THOMAS MESLERUS / JEAN GERSON 1363-1429 / THOMAS A` KEMPIS 1380-1471

Venerabilis viri Ioannis Gersen de Canabaco ordinis S. Benedicti, abbatis vercellensis / De imitatione Christi libri IV. Elegaice´ redditi paraphraste R.P., Thoma Meslero, monacho Zwifaltensi. Editio secunda.

Bruxellae : typis Ioannis Mommarti, 1649. 0. A very good 18th century full leather binding. 12mo. 12cm x 7.1cm x 1.9cm . [24pp]/pp.158/[10pp.] . Green calf with triple filet border. Corners carefully strengthened. Smooth spine carefully repaired preserviing some gilt decoration and longintudinal red leather title label: "Imitat. Christi Versib. Mesler Mommart 1649." All page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Engraved title-page, woodcut initials and tail-piece. "Praemonitio R.P. Franc. Valgravii ad lectorem praemonitio" pp. [10 - 20]. Clean Latin text throughout. VG.

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Book number: 51524

Catalogue: Latin: : 17th Century

Keywords: Ioannis Mommarti Bruxellae Venerabilis Viri Ioannis Gersen de Canabaco Ordinis S. Benedicti, Abbatis Vercellensis / de Imitatione Christi Libri IV. Elegaice´ Latin: : 17th Century

18TH CENTURY - LATIN PRAYER BOOK [ PARSELL, T. REVISED BY ] .

Liturgia: Seu Liber Precum Communium, Et Administrationis Sacramentorum, Aliorumque Rituum & Ceremoniarum In Ecclesia Anglicana Receptus: Itemque Forma & Modus Creandi, Ordinandi , & Consecrandi Episcopos, Presbyteros, & Diaconos...

Londoni: Typis G. Boyer, Impensis R. & J . Bonwicke, J. & B. Sprint, B. Took, T. Ward. & J. Osborne M DCC XX. [ 1720 ] . 0. "Editio tertia prioribus longe emendatior, tribusque formulis auctior." A very good original full leather binding. 12mo. 6.50" x 4.00" x 1.25". Plain dark brown calf. Corners bumped and strengthened. Spine with five raised bands. Previous owner's signature and doodles to the front endpaper: "Edward Maurice Coll. Jesu. Oxon."A. J. Richardson". Frontis engraving with later crude colouring, representing the interior of a church. On the left the pulpit, reading-desk, and clerk's desk, a clergyman saying prayers, the congregation kneeling on the marble floor (one has a kneeling-cushion) ; in the background the altar, above it the symbolic triangle, surrounded by cherubs, with the words; "Agite, veneremur supplices. flexis ante Dominum Creatorem nostrum genibus. Psal. xcv. 6." Printed title page (small hole repaired). Dedication ends; "Tho. Parsel. Dabam a Schola Mercat. Sciff. Londoni, Kalendis Quintilibus." Printed title. Clean Latin text throughout. A very good copy of an 18th century prayer book. * Referenced by ESTC T140400 / Griffiths - Latin, No. 19 ** "Thomas Parsell (1674-1720) headmaster of Merchant Taylor's School in London. Parsell's chief literary work was a translation of the Book of common Prayer into Latin. The Psalms, Epistles, and Gospels are described as being taken from Castellio's version, the rendering of the rest being Parsell's own. The first edition was published in 1706.." - See DNB.

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Book number: 48089

Catalogue: Prayer Books: : Latin

Keywords: 49564 G. Boyer J. , J. & J . Bonwicke, J. Osborn & T. Longman, B. Motte, S. Birt, T. Ward & E. Wicksted, Thomas Parsell Liturgia: Seu Liber Precum Communium, Et Administrationis Sacra Prayer Books: : Latin

CICERONIS, MARCUS TULLIUS / SCHREVEL, CORNELIS (1608-1664) / GRUTERUS, JANUS (1560-1627).

