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ARISTAENETUS. - ARISTAINETOU EPISTOLAI. Aristaeneti Epistolae graecae. Cum latina interpretatione & notis. Altera editio emendatior & auctior.
Paris (Parisiis), Apud Marcum Orry, via Iacobaea, sub signo leonis salientis, 1600. 8vo. (VIII),282,(2 animadvertenda),(4 blank) p. Limp vellum 18 cm (Ref: Hoffmann 1,239; Graesse 1,204; Ebert 1065) (Details: Among bibliographers and librarians there is confusion about the date of this book. The date on the title of this second edition of the letters of Aristaenetus is indicated as MVIC. We found in KVK (Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog) records of this title dated 1594, 1596 and 1600. 1594 is definitely wrong, for the Parisian printer Orry published the first edition of this title in 1595, indicated by him as MDLXXXXV, and he repeated it the next year, now with MDXXXXVI. The third edition was published in 1610, with the date MCX. As the second edition cannot preceed the first edition of 1595 (and its repetition of 1596), this second edition comes between 1596 and 1610, so these very unusual Roman numerals MVID (1000, 6, 500) might well mean 1600. § 2 thongs laced through the joints. The boards and the back have blind-tooled double fillet borders. All 3 edges gilt. On the title the printer\'s mark of Orry, depicting a jumping lion on his way to the top of a steep mountain, where a crown of stars awaits him; the motto is: \'Virtus ad astra per aspera\'. Greek text with facing Latin translation) (Condition: Vellum age-tanned and slightly spotted. All 4 ties gone. 1 very tiny hole in the upper board. Small bookplate on the front pastedown. Inscription on the front flyleaf. Small strip of the upper margin of the title, with an owner\'s inscription, torn off, and repaired. Two other old owner\'s inscriptions on the title, and an owner once added in ink the name of the editor of Aristaenetus \'(Josiae) Mercerii Des Bordes\'. Lower margin stained in places. Some old annotations & underlinings. A small wormhole in the blank lower margin of the last gathering) (Note: Aristaenetus is the established name of the author of a collection of love letters in two books, probably from the beginning of the 6th century AD. It survives only in one Codex, of which the first folio with the name of the real author is lacking. Aristaenetus (Bestpraiseworthy) is only applied to the sender of the first letter. This is clearly a case of an imaginary letter-writer. The sources used are Plato, Menander, Lucianus, Alciphron, Philostratus, the ancient novels, and love elegies of Callimachus. Aristaenetus draws however in a conventional way a veil over too explicit love-making. The collection is a kind of survey of erotic motives in the literature of Greece and Rome. Everyting erotic however is covered with a veil of prudery. Aristaenetus ends after some cuddling before the bedroom is entered. (Neue Pauly, 1,1087) The collection was allready attributed to Aristaenetus in the \'editio princeps\' of Antwerp 1566, edited by J. Sambucus. An (first) edition with a Latin translation was published in 1595 in Paris by Josias Mercier des Bordes. Sometimes this edition and the second edition of 1600 is erroneously attributed to the French scholar Jacques Bongars, 1554-1612. This cannot be correct, for the editor dedicates his Aristaenetus in the \'dedicatio\', dated 1595, to Jacobus Bongarsius, whom he thanks for his great support. (\'Aristaenetum mitto te tandem, ut liberem fidem dudum obligatam tibi, qui mihi edendi auctor praecipuus.\' (p. â2 recto) Mercier was the first to observe that the first letter of the collection was imagined to have been written by one Aristaenetus, and that the collection belonged to the genre of imaginative epistolography. (See p. 198/99 of this edition of 1600) This book on offer is the second revised and augmented edition. Besides the text and translation it offers ca. 90 pages commentary. (Much more on this French calvinist nobleman and scholar, who died in 1626, in \'L\'Histoire de La Norville\' by l\'abbé A.E. Genty (1885), online available at the \'Cercle Généalogique Norvillois\')(Provenance: On the front pastedown the bookplate of the Dutch Jewish physican and famous bookcollector Bob Luza, 1893-1980, who survived Bergen-Belsen, and whose library was auctioned in 1981 by Van Gendt. Depicted is a book with the initials \'B.L.\' on the upper board, together with the wellknown symbol of the rod of Asclepius, in the background a burning sun. (See for Luza, P.J. Buijnsters, \'Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse bibliofilie\', Nijmegen 2010, p. 274-76) § On the title the traces of a name at the upper edge. Below the imprint: \'Radulphi Fornerii J.U.D. Aurelii\'. Raoul Fornier, or latinized Radulphus Fornerius, 1562-1627, sieur de Rondau, and \'Juris Utriusque Doctor\' at Orléans, was like his father Guillielmus Fornerius, professor of law at the University of Orléans at the end of the 16th century. His best known work is \'Rerum quotidianarum libri sex. Quorum tres posteriores nunc primum in lucem prodeunt. In quibus plerique tum juris utriusque, tum variorum auctorum loci vel illustrantur, vel emendantur, multa etiam ad antiquitatis studium pertinentia tractantur. Auctore Radulpho Fornerio Gul. F. antecessore Aurelio\'. It was first published in Paris in 1600. The 4th edition dates from 1644. This work is a proof of his excellent knowledge of Latin. He suggested a number of sound emendations and elucidated obscure passages) (Collation: a4; A-R8, S4, T4 (last 2 leaves blank) (Photographs on request)
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ARISTOTELES. - ARISTOTELOUS PHUSIKÊS AKROASEÔS BIBLIA TH\'. Aristotelis Stagiritae, Peripateticorum Principis, Naturalis auscultationis libri VIII. Jul. Pacius a Beriga cum Graecis excusis quam scriptis codicibus accurate contulit, Latina interpretatione auxit, & commentariis analyticis illustravit. Adiectus est geminus index: alter librorum, tractatuum & capitum: alter rerum & verborum in toto opere memorabilium.
