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SCALIGER, Joseph J. - Poemata omnia. Ex museio Petri Scriverii.

Leiden, Ex officina Plantiniana Raphelengii, 1615. Sm-8vo. (12, 7x7, 6 cm.). 3 parts in one vol. [xxiv], 166, [2 blank], [xvi], 144, 184 pp. Overlapping vellum. (slightly loosening; binding damaged; front hinge splitting; used copy with some contemporary annotations on last blanks; bookplate of E.J.Kenney). - The three parts of this volume, Poemata propria; Poemata Graeca, versa ex Lat. Ital.& Gall.; Poemata Latina versa è Graeco, with separate title-pages. ¶ The second part contains a.o. the greek version of Martialis' Epigrams. The latin translations from the greek include Theognis, Sophocles' Ajax, and Orphica. ¶ "In the preface Scriverius draws attention to the fact that his edition is much more correct than those of earlier published parts, notably the translation of the Orphic Hymns, produced in the Paris edition with many mistakes and now corrected with the help of Daniel Heinsius." - Smitskamp, Scaliger Collection 164. ¶ Roscam Abbing & Tuynman, Petrus Scriverius Harlemensis, p.249-250.
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