ARNOBIUS.

Arnobii Disputationum adversus gentes libri septem, recogniti & aucti. Ex bibliotheca Theodori Canteri Ultraiectini, cuius etiam notae adiectae sunt.

Antwerpen (Antverpiae), Ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1582. 8vo. 285,(1 errata, & 2 blank) p. Tasteful modern half calf. 18 cm (Ref: Belg. Typ. 172; STC Dutch p. 14; Adams A1996; Voet 596 variant A; Sorgeloos 113; Dibdin 1,215: 'An excellent edition, in which the modesty and learning of its editor are successfully opposed to the rashness of his predecessor Gelenius' (in his edition of 1546); Ebert 1219; not in Brunet) (Details: Woodcut printer's device on the title. Red morocco letterpiece on the back. The binder used a broad strip of vellum as spine lining; this strip was probably cut from an old manuscript contract) (Condition: Name on the title. Very small tear near the right lower corner of the title. Occasional old ink underlinings on ca. 70 pages. Right margin of the last 60 pages slightly waterstained, the last gathering however more so) (Note: Arnobius, a teacher of rhetoric at Sicca Veneria in Numidia, 'was suddenly converted to Christianity (ca. A.D. 295) and a year or two later, at the instance of his bishop, he wrote seven books 'Adversus Nationes', 'Against the Pagans'. 'His work throws light on the Christian-pagan debate immediately before the Great Persecution, while the venom of his attack on traditional Roman paganism shows that this was by no means dead'. (OCD 2nd edition p. 122) His style is easy-flowing. Arnobius makes little use of the New, and none of the Old Testament. His view of God is platonic. The unintended side effect of the efforts of Arnobius and other Church Fathers to ridicule or crush paganism, was that their writings form an archive which preserves knowledge and practices of polytheism in the years of its decline in late antiquity. § Just as the early christians bolstered their piety by contrasting it with the demonic foulness of pagan religion, so the protestants of the 16th century used their knowledge of pagan idolatry to scourge their catholic adversaries. Critics of Catholicism, like Calvin, compared catholic mass e.g. with the bloody rituals of the pagans, and used the sacrifices of the ancients to score theological points against their opponents. 'Protestants detected in the Catholic cult of images, the pagan idols so well described by late antique critics like Arnobius'. (The Classical Tradition, Cambr. Mass., 2010, p. 678, s.v. Paganism) The work of Arnobius was first published in Rome in 1542 (although the preface is dated 1543). Other editions followed in 1546, 1560 and 1580. Our edition of 1582 was produced by the Dutch scholar Theodorus Canterus (Dirk Canter), 1545-1617. He followed the edition of Gelenius of 1546, who sometimes rewrote the text 'ope ingenii' to make difficult passages intelligible. Canterus inserts some modifications of his own, and returns for readings to the 'editio princeps' of 1542, edited by Faustus Sabaeus. This was a wise policy and a sensible thing to do. Canter's textual and exegetical notes appear as endnotes. (See for Canter and his Arnobius edition 'History of Scholarship: A Selection of Papers from the Seminar on the History of Scholarship Held Annually at the Warburg Institute', edited by Christopher Ligota, Jean-Louis Quantin. Oxford University Press, 2006, page 97-100). § The history of classical philology saw strange creatures, and Dirk Canter sure was one. He was the brother of the great classical scholar Willem Canter, studied classics in Paris under Lambinus, but was the rest of his life primarily a political and religious adventurer in his hometown, the city of Utrecht. He was there mayor, political agitator, religious opportunist and extremist, a conspirator to overthrow the government of the city to seize power. He was banished in 1611. Still he managed to find time to produce this excellent scholarly edition and other philological work, such as 'Variarum lectionum libri duo', Antwerp 1574) (NNBW 1,558) (Provenance: the signature on the first and last page is probably of a member of the Soissy family, originating from the Champagne) (Collation: A-S8 (leaf S8 blank) (Photographs on request)

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ARNOBIUS.- MEURSIUS,J.

Ioannis Meursii Criticus Arnobianus tributus in libros septem. Item Hypocriticus Minutianus, & Excerpta MS. Regii Parisiensis. Editio altera, & melior.

Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Ex officina Ludovici Elzevirii, 1599. 8vo. (XX),167,(23)(1 blank) Vellum 16 cm (Ref: Dibdin 1,215: 'an indispensable work to peruse, for those who are curious in the learning of the author'; Willems 44; Rahir 26; Berghman 1283; Schoenemann 1,166/67) (Details: 5 thongs laced through both joints; colophon at the end: 'Lugduni Batavorum, Excudebat Ioannes Balduini. Anno 1599, mense Julio') (Condition: Short title in ink on the back; vellum somewhat soiled; 2 hardly noticeable pinpoint wormholes in the first 6 leaves; some foxing; name on front flyleaf erased, leaving a small hole) (Note: Arnobius, a teacher of rhetoric at Sicca Veneria in Numidia 'was suddenly converted to Christianity (ca. A.D. 295) and a year or 2 later, at the instance of his bishop, wrote seven books 'Adversus Nationes', Against the Pagans. His work throws light on the Christian-pagan debate immediately before the Great Persecution, while the venom of his attack on traditional Roman paganism shows that this was by no means dead'. (OCD 2nd edition p. 122) His style is easy-flowing. Arnobius makes little use of the New, and none of the Old Testament. His view of God is platonic. The unintended side effect of the efforts Arnobius and other Church Fathers to ridicule or crush paganism, was that their writings form an archive which preserves knowledge and practices of polytheism in the years of its decline in late antiquity. Just as the early christians bolstered their piety by contrasting it with the demonic foulness of pagan religion, so the protestants of the 16th century used their knowledge of pagan idolatry to scourge their catholic adversaries. Critics of Catholicism, like Calvin, compared catholic mass e.g. with the bloody rituals of the pagans, and used the sacrifices of the ancients to score theological points against their opponents. 'Protestants detected in the Catholic cult of images, the pagan idols so well described by late antique critics like Arnobius'. (The Classical Tradition, Cambr. Mass., 2010, p. 678, s.v. Paganism) The work of Arnobius was first published in Rome in1542 (although the preface is dated 1543), containing as Book Eight the 'Octavius' of Minucius Felix. Other editions followed in 1546, 1560, 1580, 1582, 1583 & 1586. Joannes Meursius, or in Dutch 'Jan de Meurs', 1579-1639, was only 19 years old when he published the first edition of this celebrated 'Criticus Arnobianus' in Leyden in 1598. He studied under the genius J.J. Scaliger, who helped him to publish it. It was a work of philology and not of theology, and it enjoyed a mixed reception. Schoeneman observes that the book showed indeed the 'acumen' of the author's genius, but that it is more on others classical authors than on Arnobius and Minucius Felix. Meursius offers for the greater part animadversions, critical notes, conjectures and emendations. He did not consult manuscripts, but used his 'ingenium'. The next year, 1599, Elsevier published this second improved edition of the 'Criticus Arnobianus'. It was not 'augmented', as is usual with second editions, on the contrary, Meursius wisely cut a number of his rasher suggestions. In 1610 Meursius became professor of Greek at his own university. There, in Leyden, he produced the 'editiones principes' of a number of Byzantine authors, the 'editio princeps' of the 'Elementa Harmonica' of Aristoxenus (1616), and edited the 'Timaeus' of Plato with the commentary and translation of Chalcidius (1617). He wrote much on the antiquities of Athens and Attica. (J.E. Sandys, 'A history of classical scholarship', 1964, p. 311)) (Provenance: On the front pastedown in pencil the name of 'J.A. Dijck') (Collation: +12 (minus leaf +11 & +12), A - M8 (leaf M8 verso blank)(Photographs on request)

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ARRIANUS.

