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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) 18th century half calf 17.3 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 119504200; 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: Back gilt and with 5 raised bands. Red shield in second compartment. Colophon at the end: 'Lugduni Batavorum, Excudebat Ioannes Balduini. Anno 1599, mense Julio') (Condition: Binding worn at the extremes. Joints split, but still tight. Small piece at the head of the spine gone. Ownership inscription on the front flyleaf. Stamp on the title. Foxed) (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 was a pupil of 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 rash suggestions. In 1610 Meursius became professor of Greek in 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: In ink on the front flyleaf: 'Robinson Ellis from I. Bywater, Oct. 1887'. Robinson Ellis, 1834-1913, is a crucial figure in the history of textual and literary criticism of Catullus. He was elected to a fellowship at Trinity College, Oxford, in 1858, appointed professor of Latin at Univerisity College London (1870-1876). In 1893 he succeeded Henry Nettleship as Corpus Professor of Latin. (DBC 1,285) See for a charming portrait of Ellis his Wikipedia lemma. Ingram Bywater, 1840-1914, succeeded in Oxford Benjamin Jowett as Regius professor of Greek in 1893. He was a noted bibliophile whose collection now rests in the Bodleian Library. He 'occupies an important place in the modern history of ancient philosophy in Britain. (...) He is best known for his contribution to Aristotelian studies. His text of the Nicomachean Ethics (1890) was used as a model for the series, Oxford Classical Texts, inaugurated in 1898'. (DBC 1.145) On the front flyleaf also in ink: 'Ex libris Gal. Barrovi, 18o mensis Iunii 1948'. This is probably Walter Barrow, 1867-1954, Pro-chancellor, 1933-1939, of the University of Birmingham) (Collation: +10, A-M8 (leaf M8 verso blank)) (Photographs on request)
Graecorum Respublicae, ab Ubbone Emmio descriptae.
Leiden (Lugd. Batavorum), Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1632.
24mo. 2 parts in 1: 426,(6 index);323,(7 index & privilegium) p. Calf 11.5 cm (Ref: Willems 364; Berghman 1573; Rahir 345; Ebert 6690) (Details: Back and boards with blind tripple fillet borders. Title engraved by C.C.D(uysend), it depicts around the text of the title a floral cartouche, on top of which rests an eagle (aquila) with spread wings, holding in its talons the deadly thunderbolts (fulmina) of Jupiter. The eagle was called by Aristotle for the lordly manner with which it looked over the earth 'divine among birds'. (HA 619b.6) The eagle is flanked by an owl (wisdom) and two 'kissing' pigeons. The second part has its own title, on it a woodcut printer's mark featuring an old man who stands in the shade of a vine-entwined elmtree, symbolising the symbiotic relationship between scholar and publisher. The motto is enigmatic: 'Non solus' , probably indicating the interdependency of publisher and scholar. They cannot do it alone, and need each other) (Condition: Binding scuffed, corners bumped. Endpapers detached) (Note: Ubbo Emmius, 1547-1625, born in Eastern Friesland was appointed professor of History and Greek literature at the newly established University of Groningen in 1614, where he became also the first Rector Magnificus. In his publications and correspondence with eminent scholars of his time, he defended the right of a people to revolt, an idea that would eventually lead to the French revolution. In the Netherlands he is best known for his Rerum Frisicarum Historia, 1592-1616, the first modern study of Friesland and the Frisians, in which he refuted many idle tales related by earlier historians of Friesland. Among classicists and ancient historians he is known for his 'Vetus Graecia illustrata', a three volume work which he composed during the last years of his life, and which was published posthumously in Leiden in 1626 by the Elzevier brothers. The third volume, which describes the particular form of government of every state or commonwealth of Greece, was published in 1632 separately by Elsevier as 'Graecorum Respublicae') (Provenance: In the center of the upper board have been punched in small type the capitals H A I. The letter A was punched upside down. On the front flyleaf in pencil the Dutch Jewish name: V. Goldsmid, probably 20th century) (Collation: A-2D8; A-X8, (leaves X6, X7 & X8 blank) (Photographs on request)
Magni Des. Erasmi Roterodami vita; partim ab ipsomet Erasmo, partim ab amicis aequalibus fideliter descripta. Accedunt Epistolae illustres plus quam septuaginta, quas aetate provectiore scripsit, nec inter vulgatas in magno volumine comparent, P. Scriverii, & fautorum auspiciis.
Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Ex officina Ioannis Maire, 1642.
