PERSIUS & JUVENALIS.

Traduction des Satyres de Perse, et de Juvénal, par le Révérend Pere Tarteron, de la Compagnie de Jésus. Nouvelle édition.

Paris, Par la Compagnie des Libraires, 1714. 12mo in eights & fours. (XLVIII),591,(1 blank) p. Calf 17 cm Two poets exploring the limits of satiric free speech (Ref: Schweiger 2,517; cf. Graesse 3,522; Ebert 11273) (Details: Back gilt and with 5 raised bands, shield in the second compartment. The frontispiece depicts a poet/thinker in a robe, and seated on a stone bench; on the bench the inscription Facit indignation versum. Printer's mark, a beehive, on the title. The Latin text & French translation are printed side by side in different typefaces) (Condition: Wear to extremities of the binding: head & tail of the back slightly chafed. Back rubbed. Shield on the back vanishing. Wormhole near the gutter of the left lower corner of the first 64 p.) (Note: The stoic poet Aulus Persius Flaccus, 34-62 A.D., is a representative of the imperial Latin satire. His stoic satires form one 'libellus' of 6 satires, together 650 hexameters. 'They are well described as Horatian diatribes transformed by Stoic rhetoric'. 'He wrote in a bizarre mixture of cryptic allusions, brash colloquialisms, and forced imagery'. (OCD, 2nd ed. p. 805) The Stoic philosopher is in the work of Persius not a figure of fun, but a wise man. § The Roman poet Juvenalis, ca. 55-140 AD, was the last and most influential of the Roman satirists. He 'uses names and examples from the past as protective covers for his exposés of contemporary vice and folly'. (The Classical Tradition, Cambr. Mass., 2010, p. 501) His main theme is the dissolution of the social fabric. He had a lasting influence on neolatin and vernacular writers of the Renaissance and later centuries. § A striking feature of this book is, when one runs it through for the first time, is the discrepancy between the space occupied by the Latin text and the French translation. Take for instance the pages 2 and 3: on p. 2 we count 56 Latin words, on the opposing page 152 French words. Concise verses are transformed into long phrases in prose. The translator of these verses, the French Jesuit Jérôme, or Hieronymus Tarteron, 1644-1720, was professor of rhetoric. He translated also the Satires, Letters and the Ars Poetica of Horace. As usual with Jesuit editions, here also 'le pere Tarteron a eu soin de retrancher ce qui dans ces poëts pourroit nuire aux bonnes moers', so we read in the second volume of the Nouveau Supplement au Grand Dictionnaire Historique, de L. Moreri, Paris 1749. The edition was first published in 1689 and met with some success: it was reissued in 1695, 1706, 1714, 1729, 1737 and 1752) (Collation: pi1 (frontispiece), â8, ê4, î8, ô4; A8-3B4 (:gatherings A - 3B alternating), 3C8)) (Photographs on request)

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VERHAAL VAN DE OUDE KERKGEBRUIKEN,

of eene naaukeurige geschiedsbeschyving, bevattende hunne geboorte en aanwas, hoe zy ter Kerke ingeslopen, en langs welke trappen zy tot de bygeloovigheit zyn overgegaan. Door en geacht voorstander der rechtzinnige Leere en Kerk.

Rotterdam, Gedrukt by Arnold Willis, 1725. 8vo. (LVI),170 p. Half calf 16 cm Anti-papist History of the Church (Details: Back ruled gilt, and with 4 raised bands. Woodcut ornament on the title. Edges dyed red. In Gothic script) (Condition: Binding scuffed, especially at the extremes. Head of the spine chafed, corners bumped) (Note: This anonymous anti-papist history of the church was first published in The Hague in 1629 as 'Traitté des cérémonies anciennes, ou Histoire contenant leurs naissance, & accroissement, leurs entrée en l'église, & par quels degrez elles ont passé iusques à la superstitition'. In it the author tries to find the origin of all abuse in the church in Medieval superstition invented by the enemies of the true faith. It was repeated in Amsterdam in 1646. In the dedication to a revised and augmented edition, which was called a second edition (seconde édition) of 1662, the author at last reveals himself as Jonas Porrée. He dedicates that edition to Charles II, since 1660 protestant king of England, as 'défenseur de la foi', a defender who ironically on his deathbed in 1685 was received into the Catholic Church. In the dedication Porrée expresses also his admiration for the Anglian Church and its episcopal administration. This subversive anti-papist history was a tremendous success. It appeared reissued and revised in French in 1661, 1662, 1672, 1673, 1677, 1678, 1717 and 1772. It was also translated into English as 'Vitis degeneris, or, The degenerate plant, being a treatise of antient ceremonies: containing an historical account of their rise and growth, their first entrance into the Church, and their gradual advancement to superstition therein', London 1668. It was reissued in 1669. A German translation was published in 1691 as 'Christianismi Degeneris Historia, oder Historische Beschreibung der in der Alten Christlichen Kirchen geübten Ceremonien und Gottes-diensts: Wie weit dieselbigen vom heutigen Papstum unterscheiden gewesen'. A second edition appeared in 1692. The first Dutch translation dates from 1723, and seems extremely rare. In the Netherlands only the University Library of Leiden and of the Free University of Amsterdam hold a copy. In KVK (Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog) we found further only one copy in the University Library of Jena. This second edition of 1725 seems even more rare. We found only one copy available in the Library of the Free University, and not one in KVK. This edition of 1725 was dedicated by the publisher Arnold Willis to his friend, the reverend 'Theodorus vander Vis, predikant te Niervaart, gezegt De Klundert '. In the preface (p. *2 recto) Willis tells that the first edition of two years earlier was sold out quickly, and that he therefore now brings on the market a second edition of the translation. It is even more attractive, he says, because it is corrected, and augmented considerably. (See for the French editions of 1646 and 1662, and the author Jonas Porrée: 'Bulletin - Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français', 7e année, Paris, 1858, p. 213-215) (Collation: pi1, *-3*8, 4*4 (minus leaf 4*4); A-K8, L4, M2 (minus leaf M2) (Photographs on request)

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KIST,W.

Gulielmi Kist, Oratio de voluptate animi ex diligenti veterum auctorum lectione capienda. Publice dicta Medioburgi A.D. X Iunii 1789, cum Historiarum et Eloquentiae Professionem in Illustri Athenaeo sollemniter auspicaretur.