Frankfurt (Francofurti), Apud heredes Andreae Wecheli, Claudium Marnium & Iohannem Aubrium, 1596. 8vo. (XXIV),992 (recte 984) p. Vellum. 17 cm. (Ref: VD16 A 3554; Hoffmann 1,286: \'Durch d. Vergleich v. Heidelb. Mss. hat d. Ausg. krit. Werth\'; Cranz, \'A bibliography of Aristotle editions, 1501-1600\', no. 108.745\'; cf. Neue Pauly, Supplementband 2, p. 73 where Pacius\' edition of the complete Aristotle, Geneva 1597, is mentioned) (Details: The Greek text and the opposing Latin translation are printed in 2 columns on the first 336 pages. Woodcut printer\'s mark on the title, depicting the winged horse Pegasus gracefully arched over a caduceus and 2 intertwined cornucopiae. Edges dyed gray/blue) (Condition: Vellum scuffed, spotted and worn to the extremes. Upper joint split for the greater part. Back somewhat damaged. Occasional contemporary ink underlinings & annotations.(Note: \'The influence of Aristotle, 384-322 BC, on Western intellectual life is immense, so much so that once one begins to track it, no field of inquiry can be identified that it would be safe to overlook. Aristotle laid the foundations for not one but two sciences, logic and biology, an achievement unmatched by any thinker before or since\'. (The Classical Tradition, Cambr. Mass. 2010, p. 70) For centuries his authority was so great that it prevented the further development of some of the sciences, e.g. astronomy. A.E. Taylor, who thought that the qualifications of Aristotle as a man of science have been much overrated, argues that Aristotle\'s ascendancy over thought in certain areas, biology, astronomy, is to be regretted, on account of his physical doctrines. The early 17th century English philosopher Francis Bacon found the veneration for Aristotle one of the chief hindrances to the free development of natural science. (A.E. Taylor, \'Aristotle\', N.Y. 1955, p. 61/62) Nevertheless, the Phusikês akroaseôs, or Naturalis auscultatio, nowadays known as the Physics, or Physica, is one of the most important works of Aristotle. The title Physics is misleading to a modern reader, \'as a matter of fact the ancient name for it is phusikês akrôasis\', i.e. Lectures (literally \'hearing\') on Nature. It discusses, not such laws as are generally studied by a modern physicist, but rather the fundamental ideas of matter, motion and so forth, leading up to the famous conception of God as the ummoved mover of the whole\'. (H.J. Rose, \'A History of Greek Literature, London, 1965, p. 274/75) § This 1596 edition of Aristotle\'s Physics was produced by the Italian Aristotelian scholar Julius Pacius a Berige, or in Italian Giulio Pace de Beriga, 1550-1635. He had protestant sympathies and had to flee to Geneva. He was an itinerant scholar, he was professor in Geneva from 1575 to 1585. He taught law at the University of Heidelberg from 1585 to 1595. Later we find him teaching Greek and law at the Academy of Sedan, the Universities of Nimes, Leiden, Grenoble, Montpelliere, Valence and finally at Padua. Pacius showed a humanist\'s concern for the accurate establishment of the Greek texts and their accurate translation into Latin. He was the editor, translator and commentator of Aristotle\'s Organon, (1584, 1585, 1591, 1597 (Wechel at Frankfurt), 1598, 1605, 1617, 1682) one of the most widely used editions of his time. His edition of the Phusikês akroaseôs of 1596 was repeated in 1608 and in 1629. Pacius, who was a jurist too, edited also the Corpus Juris, which was reissued several times. (J. Berriat-Saint-Prix, \'Notice sur Julius Pacius a Beriga, jurisconsulte et philosophe des XVIe et XVIIe siècles\', Paris, 1840; easier, but much shorter, Pacius\' lemma in Wikipedia) (Provenance: Two bookplates and a small inscription on the front pastedown, which belong together. The first is an armorial bookplate: \'Ex libris Hans Schless\'. The second bookplate: \'Ex libris D.F.\' It depicts some pharmacist\'s paraphanalia. The inscription on the pastedown below these two bookplates explains it all: \'Skaenket Dansk Farmaceutforening, Bibliotek af Hans Schlesch, 8 III 1955\'. This book was donated to the Library of the Danish Union of Pharmacists (D.F.) by Hans Schlesch in March 1955. Dr. Hans Schlesch, 1891-1962, was a Danish malacologist and shell-collector of worldfame. He wrote numerous articles. § On the front flyleaf the name: \'G.L. Buhrke, 1828\'. (?) § On the title the ownership inscription: \'Joannes Stille, comparavi Brunsvigae anno 1644\'. Not much is known about this Johannes Stille. The most substantial is perhaps the mentioning of him, if it is him, in a history of the University of Rindeln. Here it is told that he died in 1660 and that he was a member of \'philosophische Fakultät, welche als eine Vorschule der Theologie mit Recht betrachtet wurde\'. (F.K.Th. Piderit, \'Geschichte der Hessisch-Schaumburgischen Universität Rinteln\', Marburg 1842) Perhaps the same Stille produced in 1646 in Helmstedt this dissertation: \'Disputatio philosophica continens quaestiones miscellaneas, quam dirigente divino numine sub prae-sidio viri clarissimi & excellentissimi Dn. M. Johannis à Felden math. P. P. examinandam proponit Johannes Stille Hannoveranus\'. One Johannes Stille studied some time in Leiden; in the Album Studiosorum of that University it is recorded that he was born in 1622) (Collation: *4, )(8, A-2P8, 2Q4) (Photographs on request)
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