 'Thesaurus Linguae Graecae' 1572 and who vexed and lacerated him in the preface of his 'De Atticae linguae seu dialecti idiomatis' 1573 and portrayed the ancient lexicographer as a careless ignoramus. 'omnibus modis Ammonium vexavit & tam contumeliose laceravit ut in Ammonio exemplum & incuriae & inscitiae ponendum esse'. Praefatio p. XXV Young Valckenaer announces that he is going to repair this 'gravissimam iniuriam'. For Valckenaer it is clear liquido constet that Ammonius penetrated deep into the nature of the Greek language and the true origin of words. in interiorem Linguae indolem & veram vocum originem reliquis grammaticis omnibus ignoratam sese penetravisse Ammonium' Idem eodem The first part consists of the work of Ammonius and several other unpublished ancient grammatici the second part consists of Valckenaer's notes on Ammonius and a specimen of the scholia from the 'codex Vossianus'. The untertaking proved to be successful because it resulted in his appointment as professor of Greek at the University of Franeker in 1741. Gerretzen Schola Hemsterhusiana 1940 p. 205/6 Collation: -54 A-2K4; 4 A-2K4 leaf 2K4 blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎SPOELDER J.‎

‎Prijsboeken op de Latijnse School. Een studie naar het verschijnsel prijsuitreiking en prijsboek op de Latijnse scholen in de Noordelijke Nederlanden ca. 1585-1876 met een repertorium van wapenstempels.‎

‎Amst. Maarssen APA-Holland Universiteits Pers 2000. XIX852 p.; ills. 33 pls. Cl. 23 cm Diss. unknown‎

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‎ATHANASIUS & BASILIUS.‎

‎Athanasiou dialogoi e' peri t�s hagias Triados. Basileiou logoi d' kata dussebous Eunomiou. Anastasiou kai Kurillou ekthesis suntomos t�s orthodoksou piste�s. Athanasii dialogi V de sancta Trinitate. Basilii libri IIII adversus impium Eunomium. Anastasii et Cyrilli compendiaria orthodoxae fidei explanatio. Ex interpretatione Th. Bezae. Foebadi sive Foebadii liber contra Arianos. Quae Athanasii Anastasii & Cyrilli sunt & quae Foebadii nunc primum eduntur.‎