Middelburg (Medioburgi), Apud Petrum Gillissen et filium, 1789. 43 p. Sewn in contemporary marbled paper wrapper. 26 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 157807282) (Condition: Somewhat dog-eared. Frontcover loosening) (Note: The Dutch author and schoolmaster Willem (Gulielmus) Kist,1758-1841, studied in Leiden Latin and Greek under L.C. Valckenaer and D. Ruhnkenius. In 1779 he was appointed Conrector of the 'Scholae Latinae' in Breda. In 1784 he moved to the city of Middelburg, where he became Rector of the local 'Athenaeum Illustre'. His inaugural speech was entitled 'De calamitatibus, quae ex neglecta subolis educatione oriuntur et Patriae ruinam minantur'. (Medioburgi 1784) Three years later the authorities of Middelburg made him lector of World History. He then delivered his speech: 'De barbariae tenebris, per Graecos Romanosque scriptores feliciter depulsis'. (Medioburgi 1787) In 1789 he received a call to a professorship at the University of Franeker, but he declined. To thank him the government of the city appointed him Professor of History and Eloquence of the 'Athenaeum Illustre', which he accepted with the speech 'De voluptate animi ex diligenti veterum scriptorum lectione capienda'. A Dutch translation was published in the same year: 'Redevoering over de beöeffening der oude schrijvers als een bron van wezenlijk genoegen'. In his sparetime and retirement Kist wrote a number of successful novels and character sketches. One of his best known is 'Ring van Gyges wedergevonden, of verzameling van Nederlandsche karakters'. (Haarlem 1805)) (Collation: pi2, A-E4, F2 (leaf F2 verso blank)) (Photographs on request)

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LABBAEUS,C. (Ed.)

Cyrilli, Philoxeni aliorumque veterum Glossaria latino-graeca, & graeco-latina, a Carolo Labbaeo collecta & in duplicem alphabeticum ordinem redacta. Cum variis emendationibus ex MSS. Codd. petitis, virorumque doctorum castigationibus ac conjectaneis, his accedunt Glossae aliquot aliae latino-graecae ex iisdem Codd. MSS. quae nunc primum prodeunt. Praeterea veteres glossae verborum juris, quae passim in Basilicis reperiuntur, ex variis perinde Codd. MSS. Bibliothecae Regiae erutae, digestae, & notis illustratae ab eodem Carolo Labbaeo. (Edidit et praefationem adjecit Car. Du Fresne du Cange) (Bound with:) (Aegidius Bucherius) Aegidii Bucherii Atrebatis e Societate Iesu De doctrina temporum commentarius in Victorium Aquitanum, nunc primum post 1177 annos in lucem editum, aliosque antiquos Canonum Paschalium Scriptores, chronologiae Ecclesiasticae illustrandae ac stabiliendae utilissimos.

Ad 1: Paris (Lutetiae Parisiorum), Cura & impensis Ludovici Billaine, 1679. Ad 2: Antwerp (Antverpiae), Ex officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti, 1634. (Colophon at the end: 'Antverpiae, Ex officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti, 1633'). Folio. 2 volumes in 1: (II),208,(2),246 (recte 244);40 p.; (XXXII),500,(2 colophon & printer's mark) p. Contemporary calf. 33 cm (Ref: Ad 1: Hoffmann 1,497; Brunet 2,464; Ebert 5608; Graesse 2,317. Ad 2: STCV:6667622; Beledimar 1921: Ebert 2098b, who gives as date 1633; Backer-Sommervogel I, 1867, 2, who mentions the date 1636) (Details: Back with 6 raised bands. Ad 1: This collection of 'glossaria' consists of 3 parts, the first two of which have their own title page, each showing a woodcut ornament. The first part contains the Greek-Latin 'glossaria', the second part the Latin-Greek 'glossaria'. The third part, the last 40 p., contain the 'Veteres Glossae verborum juris'. Ad 2: Title in red & black. An engraving of angels around the Jesuit IHS-device on the title. Plantin's printers' mark on the verso of the last leaf) (Condition: Binding very worn & very shabby. Leather on the boards abraded. Head & tail of the back chafed. Shield on the back half gone. Corners bumped. Front hinge cracking, but strong. Fold in the front flyleaf. Margins of the first title are thumbed and browning. A few not objectional wormholes in the upper & lower margin, keeping far away from any text) (Note: Ad 1: Philoxenus Alexandrinus was a grammarian who lived in the first century BC. Traces of his work are to be found in later grammarians and lexicographers. (Neue Pauly, Philoxenus 8) § Cyrillus, 5th century AD. His Glosses were used by Hesychius, Photius and in the Suda. (Neue Pauly, Kyrillos 5 and 6). § Charles Labbé, 1582-1657, was a parliamentary barrister at Paris, who published, with the help of J.J. Scaliger Glosses on Greek law (1607), and prepared an edition, this edition, of the Glossaries of Cyril and Philoxenus, which was published after his death by the French philologist, lexicographer and historian of the Middle Ages and Byzantium, Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, in short Du Cange (1679). (Sandys 2,287) The first part of this work contains Greek-Latin glosses, the second Latin-Greek glosses, followed by emendations. This work was reprinted in London, 1817, etc. as an appendage to the new edition of Stephanus' Greek Thesaurus. Ad 2: Aegidius Bucherius (Gilles Boucher), 1576-1665, was a French Jesuit and chronological scholar. His 'De Doctrina Temporum commentarius in Victorium Aquitanum' of 1633/34 published for the first time a number of important medieval chronological documents, and other works on the computation of the date of Easter (the so-called cycle of Victorius of Aquitaine). First comes the 'Canon Paschalis' of Victorius Aquitanus himself, followed by Bucherius' commentary (p. 1-288), then comes bishop Hippolytus Portuensis' (of Portus, also known as Hippolytus of Rome) 'Canon Paschalis priscorum Latinorum rationibus confirmis', also with the commentary of Bucherius (p. 289-312), then Bucherius' treatise 'Tractatus de antiquo Paschali Iudaeorum cyclo latinorum item conformi, maxime ex Epiphanio' (p.313-432), and the 'editio princeps' of Anatolius Alexandrinus' 'Canon Paschalis' (433-466), and finally the 'Epistolae patrum antiquorum de festi Paschalis ratione' (p. 467-493). § Victorius Aquitanus had written ca. 450 the 'Cursus Paschalis', called 'Canon Paschalis' in this edition, in which he introduced a more precise computation of Easter. During the Synode of Orléans of 541 Victorius' computations were accepted by the church. (LMA 8,1629/30). Bucherius tells us in the 'praefatio' that he got the MS with the 'Cursus Paschalis' from his fellow Jesuit Jacobus Sirmundus during a visit to Paris in 1615. The 'editio princeps' of and the commentary on the 'Cursus Paschalis' and of the other late antique and early medieval computistical texts laid, together with the work of Joseph Justus Scaliger (1579 and 1606) and that of Dionysius Petavius (1627), the foundations of the science of 'Computus', the science of time-reckoning, and of 'Computus ecclesiasticus', the method to regulate the calender of the church, especially the date of Easter) (Collation: Ad 1: pi1; A-2C4; chi1, A-2A4, 2B2, 2C-2H4; a-e4. Ad 2: *- 4*4, A-3R4 (minus blank leaf 3R4)) (Photographs on request) (Heavy book, may require extra shipping costs)

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LACTANTIUS.

Lucii Coelii Lactantii Firmiani Opera, quae extant omnia. Ad fidem codicum tam impressorum quam manu scriptorum recensita.

