Author: ATHENAEUS.
Title: Dipnosophistarum, hoc est argutè sciteque differentium. Lib. XV.
Description: Basel, Ioannes Valderus, September 1535. Folio. (32x20, 2cm). [lxviii], 337, [1], [2 blank] pp. New brown half morocco with title-piece. (strong marginal waterstaining in the preliminaries, smaller in the text; small worming in bottom margin of 35 pp; first two leaves repaired in bottom corner; some foxing) ¶ Second edition (first: Aldus 1514). Edited by Jacobus Bedrotus, with the assistance of Christianus Herlinus. "According to Casaubon, the editors were Bedrotus and Herlinus, two young Germans, possessing more enthusiasm than correctness; but much to be praised for this attempt - in which they would probably have succeeded better had their judgment and maturity of reading been equal to their ardour." (Dibdin I/332). In the preliminaries a catalogue of writers, mentioning hundreds of names. "To the quotations in Athenaeus we are indebted for our knowledge of passages from about 700 ancient writers who would otherwise be unknown to us." (Sandys I/330). Jacobus Bedrotus (1495-1541) was professor of Greek in Basel, and from 1525 in Strasburg. Christianus Herlinus (+1562) was first of all mathematician. He built the clock that can still be admired in Strasburg cathedral.

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