Arriani Nicomedensis Expeditionis Alexandri libri septem, et Historia Indica graec. et lat. cum annotationibus et indice graeco locupletissimo Georgii Raphelii. Accedunt Eclogae Photii ad Arrianum pertinentes cum lectionibus variantibus Dav. Hoeschelii, summaria librorum distincta & emendata, index rerum accuratissimus, nec non tabula geographica Expeditionis Alexandri.

Amsterdam (Amstelaedami), Apud Wetstenium, 1757. 8vo. XLVIII,637,(211) p., frontispiece, folding map of Europe and the Orient. Vellum 21 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 212310364; Hoffmann 1,377; Brunet 1,497; Dibdin 1,329: 'An excellent and commodious edition'; Moss 1,188; Graesse 1,227; Ebert 1236) (Details: 6 thongs laced through the joints. Frontispiece by I.K. Philips (in Greek letters), depicting an armed and winged Nike crushing 3 ennemies, a black African, an Asian and a European; in the air flies Fama with her trumpet. Title in red & black. Printer's mark on the title, depicting a hand sharpening a chisel on a whetstone, the motto is: 'Terar dum prosim'. The map is executed by N. Frankendaal. The text is printed in 2 columns, Greek and Latin side by side) (Condition: Vellum slightly soiled and wrinkled at the top of the spine. Paper clipping on Nicomedia from 'The Gentleman's Magazine' (Vol. 98, 1828, Supplement part 1, p. 627) tipped in on front pastedown. Old & legible ink annotations on the front flyleaf. Rear endpapers stained, and its pastedown is detached. Paper yellowing) (Note: This edition of Arrianus is more or less a 'parergon' of the German Lutheran theologian Georg Raphel, latinized as Georgius Raphelius, 1673 - 1740. He was 'Pfarrer' and Superintendent of the St. Nicolai church, and Inspector of the 'Scholae Johannaeae' at Luneburg. His interest in pagan antiquity and in the New Testament generated a series of works in which he compared the language and style of the New Testament with works of ancient historians. In 1709 he published in Hamburg, 'Annotationes Philologicae in N.T. ex Xenophonte collectae'. In 1715 appeared, also in Hamburg, 'Annotationes Philologicae in N.T. ex Polybio & Arriano collectae'. He published in Lüneburg in 1731 'Annotationes in S. Scripturam ex Herodoto collectae'. In 1710 Raphel had published a German translation of the Indica of Arrian, 'Arriani Indica, d.i. Indianische Geschichte oder Reisebeschreibung der Flotte Alexanders des Grossen, aus dem Griechischen ins Deutsche Übersetzt'. The three 'Annotationes Philologicae' were reprinted together in Leiden in 1747. This edition contains an extensive biography of Raphel, with at the end a list of his published works, and a short list of not yet published work: 'Scripta Rapheliana in MSC. adhuc latentia'. One of these 'scripta latentia' is 'Annotationes in Arrianum'. In the preface (Lectori) to our edition of Arrianus of 1757 the publisher Wetstein tells us that this manuscript with notes on Arrianus had lain tucked away ever since 1709 in a drawer ('in privatis scriniis'). (p. X) It had been offered in the meantime to German publishers, who however feared that they would not make a penny from it. Wetstein tells us that finally the son-in-law of Raphel, one Conr. Arn. Schmid (whom Ebert erroneously considers to be the editor), asked him to publish this work of his beloved and admired father-in-law. Raphel not only produced the annotations, but had made also a careful recension of the Greek text, especially with the help the new edition of the Leiden professor of Greek Jacobus Gronovius, who had discovered a new important manuscript of Arrian. ('textum quam potuit accuratissime castigavit, adjutus praesertim libris MSS a Jac. Gronovio consultis'. Preface p. VIII). The manuscript of Raphel contained also a corrected Latin translation. ('versionemque permultis locis pravam elegantissime correxit'. (Idem, ibidem) Wetstein probably here refers to the Latin translation of Bonventura Vulcanius which was printed in the 1704 edition of Gronovius. Wetstein ends with the assurance that all lovers of literature will thank the son-in-law for his troubles. § Raphel is also known for this pioneering work on deaf-muteness. Three of his children were deaf and dumb. 'Paternal affection had inspired him with zeal and skill in their instruction, and in 1718 he published, for the benefit of others, the result of his labours', 'Die Kunst Taube und Stumme reden zu lehren, am Exempel seiner eigenen Tochter'. It is said that his eldest daughter spoke so well that her deficiency was hardly noticed. The girl died however 20 years old) (Provenance: On the front flyleaf at the head of the manuscript notes the name 'Mitford', and 'White') (Collation: *-3*8; A-2S8, 2T-3Q4, 3R8, 3S4) (Photographs on request)

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AUCTORES LATINAE LINGUAE, IN UNUM REDACTI CORPUS.

Quorum auctorum veterum & neotericorum elenchum sequens pagina docebit. Adiectis notis Dionysii Gothofredi I.C. Una cum indice generali in omnes auctores.