M. Tullii Ciceronis. Opera omnia: cum grvteri & selectis variorum notis indicibus locupletissimus, accurante C. Schrevelio

Amstelodami (Amsterdam): Apud Ludovicum et Danielem Elzevirios / Lugd. Batavorum ( Leiden ) : Apud Franciscum Hackium, 1661 . 0. Later full leather binding. Thick 4to. 24.2cm x 19.0cm x 8.0cm. [8pp.]/pp.51/[5pp.]/pp.636/[2pp.]/pp.639 -1339/[53pp. - Index] . Recent brown calf . Spine with 4 raised bands and recent red leather title label: "M. Tullii Ciceronis Opera Omnia". Later marbled endpapers. Engraved title-page. Previous owners details to top margin: "Elibr. Johan. Browne, Coll. Div. Joh. Bapt. Oxon 1750". Clean Latin text in double columns. last leaf of indxr soiled and darkend. G+. * Referenced by: CLC, II, C1157; Willems 1268 ** "John Browne (1687–1764) was an Oxford academic and administrator.[1] He was Fellow and Master of University College, Oxford, and also served as Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University.. Browne bequeathed his books to the Master of University College and his successors. The library was originally located in a ground-floor room in the Radcliffe Quad of the College. However, when a new Master's Lodgings was built, the books were moved there. John Browne died on 7 August 1764." - See Wikipedia.

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Book number: 47276

Catalogue: Latin: : 17th Century

Keywords: 49066 Amstelodami (Amsterdam): Apud Ludovicum Et Danielem Elzevirios / Lugd. Batavorum ( Leiden ) : Apud Franciscum Hackium Latin: : 17th Century

COOLEY, ALISON E.

The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 9780521549547. 1st edition. "This book advances our understanding of the place of Latin inscriptions in the Roman world. It enables readers..to appreciate both the potential and the limitations of inscriptions as historical source material, by considering the diversity of epigraphic culture in the Roman world, and how it has been transmitted to the twenty-first century." 24.5cms x 17.5cms x 2.5cms. Pp.xxii/531. Paperback. VG.

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Book number: 52294

Catalogue: Latin

Keywords: Cooley Latin Epigraphy Epigraphic Culture Naples Roman Monuments 53529 Latin

EHRLICH, EUGENE.

Nil Desperandum. A Dictionary of Latin Tags and Phrases.

London:Guild, 1991. "..with this highly entertaining and easy-to-use guide you can be confident in using and understanding all Latin tags commonly employed today." Pp.261.Grey cloth,dustwrapper. VG/VG.

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Book number: 7381

Catalogue: Latin

Keywords: Ehrlich Nil Desperandum Dictionary Latin Tags Phrases Reference 46277 Latin

GRIFFIN, JASPER.

Latin Poets and Roman Life.

London: Bristol Classical Paperbacks, 1994. 1853994308. Virgil, Horace, Propertius and Ovid. "Studies the inter-relation of literature and life in the Augustan poets..The book also discusses the uses of mythology, the influence of poetry on experience, and the interpretation of central passages iin the poems of Virgil. All Latin quoted is translated into English." Ex-college library. Pp.xiv/226, college inkstamp to half-title page and inside rear cover. Paperback, creasing to top front cover. G+.

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Book number: 51962

Catalogue: Literature: : Latin

Keywords: Griffin Latin Poets Roman Life Virgil Ovid Horace Propertius Mythology Literature Poetry 53236 Literature: : Latin

SCOTTISH CLASSICS GROUP.

The Latin Language. AA Handbook for Students.

Harlow: Oliver & Boyd, 2006. 0050042874. "Concentrates on the 'rules' rather than on the exceptions to rules which may never be encountered in traditional school authors and tend only to confuse students. After an explanation of each Latin construction, there are graded exercises to practise the translation of that construction.." Pp.192. Paperback. VG.

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Book number: 52278

Catalogue: Lnguages: : Latin

Keywords: Latin Language Handbook Students Syntax Translation Medieval Latin 53520 Lnguages: : Latin

JONES, PETER.

Reading Virgil. Aeneid I and II.

Cambrdge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 9780521171540. 1st edition. Designed for those who have completed an introductory course in Latin. "Accompanied by a running vocabulary, full grammatical help and notes. Essays at the end of each passage are designed to encourage appreciation of Virgil's plot-handling, poetic art and rich understanding of humanity, and there are references throughout to the most helpful modern thinking about the poem and its significance." 24.cms x 17cms x 2cms. Pp.xiv/320. Paperback. VG.

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Book number: 52012

Catalogue: Literature: : Latin

Keywords: Jones Reading Virgil Aeneid Latin Poetry Literature Vocabulary Grammar 53291 Literature: : Latin

CHRISTIAN GOTTLIEB KONGEHL; HEINRICH LIEDERT; .