Cambridge (Cantabrigiae), Ex Officina Johan. Hayes, Celeberrimae Academiae typographi, 1685. 8vo. (LXXX),589,(27 index) p. Modern calf antique style, second half 20th century. 17 cm (Ref: ESTC R2417; Brunet 3,736; Graesse 4,67; Ebert 11612) (Details: Back with three raised bands. Gilt short title in second compartment. Boards with double fillet blind borders, within which is a triple fillet rectangle with corner pieces. The Cambridge University, 'Alma Mater Cantabrigia', woodcut printer's device on the title with the University's motto: 'Hinc lucem et pocula sacra', 'From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge'. Woodcut initials. The tasteful antique style binding was made by 'Period Binders, Bath, England') (Condition: The boards are slightly curved. The title is thumbed and finger soiled. Old inscription on the somewhat soiled front flyleaf) (Note: The Latin Christian author Lactantius was born ca. 250 A.D. in the Roman province Africa, and he died ca. 325 in Gaul. In the Renaissance Lactantius was sometimes called 'Cicero christianus', the christian Cicero. He went to Bithynia in Asia Minor to teach Latin rhetoric. There he was converted to christianity, and after the beginning of the Great Persecution (of the christians) which ravaged ca. 300, he became an eloquent apologist in defence of christianity. In old age he was tutor to Crispus, son of Constantine the Great, the first 'christian' emperor. His earliest surviving work is 'De opificio Dei' (On the craftmanship of God), in which 'he works out with some elaboration the thesis that the human body shows by its admirable structure the existence of a wise and benificient Creator'. (H.J. Rose, A handbook of Latin Literature, Ldn, 1967, p. 482) The 'Institutiones Divinae' (Divine Teachings) is his principal work, which probably occupied him for several years. It consists of 7 books. 'Book 1, 'de falsa religione' is directed against the pagan religion, book 2, 'de origine erroris', treats the machinations of the devil. In book 3, 'de falsa sapientia' Lactantius criticizes Greek and Roman philosophy, the 4th book, 'de vera sapientia et religione' elaborates on the superiority of the christian faith. Book 5, 'de iustitia' discusses justice brought back by Christ and persecuted by the pagans. Book 6, 'de vero cultu' explains the duties of a christian. In book 7, 'de vita beata' the aim of human existence is considered to be immortality and the nearness of God. The 'Institutiones Divinae' 'give a full and eloquent statement of what christian doctrine is, with the incidental result that we get a most interesting and very readable account of what an intelligent christian believed in an age so uncritical that the forged Sibylline oracles were accepted without hesitation as genuine documents'. (op. cit. p. 482) Another theological work, now on a small scale, 'de ira Dei', discusses the question in what sense Anger can be attributed to a perfect Being. Gods Anger is part of his power, and a necessary part of his Grace. 'De mortibus persecutorum' is a work of history about the persecution of christians and Gods revenge upon the deadliest of enemies of the Church. § The editor of this text is an anonymous. In the preface (page A2 recto) he tells that he used for this Cantabrigian edition of 1685 three printed works and 2 manuscripts. He consulted (1) a Basle edition of 1532, printed by Cratander & Bebel, (2) the Plantin edition of 1587 of the Spanish Roman catholic prelate Michael Thomasius, 1529-1578, bishop of Lérida, (3) and the edition of Leiden 1652 which was produced by the Dutch jurist and classical scholar Antony Thys, or in Latin Antonius Thysius, 1603-1665. The editor of this Cambridge edition collated also two manuscripts, the first one from the library of the University is dated 1465 and was produced in the Benedictine monastery of Subiaco, the second manuscript, dated 1424, was held by Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and was lent to him by one of its Fellows. (Preface page A2 verso) The editor further made use, passing over this use without comment, of a Lactantius edition of the English scholar Thomas Spark, which was published one year earlier (1684) in Oxford. He repeats Spark's extensive notes on 'De mortibus persecutorum'. § None of the descriptions of this book we found in bibliographies or libraries mentions the name of the editor. The most recent bibliography consulted, 'Bibliography of Lactantius', compiled by Jackson Bryce. Second revised version, August, 2007, also does not mention him. On the internet we found in the 'Oxford Historical Society Publications', 34, 1898, page 331, a note (the only one), that one Dr. Shorting was the editor. We followed this lead, and gathered the following biographical data: Matthew Shorting D.D. (Doctor of Divinity) was later in life, in 1705, headmaster of Merchant-Taylor's School in London, he died in 1707. In 1678 he was Fellow of Pembroke at Cambridge, and acted as a librarian of the University Library of Cambridge in 1685. He was a patrologist, and in 1683 he published in Cambridge an English translation of the church histories of Eusebius Pamphilus, Socrates Scholasticus and Evagrius Scholasticus, 'The history of the church: from our Lord's incarnation, to the twelfth year of the Emperour Mauricius Tiberius, or the Year of Christ 594'. This scholar, who was librarian in 1685, might have edited this Lactantius, having had the opportunity to collate the Lactantius manuscripts from the 'Celeberrimae Academiae nostrae Bibliotheca publica', (Preface p. A2 recto) and the 'Bibliotheca Collegii Emmanuelensis apud nos Cantabrigenses'. (Ibidem p. A2 verso)) (Collation: A8, a-d8; B-Z8, Aa-Qq8, Rr4) (Photographs on request)

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DIOGENES LAERTIUS.

Diogenis Laertii De vita et moribus philosophorum libri X. Recens ad exemplar Graecum collati, ex eiusque fide cura doctissimorum virorum restituti & emendati. Cum indice nominum ac rerum locupletissimo.