12mo. (XXXIV),394,(2 blank) p. Overlapping vellum 13 cm (Ref: Breugelmans p. 494, 1642:7) (Details: Boards with blind double fillet borders. Woodcut printer's mark on the title, depicting a farmer stamping a shovel into the ground, above the head of the farmer the motto 'fac et spera'. Woodcut portrait of Erasmus in the introduction. Pages 1-160 contain the biography of Erasmus, p. 161-394 the more than 70 letters of him) (Condition: Lacking the frontispiece. Vellum age-toned, stained and soiled. Manuscript title on the back. Front hinge cracking. Title slightly thumbed and soiled. Old ownership entry on the title. Almost invisible wormhole in the blank lower margin of 50 pages at the beginning. Occasionally small and old ink notes in the margins of 19 pages. Some pencil stripes. (See the provenance for the maker of these notes)) (Note: Joannes Maire, publisher, printer and bookseller in Leiden, 1603-1657, produced during his career a number Erasmus of editions. The project 'that can be seen as a series, and which ensured Maire's reputation through the ages, is undoubtedly his edition of Erasmus's 'opera omnia' in 12mo. 23 different volumes appeared between 1641 and 1652. The first half of this book contains the introduction and the biographic sketches, the rest is filled with the letters of Erasmus) (Provenance: Inscription in small type on the title: 'Liber Guilhelmi Griffithii Anglo-Brittani Artium Magistri Cantebrigensis; emtus 1.6. 1664'. Ink annotations of William Griffith in the margins of 19 p. We couldnot find this William Griffith in J. Venn & J.A. Venn's 'Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900', Cambridge 1947) (Collation: *12 (minus leaf *1, the frontispiece); 2*6, A-Q12, R6) (Without the 2 conjugate leaves with the portrait and coat of arms of Thomas Neale, which according to Breugelmans only some copies have)) (Photographs on request)
Ioannis Meursii Glossarium Graeco-Barbarum. In quo praeter vocabula quinque millia quadringenta, Officia atque Dignitates Imperii Constantinop. tam in Palatio, quam Ecclesia aut Militia, explicantur, & illustrantur. Editio altera emendata, & circiter MDCCC vocabulis aucta.
Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1614.
4to. (XVI),672 (recte 674),(2 blank) p. Calf . 24 cm <The first important dictionary of medieval and modern Greek> (Ref: STCN ppn 832945064; Willems 91; Rahir 72; Berghman 710; Graesse 4,510; Ebert 13952; Brunet 3,1684) (Details: Back gilt and with 5 raised bands. Red morocco lettring label. Marbled endpapers. Title page printed in red and black. Woodcut of Elsevier's first printer's mark on the title, depicting an aegle that holds a bundle of 7 arrows in its beak, the bird is surrounded by the motto: 'A. 1595, Concordia Res Parvae crescunt'; the seven arrows represent the union of the Seven Provinces of the Dutch republic. Engraved on the verso of the title page the wellknown portrait of Meursius. Printed in 2 columns) (Condition: Binding scuffed, especially at the extremes. Corner of the letterpiece on the back gone. Name on the front flyleaf and on the verso of the title. Small underlinings and marginal notes in ink. Paper slightly foxed, yellowing, and sometimes slightly browning) (Note: The Dutch classicist and historian Johannes Meursius (Johannes van Meurs), 1579-1639, was professor of History and Greek in the university of Leiden from 1610 till 1620. He studied under the genius J.J. Scaliger, and is best known for the 'editiones principes' of a number of Byzantine authors that he produced, his lexicographical works, and the 'editio princeps' of the 'Elementa Harmonica' of Aristoxenus (1616). He edited also the 'Timaeus' of Plato with the commentary and translation of Chalcidius (1617). Meursius' indefatigable labours concerned also the history of ancient Greece, and especially Eleusis, and the antiquities of Athens and Attica, and of Sparta. His work was widely used as source by later ancient historians. Nothing that related to the history of Athens he left untouched, law, government, festivals, institutions, manners, literature, religion etc. The dazzling variety of titles of part of his pioneering work seems almost to exhaust the subject 'ancient Athens'. Meursius' work was widely used as source by later ancient historians, and they laid the foundations of much later learning. Meursius work was incorporated in Jacobus Gronovius' 'Thesaurus Graecarum antiquitatum', Leiden 1697-1702. The first edition of Meursius' lexicographic work 'Glossarium Graeco-Barbarum' was published by Elsevier at Leiden in 1610. This second augmented edition of 1614 contains more than 5400 words, arranged in alphabetical order, with a translation, explanation and elucidation in Latin. Meursius compiled the glossarium from the works of hitherto published works of Byzantine authors, and from a number of manuscripts of the Library of the Leiden University. The greater part of the 'Glossarium' was later incorporated in the still indespensable 'Glossarium ad scriptores mediae et infimae Graecitatis' (Paris 1688) of the famous French Charles philologist and historian of Byzantium and the Middle Ages, Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange) (Provenance: On the front flyleaf: 'Jo. Aug. Henr. Tittmanni, Dr. P.'. The German theologian and philosopher Johann August Heinrich Tittmann, 1773-1831, was appointed after his 'Habilitation' in 1793 professor of philosophy (1796) and theology (1800) at the University of Leipzig and became known as a writer of numerous philosophical and theological works. (See his Wikipedia article) On the blank margin below Meursius' portrait the name: 'M. Joh. Frider. Fischerus, Coburgensis a C.N. 1751'. This is the philosopher and classical scholar Johann Friedrich Fischer, born at Coburg in 1726. He died in Leipzig in 1799. Fischer was from 1751 'Konrektor', and from 1767 till 1799 Rektor of the 'Thomasschule' at Leipzig, and he was from 1762 also professor of classics at the University of Leipzig. He produced several editions of classical authors and wrote works on Biblical criticism.(See his Wikipedia article)) (Collation: *-2*4, A-4P4 (4P4 blank) (The pagination jumps between the gathering 4C and 4D from 576 to 579. Otherwise nothing irregular, the catchword connects and the text continues as it should) (Photographs on request)
Ioannis Meursi Regnum Atticum. Sive de regibus Atheniensium, eorumque rebus gestis, libri III.
