iulii caesaris scaligeri viri clarissimi von scaliger j c (4 Ergebnisse)

8vo. (IV),663,(1 blank) p. Vellum. 18 cm (Ref: GLN-2523; USTC 450676; cf. Smitskamp's 'The Scaliger collection' no. 146; Brunet 5,179; Graesse 6/289; Ebert 20452) (Details: Back with 4 raised bands. Woodcut printer's mark on the title, depicting two men who are planting and watering young trees; above them, in a cloud, the divine Tetragrammaton, a 4-letter Hebrew word, the name of the biblical God of Israel, Yahweh. § Printed in italics. Volume 1 only, containing the poetry of Julius Caesar Scaliger: 'Apiculae, p. 1; Nemesis, p. 59; Teretismata, ubi Satyrae, p. 76; Nova Epigrammata, p. 113; Farrago, p. 150; Thaumantia, p. 224; Arae Fracastoreae, p. 256; Nymphae indigenae, p. 272; Adamantij Catulli tumulus, p. 391; Heroes, p. 307; Archilochus, p. 329; Hipponax, p. 385; Sidera, p. 458; Lacrymae, p. 526; Aenigmata, p. 546; Urbes, p. 582; Logogriphi, p. 614; Manes Catulliani, p. 634. § Lacking the second volume with poetry of his son Josephus Justus Scaliger) (Condition: Vellum soiled and age-toned. Owner's inscription on the front flyleaf. Old stamp on the title, depicting the Holy Cross, on which rests the Crown of thornes; the monogram C.S. is written across its standard. § A name erased on the title. Paper yellowing. On page 578 has been erased with black ink a 6 lines poem called 'Fratres monachi, iterum', 3 elegiac couplets directed against monks, who are compared to pigs. § Volume 1 only, containing the poetry of Julius Caesar Scaliger only, and lacking the second volume with poetry of his son Josephus Justus Scaliger) (Note: The greatest contribution of the classical scholar of Italian origin Julius Caesar Scaliger (Giulio Bordone della Scala), 1484-1558, to the history of classical scholarship is his brilliant son Josephus Justus Scaliger. In 1524 Julius Caesar Scaliger moved to France where he became physician to bishop Antonio della Rovere of Agen, and where his son Joseph Justus was born in 1540, the same year in which his 'De causis linguae latinae libri tredecim' was published. This book is among his most important philological works. § Scaliger published collections of his Neo-Latin poetry in 1533 and 1546. He considered the mastery of Latin composition not as a pastime, but as the scholar's most valuable skill. In 1574 his son Josephus Justus produced a new edition of his father's collected poetry during his stay at Geneva, where he took refuge because of the French wars of religion and St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (1572). Here he delivered public lectures and tutored students, and met fellow humanists, Beza, Henricus Stephanus et alii, all interested in or writing Neo-Latin poetry.) (Provenance: On the front flyleaf: 'Ad usum D. Romanus Merighij Camald.sis'. This is Don Romanus Merighius (Romano Merighi), born near Imola in 1658, head (procurator generalis) of the Camaldolese Order, the 'Ordo Camaldulensium', a monastic community that traces its lineage to a monastic movement begun by Saint Romuald. Their name is derived from the Holy Hermitage, Sacro Eremo, Camaldoli, near Arezzo. Because of the colour of their habit they are called 'White Benedictines'. Romanus was a theologian, but he also earned fame as a prominent vernacular poet. He is known for the Idyll in Toscan 'Nesso e Logilde'. He died in 1737. His portrait can be found via Google, search for "Porträtsammlung" and "ÖNB", then Schnellsuche: "Merighi". A useful article on Merighi in 'Centifolium Camaldulense, Sive Notatia Scriptorum Camaldulensium', by M. Ziegelbaur, Venice 1750, p. 69/71) (Collation: *4, a-z8, A-S8, T4 (leaf T4 verso blank) 700 gr.