‎N.pl. Geneva Excudebat Henricus Stephanus 1570. 8vo. XIV24;4311 blank p. 18th century vellum 17.5 cm A collection of Trinitarian texts Ref: GLN-2395; Hoffmann 1387; Renouard Estienne p. 133; Graesse 1243; Butterweck Athanasius Bibliographie p. 64/65; Dibdin 1196: 'scarce and estimable'; not in Brunet Details: Two morocco letterpieces on the spine. Boards with gilt borders. Marbled endpapers edges dyed red. Nice copy Condition: The opusculum Liber contra Arianos of Foebadius is not bound at the end as in the GLN copy but immediately after the praefatio. The 3 pages with the castigationes gathering c2 see collation on Foebadius of P. Pithou and himself which Beza added to Foebadius' Liber contra Arianos are lacking Note: The Church Father Athanasius 295-373 AD is the most famous of the Alexandrian bishops and is best known as the adversary of the antitrinitarian priest Arius. Because of his struggle with the Arians the followers of Arius Athanasius was banished for 17 years. In his works he fiercely defended the dogmata of the church against heretics like Arius. The controversy between Athanasius and Arius divided the Church into two opposing theological factions for over 55 years from the time before the Council of Nicaea 325 till the Council of Constantinople 381. Athanasius was the champion of the Nicaeneans defending the full divinity of the Son of God Jesus Christ. Bardenhewer states that Athanasius is 'eine der gewaltigsten Erscheinungen der Kirchengeschichte. Nie mehr ist eine kirchliche Entscheidung getroffen worden von der Tragweite des homoousios des Nic�nums und nie mehr hat eine kirchliche Entscheidung einen Kampf heraufbeschworen wie denjenigen zwischen Nic�nern und Antinic�nern'. Bardenhewer 'Geschichte der altkirchlichen Literatur ' vol. 3 p. 44 � That he published in 1570 some editiones principes of a number of treatises on the Holy Trintiy Theodorus Beza 1519-1605 a Calvinist theologian who was professor of Greek at Geneva couldnot care less. This 1570 edition formed part of his polemical activity directed against the Antitrinitarianist heresy which was 'devastating' Poland and Transylvania during the sixties and seventies of the 16th century. This 'heresy' in existence within Christianity from the second century A.D. till the present day rejects the mainstream Christian doctrine of the Holy Trinity i.e. 'that God is three distinct hypostases or persons who are coeternal coequal and indivisibly united in one being or ousia'. Wikipedia: Nontrinitarism The First Council of Nicaea 325 declared the full divinity of the Son of God and the First Council of Constantinople 381 declared the divinity of the Holy Spirit. There were however christians who didnot accept this doctrine argueing that the Trinity was inconsistent with the unity of God and found no basis in the Scripture. In time the antitrinitarian view lost appeal in late antiquity and the trinitarian view became the orthodox doctrine of modern Christianity. During the Reformation of the 16th century large areas of Northern and Middle Europe rejected the Catholic creed and became Protestant. The protestant church chose to defend like the church of Rome the mystery of the Trinity as one of the essentials of the Christian creed. However within protestantism radical antitrinitarianism began to surface again. The best-known antitrinitarianist the Spaniard Servetus was burned at the stake in 1553 in Geneva to signal unambiguously that the Reformed Church remained orthodox on the doctrine of the Trinity. The organised form of the antitrinitarianist heresy gained solid ground only in Poland where Unitarians who rejected the divine Trinity split from the Calvinists in 1565 they were expelled later from Poland in 1658 and in Transylvania in the Unitarian Church 1568. Another protestant antitrinitarian radical the Italian Giorgio Biandrata proved instrumental in the rise of anti-Trinitarianism in both Transylvania and Poland where this heresy took root in the 1560s and 1570s. Biandrata had to flee in 1558 from Geneva and was received warmly by the Polish Congregation. Biandrata radically reinterpreted the 'homoousious' the term which had been crucial to Athanasius in his 4th century defence of the unity of the divine essence. Trinitas and essentia were according to Biandrata papistica vocabula. In 1562 a synod of the Polish Reformed Church accepted the antitrinitarian approach. One of the remaining Polish Trinitarian ministers Christophorus Thretius asked Beza for assistance in refuting antitrinitarianism 'adversus periditissimos illos . Ecclesiarum vastatores' among whom 'Blandratam'. Preface p. �2 verso To help him and to furnish ammunition in order to suppress this Polish heresy Beza published this Athanasius edition. Beza tells in the preface addressed to the worldly and ecclesiastial powers catholics and protestants in the kingdom of Poland that his Athanasius edition is his gift munusculum to his Polish brothers in faith which would be useful in their battle against their common enemy. p. �7 recto/verso The gift provided extensive scriptural testimony for 'tanti est momenti ex fontibus ipsis veritatem haurire'. p. �4 recto 'It is that imporatant to go to the source if one wants to draw the truth'. Beza tells in the preface also that the manuscript of the Athanasius was bought by Henri Estienne from a Greek visitor a Graeculo quodam hac transeunte redemptum and that it was divine providence that it came into his hand divinitus potius quam casu. p. �3 verso The manuscripts of the other works in this 1570 edition were found in the library of Germain Colladon by P. Pithou. The dialogues are now considered to be Pseudo-Athanasian. A discussion about this 1570 edition in I.D. Backus' 'Historical Method and Confessional Identity in the Era of the Reformation 1378-1615' Leiden/Boston 2003 p. 173/78 � When Calvin died in 1564 Beza became his successor not only as leader in religious and political affairs in Geneva but also as guide the Calvinists in all Europe. Beza is best known for his Latin translation of the New Testament his critical Greek edition of the New Testament and for being the founder of the University of GenevaCollation: �8 minus blank leaf �8 a8 b4 A-2C8 2D-2E4 Lacking after a8/b4 gathering c2 which contains Beza's castigationes on the text of Foebadius The GLN-2395 lacks also the blank leaf �8. The first gathering is nevertheless described there erroneously as �8 having XVI pagesPhotographs on request hardcover‎