(Amsterdam (Amstelodami), Apud Ioannem Iansonium, 1633.
4to. 238;(25 index),(1 blank) p. Contemporary mottled calf 20 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 085747009) (Details: Back gilt and with 5 raised bands. Red morocco letterpiece. Woodcut printer's device on the title, depicting a farmer with a shovel, and a man with a Jacob's staff before his eye, between them a celestial sphere, above them Fama blowing 2 trumpets, motto: 'Vivitur ingenio', short for 'Vivitur ingenio, caetera mortis erunt'. Edges dyed red) (Condition: Upper margin of the title dustsoiled and with some minute tears. Armorial bookplate on the front pastedown) (Note: The Dutch classicist and historian Johannes Meursius (Johannes van Meurs), 1579-1639, was professor of History and Greek in the university of Leiden from 1610 till 1620. He studied under the genius J.J. Scaliger, and is best known for the 'editiones principes' of a number of Byzantine authors that he produced, and the 'editio princeps' of the 'Elementa Harmonica' of Aristoxenus (1616). He edited also the 'Timaeus' of Plato with the commentary and translation of Chalcidius (1617). Meursius' indefatigable labours concerned also the history of ancient Greece, and especially Eleusis, and the antiquities of Athens and Attica. His work was widely used as source by later ancient historians. Nothing that related to the history of Athens he left untouched, law, government, festivals, institutions, manners, literature, religion etc. The dazzling variety of titles of part of his pioneering work seems almost to exhaust the subject 'ancient Athens': De populis Atticae (1616), Atticarum lectionum libri VI (1617), Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides. Sive de tragoediis eorum (1619), Panathenaea. Sive de Minervae illo gemino festo (1619), Eleusinia. Sive, de Cereris Eleusinae sacro, ac festo (1619), Fortuna Attica. Sive, de Athenarum origine (1622), Archontes Athenienses. Sive, de ijs, qui Athenis summum istum magistratum obierunt (1622), Cecropia. Sive de Athenarum arce, & ejusdem antiquitatibus (1622), De ludis Graecorum (1622), Pisistratus. Sive, de ejus vita, & tyrannide (1623), Athenae Atticae. Sive, de praecipuis Athenarum antiquitatibus (1624), Areopagus. Sive, de senatu areopagitico (1624), Regnum Atticum. Sive, de regibus Atheniensium (1633), Reliqua Attica; sive, ad librum De populis Atticae, paralipomena (1684), Theseus, sive de ejus vita rebusque gestis (1684), Themis Attica sive De legibus Atticis (1685) It is manifest that Meursius with these works laid the foundations of much later learning. This title of 1633 was incorporated in Jacobus Gronovius' 'Thesaurus Graecarum antiquitatum', Lugduni Batavorum 1697-1702, vol. IV, col. 1021-1140) (Provenance: Bookplate of 'William Markham Esq., Becca Lodge Yorkshire'. In the 'History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County York', London 1823, p. 643, in a chapter 'Seat of the nobility and Gentry of the West Riding of Yorkshire' a William Markham Esq., who lived at Becca Lodge, 1 mile North of Aberbord, is mentioned. In 1804 he was a member of the Grand Jury of York. He was the eldest son of William Markham, Archbishop of York, who died in 1807. He was born on 5th of April 1760. He 'was private secretary to Warren Hastings, and subsequently resident for some time at Benares, India. Eventually returning to Yorkshire, he seated himself at Becca Hall. He married 20 Aug. 1795, Elizabeth, dau. of the late Oldfied Bowles, Esq. of North Aston, and died 1841'. (B. Burke, 'Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Irland', London 1871, Volume 2 p. 885) (Collation: A-2K4 (leaf 2K4 verso blank)) (Photographs on request)
