Author: HORATIUS.
Title: [Opera.] Com commentariis et enarrationibus commentatoris veteris et I. Cruquii Messenii, accesserunt I. Dousae Nordovicis, item auctarium commentatoris veteris à Cruquio editi.
Description: Leiden, ex officina Plantiniana, apud Franciscum Raphelengium, 1597. 4to. [viii], [6], 695, [5], [11=index] pp.Laced vellum binding. (binding loosening from book block; pastedowns loose from boards; a few quires loose; some contemporary annotations; a few leaves with light marginal water stains) ¶ Jacques de Cruque (Jacob Cruucke; born in Mesen before 1520, died 1584), Flemish philologist, professor in Bruges. "Cruquius is primarily known from his editions of Horace assembled from four ancient manuscripts in the library of the Benedictine monastery of St. Peter's Abbey, Ghent, or "Mont Blandin". These were the so-called "Blandinian manuscripts". All four manuscripts were later destroyed in a fire at the monastery in 1566, leaving Cruquius's edition the sole surviving record of a number of commentaries not otherwise known, such as from the so-called "Commentator Cruquianus. Of special interest is Cruquius's access to an extremely rare and ancient manuscript of Horace now referred to as V, variously known otherwise as Blandinius, Blandinius vetustissimus, or codex antiquissimus Blandinianus. Cruquius published them in one complete edition in 1578, and ultimately a standalone edition of Commentator Cruquianus's scholia. After Cruque's death, the editions were reprinted in 1597 with a small collection of notes from Janus Dousa the Elder. (this edition)" (Wikipedia). TB 2556 ("uitgegeven door Janus Dousa"). ("Die Ausgabe ist sehr wichtig (usw.)" - Schweiger II/1, S.400)

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