8vo. 2 volumes in 1. Ad 1: (XXIV),451 (recte 455),(1 blank) p. Ad 2: (XV),393,(7) p. Overlapping vellum. 18 cm. - First edition of the Giessener Poetik - (Ref: Ad 1: GLN-3933; USTC 429694. Ad 2: VD17 23:295251P) (Details: 4 thongs laced through the joints. Woodcut printer's device on the title, Veritas: a woman, the naked truth, seated on a cubus, holding a radiant sun in her right hand; in her left hand she holds an opened book and a palm leaf; her feet rest on the globe; the garland of fruit which surrounds her shows a ribbon with the text in Greek: 'Alêtheia Pandamatôr', i.e. 'Allmighty Truth') (Condition: Vellum soiled and spotted. Label pasted on front pastedown, bookplate on verso of the front flyleaf. Occasional old and small ink underlinings. Ad 1: Old ownership inscription and a faint stamp on the title. Paper yellowing. Small wormhole in the first 12 leaves, sometimes nibbling at a letter. Ad 2: Paper browning. Leaf K2 = p. 147/48 removed) (Note: Ad 1: The teaching of Latin was dominated during the Late Middle Ages by a 'fixed set of textbooks, namely the 'Ars Minor' by Donatus (4th cent.), the 'Doctrinale puerorum' by Alexander of Villadei (born ca. 1170) and a compilation of Donatus and Priscian (6th cent.) called 'Ianua cum rudibus primam cupientibus artem''. (M. Haspelmath et alii, 'Language Typology and Language Universals: An International Handbook, volume I', Berlin/New York 2001, p. 211) The first to challenge the rigid systematization of this kind of textbooks was the humanist Guarino Veronese (1374-1460) with his 'Regulae grammaticales' (before 1418). The Italian scholar Lorenzo Valla tried to break from this unscientific tradition with his 'Elegantiarum linguae Latinae libri sex'. (ca. 1444) 'In his mainly stylistically orientated compendium, he insisted on the usage of the language of the classical writers as the guideline for all grammar, thus taking grammar out of its self-contained existence'. (Idem, ibidem) One of the following major humanist linguistic innovations was published in 1540 by the Italian scholar Julius Caesar Scaliger (Giulio Bordone della Scala), 1484-1558. In 1524 he moved to France where he became physician to bishop Antonio della Rovere of Agen, and where his brilliant son Josephus Justus was born in 1540, the same year in which this 'De causis linguae latinae libri tredecim' was published. This work is among his most important philological works. Scaliger claimed 'that grammaticography was a science and not an art and (he) gave it a systematic framework with Aristotelian concepts.' (Idem, Ibidem). The work is 'an acute and judicious work on the leading principles of the language, in the course of which he claims to have corrected 643 mistakes made by Valla and his other predicessors'. (Sandys, 2/178) Scaliger's 'De causis' was reissued in Geneve in 1580 and 1584, and in Heidelberg in 1609 and 1623) Ad 2: The 'Poetica latina nova', better known in Germany as 'Giessener Poetik', was first published in Giessen in 1607. It was written, as is evident from the opening of the introductory poem, by 3 professors of the Giessen 'Gymnasium illustre', Christoph Helwig (Helvicus), Kaspar Finck (Finckius) and Konrad Bachmann (Bachmannus). (Leaf 7 verso) It saw eight reissues until 1671. This makes it, alongside Martin Opitz's 'Buch von der deutschen Poeterey' the most successful poetics of the 17th century. In the 'Giessener Poetik' the references to J.C. Scaliger's 'Poetices libri septem' (Lyon 1561) are numerous. Scaliger's poetics is used to such a degree that the 'Giessener Poetik' must for long stretches be regarded as an exegesis and paraphrasis. Dependence on Scaliger also blocks the professors' access to Aristotelian 'poetics', the existence of which is known to them, as occasional references show, but his 'poetics' left no trace. After a brief introduction follows the division of poetics into 2 parts: the first deals with the 'principia carminis', the other with the 'modus conficiendi'. The 'principia' are syllable quantity and verse foot, the discussion of which accounts for about three quarters of the total poetics. The 'modus conficiendi' encompasses the general principles, metrics and generic theory (Gattungslehre). (See: V. Wels, 'Begriff der Dichtung in der Frühen Neuzeit', Berlin/New York 2009, p. 97/100)) (Provenance: On the front pastedown a book ticket, and a catalogue clipping of the Dutch auctioneers Beijers. § On the front flyleaf the name 'Münichmann, 1841'. § On the verso of the front flyleaf a bookplate of 'Bibliotheek Mariënhage, Eindhoven'. This book was once the property of the Augustine monastery Eindhoven. § A faint stamp on the first title page: 'St Joseph's Society, Mill Hill, London'. This was the Saint Joseph's Society for Foreign Missions, also called the Mill Hill Missionaries or Mill Hill Fathers, a society of apostolic life of Catholic missionaries, founded in 1866. § On the title: 'Ex libris Joannis Schmidt Hamburg. in patria ad D. Nicolai (illegible word), 1622. (illegible word) sufficientissima Haeriditas'. We found one Joannes Schmidt who was Pastor of the Nicolai Church in Hamburg'. He died in 1629. A wild guess) (Collation: Ad 1: *8, 2*4, A-2E8, 2F4 (leaf 2F4 verso blank). Ad 2: 8, A-2B8. (Leaf K2 removed)) (Photographs on request) 700 gr.

