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ARISTAENETUS. - Aristaeneti Epistolae graecae cum versione latina et notis Josiae Merceri curante Joan. Cornelio de Pauw, cujus notae accedunt.
Utrecht (Trajecti ad Rhenum), Apud Hermannum Besseling, 1737. 4to. (XXIV),287,(1 colophon) p. Overlapping vellum 15.5 cm (Ref: Hoffmann 1,240; Schweiger 1,44; Dibdin 1,292; Fabricius, Bibliotheca Graeca, ed. 4a, Hamburg 1780, p. 696; Brunet 1,448; Ebert 1066; Graesse 1,204) (Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Title printed in red and black. Woodcut ornament on the title. Greek text with facing Latin translation, commentary on the lower half of the page. Edges dyed blue) (Condition: Vellum slightly soiled. Stamp and name on the front flyleaf. Small part of the right lower corner of the front flyleaf cut off, and renewed. Small shelf number in red ink on the title. Two stamps on the verso of the title) (Note: A survey of erotic motives in the literature of Greece and Rome. 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 edition with a Latin translation was published in 1595 in Paris by Iosias Mercier, the 4th edition of which dates from 1639. 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. Aristaenetus had to wait almost a century for the next edition, which appeared in 1736 in Utrecht, produced by Jacobus van Lanckom. Exactly the same edition was brought on the market by the Utrecht publisher Hermannus Besseling, only the impressum on the title differs, the rest is exactly the same. It was said that Aristaenetus was put to sleep in the commentary of Pauw. A revised edition was published in Zwolle in 1749. Cornelis de Pauw, born ca. 1680 in Utrecht, was canon of the \'Sint Jan\'. He was a classical scholar of some repute, and published several editions of Greek and Roman authors, Hephaestion, Horapollo, Anacreon, Quintus Smyrnaeus, Theophrastus\'s Characters, Phrynichus, Aeschylus. By some detractors he was considered to be an \'homme médiocrement savant\', whose ignorance was only exceeded by his impudence. He died in 1749) (Provenance: On the front flyleaf a stamp: \'Prof.Dr. Joh. Irmscher, Berlin NO 55, Erich-Weinert-Strasse 126\'. Johannes Irmscher, born in Dresden 1920, was a classical philologist and byzantine scholar, who made his carreer in the DDR. He died in 2000. On the same flyleaf also in ink: \'C. Schoenemannus, Isleb. 1782\'. This book once belonged to the German classical scholar and geographer Karl Traugott Gottlob Schoenemann, born in Eisleben in 1765. He studied classical philology and ancient geography in Göttingen. In 1787 and 1788 he published the treatises \'De geographia Homeri\' and \'De geographia Argonautarum\' . He died prematurely in 1802. Posterity is still thankful for his \'Bibliotheca historico-litteraria patrum latinorum a Tertulliano usque ad Gregorium M. et Isidorum Hispalensem\' (1792/94), a still indespensable work of reference for early Christian Latin literature, from Tertullian to Isidor of Sevilla. On the title in red ink: \'Ph.H. 85\'. On the verso of the title a round stamp of: \'Biblioth. Gymn. Ill. Gothana\'. This stamps dates from before 1859. In that year the local \'Gymnasium Illustre\' and the \'Herzogliches Realgymnasium\' were transformed into the \'Gymnasium Ernestinum Gotha\'. (See Wikipedia \'Ernestinum Gotha\') (Collation: *8, 2*4, A-S4) (Photographs on request)
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AESCHYLUS. - AISCHULOU, PROMETHEUS DESMÔTÊS, HEPTA EPI THÊBAIS, PERSAI, AGAMEMNÔN, EUMENIDES, HIKETIDES.
Paris (Parisiis), Ex officina Adriani Turnebi Typographi Regij, 1552. 12mo. (VIII),1-211,(1) p. 18th century calf 16.5 cm (Ref: Wartelle p. 2. Hoffmann I,32: \'Eine schöne und seltene Ausgabe\'. Dibdin 1,237: \'beautifully printed\'. Moss 1,7: \'a beautiful edition\'. Brunet I, 77. Graesse 1,29. Ebert 180. Gruys p. 31/46; Mund-Dopchie p. 45/83) (Details: Back with 5 raised bands, the compartments with gilt floral motives. Red morocco shield in the second compartment. Triple fillet gilt borders on both boards. Gilt inside dentelles. Bookblock with gilt edges. Marbled endpapers. Woodcut printer\'s mark on the title) (Condition: Some wear to the extremes of the binding. Some foxing. Marginal repairs in 3 leaves) (Note: The Greek tragedian Aeschylus, 525/4-456 B.C., is the earliest of the surviving tragic playwrights. He \'can be considered the \'inventor\' of tragedy as we understand it\'. (The Classical Tradition, N.Y., 2010, p. 10) He became an instant classic in his time. In Byzantine times seven of his plays, the so called heptas, continued to be copied and studied, but in the West he was forgotten for almost one and a half thousand years. In the Renaissance he was revived with the arrival of Greek manuscripts in the West, and by the printing press. The oldest of the more than 100 surviving Aeschylean manuscripts dates from ca. 1000, and was written in Constantinople. It was brought to Florence by the Italian humanist G. Ausrispa. Aeschylus was published by Aldus in Venice in 1513. It was only in the late 18th century that Aeschylus was translated into French and German. \'From that time forward, interest in Aeschylus blossomed. The character of his language and thought (.) formerly a stumbling block, became a virtue for the new Romantic sensibility, aided perhaps by the fact that the Age of Revolution saw the Aeschylean Prometheus as the archetypal hero of defiance. In this regard the \'continuation\' of Prometheus Bound by Herder (Der entfesselte Prometheus, 1802; choruses set to music by Liszt, 1850-1855) and Shelley (Prometheus Unbound, 1820) are of particular importance\'. (Op. cit.) In the play Zeus is represented as a harsh and unjust tyrant. Aeschylus\' authorship of the Prometheus is however disputed on metrical and stylistic ground, and with respect to the content. § The French eminent humanist scholar Adrien Turnebus, 1512-1565, \'was a specialist in Greek textual criticism. From 1552-1556 he was Director of the Royal Press, and, in that capacity, published a series of Greek texts, including Aeschylus (1552) and Sophocles with the scholia of Triclinius (1553)\'. (Sandys, 2,186) In 1547 Turnebus was appointed Professor Regius at the Collège Royal. \'Turnebus himself says the following on his sources and working method in his Greek foreword (of this Aeschylyus edition); after he had started work on this edition, he found his task more difficult than he had originally expected, on account of the excessive corruption of the text (i.e. Aldus); as a good physician he has attempted to heal the patient by both due caution and thoroughness; may the gentle reader sooner be grateful to him for his successes than blame him for his failures. Fortunately he had been given an old ms. of the triad by Aimar de Ranconet so that he had had a sound basis for its emendation, but correction of the other tragedies was extremely difficult through the lack of mss.; yet there too he had been able to emend considerably with the aid of the scholia and by conjecture\'. (Gruys p. 35)) (Collation: alpha4, A-N8, O2) (Photographs on request)
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J. B. BURY - The Cambridge Ancient History Iii the Assyrian Empire
Cambridge, At the University Press, 1970, Reprint. Cloth with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, 821pp.Red cloth cover, d.j is in good order , sound throughout. A really nice copy .As it is a very heavy volume , if it is ordered in conjunction with another one of the same series we would pay the extra postage, (the postage for the second volume.) , Good +/Good.
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