Paris, (Parisiis), Apud Hieronymum de Marnef, sub Pelicano, Monte D. Hilarii, 1560. 12mo. 596,(28 index),(2 epilogue 'Candido Lectori'),(1 woodcut illustration),(1 woodcut printer's mark of De Marnef) p. Later vellum 13 cm - The greatest known source of information about the philosophers of antiquity (Ref: Hoffmann 1,569; Graesse 2,397, erroneously dating 1561) (Details: 2 thongs laced through the joints. Woodcut printer's mark of De Marnef on the title (BaTyR no. 28133), depicting a pelican on his nest, feeding his young with his own blood; the motto is: 'In me mors, in me vita'. On the last page another version of De Marnef's printer's mark (BaTyR no. 2882), now depicting a griffon that holds in its claw a cubic weight to which is attached a winged globe. The cube stands for constancy and the globe for fortune; the motto is: 'Virtutis et gloriae, comes invidia'. Marnef used this version of his mark only at the end of the books he printed; This printer's mark very closely resembles that of the Lyonese printer Sébastien Gryphius, only the motto is different. Greek text and a Latin translation.) (Condition: Vellum somewhat age-toned. Short title in ink on the back. Front flyleaf removed. Stamp on front pastedown and on the title; tiny hole in outer margins of title; 4 tiny holes in last leaf; Binder's error: he bound leaf X7, p. 333/4, probably a cancel, before leaf X3) (Note: This is according to Graesse a repetition of the edition of 'De vita et moribus etc.' edited by Johannes Boulierius (Jean Boulier), Lyon 1556. We compared both works and conclude that Graesse is more or less right. The typesetter of the 1560 edition had most probably the 1556 edition before him. He repeats even the printed marginal remarks and annotations. But there are occasionally minute differences in the Greek text, and sometimes the 1560 edition adds an explanatory marginal remark. In book 7 p. 340, in the life of Zeno Criticus for instance, we found a printed 'varia lectio'. There 1556 has only therizonti, 1560 adds in the margin: '* Forte erizonti contentioso'. In 1556 the number 58 is quintaginta & octo, in 1560 Duodesexaginta. (p. 425 & 342) In the epilogue dated 1560, we read that we have here a text revised and ameliorated with the help of a manuscript 'cuius (quamvis mutili) veritate & fide non pauca restituenda, emendandaque curavit Hieronymus Marnefius Parisiensis Typographus'. (Leaf 2Q7). This activity is confirmed in the 'Extrait du Privilège du Roi', which grants Marnefius the exclusive right to publish this text 'Lequel auroit esté nouvelement reveu, visité, corrigé, additionné & augmenté', for the next six years. (Leaf A1 verso, which is the verso of the title) Immediately after this privilege, and preceding the Latin translation, we find a 3 page letter of Fr. Ambrosius addressed to Cosimo de' Medici. This letter is meant to assure the reader that this 1560 translation is a reliable old, and often printed one, based on the translation that was made by the Italian priest, theologian and Hellenist Ambrogio Traversari, O.S.B. Cam., also known as Ambrosius Traversari, or Ambrosius Camaldulensis, 1386-1439. He worked between 1424 and 1433 on this translation, which came to be widely circulated in manuscript form, and was only published in Rome in 1472. In this dedicatory letter Ambrosius Traversari tells us that he translated the 'Lives of the Philosophers' at the request of Cosimo de' Medici. ('Tibi (.) hoc opus dedicatum fuit, qui & autoritate tua in primis nos ad illud impulisti'. p. 5) The 'Lives of the Philosophers' of the Greek author Diogenes Laertius, who probably lived in the first half of the 3rd cent. A.D., is a compendium full of biographies of the ancient philosophers, from Thales to Epicurus, and their doctrines. Diogenes Laertius drew his material from earlier compilations. His reliability and value differ from passage to passage. Some give invaluable information, other passages offer mere caricature. (OCD 2nd ed. p. 348/49) It 'provides not a systematic analysis, but rather a eulogistic narrative of the course of ancient philosophy (.) of the four main classical schools, the Academy, Peripatetics, Stoics and Epicureans. Anecdotal and perhaps largely apocryphal in nature, still it gave to Renaissance humanists some conception of ancient philosophy, especially of Platonic and Epicurean thought'. (Ch.L. Stinger, 'Humanism and the Church Fathers: Ambrogio Traversari (1386-1439) and Christian antiquity in the Italian Renaissance', Albany 1977, p. 71)) (Provenance: On the front pastedown a green stamp of 'Univ. Doz. Dr. Mag. F.F. Schwarz, Professor. A 8810 Graz, Panoramagasse 2A' with a handwritten date of acquisition '1973'. Franz Ferdinand Schwarz was from 1982 till 1996 professor of classical philology at the University of Graz, where he was born in 1934. He died in his hometown in 2001 after a long illness. (See his wikipedia lemma 'Franz Ferdinand Schwarz') On the title an old almost illegible stamp of the University of Ferrara, showing a tree in its center, and part of the legend 'Università di Ferrara') (Collation: A - 2Q-8) (Photographs on request)

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DIOGENES LAERTIUS.

Diogenis Laertii De vitis, dogmatibus et apophthegmatibus clarorum philosophorum libri decem, graece et latine.

Leipzig (Lipsiae), Impensis Ioannis Pauli Krausii, Bibliop. Viennens., 1759. (Colophon at the end: 'Lipsiae, Ex officina I.G.I. Breitkopfii'). 8vo. (XIV),756 (recte 736),(94 index) p. Contemporary calf. 19.5 cm The greatest known source of information about the philosophers of antiquity (Ref: VD18 10213392-008; Hoffmann 1,566; Dibdin 1,504; Moss 1,400/01; Brunet 2,720; Graesse 2,396; Ebert 6177) (Details: Printed in 2 colums, Greek text with facing Latin translation) (Condition: Binding scuffed & chafed, especially at the extremes. Back & boards rubbed. Paper foxing, yellowing and occasionally browning. Right upper corner of the last 80 p. is slightly waterstained. Some small and old ink annotations and underlinings) (Note: The 'Lives and Doctrines of the Philosophers' of the Greek author Diogenes Laertius, who lived probably in the first half of the third century A.D., is still 'our best indirect source of knowledge for classical philosophy'. The 'Lives' comprises both a biographical and a doxographical account, basically focused on Greek thinkers from the 6th to the 3rd century B.C. (from Thales to Epicurus), although references to schools and individuals extend to at least the 2nd century A.D.' (The Classical Tradition, Cambr. Mass. 2010, p. 271) Diogenes Laertius drew his material from earlier compilations, and his doxographic account offers long excerpts from primary texts not transmitted elsewhere, for example Epicurus' 'Principal Doctrines'. Diogenes' reliability and value differ from passage to passage. Some give invaluable information, other passages offer mere caricature. His approach is not a 'systematic analysis, but rather a eulogistic narrative of the course of ancient philosophy, and of the four main classical schools, the Academy, Peripatetics, Stoics and Epicureans. Anecdotal and perhaps largely apocryphal in nature, still it gave to Renaissance humanists, like Leonardo Bruni, Machiavelli, Erasmus et alii, some conception of ancient philosophy, especially of Platonic and Epicurean thought.' (Ch.L. Stinger, 'Humanism and the Church Fathers: Ambrogio Traversari (1386-1439) and Christian antiquity in the Italian Renaissance', Albany 1977, p. 71) § The 'editio princeps' was published in Basel in 1533. The Latin translation was published much earlier in Rome in 1472. This translation was later revised several times and appears also in this book. It was made by the Italian Hellenist Ambrogio Traversari, also known as Ambrosius Traversari, 1386-1439. Our 1759 edition is a reissue of the edition of 1731 of Longolius, which in turn was a revision of the 1692 edition, which was produced by the Danish philologist Marcus Meibom, or Marcus Meibomius. The edition of 1731 was produced by the German philologist and historian Paulus Daniel Longolius, 1704-1779, from 1735 till his death Rector of the Gymnasium in Hof. He wrote on local history and was an editor of Zedler's Universallexikon. He also published three texts of classical authors: 'Plinii epistolae' (Amsterdam 1734), this Diogenes edition (Curiae, i.e. Hof, Saale, 1739), and a Gellius edition (Curiae, 1741). (ADB 19, 156/57) The 1731 edition contained, besides the Greek text and Latin translation, a preface, commentaries and engraved portraits. Because this edition was out of print, and there was much demand for it, the publisher Paulus Krausius decided to produce this Leipsic edition of 1759, which is in fact a reissue of the 1731 edition of Longolius, omitting however the portraits, the preface and the commentaries, and offering the Greek text, the Latin translation, and 94 pages of indexes. (Praefatio leaf *5 verso and *6 recto) (Provenance: on the front flyleaf in pencil 'RtK', this is Rijkel ten Kate 1918-2008. He taught classics at the Willem Lodewijk Gymnasium in Groningen. In 1955 he wrote his dissertation: ’Quomodo heroes in Statii Thebaide describantur quaeritur’, on the Thebaid of the Roman poet Statius) (Collation: *8 (minus blank leaf *8), A-3F8 (minus blank leaf 3F8); the pagination jumps between the gatherings 2Y and 2Z from 721 to 741, the catchword on leaf 2Y4 verso is correct)) (Photographs on request)

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LAMPADIUS,J.