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‎LATINIUS LATINUS.‎

‎Latini Latinii Viterbiensis Bibliotheca Sacra et Profana. Sive observationes correctiones coniecturae & variae lectiones in sacros et profanos scriptores e marginalibus notis codicum eiusdem. A Dominico Macro Melitensi Cathedralis Viterbien. olim canonico theologo sacrarumque Inquisit. & Indicis Congregat. Consultore Protonotario Apost. ac Comite Palatino Collectae. Et nunc primum e Bibliotheca Brancaccia in lucem editae.‎

‎Rome Romae Sumptibus Pontii Bernardon Via Parionis sub signo Virtutis 1677. Folio. 2 parts in 1: X including 2 portraitsVIII2133; 791 p. Vellum 33 cm Ref: Graesse 4119; Ebert 11760: 'scarce and philologically interesting' Details: 6 thongs laced through the joints. Short title in ink on the back. Title in red & black. Signed woodcut printer's mark on the title depicting a woman in a landscape she holds a book; the motto reads: 'Virtuti Fortuna Comes' or 'Fortune is the companion of virtue'. Full page oval portrait of Latinius engraved by Catharina Angela Bussi facing the title. Full page portrait of the cardinal Ioannes Gualterius Slusius engraved by 'Io. Nolin' Jean-Baptiste Nolin before the 'dedictatio'. See: wittert.ulg.ac.be/fr/dico/no/nolin_notice.html Some large woodcut initials Condition: Binding soiled. Upper joint beginning to split near the head of the spine. Some small holes in the front flyleaf. Front flyleaf worn a few small tears in its right margin. 3 small stamps on the title and 2 small inscriptions on the title. Small tear in the lower margin of the title repaired. Paper age-toned; a few gatherings browning. Some pencil. An old Cyprianus specialist once wrote 6 small references in ballpoint in the margins of 2 pages Note: The Italian cleric and humanist Latino Latini or Latinus Latinius 1513-1593 devoted his long life to his employers and his studies; he held soft jobs as secretary of several cardinals and devoted the rest of his time to classical studies and the study of the churchfathers especially Tertullian and Cyprianus. When he was a young man he acquired after an interrupted study of law a copy of the Gryphius edition of Cicero by the great P. Victorius. He was so touched by the elegance of that work that he decided to use Cicero as a guide for his style. He was appointed member of the papal committee which had to purge the 'Decretum Gratiani' a legal textbook of Canon law compiled in the 12th century out of which had grown in time a 'decretorum immensam sylvam' Leaf 2 verso. He was rewarded by Pope Gregory XIII with an annual pension of 150 ducati. Latinius produced an edition of Cyprianus published by Paullus Manutius in 1568 the socalled 'edition Manutiana'. He did however not want to associate his name with this edition. He feared that his reputation was at stake because he had manipulated the text of Cyprian where it conflicted with the manuscripts of the Holy Scriptures. Schoenemann 1 p. 120. He left his manuscripts and books to the Chapter Capitulum of the Cathedral of Viterbo Leaf 3 verso of this 'vita'. Observations corrections conjectures and 'variae lectiones' which he had jotted down in his manuscripts and in the margins of his books were published postumely by the theologian Domenico Magri or Dominicus Macrus of Malta 1604-1672 once Canon canonicus of the Cathedral of Viterbo member of the Inquisition and proconsul of the notorious Index of forbidden books. The work of Latinius is preceded by a 4 page biography by Magri the source of the above mentioned data. The work contains Latinius' orderly organized observations etc. on 45 church fathers and on 45 profane classical authors. 34 pages are dedicated to Augustine and 36 to Hilary of Poitiers 15 are on Ambrosius and 15 on Tertullian. The collection of Latinius came apparantly into the possession of Magri because he bequeathed it after his death in 1572 to the cardinal and bibliophile Francesco Maria Brancaccio 1592-1675 Leaf 1 recto. Brancaccio was Magri's former superior who had been bishop of Viterbo from 1638 till 1670. The cardinal's huge collection of manuscripts and books is now held by the 'Bibliotheca Nazionale di Napoli'. The book is dedicated by the publisher Bernardon to Ioannes Gualterius Slusius the younger or Jean Walther de Sluse or Jean Gaultier de Sluse born in Liege and of noble birth. He does so because this edition of 1677 was published at his expenses. Gualterius Slusius was head of the Latin language department of the Vatican Secretariat of State the 'Secretaria brevium ad principes et epistolarum latinarum' of pope Innocentius XI. It was his task to prepare in Latin the papal and curial documents. He was the owner of a famous book collection. � This title seems to be rare it does not figure in the registers of the 'Jahrbuch der Auctionspreise' nor in 'Rare Books Hub formerly the Americana Exchange' Provenance: 3 small stamps all the same of the 'Bibliotheca Gymnasii Arnstadiensis'; in ink below the printer's mark 'Biblioth. Gymnas. Arnstadt'; Arnstadt is a small city 40 km south of Erfurt Collation: pi4 leaf p1 portrait of Latinius after p2 an inserted portrait of the dedicatee Jean Gaultier de Sluse 4 a-2d4; A-C4 D2 E-K4 L2 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎SUETONIUS.‎