8vo. 3 parts in 1: (VIII),663,(1 blank); 336; 70,(1 errata),(1 blank) p. Calf, end 19th century. 17 cm (Ref: GLN-2264; USTC no. 450529; Smitskamp's 'The Scaliger collection' no. 147; cf. Brunet 5,179; cf. Graesse 6/289 & & 6,444; cf. Hoffmann 3,425; Ebert 20452) (Details: Nice binding. Gilt panelled back with 5 raised bands. Boards with triple fillet gilt borders and an oval gilt ornament. Edges of the boards and the turn-ins gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. 'Veritas' woodcut printer's device on the title, depicting a woman, the naked truth, seated on a cubus, holding a radiant sun in her right hand. In her left hand she holds an opened book and a palm leaf. Her feet rest on the globe; the garland of fruit which surrounds her shows a motto in Greek: 'Alêtheia Pandamatôr', i.e. 'Allmighty Truth'. 2 red/yellow/blue book ribbons. § Printed in italics. Each of the 3 parts has a title-page of its own. Part 1 contains: Apiculae, p. 1; Nemesis, p. 59; Teretismata, Satyra, p. 76; Nova Epigrammata, p. 113; Farrago, p. 150; Thaumantia, p. 224; Arae Fracastoreae, p. 256; Nymphae indigenae, p. 272; Adamantij Catulli tumulus, p. 391; Heroes, p. 307; Archilochus, p. 339; Hipponax, p. 385; Sidera, p. 458; Lacrymae, p. 526; Aenigmata, p. 546; Urbes, p. 582; Logogriphi, p. 614; Manes Catulliani, p. 634. Part 2 contains: Ata, p. 3; Hymni, p. 79; Epidorpidum libri octo, p. 98; De Regnorum eversionibus, p. 324; Part 3 contains a Latin translation of the Ajax of Sophocles by the son of Julius Caesar, Josephus Justus Scaliger, and concludes with 20 pages epigrammata composed by junior) (Condition: Some slight wear to the binding. Oval stamp cut out of the first 2 title-pages, but skillfully repaired. In old ink 'Expurgata' written on the title page. Paper yellowing, sometimes browning. § Occasionally a word, or a line, or sometimes a complete poem has been made illegible with ink stripes by a censuring cleric. Scaliger's Poemata figured in the Catholic 'Index librorum prohibitorum'. This 'Index' of forbidden books contained publications that were banned by the Catholic Church, because they were deemed heretical, anti-clerical or immoral. The censoring sometimes came down to the erasing or cutting out of names, or passages, or the removal of leaves, even complete chapters by catholic librarians. Such a librarian must have written, after having completed the job, at the foot of the title-page, 'Expurgata') (Note: The classical scholar Julius Caesar Scaliger (Giulio Bordone della Scala), 1484-1558, was of Italian origin. In 1524 he moved to France where he became physician to bishop Antonio della Rovere of Agen, and where his brilliant son Joseph Juste was born in 1540, the same year in which his 'De causis linguae latinae libri tredecim' was published. This book is among his most important philological works. § Another work of fundamental importance is his 'Poetices libri septem' (1561), a manual for the apprentice poet, that became Europe's standard in matters of Neo-Latin poetry for two centuries. § Scaliger published collections of his Neo-Latin poetry in 1533 and 1546. He considered the mastery of Latin composition not as a pastime, but as the scholar's most valuable skill. In 1574 his son Joseph Juste (Josephus Justus) produced a new edition of his father's collected poems during his stay at Geneva, where he took refuge because of the French wars of religion and St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. Here Scaliger jr. delivered public lectures and tutored students, and met fellow humanists, Beza, Henricus Stephanus et alii, all interested in or writing Neo-Latin poetry. § This edition of 1591 is a line by line reissue of the edition of 1574. To the edition of his father's poetry the son added a work of himself, the translation of Sophocles' Ajax. This translation was first published in 1573 in Paris with a Greek text and the translation on the facing page. The appropriate medium for the translation of the Ajax was in Scaliger's eyes archaic Latin. 