Tractatus de Constitutione Imperii Romano-Germanici, auctore Iacobo Lampadio I.C. (Accessit eiusdem Discursus de Natura nummi, & interpretatio L. 2. C. 'de usucap. pro Hered'. Item Iacobi Augusti Thuani Germaniae descriptio ex eius lib. 2 Histor.)

Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Ex officina Ioannis Maire, 1634. 24mo. 380 p., engraved title. Overlapping vellum 11 cm (Ref: Breugelmans p. 364, 1634:4) (Details: 2 thongs laced through the joints. Short title in ink on the back. The engraved title depitcts the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire on his throne, with his regalia. The lower part of the title is adorned by 7 coats of arms of German states) (Condition: Vellum age-tanned. Ink stain on the back. Small inscription on recto of front flyleaf. Upper margin of the title slightly stained, and showing an old ownership entry. A small stamp on the lower margin of the recto side of the second leaf. Four new brown ribbons attached to the covers) (Note: The German diplomat and jurist Jacobus Lampadius (Jakob Lampe), 1593-1649, conducted a lively correspondence with Conring, Althusius, Grotius, Georg Calixt et alii. His theory of constitutional law, which contributed to the further development of the prevailing dualism in the Holy Roman Empire into a system of federate states in accordance with a shared sovereignty between the Emperor and the German lands, has become, with adaptions to the peace of Westphalia of 1648, which ended the thirty years' war in Germany, made by Conring and later by Kulpis, a widely read standard work on the constitutional relations in Germany during the second half of the 17th century. It was first published in 1621 as 'Dissertatio de jurisdictione in Imperio nostro Romano-Germanico'. H. Conring (Conringius) produced in 1630 an augmented and revised edition under the title of 'De constitutione reipublicae Romano-Germanicae'. The Leiden publisher Maire brought Conring's edition on the market as 'Tractatus de Constitutione Imperii Romano-Germanici'. (NDB 13, 454/56)) (Provenance: On the front flyleaf: 'C. desars, 1654'. This name is repeated in smaller type on the title. On the verso of the title in faint ink: 'Ex libris Jacobs'. On the recto of leaf A2 a small stamp: 'Albert Conrot, Luxembourg'. On the internet we found one Albert Conrot, 'industriel à Luxembourg', corresponding member of the 'Institut Archéologique de Luxembourg'. He died in 1904) (Collation: A-2A8 (minus the blank leaves 2A7 & 2A8) (Photographs on request)

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LAMPREDI,G.M.

Saggio sopra la filosofia degli antichi Etruschi. Dissertazione istorico-critica di Gio. Maria Lampredi.

Firenze, Appresso Andrea Bonducci, con licenza de Superiori, 1756. 4to. 83,(1 blank) p. Old plain grey paper wrapper. 24 cm (Ref: ) (Details: Title printed in red & black. Engraved coat of arms of the cavaliere Gaetano Antinori, the dedicatee, on the title. Uncut and with broad margins) (Condition: Title spotted and yellowing; a small paper repair in the upper margin of the second leaf) (Note: Etruscomania, or 'etruscheria' was an 18th century cultural movement. An obsessive curiosity about the origins, language, art, and customs of the Etruscans swept all over Europe, especially Italy, at the beginning of that century. It exploded with the publication of 'De Etruria Regali Libri Septem', 'Seven Books about Royal Etruria', of the Scottish historian Thomas Dempster, 1579-1625. It was the first detailed study of every aspect of Etruscan civilisation, and was first published one century after his death in Florence in 1723/24. The 'Accademia Etrusca', was then established at Cortona in 1726. This Academy produced papers and reports on Etruscan culture, religion, architecture, antiquities, and their language. One of the leading exponents of this etruscomania was the Italian scholar of Florentine origin Giovanni Maria Lampredi, 1731-1793. His 'Saggio sopra la filosofia degli antichi Etruschi' is considered an important contribution to Etruscology. (See Italian version of Wikipedia 'Etruscologia') The treatise is about the natural theology, cosmogony, botany, medicin, politics of the Etruscans. There even is a section on 'keraunoskopia', the Etruscan theory of thunder. Lampredi argued that the Etruscans had an 'emanative system' for the cosmos tied to Pythagoreanism and Stoicism. Lampredi dedicated this work to the Head of the 'Accademia Etrusca di Cortona', Gaetano Antinori. The erudite fervor of the 'etruscheria' came to an end thanks to the work of the German scholars Winckelmann, and Karl Otfried Müller. The 20th century Italian ancient historian Arnaldo Momigliano, who was also an important historian of ancient historiography, wrote that the Etruscan frenzy was for a century a disintegrating force in Italy, a real illness of Italian culture, because it got bogged down in a one-sided, patriotic and uncritical position of a parochial type on the history of civilization, Rome, Etruscans and Italy. It's positive side-effects were the foundation of collections, musea, and it broadened the view concerning the history of ancient Italy, and the art and archaeology of the pre-roman peoples) (Collation: A-I4, K6 (leaf K6 verso blank)) (Photographs on request)

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ANTHOLOGIA LATINA.-

Epigrammata et poematia vetera. Quorum pleraque nunc primum ex antiquis codicibus & lapidibus, alia sparsim antehac errantia, iam undecunque collecta emendatiora eduntur.