Saint-Gervais-Les-Bains (S. Gervasii), Apud Iacobum Chouët, 1602. 4to. (VII),(1 blank) p; 1924 (recte 1926) columns, (1 blank) p.; (74 index) p., (2 blank) p.;106 (recte 74) columns. Overlapping vellum 26 cm (Ref: Schweiger 2,1297; Graesse 1,250; Ebert 8793; Brunet 1,548/49) (Details: 7 thongs laced through the joints. The title page has woodcut architectural borders filled with floral motives and human figures, 2 reading men are flanking the title on each side, at the foot two naked athletes, at the top a tympanon. Woocut printer's device on the title, depicting an kind of Nehustan anchor, held by 2 hands emerging from a cloud; around the upperpart of the anchor coils a snake) (Condition: Vellum age tanned and somewhat soiled. Front flyleaf gone. Title page dustsoiled and slightly thumbed. Paper yellowing) (Note: This collection of works of ancient Latin grammarians of 1602 is a reissue of an edition which was published in 1585 in Geneva by the French scholar Dionysius Gothofredus, or Denis Godefroy, 1549-1622. It contains works of great importance in the history of linguistic studies. During the Renaissance a renewal of interest in Latin grammar occurred. Language theory became a linguistic research subject. Medieval vocabulary and terminology, and sloppy grammar were rejected, and the primary of the Latin of the classical period was reasserted. This process was stimulated by the gradual rediscovery of previously unknown texts of classical authors, among whom Varro's 'de lingua Latina', with which this collection opens, was one of the most important. § Dionysius Gothofredus is best known as the editor of the monumental 'Corpus iuris civilis', Lyon 1583, an edition with commentary of the complete collection of fundamental works in Roman jurisprudence (Digest, Institutions, Codex, Novellae) issued on order of the emperor Justinian at the beginning of the sixth century. Gothofredus' edition made history. He did not only coin the title 'Corpus Juris Civilis', but it was issued more than 50 times, with or without commentary and glossae. Gothofredus studied law at Louvain, Cologne, and Heidelberg, and then returned to Paris, his hometown, to work as a solicitor. But being protestant he had however to leave France in 1579, escaping civil war and persecution, and fled to Geneva. There he was professor of Roman law for the next ten years. In 1589 he was called back by king Henry IV, but the next year he had to flee the country again. His house and library were plundered. In 1590 he took refuge in Basle. In 1591 he accepted a professorship of Roman law in Strassburg. From there he moved in 1604 to the university of Heidelberg, where he became head of the faculty of law. Gothofredus also worked on classical authors such as Cicero and Seneca and the ancient Latinn grammarians, and on ancient history. § The edition contains: Varro's 'De lingua Latina', Verrius Flaccus' 'Fragmenta', Festus, Nonius Marcellinus, Fulgentius Placiades, Isidorus' 'Libri XX Originum', 'Ex veteribus grammaticis, qui de proprietate & differentiis scripserunt', 'Vetus kalendarium Romanum', 'De nominibus & praenominibus Romanorum', 'Varii auctores qui de Notis scripserunt', 'Notae Dionysii Gothofredi ad Varronem, Festum, Nonium & Isidorum', 'Variae lectiones in Fulgentium & Isidorum', 'Liber glossarum ex variis glossariis, quae sub Isidori nomine circumferuntur collectus', 'Excerpta Pythoeana ex veteribus glossis', and 'Excerpta differentiarum Bongarsii Regii legati') (Provenance: On the front pastedown in old ink: 'Ex Bibliotheca W. Klerk') (Collation: §4 (leaf §4 verso blank), A-3B8,3C4,3D-3T8 (leaf 3T8 blank), 4A-4B8, 4C4) (Photographs on request)

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AUSONIUS.

Decii Ausonii Burdigalensis viri consularis varia opuscula dilegenter recognita.

Basel (Basileae), Apud Valentinum Curionem, 1523. 8vo. (XVI),249,(3) p. Early 20th century half vellum 15.5 cm (Ref: VD16 A 4385; Schweiger 2,21: 'nicht ohne krit. Werth'; Fabricius/Ernesti 3,147) (Details: Title with large woodcut borders. Large printer's mark, designed by Hans Holebein, at the end; Holbein worked for Curio from 1521 till 1524. (Heitz/Bernoulli, 'Basler Büchermarken', Strassburg 1895, p. 67, illustration 102)) (Condition: Binding probably early 20th century. Damaged back restored with a strip vellum. Title slightly soiled, and its edges are somewhat thumbed, and its upper margin is somewhat cut short. Name on the title below the imprint. First gathering slightly waterstained. No flyleaves. Paper slightly yellowing) (Note: Decimus Magnus Ausonius of Burdigala (Bordeaux), ca. 310-394, was according to H.J. Rose an example of the senile degeneration of 4th century Latin literature, and the first glimmer heralding the full day of French literature. He wrote trifles, sometimes pretty or clever, often tiresome. (H.J. Rose, 'A History of Latin Literature', London 1967, p. 527/29). H.G. Evelyn White, the editor of the Loeb edition, is even more negative: 'As poetry (.) the great mass of his verse is negligible'. The chief value of Ausonius' work is according to him historical. (Loeb Classical Library, Ausonius, Cambr. Mass., 1919. p. VII) The 'Neue Pauly' is more positive: 'Ausonius repräsentiert eine Kultur der Bewahrung und des Erbes. Allenthalben greift er auf die griech. und lat. Lit. zurück, über die er souverän verfügt, und gestaltet anspielungs- und voraussetzungsreiche pretiöse Gebilde von formalem Raffinement'. (Der Neue Pauly, 2,334) Alexander Souter is in the Oxford Classical Dictionary full of praise: 'His numerous poems, written in various metres (.) are of considerable interest, in both subject-matter and style. There are over a hundred epigrams, some of which are in Greek and others translated from Greek. There are 25 letters. His correspondence with Paulinus of Nola is the most notable part of these. The Ephemeris includes many poems in various metres, dealing with daily life. The Parentalia is a collection of short poems in memory of deceased relatives of the poet. The Commemoratio Professorum Burdigalensium is of interest for the history of education. (.) This account by no means exhausts the list of minor poems, throughout which the author's minute knowledge of Virgil is apparant and his Christian faith is not obtruded. His most important poem is the Mosella which still attracts readers. It is a rhetorically fashioned laudatio in 483 hexameters and describes in considerable detail the various fish to be found in the river as well as some of the fine buildings on the banks and other features, the whole constituting a series of episodes, composed, like the rest of Ausonius' verse, according to rule'. (OCD 2nd ed. p. 154) § Not known on which edition this 1523 edition is based. It is not a reissue of the Juntae or Aldus edition, both of 1517. It has after the short biography of Ausonius by Petrus Crinitus, with which it opens, a 10 page 'Scriptorum Ausonii Catalogus'. Follow the Epigrammata, the Eidyllia, among them Mosella, Epistolae, and other minor works; it ends with Ausonius' 'Periochae in omnes Homeri Rhapsodias') (Provenance: Name on the title is partly illegible: 'Galij Milia.., 1692') (Collation: a-q8, r6 (leaf r6 recto blank) (Photographs on request)

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AUSONIUS.

D. Magni Ausonii Burdig. viri consularis opera. A Iosepho Scaligero, & Elia Vineto denuo recognita, disposita, & variorum notis illustrata (...) Adiectis variis & locupletissimis indicibus.