Consensu Amplissimae Facultatis Philosophicae Pro Receptione In Eadem, De Temperamentorum Infirmitate, Et Exigua In Moralibus Utilitate A. MDCCXXI. d.X. Decembr... Disseret M. Christianus Gottlieb Kongehl, Respondente Henrico Liedert, Reg. Boruss.

Regiomonti [ Königsberg now Kaliningrad ] : Literis Reusnerianis, [no date - 1721] . 0. Date of publication from title. Original booklet in brown paper covers. 20cm x 16.5cm. 4to. [2pp.]/pp.58 . Light foxing to title-page otherwise clear Latin text throughout. VG.

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Book number: 49334

Catalogue: Latin: : 18th Century

Keywords: 51077 Kongehl, Christian Gottlieb Heinrich Liedert; Friedrich Reusner Erben Latin: : 18th Century

MILMAN, HENRY HART (1791-1868) .

The Works Of Quintus Horatius Flaccus. Illustrated Chiefly From The Remains Of Ancient Art. With A Life By Henry Hart Milman.

London : John Murray, MDCCCXLIX. [1849] . 0. A very good full leather binding. Previous owner was Richard Congreve. 8vo. 22cm x 15.5cm x 4.5cm. [6pp.]/pp.194/[4pp.]/pp.490/pp.14 - Index . With 8 illuminated and coloured title pages by Owen Jones, 465 antique designs on wood by George Scharf, and vari-colored borders to the text. Original Russian leather boards, with simple gilt border. Front board with initials 'R C' to the centre. Edges lightly rubbed and bumped. Carefully re-backed at sometime in the past. Smooth spine in matching leather, simple gilt banding and gilt title, All page edges bright gilt. Inner gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Inner hinges carefully strengthened. Engraved name plate to verso of the front board: "Richard Congreve". Neat dedication to front free-endpaper: "Fromthe Revd. William Dalby with grateful acknowledgement of able & friendly tuition of his son at Ruby, to The Reverend Richard Congreve M.A. Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, January 30, 1849. Life of Horace in English all other works in Latin. Clean text and illustrations throughout. A well preserved copy with an interesting provenance. Contents: Life of Horace. -- Fasti Horatiani. -- Letter by G. W. Dennis: De villa Horatii. -- Personae Horatianae. -- Personae Horatianae: Poets. -- Carminum: liber primus-quartus. -- Carmen seculare. -- Epodon liber. -- Satirarum: liber primus-secundus. -- Epistolarum: liber primus-secundus. -- De arte poetica. ** "Quintus Horatius Flaccus (8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words." - See Wikipedia *** "Henry Hart Milman (10 February 1791 – 24 September 1868) was an English historian and ecclesiastic. **** "Richard Congreve (4 September 1818 – 5 July 1899) was an English philosopher, one of the leading figures in the specifically religious interpretation of Auguste Comte's form of positivism. In that capacity he founded the London Positivist Society in 1867 and the Comtist Church of Humanity in 1878. He also wrote political tracts." - See Wikipedia ***** "Rev. William Dalby, 1792 - 1861. Tutor at Exeter College, Oxford and vicar of Warminster. He married Harriet Byard Sheppard 1st Jun 1826 at Holy Trinity, Frome, Somerset, England. He died aged 69, December 3rd 1861 at Bournemouth, Hampshire, England.

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Book number: 45298

Catalogue: Latin: : 19th Century

Keywords: 46670 John Murray Milman, Henry Hart Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace Latin: : 19th Century

MISSAL

Praxis Synodi Dioecesanae Celebrandae Ex Opere D. B. Gavanti Redacta.

Londoni et Leamingtoniae ( London ) : Art and Book Company, 1898. "Editio Tertia". pp.68. Nihil Obstat: C. J. Cronin, S.T.D. Re-imprimatur: Eduardus, Epus Birmingham. Die 19 Julii, 1898. Latin text in double columns. Red page edges. Dark brown cloth, gilt title to front board. Minor browning to endpapers. Fading to front board. G+ ** Gavantius (1569 - 1638), liturgist and member of the Barnabite order, was named perpetual consultor to the Congregation of Rites by Pope Urban VIII.