'He used as many arcane or distinctively pre-classical words as possible (.). He dressed ordinary words in primitive spellings (.). And, like the archaic poets, he freely coined new compound words'. (Grafton,A., Joseph Scaliger, a study in the history of scholarship', volume 1, Oxford 1983, p. 114/115) After the Ajax Scaliger jr. added 20 pages with epigrammata, Greek and Latin, also of his own) (Provenance: Before the title have been bound 2 leaves, the first from 1890, the 2nd much older, after 1633. The text of the first manuscript leaf: 'Ce volume, que j'ai acheté aux libraires Mayer et Muller, de Berlin, était alors relié avec un exemplaire du Poemata de J. César Scaliger, de l'édition rarisssime de 1546. L'un et l'autre, ainsi réunis avaient appartenu à une Bibliothèque de Vérone (on le voit à la maculature laissée par le timbre, en tête de la 2e partie). L'un et l'autre portait les suppressions imposées par l'Index. - Voir, à ce sujet, la note italienne écrite ci après, probablement par un religieux du couvent dont la Bibliothèque possédait ces volumes. Dans l'éd. de 1546, beaucoup des pièces biffées ici n'avaient pas été supprimées. R. Dezeimeris, 1890.' § The French historian and politician Reinold Dezeimeris, was 'Conservateur' of the 'Bibliothèque municipale' of Bordeaux, and a passionate bibliophile, but most of all he is remembered for his scholarly activities. He devoted many studies to Renaissance authors from his dear city. He participated in an important edition of the 'Essais' of Montaigne, Bordeaux 1870-1873. § This title on offer of father and son Scaliger will have caught his attention, because of their connection with Bordeaux. On the authority of Dezeimeris, who must have had sharp eyes, we assume that the removed stamp from the first 2 title-pages belonged to a library at Verona. In the leaf immediately after the second title the dent of the stamp that was cut out of the title is indeed still visible, though hardly legible. (See for much.

8vo. (XXIV),945 (recte 949; p. 1-432, 431-462 459-945),(67 index) p. Half calf. 18 cm (Ref: GLN-2893; Graesse 6/1,289; Ebert 20450) (Details: Back gilt and with 4 raised bands. Santandrea's 'Veritas' printer's device on the title: a woman, the naked truth, seated on a cubus, holding a radiant sun in her right hand; in her left hand she holds an opened book and a palm leaf; her feet rest on the globe; the garland of fruit which surrounds her shows a ribbon with the text in Greek: 'Alêtheia Pandamatôr', i.e. 'Allmighty Truth) (Condition: Small hole at the junction of the spine and the joint near the foot of the spine. Wear to the head and tail of the spine. Edges a bit worn. Marbled paper on the boards wearing away. Right upper corner of the upper board bending. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Endpapers slightly stained. Three small wormholes in the first leaves. Some small wormholes in the blank lower margin in a few places. Paper yellowing) (Note: The greatest contribution of the classical scholar of Italian origin Julius Caesar Scaliger (Giulio Bordone della Scala), 1484-1558, to the history of classical scholarship is of course his brilliant son Joseph Justus Scaliger. In 1524 he moved to France where he became physician to bishop Antonio della Rovere of Agen, and where his son Joseph Justus was born in 1540, the same year in which his 'De causis linguae latinae libri tredecim' was published. This work is among his most important philological works. § A far more comprehensive work is Scaliger's 'Poetices libri septem', posthumously published at Lyon in 1561, which offers his generically organized classifications of kinds of ancient and modern Latin poems, and comparative criticism of ancient and modern poets, recognizing the rivalry and imitation in Greek, Roman and modern writings. It is 'one of the earliest modern attempts to treat the art of poetry in a systematic manner. Here he deals with the different kinds of poems, and the various metres, together with figures of speech and turns of phrase, criticises all the Latin poets ancient and modern, and institutes a detailed comparison between Homer and Virgil to the distinct advantage of Virgil, while the epics of Homer are regarded as inferior to the 'Hero and Leander' of Musaeus. He also declares Seneca inferior to none of the Greeks in majesty. He makes all literary creation depend ultimately on judicious imitation'. (Sandys 2, p. 178) This Genevan edition of 1581 is a reissue of the edition of 1561. This fundamental work remained the standard in matters of Latin poetry well into the 18th century) (Provenance: Engraved armorial bookplate of 'Robert Chambre Vaughan Esq. Burlton Hall, Co. Salop'. Vaughan, Robert-Chambre, esq. of Burlton Hall in the County of Salop, born in 1796, was a graduate of Brasenose College, Oxford. (See for him and his ancestors J. Burke, 'A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland', London 1835, Volume 2, p. 238/242). In 1818 the degree of Bachelor of Arts was conferred to him. He died in 1876)(Collation: *8, 2*4, a-z8, A-Z8, Aa-Rr8, Ss4) 700 gr.