(Geneve), Typis Iacobi Stoer, 1588. 16mo. 2 volumes in 1: (XXXII),350;247,(1 blank),(14 indices) p. 18th century calf, back recently and decently restored. 13 cm (Ref: GLN-3290; Schweiger 21; Graesse I,259; Smitskamp p. 118) (Details: Back with 4 raised bands, recently and expertly restored. Morocco shield with gilt lettering in second compartment. Boards with blind triple fillet borders. Elaborately blind tooled rectangles on both boards. Edges of the boards gilt, edges of the bookblock dyed red. Title within woodcut borders, right edge of the title slightly cut short. The second volume has a title of its own, it contains 'Iosephi Scaligeri Iul. Caes. F. Ausonianarum lectionum libri duo', to which have been added notes of A. Turnebus, Hardianus Junius, G. Canter, J. Lipsius & E. Vinetus) (Condition: Endpapers renewed. First title slightly soiled and having a name on it) (Note: Decimus Magnus Ausonius of Burdigala (Bordeaux), ca. 310-394, was according to H.J. Rose an example of the senile degeneration of 4th century Latin literature, and the first glimmer heralding the full day of French literature. He wrote trifles, sometimes pretty or clever, often tiresome. (H.J. Rose, 'A History of Latin Literature', London 1967, p. 527/29). H.G. Evelyn White, the editor of the Loeb edition, is even more negative: 'As poetry (.) the great mass of his verse is negligible'. The chief value of Ausonius' work is according to him historical. (Loeb Classical Library, Ausonius, Cambr. Mass., 1919. p. VII) The 'Neue Pauly' is more positive: 'Ausonius repräsentiert eine Kultur der Bewahrung und des Erbes. Allenthalben greift er auf die griech. und lat. Lit. zurück, über die er souverän verfügt, und gestaltet anspielungs- und voraussetzungsreiche pretiöse Gebilde von formalem Raffinement'. (Der Neue Pauly, 2,334) Alexander Souter is in the Oxford Classical Dictionary full of praise: 'His numerous poems, written in various metres (.) are of considerable interest, in both subject-matter and style. There are over a hundred epigrams, some of which are in Greek and others translated from Greek. There are 25 letters. His correspondence with Paulinus of Nola is the most notable part of these. The Ephemeris includes many poems in various metres, dealing with daily life. The Parentalia is a collection of short poems in memory of deceased relatives of the poet. The Commemoratio Professorum Burdigalensium is of interest for the history of education. (.) This account by no means exhausts the list of minor poems, throughout which the author's minute knowledge of Virgil is apparant and his Christian faith is not obtruded. His most important poem is the Mosella which still attracts readers. It is a rhetorically fashioned laudatio in 483 hexameters and describes in considerable detail the various fish to be found in the river as well as some of the fine buildings on the banks and other features, the whole constituting a series of episodes, composed, like the rest of Ausonius' verse, according to rule'. (OCD 2nd ed. p. 154) § The 2 French scholars mentioned on the title, Joseph Juste Scaliger,1540-1609, and Elie Vinet, or Elias Vinetus, 1509-1587, had probably nothing to do with the editing of this new Ausonius edition of 1588. It was produced, according to the very short preface, by the jurist P.B. Cestius I.C, or Petrus Baudoza Cestius, 1557-1627. It is further explained that it is based on the earlier edition of Scaliger, Antwerp 1575, with corrections of typographical errors. Vinetus had published an edition with his commentary in 1580) (Provenance: Name on title: 'Jacobus Levinus'. At the end of volume 1 written: 'John Rocherus, 1794') (Collation:
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BADEN, TORCHILLUS.

Torchilli Badenii Jac. fil. Roma Danica, harmoniam atque affinitatem linguae danicae cum lingua romana exhibens. Editio altera priore anni 1699 auctior et emendatior curante Torchillo Badenio pronepote.

Copenhagen (Hafniae), Apud C. Steenium, 1835. 8vo. (IV),206 p. Contemporary blue boards 19,5 cm (Small Danish name in ballpoint on titlepage) (Note: Torkel Baden, or Torkil Baden, 1765-1849, 'studied at Göttingen and acquired an interest in art during his travels in Italy. He was professor at Kiel in Holstein (then part of Denmark) and (in 1804-23) at Copenhagen. His published works (such as his dissertation on Philostratus) were partly inspired by his interest in ancient art. He 'had read nearly all the Greek and Latin Classics', but the result of all this reading is inadequately represented in his edition of the Tragedies of Seneca. His edition of his grandfather's 'Roma Danica' brought him into feud with other scholars. He was more fortunate in his new and improved edition of his father's dictionaries (1815-31)'. (Sandys, 'A history of classical scholarship', 3,316) Torkel Baden has a lemma in Wikipedia. In the German version he is called 'ein Vorreiter der Archäologie in Dänemark'. His grandfather Torkel Baden, 1668-1732, who wrote the first edition of this 'treatise on the affinity of the Danish and Latin languages', and which was published in Copenhagen in 1699, has also a lemma in Wikipedia, unfortunately only in Danish. It copies an article from 'Dansk Biografisk Leksikon')

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BAÏF, L. DE.

De vasculis libellus, adulescentulorum causa ex Bayfio decerptus, addita vulgari latinarum vocum interpretatione.

Paris (Parisiis), Ex officina Roberti Stephani typographi Regii, 1543. (Colophon at the end: 'Excudebat Rob. Stephanus Typographus Regius, Parisiis, an. M.D.XLIII, XIII Cal. Oct.). 8vo. 52,(3 index),(1 blank) p. Half vellum (20th century) 17 cm (Ref: not in Renouard, 'Ann. de l'Impr. des Estienne', see however p. 58, 1543/12: 'Carolus Stephanus, De re Vestiaria, Vascularia et Navali, ex Bayfio. Addita vulgaris linguae interpretatione'; not in Brunet, Graesse, or Ebert) (Details: Printer's Olive tree device of the Stephanus family on the title, motto: 'Noli altum sapere', short for 'Noli altum sapere, sed time', in English 'Donot be high-minded, but fear'. (Epistola Beati Pauli ad Romanos 11,20) (Condition: The right upper corner of the first gathering slightly waterstained) (Note: The French diplomat, humanist and poet Lazare de Baïf, ca. 1496-1547, was born near La Flèche in Anjou. He wrote in Latin and translated from Greek into French. He translated the Electra of Sophocles which was printed in 1537 in Paris. He was abbot of Charroux and Grenetière, and counselor of the parliament of Paris. Around the year 1530 Baïf was sent to Venice as ambassador, where he fell in love with a woman of rank, with whom he had a son in 1532. The boy was named Jean-Antoine, the future poet of the Pléiade. Lazarus de Baïf, being of ecclesiastical orders, could of course not marry his mistress, but he recognized her son and legitimized him later. He took the boy to Paris where he gave him a worthy education. Some of his tutors were Dorat, a brilliant Hellenist and Latin scholar, and Charles Estienne, his friend and disciple. In 1526 De Baif published his first work in Basel De re vestiaria, which earned him a reputation among French scholars, as second in rank to Guillaume Budé. As a diplomat he continued his philological and archaeological studies, and corresponded with Erasmus, Bembo and many other humanists. 'His scholarly reputation rests squarely on his three Latin works: De re vestiaria of 1526 (.) De vasculis, Basel, H. Froben, 1531, (.) and finally De re navali, Paris, R. Estienne 1536' which was accompanied by illustrations derived from sketches of the pillar of Trajan and other monuments. (Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation, Toronto 1985, p.87/88) In 1549 Robert Estienne posthumely published an edition of these works which were revised and expanded by the author. Charles Estienne rearranged de Baïfs works on naval matters, clothing and vases of the ancients for the use of young students. (Various editions between 1535 and 1537) The first 'school-edition' of the book on ancient vases came from the presses of Robert Estienne in 1536, and was repeated in Basel by Froben in 1537 and 1541. (De vasculis libellus, adulescentulorum causa ex Baysio decerptus. Addita vulgari Latinarum vocum interpretatione) In the preface to De Vasculis Charles Estienne tells the reader that not all (aliquot) studious young students (iuniores tyrunculi) could understand De Baif's work. (se non omnia intelligere quae in libello Bayfii de vasculis continerentur). Therefore, when he heard this, De Baif gave his friend permission to make a summary of his book. (facile passus est suum libellum in brevem quandam summulam contrahi) Charles Estienne 1504-1564, 'was an early exponent of the science of anatomy in France. Charles was a younger brother of Robert Estienne I, the famous printer, and son to Henri, who Latinized the family name as Stephanus' (.) After the usual humanistic training (Greek and latin classics) he studied medicine, and took his doctor's degree at Paris. He was for a time tutor to Jean-Antoine de Baïf, the future poet. It is uncertain whether he taught publicly. His career was interrupted by the oppressive persecutions in which their religious opinions involved the family. (Wikipedia s.v. Charles Estienne) Robert Estienne published De Baifs work on vases in the same year (1543) also accompanied by a French translation (See Renouard) § This 1543 edition seems to be rare. KVK records only a few copies worldwide) (Collation: a-c8, d4) (Photographs on request)

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BARLAEUS, CASPER.

