Author: CRUCIUS, Jacobus.
Title: Suada delphica, sive Orationes XLV varii argumenti. Studiosæ juventuti manuductio ad artem oratoriam.
Description: Amsterdam, Joannes Janssonius, 1650. Sm-12mo. [viii], 423 pp. Laced vellum with turned edges. (binding a bit soiled) - First edition. ¶ Jacobus Crucius or La Croix, 1579-1655, was rector of the Latin School in Delft. The Suada is a collection of rhetorical exemples with didactic content, for edification of young people. These orations were pronounced by a number of pupils, i.a. Johannes Maurus (Arabus), the famous Moroccon convert, baptised in Delft in 1643, who later studied theology in Leiden.

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