‎Caji Suetoniii Tranquilli Opera et in illa commentarius Samuelis Pitisci quo antiquitates romanae tum ab interpretibus doctissimis Beroaldo Sabellico Egnatio Ursino Grutero Torrentio Casaubono Marcilio Boxhornio Graevio Babelonio etiam explicatae tum ab illis neglectae ex auctoribus indoneis permultis graecis & latinis veteribus & recentioribus perpetuo tenore explicantur.‎

‎Utrecht Trajecti ad Rhenum Ex Officina Francisci Halmae Academiae typographi 1690. 8vo. 2 volumes: XL including frontispiece932; II924 p. 12 engraved portraits and 28 plates of which 1 folding and 1 double page. Vellum 20 cm Ref: STCN ppn 833699237; Schweiger 2978; Didbin 2442; Moss 2632; Fabricius/Ernesti 2459; Graesse 6/1523; Ebert 21930: 'Beste Ausgabe f�r die Suite 'cum notis variorum'' Details: 6 thongs laced through the joints. Frontispiece by G. Hoet and T. Mulder depicting 'Roma triumphatrix'; she offers a crown to a seated emperor in the foreground the Roman god Tiberinus and the she-wolf with Romulus and Remus. Title printed in red and black. Woodcut printer's mark on the title motto 'vivitur ingenio' 'one lives in one's genius'. The portraits are probably engraved by Mulder; the folding plate a 'triumphus' and 3 other plates are the work of painter and etcher Jan Luyken Condition: Vellum soiled and age-toned. Old and small ownership entry on both titles. The book lacks one leaf of the preliminary pages leaf 3 with 2 short laudatory poems by the Rector and a Praeceptor of the Schola Latina of Zutphen the school of which Samuel Pitiscus was once Rector. It seems that the binder forgot to insert a new leaf for a leaf which had been cancelled Note: The Roman historian Suetonius born c. 69 A.D is the most influential and best known biographer in the Latin language. He was appointed secretary to the emperor Hadrian a job that gave him access to the imperial records and archive. He made good use of his sources writing the 'Lives of the XII Caesars'; 'De vita Caesarum' gives the biographies of 12 emperors from Caesar the founder of the imperial line to Domitian. 'Suetonius like Plutarch believed that a person's character could be revealed in small and insignificant details'. He 'organized his Lives by topics per species rather than chronologically'. The Classical Tradition Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 912/13 Beyond simplicity and clearness he has no stylistic pretentions. He quotes verbatim from documents he knew and shows critical ability. 'The great number of scurrilous anecdotes in most of the lives may be due to the nature of his sources'. OCD 2nd ed. p. 1020/1 Of another of his works 'De viris illustiribus' a collection biographies of famous Roman authors of Lucan Horace Vergil and Terence have survived and his 'Liber de illustribus grammaticis' and his 'De claribus rhetoribus liber'. Suetonius was read in the Middle Ages. The Frank Einhard wrote a biography of Charlemagne along the lines of a Live of Suetonius. From the Renaissance onward Suetonius was neglected untill the great edition of 1672 of Graevius. Gibbon praised this Roman historian for his strict dedication to historical truth. His editor Samuel Pitiscus Samuel Petiski 1636-1727 a Dutch classicist of German origin was rector at Zutphen and from 1685 of the Gymnasium Hieronymianum at Utrecht. He produced editions of Curtius Rufus 1685 Suetonius 1690 Aurelius Victor 1696 and Solinus 1689. He did also lexicographic work and published a 'Lexicon Latino-Belgicum' 1725. He produced also in 1713 a 'Lexicon Antiquitatum Romanarum' and an edition in 1730 of Pomey's 'Pantheum Mythicum'. In this Suetonius edition Pitiscus also accepted some Lives nowadays ascribed to Suetonius a 'Vita Juvenalis' 'Vita Persii' and 'Vita Plinii'. At the end we find also the fragments of Suetonius followed by 17 pages with inscriptions concerning the 'Lives of the XII Caesars' and an edition of the 'Monumentum Ancyranum' with the learned commentary of Lipsius and Casaubon. Pitiscus was not a great scholar but he skillfully excerpted compared and contrasted his sources. His editions of Roman historians offer the 'textus receptus' accompanied with the commentary and the annotations of specialists taken from earlier useful normative or renewing editions. Nevertheless he added much useful observations of his own. Dibdin is very positive the edition is he says 'adorned with a vast number of beautiful cuts which not only illustrate Suetonius's history but likewise give a great light to the Roman antiquities. The same antiquities are also farther explained by Pitiscus's learned perpetual commentary on Suetonius and extracts of nearly 900 ancient and modern authors which he has collected for that purpose'. Or Moss: 'This is a very excellent and valuable edition in which the industry as well as the learning of the editor has been fully displayed'. Ernesti is less positive about the ungrateful task which this hardworking schoolmaster has fullfilled: 'nihil est praeter compilationes superiorum commentariorum Lexicorum item et aliorum librorum de rebus antiquariis'. It is just how you look at it. However this industry paid off. When he died Pitiscus left the fortune of 10.000 guilders for the poor of Utrecht. Van der Aa 15336/38 Provenance: Below the printer's mark an inscription that declares: 'Inservio Studiis Joannis Bernsavii'. In Wikipedia we found a lemma of one Johannes Bernsau 1674-1750 who was mayor of Elberfeld. And on '30 Septembris' of 1690 the year this book was published one Johannes Bernsaw Johannis Bernsavii filius Elverfelda-Montanus' matriculated at the University of Duisburg Collation: Vol. 1: -28 34 minus leaf 33 cancelled chi1; A-3M8 3N2; Vol. 2: pi1 A-3L8 3M6 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎HORATIUS.‎