Paris (Parisiis), Apud Nicolaum Gillium, sub trium Coronarum signo, 1590. (Colophon at the end: Parisiis, Excudebat Dionysius Duvallius typographus, 1589, mense Septembri). 12mo. (VIII),191,(1 blank); 491,(1 blank) p. Calf 13 cm. The first edition which bears any resemblance to what is now the Anthologia Latina (Ref: Schweiger 2,6 (under Anthologia Latina); Graesse 2,486; Ebert 6804: 'very scarce and interesting'; Brunet 2,1017: 'recherché et assez rare') (Details: Back gilt elaborately, and with 5 raised bands. Red morocco shield in the second compartment. Woodcut printer's mark on title, depicting within a wreath a scepter and three crowns, the motto is hic labor. Edges dyed red. At the end, between 2K and 2L, a gathering has been inserted with signature 2K7-2K14, adding a panegyric of Porphyrius, a letter of Porphyrius to the emperor Constantine, a letter from Constantine to Porphyrius, and 'Phoenix incerti auctoris', from a codex owned by the French scholar and collector of manuscripts Franciscus Iuretus, or in French François Juret) (Condition: Wear to the extremities of the binding. Front joint slightly cracking, corners grazed. Some faint foxing. Small ownership inscription in ink on the verso of the first flyleaf) (Note: In 1590 the French scholar and jurist Pierre Pithou, latinized as Petrus Pithoeus, 1539-1596, published this Epigrammata et poematia vetera, which includes much material from the Codex Thuaneus, (B). Many epigrams and poems were published here for the first time. Pithou's edition is the first which bears any resemblance to what is now called the Anthologia Latina, an anthology or libellus of epigrams compiled around 500 A.D., probably in Vandal North Africa. There are four main manuscripts which form the basis of what is known as the Anthologia Latina. One of them, now indicated as B (Paris lat. 8071), was written in central France in the ninth century, and was once owned by Jacques de Thou, whence its usual name of the Codex Thuaneus. It was used by Pithou for this present 1590 edition. The existence of the most important manuscript for the Anthologia Latina, the Codex Salmasianus, was unknown in Pithou's time. The term Anthologia Latina is a 'modern designation, and derives from P. Burman the Younger's edition and specially his treatise which preceded it, the Specimen novae editionis Anthologiae Latinae. These works were published in Amsterdam between 1747 and 1773 (.)'. Anthologia Latina was then the title Alexander Riese gave to his two-volume Teubner edition of 1869/70'. (Epigrams from the Anthologia Latina: Text, Translation and Commentary (by) N.M. Kay, London 2006. p. 20) Pithou arranged his selection in four books, Ad sacra et mores pertinent, Elegia, Epitaphia and Miscellanea et amissa. 'His anthology nicely illustrates the major dilemma which (.) forces itself upon editors of this corpus (.) namely that of arrangement: confronted with diverse types of poetry originating from different mss., written by different authors (often anonymous) at different dates, should an editor try to impose order by subject matter (as Pithou chose), by date of composition, by author, by manuscript, or in some other way?' (Idem, p. 21) The edition of Pithou was reissued in 1596 (Lyon) and 1619 (Geneva). § Pithou, who owned a fine library, including an important collection of manuscripts, furthermore 'produced the first important text of Juvenal and Persius (1585) (.) and the editio princeps of Phaedrus (1596), the Pervigilium Veneris (1577), Salvianus (1580), and the Edict of Theodoric (1579) (.) He narrowly escaped death in the massacre of St. Bartholomew (1572) and became a Catholic in the following year'. (Sandys, 2,192)) (Provenance: Inscription on the verso of the front flyleaf: 'Précieux recueil pub. par Pithou. Je l'ai trouvé le 29 fevrier 1840, rare et précieux. Voyez La Biblioth. de Colomies ed. de 1731, p. 265, et le Dict. bibliogr. de Brunet'. Alas, no name) (Collation: *4; A-H12 (leaf H12 verso blank); 2A-2T12, 2V6. 2X12 (leaf 2X12 verso blank) (Between 2K and 2L a gathering has been inserted bearing the signature 2K7-2K14)) (Photographs on request)

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LATOMUS,J.

Corsendonca, sive Coenobii canonicorum regularium Ordinis S. Augustini de Corsendoncq, origo et progressus, auctore Ioanne Latomo, Throni Mariani iuxta Herentaliam Coenobiarcha. Ioannes Hoybergius S.T.B.F. Prior Corsendoncanus nunc primum edidit, continuavit & notationibus illustravit. Quibus non solum multa quae ad Brabantiae Historiam pertinent, sed & variorum Coenobiorum origines e tenebris eruuntur.

Antwerp (Antverpiae), Apud Hieronymum Verdussium, 1644. 8vo. (XVI),180,(28 index) p. Calf. 15 cm (Ref: Beledimar 962; In STCV; NNBW 2,787/88) (Details: Back gilt and with 5 raised bands. Morocco shield in the second compartment. Edges of the boards gilt. Marbled endpapers) (Condition: Binding slightly worn, especially at the extremes. Trace of a bookplate on the front pastedown) (Note: Johannes Latomus (Bergizomius) was born in the Dutch city Bergen op Zoom in 1520, he died in Antwerp in 1578 in the 'Falconsklooster'. He was a son of Jacob Steenhauwers and Margaretha Vordeels, and made his profession in the Augustine monastery 'Marientroon' near Grobbendonk in the region of Herenthals, was appointed abbot (Coenobiarcha) of the priory of Corsendonk in 1551. He not only was a wise and amiable man, and a prudent administrator, but he was also considered an excellent poet, a conscientious historian and a great scholar. He saved the autograph of the 'Imitatio Christi' of Thomas a Kempis from oblivion. His best known work 'Corsendonca' describes the history of the former Augustine priory of Corsendonk, south of Turnhout. (NNBW 2,787/88) The priory was part of the chapter of Windesheim, and was founded in 1395 by Maria of Gelre, also known as Maria of Brabant, daughter of Duke Jan III of Brabant. The monastery was closed down by the emperor Joseph II in 1785; the closing became definitive in 1795. (See Wikipedia 'Corsendonk (Priorij) The history of Corsendonk, continued after Latomus' death by prior Hoybergius till 1642, fills the first 38 pages of the book. The rest consists of Hoybergius' notes. The priory was in the 17th and 18th century known for its scriptorium and Latin tuition. § Johannes Latomus was also an excellent Neolatin poet. Hofman Peerlkamp praises his poetry for its elegance: 'Carmina certe, quibus Elogia Joviani ornavit, elegantia, amoenitate, et acumine plerumque excellunt. Nec deest nitor et facilitas orationis'. (Hofman Peerlkamp, 'Liber de vita doctrina et facultate Nederlandicorum qui carmina latina composuerunt', Haarlem 1888, p. 118/19) § The 'Corsendonca' of Johannes Latomus Bergizomius is in ADB (Algemeine Deutsch Biographie, vol.18, p. 4) erroneously attributed to his namesake and contemporary, the German historian and theologian Johannes Latomus, 1524-1600, deacon of the Frankfurter 'Chorherrenstift St. Bartholomäi'. He wrote about the history of Frankfurt) (Provenance: On the front flyleaf: 'L. Mostelmans') (Collation: *8, A-N8) (Photographs on request)

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LAUREMBERG, P.

Het hernieuwde en verbeterde Acerra Philologica van P. Lauremberg. Dat is: zes honderd nutte en gedenkwaardige geschiedenissen, als ook zeer vermakelyke reden-kavelingen. Tot nut der lees-gierige jeugd, en een noodzakelyk onderwys tot bevordering der geleerdheid. Uit de beroemste zo Grieksche als Latynsche geschigtschryvers by een gesteld, en nu in beter order geschikt en uitgegeven door Joh. Hajenius S.S. Th.C.