Casparis Barlaei Antverpiani Poematum pars II: Elegiarum et Miscellaneorum carminum.

Amsterdam (Amstelodami), Apud Joannem Blaeu, 1646. 12mo. (VIII),576 p. Overlapping vellum 13 cm (Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Woodcut printer's mark on the title, depicting a celestial sphere flanked by Tempus and Hercules, motto: 'Indefessus agendo'. This is the second volume of a two volume set. The first volume was published in 1645 by Blaeu, simply as 'Poemata') (Condition: Vellum age-toned. Old name on the title. Faint waterstain in the upper and lower margin of most quires.) (Note: When he was one year old the Flemish parents of the Dutch polymath, poet, theologian and historian Caspar Barlaeus, 1584-1648, had to flee Antwerp for the 'Spanish fury'. 'They settled in Zaltbommel, where his father eventually would become head of the Latin school. Caspar studied theology and philosophy at the University of Leiden. After his study, he preached for 1.5 years in the village of Nieuwe-Tonge, before returning to Leiden in 1612 as an under-regent of a college. From 1617 he also was professor in philosophy at the university. Because of his remonstrant sympathies, he was forced out of this job in 1619. He then studied and graduated in medicines (in Caen), but never practiced professionally. (.) From 1631, he was professor of philosophy and rhetoric at the Amsterdam Athenaeum, Athenaeum Illustre), which is commonly regarded as the predecessor of the University of Amsterdam. (.) Barlaeus published many volumes of poetry, particularly Latin poetry. He also wrote the eulogy that accompanies the 1622 portrait of cartographer Willem Blaeu', the father of Johannes Blaeu, the publisher of this fourth enlarged edition of 1645-1646. (Source Wikipedia English)) (Provenance: From the library of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, 1653-1716, a Scottish author and politician. He was leading the opposition against the 1707 Act of Union between Scotland and England. He also was an passionate book collector) (Collation: *4, a-z12, (h3 = k3), 2a-2b6, chi4) )Photographs on request)

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BARTHOLINUS,Casp.

Casp. Bartholini Thom. Fil. De tibiis veterum, et earum antiquo usu libri tres. Editio altera, figuris auctior. (Bound with:) Casp. Bartholini Thom. Fil. De Ovariis mulierum et Generationis historia epistola anatomica, antea Romae edita. Cui jam accessit alia ejusdem argumenti.

Ad 1: Amsterdam (Amstelaedami), Apud JHenr. Wetstenium, 1679. Ad 2: Amsterdam (Amstelaedami), Sumptibus JHenr. Wetstenii, 1678. 12mo. 2 volumes in 1. Ad 1: (XXIV),415;(5), 22 full page engravings in the text, 5 smaller text engravings, and 5 folding plates; a frontispiece and a portrait of Casparus Bartholinus at the age of 22. Ad 2: 69,(2),(1 blank) p. Calf 14 cm (Ref: Ad 1: Brunet no. 29042. Ad 2: Bibliotheca Osleriana no. 1922) (Details: Back gilt and with 5 raised bands. Frontispiece, depicting a seated satyr, surrounded by pipes, flutes, horns, trumpets, and other wood-wind instruments. Woodcut printer's mark of J.H. Wetstein on the title, depicting a bearded scholar who is surrounded by symbols of wisdom and scholarship; the motto is: 'Consultoribus istis', 'With them as advisors'. The engraved portrait is of a 22 year old Casparus Bartholinus. On the plates statues, reliefs etc. of instruments and people with instruments) (Condition: Binding scuffed; head and tail of the back chafed; front joint starting to crack; 2 small and almost invisible wormholes at the head of the spine; a bump in the outer edge of the lower board. Some pencil annotations on the front pastedown. Paper yellowing) (Note: Ad 1: The Danish anatomist and physician Caspar Bartholin, or Bartholinus (the Younger, or Secundus), 1655-1738, was the last of the famous Bartholin dynasty of scholars and physicians. In 1674, at the age of 19, he was appointed professor of philosophy. Following this appointment he travelled for his studies through Europe for three years. On his return to Copenhagen he began to teach physics. He also lectured on anatomy. Bartholin mainly published on anatomy and medicin. This book on the pipes and flutes of the ancients, which was first published in Rome in 1677 was a work of his youth. § The second far slimmer volume of 'De Ovariis', bound after 'De tibiis', is of far greater importance for the history of science, to be precise, medical science. In 1677, at that age of 22, Caspar Bartholin was the first to describe the Bartholin's glands in 'De ovariis mulierum' (Rome 1677). This Amsterdam edition of 1678 is the first reissue of that ground breaking treatise. See for the details and the importance of 'Bartholin's glands' Wikipedia. The book about musical instruments is rather common, but Bartholin's book on ovaries is rare. In Rare Book Hub we found only one copy, in 1979) (Collation: *12, A-R12, S6; A-C12, 5 folding plates, frontispiece, portrait on leaf *12 verso; 27 engraved text illustrations (of which 22 full page)) (Photographs on request)

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ATHANASIUS & BASILIUS.

Athanasiou dialogoi e', peri tês hagias Triados. Basileiou logoi d' kata dussebous Eunomiou. Anastasiou kai Kurillou ekthesis suntomos tês orthodoksou pisteôs. Athanasii dialogi V, de sancta Trinitate. Basilii libri IIII, adversus impium Eunomium. Anastasii et Cyrilli compendiaria orthodoxae fidei explanatio. Ex interpretatione Th. Bezae. Foebadi, sive Foebadii liber contra Arianos. Quae Athanasii, Anastasii & Cyrilli sunt, & quae Foebadii, nunc primum eduntur.