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Book number: 3501

Catalogue: Missals: : 19th Century: : Latin

Keywords: Gavanti Celebrandae Cronin Birmingham Art and Barnabite Pope Urban VIII Book Eduardus Gavantius 15128 Missals: : 19th Century: : Latin

OVID / HILL, D.E. (EDITOR AND TRANSLATOR).

Metamorphoses V-VIII.

Warminster: Aris & Philips, 1997. 0856683957. Reprint, with corrections. Following on from Books I-IV but designed to stand alone or read as a sequel to the earlier volume. There is a line-by-line translation and notes which trace Ovid's sources and his influence on literature and art. 21cms x 15.5cms x 1.5cms. Pp.248. Paperback, minor crease to top corner tip. VG.

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Book number: 51961

Catalogue: Literature: : Latin

Keywords: Ovid Hill Metamorphoses V-VIII Latin Mythology Literature 53235 Literature: : Latin

STAZIO PUBLIO PAPINIO [STATIUS, P. PAPINIUS (PUBLIUS PAPINIUS) ] / VEENHUSEN, JOANNES [ EDITOR ] .

Publii Papinii Statii Sylvarum lib. V. Thebaidos lib. XII. Achilleidos lib. II. Notis selectissimis in Sylvarum libros Domitii, Morelli, Bernatii, Gevartii, Crucei, Bartii, Joh. Frid. Gronovii Diatribe. In Thebaidos praeterea Placidi Lactanii...

Lugd. Batav. [ Lugduni Batavorum - Leiden, Netherlands ] : Ex Officina Hackiana, 1671 . 0. A very good full leather binding (probably 19th century). 19.3cm x 13.0cm x 4.8cm. 8vo. [32pp.]/pp.882/[30pp.] . Dark green calf. Corners carefully strengthened. Spine with 5 raised bands and oldbrown leather label: "P. P. Statii Sylvarum". All page edges bright gilt. Inner gilt dentelles (rubbed). Marbled endpapers. Small bookseller's label to verso of the front board: "Thornton & Son Booksellers 14 The Broad Oxford". Bookplate to front endpaper: "E Libris CAROLI D. FISHER ex AEde Xsti ." Also later owner's details@ "1821 William Fisher, Christ Church, Oxford". Added engraved title-page by G. Appelmans sculp.; has title: P. Papinii Statii opera. printed title-page with printer's cut (Rahir M.35) . ** Referenced by: CLC, II, S1724 / Rahir, E. Elzevier, no. 2479.

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Book number: 47298

Catalogue: Latin: : 17th Century

Keywords: 51279 Ex Officina Hackiana G. Appelmans Thornton & Son Publii Papinii Statii Sylvarum Stazio Publio Papinio [Statius, P. Papinius (Publius Papinius) ] / Veenhusen, Joannes Latin: : 17th Century

TACITUS, CORNELIUS

C. Cornelii Taciti Opera quae exstant omnia / Ad fidem optimorum codicum manuscriptorum accuratissime` Castigata .

Amstelaedami [Amsterdam] : Apud Janssonio-Waesbergios 1734 . 0. A very good modern half calf binding. 16mo. 4.75" x 2.75" x 1.0". [38pp.]/pp. 616/[25pp. - Index] + engraved frontis. Brown calf spine and corners over marbled boards. Spine with 4 raised bands and red leather title label: "Taciti Opera". Frontis (engraved by I. Schenk) trimmed along leading edge. Printed title page. Clean Latin text throughout. VG.

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Book number: 47284

Catalogue: Latin: : 18th Century

Keywords: 49357 I. Schenk C. Cornelii Taciti Opera Tacitus, Cornelius Amstelaedami [Amsterdam] : Apud Janssonio-Waesbergios Latin: : 18th Century

TAYLOR-BRIGGS, P. RUTH.

Via Plana. Graduated Readings in Advanced Latin.

London: Bristol Classical Press, 2001. 1853996122. Reprinted with amendments. "Offers sixth-formers and university undergraduates systematic and repeated revision of grammar each time linked to a new and progressively more difficult challenge, providing a smootjh road to fluency in the reading of Latin texts." Pp.xx/218. Paperback. VG.

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Book number: 52279

Catalogue: Language: : Latin

Keywords: Taylor-Briggs Via Plana Advanced Latin Exercises Language 53521 Language: : Latin