Amsterdam, By Nicolaas ten Hoorn, 1701. 8vo. (XII),778 (recte 772),(28) p. Contemporary vellum 18 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 180126784; cf. Graesse 4,122) (Details: A frontispiece, designed by I. Goeree and executed by C. Huibertz, depicting some mythological figures. Woodcut printer's mark on the title, depicting a pedestal loaded with all kinds of symbols of the arts and sciences) (Condition: Vellum soiled, front joint partly split. Paper yellowing) (Note: 'Medieval education drew heavily from classical authors, for pagan learning was necessary for understanding the Scripture. The focus often was on memorizing sententiae and offering exempla and anecdotes that exemplified virtues.' (The Classical Tradition, Cambr. Mass. 2010, p. 294) Formal education in the classical tradition unfolded in the 16th/18th century 'on three levels. Instruction began in the elementary school, where boys at the age of 6 or 7 began to study reading, writing, arithmetic, and basic Christian doctrine. Latin was supposed to predominate, although the vernacular regularly crept in. Students remained here for 3 or 4 years, after which most quit to become servants, day laborers, or agricultural workers. The others went to the secondary school, whose curriculum was based on Latin grammar and the humanistic doctrines, (.) With this Latin base, students could proceed to a university'. (Op. cit. 295/95) § A widely read and popular schoolbook for the secondary school in Germany and The Netherlands of that period was this 'Acerra Philologica'. An 'acerra' is an incense box, and this 'treasure box' contained a great variety of useful, funny, memorable and moralizing stories from ancient authorities. The German scholar Petrus Lauremberg is the excerptor of this encyclopedic collection of morally educating short stories. § Peter Lauremberg, born in 1585, was since 1614 'Professor der Physik und Mathematik' at the newly established academic Gymnasium at Hamburg. In 1624 he went to Rostock to lecture as 'Professor der Poesie'. He died there in 1639. He wrote a great number of small works on medicin, mathematics, astronomy, but also on music, and rhetoric. (Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 18,59) His 'Acerra Philologica' was first published in Rostock in 1635, and it started with 200 stories. It was a great commercial and educational success, for dozens of editions appeared until deep into the 18th century. The work gradually was expanded to 300 (1640), 400 (1646), 500 (1658), 600 (1658), and finally 700 (1688). § The 'Acerra' was translated into Dutch in the 17th century by J.L. Blasius, and published in 1661 & 1682. In 1701 the Rector of the 'Schola Latina' at Nijmegen, Johannes Hajenius published a new, augmented and revised Dutch translation. It was repeated in 1717, 1734 and 1756. The 'exempla' and 'anecdotes' are concluded by 'Sententiae', where Hajenius packages the morale in a few catchy, sometimes rhyming, phrases. In the preface Hajenius does not use the metaphor of the incense box, he rather wants to present a tasty and appetizing meal, from which every one could take what he fancied. Hajenius published the collection not only for schoolboys, he says, but also for the illiterate, i.e. those who cannot read Latin. In this way they could learn in one hour a day, what a student learned on the university in many a year. Without knowledge of literature and history one could be considered to be an educated person. (p. *1 recto & verso of the preface) So the aim of this collections was also to spread a body of classical thought among the less educated, those who didnot visit or finish the 'Schola Latina'. Hajenius also inserted a chapter on tabacco. (No. 72) This is a funny chapter for more than one reason. It is not only anchronistic, but every educated Dutchman of a certain age associates the name Hajenius with the famous tobacco shop of P.G.C. Hajenius, 'the old master' of Dutch cigar stores since 1826. Since 1914, the store has been housed in a fine Art Déco building on the Amsterdam Rokin) (Collation: *6 (irregularly signed), A-3D8 (some irregular pagination)) (Photographs on request)

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LHOMOND,Ch.F.

Élémens de la grammaire latine, à l'usage des colléges. Par Lhomond, professeur émérite en la ci-devant Université de Paris. 16e édition.

Paris, De l'Imprimerie de J.-P. Jacob, à la librairie Économique, rue de la Harpe, ancien Collége d'Harcourt, no. 94, 1807. 12mo. 216,4 p. Vellum over boards. 17 cm (Details: The binder has covered the boards of this book with two strips of vellum of an old contract, or charter. The handwriting on it is cursive and illegible for a layman, but 6 signatures are clearly visible, 2 first names are legible, of one 'Charles' and 'Jacques') (Condition: After the titlepage, and before the beginning of the first chapter, 4 pages are missing. Probably a praefatio, or perhaps the 4 pages which have been bound at the end of the book. These 4 pages contain a stocklist of the titles available at the 'Librarie économique'. Vellum soiled. Well read. On some pages marginal numbers in pencil. Paper yellowing) (Note: Numerous editions of this Latin grammar were published in France during the 19th century. The 'abbé' Charles-François Lhomond, 1727-1794, was 20 years 'régent de sixième' at the College of Cardinal Lemoine. After his retirement he dedicated himself to the writing of schoolbooks. His 'Élémens de la grammaire latine' was first published in 1780. Since 1789 he is one of the most reprinted and revised school authors in France. There are 166 (plus one more at least) editions of his Latin works. (A. Chopin, 'Les manuels scolaires en France de 1789 à nos jours, 3: Les manuels de latin', Paris, 1988) We found no copy of this 1807 edition in Chopin, nor did we find one in KVK (Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog). So this schoolbook must be rare) (Photographs on request)

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ANTONINUS LIBERALIS.

ANTÔNINOU LIBERALIS METAMORPHÔSEÔN SUNAGÔGÊ. Antonini Liberalis transformationum congeries, interprete Guilielmo Xylandro. Cum Thomae Munckeri notis, quibus suas adjecit Henricus Verheyk.

Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Apud Sam. et Joan. Luchtmans, 1774. 8vo. XXXII,304,(19 index),(1 blank) p. Vellum 21 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 238037584; Hoffmann 193: 'Am Ende befindet sich ein bedeutender Excurs: De dialectis in Antonino Liberal. obviis'; Ebert 752; Graesse 1,154; Brunet 1,330: 'cette édition était la meilleure avant celle de 1832'; Spoelder, p. 490: Amsterdam 9) (Details: Greek text, with facing Latin translation. Prize copy, including the printed prize for Janus Fredericus van Beeck Calkoen. 6 thongs laced through joints. Backstrip panelled in gilt with repeated floral motives. Gilt borders and cornerpieces. Gilt coat of arms of Amsterdam in centre of the boards. Still having 3 green ties, the 4th tie is broken but still there. Engraved printer's mark on title: 'Tuta sub Aegide Pallas') (Condition: Vellum soiled, vellum on the upper board slighty wrinkled and damaged. Paper foxed and somewhat warped. At the end are some small stains in the gutter) (Note: Antoninus Liberalis was an ancient Greek grammarian/ mythographer, probably of Antonine times (AD 100 and 200). His only surviving work, the 'Metamorphoseon synagoge' (collection of metamorphoses) survives in a single manuscript of the later ninth century, now in the Palatine Library in Heidelberg; it contains 41 briefly summarised tales about mythical metamorphoses effected by offended deities, unique in that they are couched in prose, not verse. Many of the transformations in this compilation are found nowhere else, and some may simply be inventions of Antoninus. The manner of the narrative is a laconic and conversational prose. (Source Wikipedia). § The German philologist Wilhelm Xylander (Holzmann), 1532-1576, was professor of Greek at Heidelberg. He published the editio princeps of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (1558), and of Antoninus Liberalis in 1568. 'He made good use of the MSS accessible to him, and also gave proof of a singular acumen in the emendation of texts'. (Sandys 2,270). § The Dutch schoolmaster Thomas Muncker, or Munckerus, who was Rector of the 'Schola Latina' of Delft from 1667 till 1680, produced an edition with his notes in 1676. Saxe called him 'cathedra Academica dignissimus'. (Van der Aa, 12/2, 1148) He is best known for his edition of the 'Mythographi Latini', Amst. 1681. Johan Hendrik Verheyk, (Verheijk), Dutch schoolmaster, 1725-1784. He was Rector in Amsterdam. (Eckstein 589). He also produced a nice edition of Eutropius in 1762) (Provenance: The printed prize is for Janus Fredericus van Beeck Calkoen, dated 19 sept. 1783, and signed by the Rector F. Eckolt. Janus Fredericus, or better Jan Frederik van Beeck Calkoen, was born in 1772. He was appointed in 1805 professor of Mathematics & Astronomy at the University of Utrecht, and director of the local Observatory. His health was bad, and he died prematurely in 1811. (NNBW 9, 123/4)) (Collation: *-2*8, A-V8, X2 (leaf X2 verso blank))(Photographs on request)

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LIPSIUS,J.

Iusti Lipsii De constantia libri duo. Qui alloquium praecipue continent in publicis malis. Quinta editio, melior & notis auctior.

Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Ex officina Plantiniana, apud Franciscum Raphelengium, 1591. 8vo. (XVI),119,(8),(1 blank) p. 18th century boards. 16 cm. 'Lipsius' De Constantia (1584) was a perfect answer to the sorrows of his time'. (Ref: STCN ppn 114587760; USTC 423043; cf. Brunet 3,1093; cf. Graesse 4,220) (Details: Plantin's woodcut printer's device on the title. The preliminaries contain a dedication to the council of Antwerp, and a laudatory poem by Janus Dousa on Lipsius. The last leaf of the preliminary pages is a cancel; on the verso of this cancel is a poem in Greek by B. Vulcanius. The index at the end is preceded by a one page prayer by Lipsius to thank God for the recovery of a long illness when he was 32) (Condition: Binding worn, especially on the extremes. Head of the spine chafed. Back superficially damaged. 2 old ownership entries on the title. Title soiled. Paper yellowing, some foxing) (Note: Justus Lipsius, 1547-1606, the greatest Latin scholar of his time in the Netherlands, came in 1579 to the recently founded University of Leiden (1575) to teach Latin. He resided there with great distinction as honorary Professor of History from 1579 till 1591. These were the years of his greatest productivity. It was during this time that he prepared his Seneca, and perfected, in successive editions, his Tacitus, and brought out a series of other works. Some were pure scholarship, some were collections from classical authors, and others were of general interest. Lipsius' greatest strength lay in textual criticism and exegesis. 'His masterpiece in this respect was his Tacitus, of which 2 editions appeared in his life-time.' (J.E. Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship, N.Y., 1964, vol. 2, p. 303). Lipsius edited only Latin prose writers. § Lipsius wrote a number of works which were to revive the philosophy of ancient Stoicism in a form that was acceptable to Christianity. The earliest and most famous of these is De Constantia in publicis malis (On constancy in times of public calamity), first published Leiden/Antwerpen 1584. Twenty years later (1604) Lipsius returned to this subject in a manual Manuductio ad Stoicam Philosophiam. His form of Stoicism created the intellectual movement of Neostoicism, and had a direct influence on many contemporary, seventeenth and eighteenth-century authors, among whom Montesquieu, Bossuet and Francis Bacon. § Lipsius published his De Constantia in the first decades of the Eighty Year's War, 1568-1648, the Dutch war of independence, a bloody political and religious rebellion of the United Provinces of the Netherlands against the king of Spain Philip II, the sovereign of The Netherlands. After 1591, the year of this 5th edition, Lipsius ate his words, and sided with the Spaniards. King Philip nominated him even Historiographus Regius. In the ultima edition of 1599 Lipsius suppressed in a chapter in the second book (II,7) some lines directed against the Spanish warlord the duke of Alva. § De Constantia is a fictional dialogue, and describes a two day meeting held in June 1571 between Lipsius and his host Karel de Langhe, latinized as Carolus Langius, canon of the Saint-Lambert cathedral. Lipsius tells in the beginning of the dialogue that he is on the run for the turmoil in war-stricken Flanders (fugiens patriae meae (Leuven) turbas). Langius explains Lipsius that the unrest caused by war is a 'morbus animi', and that a sick soul, (caput 2) can only be cured by wisdom. (remedia a Sapientia & Constantia petendum, page 5) Constantia is defined as 'rectum et immotum animi robur, non elati externis, aut fortuitis, non depressi'. (p. 8) One should follow the Recta Ratio, which leads to Constantia and avoid Opinio, which leads to Levitas. (caput 5) § De Constantia had a great impact. Hear what David Chytraeus, a professor at Rostock, advised his students: 'Kauffets ihr Studenten und lesets, dann in tausent Jahren ist dergleichen Buch in Philosophicis nicht geschrieben oder gesehen worden'. (A.M. van de Bilt, Lipsius' De constantia en Seneca, Nijmegen/Utrecht 1946, p. 40) Later scholars were less enthousiast, and spoke of the work as a series of commonplaces and derivations from Seneca and Epictetus. Others praised Lipsius' endeavour to reach a compromise between Stoic philosophy and Christian faith. De Constantia went between 1584 and 1700 through more than 50 editions, published in 22 cities in West and Central Europe, and was translated into Dutch, French, German, English, Spanish, Italian and Polish) (Provenance: Provenance Quedlinburg. On the title: 'Ex libris Sethi Cal/ visii Qued. Sax. 1658'. This is Sethus Calvisius (Kallwitz), born Leipzig 1596, died Quedlinburg 1663. He was an evangelical theologist, from 1637 'Oberpfarrer an der Nikolaikirche in Quedlinburg'. (See Pfarrerbuch der Kirchenprovinz Sachsen, Bd. 2 (2004), p. 152) § The second owner's inscription: 'H.M.A. Cramer . Q. 1767 et .' This is Heinrich Matthias August Cramer, 1745-1801, pastor in Quedlinburg, who translated a book on the New Testament into German (Halle 1776), and is the author of several theological works. Q. of course stands for Quedlinburg. He might have found inspiration in 'De Constantia' for his book 'Unterhaltungen zur Befördering der häuslichen Glückseligkeit', (Dessau 1782)) § (Collation: *8, A-H8 (leaf H8 verso blank)) (Photographs on request)

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