N.pl. (Geneva), Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, 1570. 8vo. (XIV),24;431,(1 blank) p. 18th century vellum 17.5 cm A collection of Trinitarian texts (Ref: GLN-2395; Hoffmann 1,387; Renouard, Estienne p. 133; Graesse 1,243; Butterweck, Athanasius Bibliographie, p. 64/65; Dibdin 1,196: 'scarce and estimable'; not in Brunet) (Details: Two morocco letterpieces on the spine. Boards with gilt borders. Marbled endpapers, edges dyed red. Nice copy) (Condition: The opusculum Liber contra Arianos of Foebadius is not bound at the end, as in the GLN copy, but immediately after the praefatio. The 3 pages with the castigationes (gathering c2, see collation) on Foebadius of P. Pithou and himself, which Beza added to Foebadius' Liber contra Arianos, are lacking) (Note: The Church Father Athanasius, 295-373 AD, is the most famous of the Alexandrian bishops, and is best known as the adversary of the antitrinitarian priest Arius. Because of his struggle with the Arians, the followers of Arius, Athanasius was banished for 17 years. In his works he fiercely defended the dogmata of the church against heretics like Arius. The controversy between Athanasius and Arius divided the Church into two opposing theological factions for over 55 years, from the time before the Council of Nicaea (325) till the Council of Constantinople (381). Athanasius was the champion of the Nicaeneans, defending the full divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ. Bardenhewer states that Athanasius is 'eine der gewaltigsten Erscheinungen der Kirchengeschichte. Nie mehr ist eine kirchliche Entscheidung getroffen worden von der Tragweite des homoousios des Nicänums, und nie mehr hat eine kirchliche Entscheidung einen Kampf heraufbeschworen wie denjenigen zwischen Nicänern und Antinicänern'. (Bardenhewer, 'Geschichte der altkirchlichen Literatur ', vol. 3, p. 44) § That he published in 1570 some editiones principes of a number of treatises on the Holy Trintiy, Theodorus Beza, 1519-1605, a Calvinist theologian who was professor of Greek at Geneva, couldnot care less. This 1570 edition, formed part of his polemical activity directed against the Antitrinitarianist heresy which was 'devastating' Poland and Transylvania during the sixties and seventies of the 16th century. This 'heresy', in existence within Christianity from the second century A.D. till the present day, rejects the mainstream Christian doctrine of the Holy Trinity, i.e. 'that God is three distinct hypostases or persons who are coeternal, coequal, and indivisibly united in one being or ousia'. (Wikipedia: Nontrinitarism) The First Council of Nicaea (325) declared the full divinity of the Son of God, and the First Council of Constantinople (381), declared the divinity of the Holy Spirit. There were however christians who didnot accept this doctrine, argueing that the Trinity was inconsistent with the unity of God, and found no basis in the Scripture. In time the antitrinitarian view lost appeal in late antiquity and the trinitarian view became the orthodox doctrine of modern Christianity. During the Reformation of the 16th century large areas of Northern and Middle Europe rejected the Catholic creed and became Protestant. The protestant church chose to defend, like the church of Rome, the mystery of the Trinity as one of the essentials of the Christian creed. However within protestantism radical antitrinitarianism began to surface again. The best-known antitrinitarianist, the Spaniard Servetus, was burned at the stake in 1553 in Geneva, to signal unambiguously that the Reformed Church remained orthodox on the doctrine of the Trinity. The organised form of the antitrinitarianist heresy gained solid ground only in Poland, where Unitarians, who rejected the divine Trinity, split from the Calvinists in 1565 (they were expelled later from Poland in 1658), and in Transylvania in the Unitarian Church (1568). Another protestant antitrinitarian radical, the Italian Giorgio Biandrata proved instrumental in the rise of anti-Trinitarianism in both Transylvania and Poland, where this heresy took root in the 1560s and 1570s. Biandrata had to flee in 1558 from Geneva, and was received warmly by the Polish Congregation. Biandrata radically reinterpreted the 'homoousious', the term which had been crucial to Athanasius in his 4th century defence of the unity of the divine essence. Trinitas and essentia were according to Biandrata papistica vocabula. In 1562 a synod of the Polish Reformed Church accepted the antitrinitarian approach. One of the remaining Polish Trinitarian ministers, Christophorus Thretius, asked Beza for assistance in refuting antitrinitarianism 'adversus periditissimos illos (.) Ecclesiarum vastatores', among whom 'Blandratam'. (Preface, p.
¶ 2 verso) To help him and to furnish ammunition in order to suppress this Polish heresy Beza published this Athanasius edition. Beza tells in the preface, addressed to the worldly and ecclesiastial powers, catholics and protestants, in the kingdom of Poland, that his Athanasius edition is his gift (munusculum) to his Polish brothers in faith, which would be useful in their battle against their common enemy. (p.
¶ 7 recto/verso) The gift provided extensive scriptural testimony, for 'tanti est momenti ex fontibus ipsis veritatem haurire'. (p.
¶ 4 recto) 'It is that imporatant to go to the source if one wants to draw the truth'. Beza tells in the preface also that the manuscript of the Athanasius was bought by Henri Estienne from a Greek visitor (a Graeculo quodam hac transeunte redemptum), and that it was divine providence that it came into his hand (divinitus potius quam casu). (p.
¶ 3 verso) The manuscripts of the other works in this 1570 edition were found in the library of Germain Colladon by P. Pithou. The dialogues are now considered to be Pseudo-Athanasian. A discussion about this 1570 edition in I.D. Backus' 'Historical Method and Confessional Identity in the Era of the Reformation, 1378-1615', Leiden/Boston 2003, p. 173/78) § When Calvin died in 1564 Beza became his successor, not only as leader in religious and political affairs in Geneva, but also as guide the Calvinists in all Europe. Beza is best known for his Latin translation of the New Testament, his critical Greek edition of the New Testament, and for being the founder of the University of Geneva)(Collation:
¶ 8 (minus blank leaf
¶ 8) a8 b4, A-2C8 2D-2E4)) (Lacking after a8/b4, gathering c2, which contains Beza's castigationes on the text of Foebadius) (The GLN-2395 lacks also the blank leaf
¶ 8. The first gathering is nevertheless described there erroneously as
¶ 8, having (XVI) pages))(Photographs on request)

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BERONICIUS.

P.J. Beronicii Georgarchontomachia, caeterorumque ejus carminum sylvula; quorum prius carmine belgico secutum. Boeren- en overheids-stryd, en de overige gedichten van P.J. Beronicius, welkers eerste in Nederduitsche vaarzen is nagevolgd door J.B. Waar by gevoegd is het zonderling leven des dichters; een goed aantal van Nederduitsche aanteekeningen; en een keurig zestal van fraaije koperen platen.