‎Hekeldichten brieven en dichtkunst van Q. Horatius Flaccus. In Nederduitsche vaarzen overgebragt door B. Huydecoper.‎

‎Amsterdam By d'Erven J. Ratelband en Compagnie en Hermanus Uitwerf 1737. 4to. XX2921 errata p. frontispiece & portrait. Half calf. 20 cm Ref: STCN ppn 184323649; OiN p. 212; Geerebaert 11141II Details: Back gilt and with an orange morocco shield. Frontispiece by J.C. Philips showing a rich man in a kind of skybox of a hippodrome being served by 3 servants an example of the decadent luxury Horatius criticizes. Of the same engraver a portrait of Horatius on the title. A beautiful portrait of the translator Huydecoper engraved by J. Houbraken after a painting of J.M. Quinkhard at the beginning of the translation Condition: Back rubbed. Wear to the extremes corners and spine ends; front joint partly split Note: Balthasar Huydecoper 1695-1778 famous Dutch poet linguist & philologist. He also wrote tragedies like Achilles and Edipus. He was much praised for his neolatin poetry and with his translation into Dutch of the 'Satirae' and the 'Epistulae' the 'Ars Poetica' he is said to have revived Horace in the Low Countries. Van der Aa 8 1495/8 Provenance: name on front endpaper: 'G.A. Loeff Zwolle 1829'. We found on the internet an 'ingenieur-verificateur en provinciaal bewaarder van het Kadaster te Zwolle' with that name. � On the front flyleaf the name 'J.H. Waszink 1928'. J.H. Waszink 1908-1990 a wellknown Dutch classical philologist who has a short lemma at Wikipedia Collation: pi1 -24 32 chi1 portrait of Huydecoper; A-2N4 2O22P1 minus leaf 2O4 Gathering G = G1G3G2G4 Photographs on request unknown‎

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