Author: SCHUURMAN, Anna Maria van.- Opuscula.- 1652
Title: Opuscula Hebraea, Graeca, Latina, Gallica. Prosaica & Metrica. Editio Tertia, auctior & emendatior.
Description: Trajecti ad Rhenum, Ex Officina Johannis à Waesberge, 1652. 8vo. W. the 'explore et fructu ' Waesberge printer's mark on the printed title. Printed title in red and black. This copy WITH the engr. portrait, which was made by Schuurman herself. In early 18th paste paper brds., spine w. vertical split, corners and edges bumped and rubbed. Outer hinges badly rubb., showing the blue grey 'onderpapier'. A - Z8, Aa4 (Aa4 blank)]. (XII (incl. portrait), 364, IV (blank) pp.). (Bookplate on verso upper free endp. 'N.G. la Lau', within double black line border.]. Third edition. Compilation of letters, poems, eulogies in Hebrew, Latin, Greek and French to and by Anna Marie van Schuurman first published thus in 1648. The first contribution is van Beverwijcks 'de vitae termino', originally published in 1639 and translated into dutch in the same year in her 'Pael steen...'. Further letters by Rivetus, Smith, Salmasius, Huygens, Spanheim, etc. This copy without the engraved portrait, which was in fact by her own hand. Willems, 649: Berghman, 1437: Brunet vol. V, c. 230: Johan van Beverwijck's book 'Wtnementheyt des vrouwelicken geslachts' ['the Excellence of Females'] discusses a wide variety of cases in which hundreds of famous women throughout history have shown themselves to be wiser, morally superior, more inventive, more caring & compassionate, and stronger than men. 'Dat in de selvige, soo na Ziele als na Lichaem de Vrouwe bovê de Man verre uytmunt. Waer door sy oock de grootste eñ wijste Mans onder haer gewelt brengt...'. One of the women portrayed by van Beverwijck is Anna Maria Van Schuurman, the epitome of 17th c. female accomplishment, well versed in Greek and Latin, Hebrew, Arabic and Syrian, a skilled musician, highly interested in science, medicine and astronomy. She corresponded with Vossius, Spanheim, van Beverwijck, Christiaan Huygens and Mersenne and is said to have met Descartes. About 10 years before her death she met Jean de Labadie and joined his 'Labadisten' fraternity in Herford [West Phalia], denouncing everything she had learned and acquired over the years as 'afgodery' or idolatry. She died 1678. Copy from the library of the scholar N.G. la Lau,....

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