Te Goes & Middelburg, Bij Jacobus Huysman & Jeroen van de Sande, J.z., 1766. 8vo. XX,178 p. Modern half vellum 22 cm (Ref: Best source: C.J. Krijger, 'P.J. Beronicius Boeren- en Overheidsstryd, 1673'. Doctoraal scriptie 1986, Reliable: Winkler Prins 6e dr., vol. 3, p. 777; also important: Sizoo, Hermeneus 8 (1936) p.17/21; uncritical: Van der AA 2,442/45; NNBW 8,88) (Details: Tasteful antique style binding, with a red morocco shield on the back. Frontispiece & six scenes on three plates by Simon Fokke. The frontispiece depicts the crowning with a laurel wreath by Apollo of a beggarly fellow, who wears ragged clothing. In the distance we see the townscape of Middelburg, in the front a pile of books and the attributes of a chimney sweep; on the plates scenes of armed and angry mobs. On the verso of the title the signature of one of the publishers J. Huysman. At the end have been added 22 pages with 'adnotationes ad Georgarchontomachiae librum 1 & 2' by Petrus Rabus, followed by 20 pages filled with annotations of J.B. in Dutch) (Condition: A light brown stain on the lower margin of 3 leaves) (Note: In 1672, on the 21st of july, a false rumour swept over the Dutch island of Walcheren: 'The French fleet is landing'. These were combustable times, called in Dutch 'het rampjaar' i.e. the year of disasters, when the Dutch Republic was besieged from all quarters. At this rumour a furious mob of armed farmers invaded Middelburg, the capital of the province of Zeeland. The mob assaulted and arrested city officials considered to be traitors. In the next year a mock epic concerning this historic event was published in Amsterdam 'auctore N. Autopte', i.e. by Mr. Eyewitness. In 1676 the remonstrant minister Anthony Borremans (who died in 1683), a man well versed in Greek and Latin, reported in the 6th chapter of his Variae Lectiones that the author was one Petrus Johannes Beronicius. He procured also a biographic sketch of this Beronicius which seems to be the starting point of a mystification. Borremans tells that he and some gentlemen (J. Antonides van der Goes, Dirk Buysero, Johan Frederik Gymnich) once ran in Middelburg into a pityful drunk, who composed Latin verse incredibly fast and on the spot. He was a man of loose morals, who earned his living sweeping chimneys and grinding knives. Nevertheless this dirty little fellow 'klein, roetzwart, rond en dik, oud en slordig gekleed', who also made strange gestures, was an accomplished neolatin poet. It was said that he spoke his Latin too fast even for the classical scholar J.F. Gronovius, when they met. He also spoke Greek fluently, and could speak judiciously and scholarly about classical authors. This wonder of the world had witnessed the revolt of the farmers, and, knowing his Homer very well, produced extempore a burlesque epic about the event, the Georgarchontomachia. In february 1673 this colourful drunk was found dead in a ditch. The classical scholar and neolatin poet Petrus Rabus, 1660-1702, published in 1691 an new edition of this satyrical follow-up of the Homeric Batrachomyomachia, accompanied by a translation into Dutch and annotations. He also followed the biography by Borremans. The Latin text was published and translated once again by one J.B. in 1766. J.B. also printed the biographic sketch of Borremans, and added 20 pages of notes in Dutch of his own. The biographic data of this versifying chimney sweep were reproduced indiscriminately in later biographic surveys, like Van der Aa, and NNBW. STCN suggests that Dirk Buysero, 1644-1708, a city official of the city of Vlissingen (Flushing), who was one of the men who met Beronicius, might be the real author. There is no evidence for this. It is even improbable. Buysero did not compose one syllable of neolatin poetry. Our guess is that it might be the scholar and soldier Joan van Broekhuizen (Janus Broukhusius), 1649-1707, who was an intimate friend of Buysero and Van der Goes, and was himself an accomplished neolatin poet, and a translator. Stylistic research is needed here. A problem is that the name of J.P. Beronicius is not an invention or concoction. There exists in the city accounts of Middelburg a record of someone bearing his name, for producing some occasional verses) (Collation: *8, 2*2, A-L8, M1) (Photographs on request)

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BETOUW,J. IN DE.

Annales Noviomagi, Oppidi olim Batavorum, hodie primariae Gelrorum Civitatis.

Nijmegen (Noviomagi), (Ex typographia Ahasuëri van Goor filiique), 1790. 4to. (IV),244,(4 index) p. Contemporary wrapppers 22 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 190386835; Gheprint te Nymeghen 45.1) (Details: Uncut) (Condition: Wrappers chafed. Paper on the back gone. Paper of 9 gatherings browned. Waterstain, sometimes almost invisible, in the upper inner corner) (Note: The city of Nijmegen, in the Dutch province of Gelderland, is one of the oldest cities in the Netherlands. In the first century BC the Romans built a military limes-camp on a place of great strategic value because of the surrounding hills, which gave a good view over the Rhine valley. By 69 a village called 'Oppidum Batavorum' had formed near the Roman camp, where 'Legio X Gemina' was stationed. The settlement around the camp received in 98 A.D. Roman city rights. In 104 the Emperor Trajan renamed the town 'Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum', better known as 'Noviomagus'. In the 8th century Nijmegen was part of the empire of Charlemagne. The Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire Fredericus II granted Nijmegen city rights in 1230. In 1364 Nijmegen became part of the Hanseatic League. During the Eighty Year's War of Independence, a revolt against the souvereign of the Netherlands, the King of Spain, which lasted from 1568 till 1648, the city belonged to the Republic of United Provinces, and had to endure multiple sieges. (Source Wikipedia) § The Annals of Nijmegen were published anonymously, and cover its history up to 1790. The author is the local historian and collector of antiquities Johannes in de Betouw, 1732-1820, who was a descendent of the archaeologist Johannes Smetius (Johannes Smith), 1590 - 1651. Smetius broke with his work on Nijmegen new ground for the history of the Netherlands, and with him starts the provincial Roman archaeology in the Netherlands) (Provenance: The provenance seems to indicate Nijmegen. On the inside of the frontcover: 'J.E.?, v. Lijnden', member of an old Nijmegen-family) (Collation: pi2, A-2H-4) (Photographs on request)

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BEZA, MURETUS, JANUS SECUNDUS

Theodori Bezae Vezelii Poemata. (Bound with:) Marci Antonii Mureti Juvenilia. (And:) Johannis Secundi Hagiensis Juvenilia.

Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), 1757. 12mo in 8 & 4 sheets. 3 volumes in 1: (IV),IV,124 p., a portrait of Beza; X,106 p., a portrait of Muretus; IV,3-156 p. Green morocco 16 cm (Ref: Brunet 1,239; Graesse cf 1,359, where we find the imprint Paris 1757) (Details: Green morocco; red morocco shield on the back; gilt floral decoration on the back; boards with gilt triple fillet borders; inside dentelles gilt; marbled endpapers; edges of the bookblock gilt; woodcut printers' mark of Joseph Gérard Barbou on all three titles, depicting an old man who stands in the shade of a vine-entwined elmtree. The motto is 'Non solus'. The 2 portraits have been etched by Fiquet) (Condition: Some wear to the extremes. A small bump in the bottom edge of the front board. Two tiny and almost invisible wormholes in the front joint) (Note: All three titles in this book have a false imprint, 'Lugduni Batavorum', i.e. Leiden, in the Dutch Republic. It was according to Brunet actually published in Paris by Barbou. He does not explain, but the printer's mark, paper, printing and layout looks indeed very Barbou. The Short Title Catalogue Netherlands (STCN) is not sure either about Leiden, it adds 'printed in France?' § In Latin elegiac and epigrammatic poetry, from Roman times to the Renaissance, there is constant reference to the 'poetry of youth', as 'standing in contrast to a kind of poetry suitable to be written in old age. The poets characterize the latter poetry as serious, moral, and austere, touching on wars and politics and patriotism. The former is filled with passion and exuberance, concerned not with weighty national issues, but with jokes and laughter and erotic affaires'. (K.M. Summers, 'The Iuvenilia of Marc-Antoine Muret', Columbus, 2006, p. XXV-XXVI) § The first edition of 'poemata juvenilia' of the young Calvinist theologian Theodore de Bèze, or Theodorus Beza, 1519-1605, was published in Paris in 1548. 'It had certain rather free pieces printed, which were afterwards made a matter of bitter reproach against him. He therefore suppresed them in the following editions'. (Ebert) This first edition, including the erotic love poems which Beza later regretted having ever published, was clandestinely reprinted. Beza was considered to be among the best Neo-Latin poets of his time. He is however best known for his Latin translation of the New Testament, his critical Greek edition of the New Testament, and for being the founder of the University of Geneva. § The Frenchman Marc Antoine Muret, latinized as Marcus Antonius Muretus, 1526-1585, 'exemplifies the essence of French Renaissance humanism. A master of Latin and student of Classical Antiquity, he not only engaged in the recovery and exposition of ancient texts, he also actively employed the old genres and skills in the contemporary ecclesiastical and public spheres. He wrote Latin poetry, both sacred and profane, delivered public orations in Latin and lectured in various schools throughout France and Italy on authors as diverse as Catullus and Tacitus and on topics as varied as Greek philosophy and Roman law'. (K.M. Summers, 'The Iuvenilia of Marc-Antoine Muret', Columbus, 2006, p. XIII) His 'Iuveninlia' were first published in 1552. § The Dutch neolatin poet Janus Secundus Nicolai Hagiensis, was born on the 15th of november 1511, the day of the martyr Secundus, in The Hague. He died very young in 1536. In 1528 he moved to Mechelen, the residence of the Austrian vicequeen Margaretha of Parma. The southern part of the Netherlands was in this time the center of a florishing urban civilization. In May 1530 Secundus met a young prostitute from Mechelen, called Julia, and fell in love with her. Julia became the subject of his first book of elegies, his 'Julia Monobiblos', in which he tells how he won and lost his love. During his studies in Bourges under the famous jurist Alciati he wrote his first 'Basia'. Alciati introduced Secundus there also to the newest Italian poetry. A humanist poet often started his career with erotic poetry, like Piccolomini and Beza. Secundus' 'kiss-poems' are a variation on two 'kiss-poems' of the Latin poet Catullus (ca. 84-54 B.C), who became during the Renaissance a model for love-poetry. Secundus wrote in his short life 6835 lines of poetry, of which only 425 lines were printed during his lifetime. He wrote 'with equal fluency all kinds of lyrical, heroic, and elegiac verse. Down to the present day Secundus lives in literary history as the kissing poet' (.) 'Until far in the 18th century Secundus is mentioned as one of the classics of love poetry' (IJsewijn, Companion to Neo-Latin studies I, Leuven, 1990, p. 152) The first edition of his collected works was posthumely published in 1541 in Utrecht, and was edited by Secundus brother Marius. § After the poems of Janus Secundus we find 46 pages with the 'Pancharis Joan. Bonefonii Averni ad Jacobum Guellium (p. 111-156)) (Provenance: On the verso of the front flyleaf: 'John Wordsworth, Edinburgh, 1827'. This is the English classical scholar John Wordsworth, 1805-1839, nephew of the Romantic poet William Wordsworth. 'In October 1824 he entered Trinity College, Cambridge. His university career was distinguished. In 1825 he obtained the Bell scholarship, in 1826 a scholarship at his own college, and was second for the Porson prize; in 1827 he obtained it. In 1828 he proceeded to the B.A. degree, but was disqualified for classical honours through distaste for mathematics. In 1830 he was elected fellow of his college. (.) In 1834 he was appointed a classical lecturer in Trinity College, and undertook to edit Richard Bentley's Correspondence (afterwards completed by his brother Christopher Wordsworth'. (Source Wikipedia)) (Collation: pi4 (plus portrait); A8, B4, C8, D4 etc., K4, L2; Portrait, A8 B4, etc. X8, Y4) (Photographs on request)

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VENERES BLYENBURGICAE,

sive amorum hortus: in quinque areolas divisus & fragantissimis CXLVIII celeberrimorum poetarum flosculis refertus, opera Damasi Blyenburgy Batavi, H.F. (Part 1: Venerum Blyenburgicarum, sive Horti Amoris, areola prima: Ad amicam; 2: Areoloa secunda: Laudes; 3: Areola tertia: Ad se ipsum; 4: Areola quarta, Ad Venerem & Cupidinem; 5: Areoloa quinta: Ad animum, mentem, mortem et similia.

Dordrecht (Dordraci), Ex typographia Isaaci Canini, impensis Davidis Episcopii, 1600. 8vo. 5 parts in 1: (XVI),865 (recte 871),(1 blank)(84 appendix) p. Contemporary limp overlapping vellum 16 cm (Ref: Brunet 1,982: 'Ce recueil de pièces érotiques est un des plus agréables que nous ayons en ce genre, mais il y manque nombre de morceaux qui auraient dû y figurer'; Graesse 1,444; Gay-Lemonnyer 3,1308) (Details: 2 thongs laced through the joints. Manuscript title on the back. Each part has its own title, followed by a dedication, preface and list of contents) (Condition: Binding age-tanned, worn, spotted and somewhat wrinkled. All four ties gone. Front flyleaf removed. First title thumbed, and showing a small hole at the imprint. Paper foxed and yellowing, some gatherings browning) (Note: This is the first edition of one of the most important 17th century anthologies of erotic Neolatin poetry from 148 poets. The collection was compiled by the Dutch man of action and letters, and neolatin poet, Damas Heymansz. Blyenburg, born Dordrecht 1558, deceased while traveling to Bohemia in or after 1616. Damas was in 1586 enrolled as a law student at Leiden and followed an intellectual career. In his youth he published a poem in praise of the neostoic treatise De Constantia of Justus Lipsius (1584), who was a professor at Leiden. He corresponded with many scholars. From a letter to Bonaventura Vulcanus, professor of Greek at Leiden, it seems that he participated in one of the first trips to the East Indies as a captain. In 1594 we find him in America, where he entered into the service of the first British governor of Virginia. Damas published the works of Fulgentius of Ruspe (Amsterdam 1610 & 1612), published an anthology of 200 Latin poets, Cento ethicus ex variis Poetis hinc inde contextus (Leiden 1599), and compiled another anthology,Veneres Blyenburgicae (Dordrecht 1600, 2nd edition 1613 Amsterdam). (NNBW 4,175/76; and ((www)).regionaalarchiefdordrecht.nl/achtergronden/familie-van-blijenburg-15e-17e-eeuw/ ) The Veneres Blyenburgicae, divided into 5 areolae (flower-beds), contains on more than 900 pages 1137 erotic poems of 148 poets, of Alciatus, Bonefonius, Dousa, Erasmus, Gruterus, Hessus, Lotichius, Muretus, Marullus, Politianus, Robortellus, Sannazarius, Janus Secundus and many others) (Collation: 1, *8, A-O8; 2, P-Z8; 3, 2A-2P8; 4, 2Q-2X8; 5, 2Y-3N8, 3O8 (minus blank leaf 3O8) (Photographs on request)

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