Author: SCHOPPE, Caspar.
Title: Gasperis Schoppi Fr. Suspectarum lectionum libri quinque. In centum & quatuordecim epistulas ad celeberrimos quosque aevi nostri viros aliosque amicos, facti. In quis amplius ducentis locis Plautus, plurimis Apuleius, Diomedes Grammaticus, alii, corriguntur, nolantur, subplentur, illustrantur.
Description: Nürnberg, Paullus Kaufmann, 1597. 8vo. (15, 9x9, 6cm). [xvi], 397, [26] pp. Laced vellum with turned edges. (partly waterstained) ¶ Provenance: bookplate of the Collegium Carolinum, Braunschweig. ¶ With dedicatory epigram by Janus Gruter and elegy by Konrad Rittershausen. Early work by the controversial scholar Caspar Schoppe (1576-1649). "In the following year (1597) his criticisms were continued in the form of a series of Letters adressed to Scaliger and Casaubon in his Suspectae Lectiones, consisting mainly of conjectures on Plautus and Apuleius." (Sandys II/362). The letters are in fact adressed to 84 different scholars. ¶ Adams S700.

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