SCHOPPE, Caspar.
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.
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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