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Lawrence Durrell
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IN8 broché, 329p, 1970
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Rerum a Societate Jesu in Oriente gestarum volumen, continens Historiam iucundam lectu omnibus Christianis, praesertimÿs, quibus vera Religio est cordi. In qua videre possunt, quomodo nunquam Deus Ecclesiam suam deferat, & in locum deficientium a vera fide, innumeros alios in abditissimius etiam regionibus substituat.
Cologne, G. Calenius, 1574. 1574 1 vol. in-8° (164 x 111 mm) de : [16] ff. (titre avec vignette de bois gravé, epîtres, index) ; 472 pp. ; nombreuses lettrines historiées de bois gravé, 5 planches de caractères japonais de bois gravé. Plein vélin d'époque, dos titré à l'encre brune. (Restauration de papier à l'angle inférieur de la page de titre avec très léger manque de texte).
Quatrième édition augmentée de cet ouvrage, la première tentative pour établir lhistoire des Missions Jésuites dOrient, et tout particulièrement du Japon. Louvrage sappuie sur la correspondance des missionnaires rassemblée par Manuel da Costa et traduite par Giovanni Pietro Maffei, lun des principaux historiens de lAsie au XVIe siècle. Dès la seconde moitié du XVIe siècle, des membres influents de la Société de Jésus font pression pour que cette histoire soit écrite, avant que quelquun dextérieur ne le fasse. Louvrage, publié pour la première fois à Dillingen en 1571, connaît de nombreuses traductions et rééditions, et participe donc à la formation de limage de lOrient dans les esprits occidentaux. Il sagit de l'une des plus importantes compilations de lettres lors des premières missions jésuites en Extrême Orient, entre 1548 et 1571. Luvre comprend 43 lettres concernant le Japon rédigées par Saint Francis Xavier (deux, l'une d'entre elles datée de Novembre 1549 de Kagoshima), de Frois, Almeida, Vilela et d'autres qui apportent des informations inestimables et des détails sur la culture et les coutumes japonaises. Le « Specimen quoddam litterarum vocumque Japonicarum » est illustré de bois gravés représentant des caractères de calligraphie japonaise. La première partie est tirée dun manuscrit : « Historia dos missiones do Oriente até o anno de 1568 » dû à Manuel da Costa. Ce dernier, un jésuite portugais, missionnaire et bibliographe, enseigna à Coimbra, où se trouvait une grande partie de la correspondance jésuite non censurée. Le manuscrit est envoyé à Rome, pour être traduit en latin et préparé pour la publication par Giovanni Pietro Maffei (1538-1603). Maffei ajouta au manuscrit un grand nombre de textes dans une partie quil intitula « De Japonicus rebus epistolarum ». Il commence à travailler sur les textes de Da Costa en 1565, alors quil entame son noviciat à la Société de Jésus de Rome. A lépoque de la parution de louvrage, il est ordonné prêtre et Mercurian, Supérieur Général de lordre, le charge de rédiger une vie de Saint Ignace de Loyola (1585). Mercurian lenvoie par la suite au Portugal pour rédiger, à partir des archives du royaume, une histoire générale des Missions portugaises aux Indes orientales. Louvrage, « Historiarum Indicarum Libri XVI » qui paraît en 1588, est luvre maîtresse de Maffei, et est particulièrement prisée pour son apport sur le Japon. Bel exemplaire dans sa reliure d'époque de ce rare ouvrage, lune des premières sources sur le Japon. 1 vol. 8vo (164 x 111 mm) of : [16] ff. (title with engraved wood vignette, epistles, index) ; 472 pp. ; numerous historiated woodcut lettering ; 5 plates of engraved woodcut Japanese characters. Full contemp. vellum, back titled in brown ink (Restoration of paper at the bottom corner of the title page with very slight lack of text). Fourth expanded edition of this work, the first attempt to establish the history of the Jesuit Missions of the Orient, and particularly of Japan. The work is based on missionary correspondence collected by Manuel da Costa and translated by Giovanni Pietro Maffei, one of the leading historians of Asia in the 16th century. From the second half of the 16th century, influential members of the Society of Jesus pushed for this story to be written, before anyone outside did so. The work, published for the first time in Dillingen in 1571, has undergone numerous translations and reissues, and therefore participates in the formation of the image of the Orient in Western minds. It is one of the most important compilations of letters during the first Jesuit missions to the Far East, between 1548 and 1571. The work includes 43 letters concerning Japan written by Saint Francis Xavier (two, one of among them dated November 1549 from Kagoshima), Frois, Almeida, Vilela and others who provide invaluable information and details about Japanese culture and customs. The Specimen quoddam litterarum vocumque Japonicarum is illustrated with woodcuts representing Japanese calligraphy characters. The first part is taken from a manuscript: Historia dos missiones do Oriente até o anno de 1568 due to Manuel da Costa. The latter, a Portuguese Jesuit, missionary and bibliographer, taught in Coimbra, where much of the uncensored Jesuit correspondence was located. The manuscript was sent to Rome, to be translated into Latin and prepared for publication by Giovanni Pietro Maffei (1538-1603). Maffei added a large number of texts to the manuscript in a section which he entitled De Japonicus rebus epistolarum. He began working on the texts of Da Costa in 1565, when he began his novitiate at the Society of Jesus in Rome. At the time of the publication of the work, he was ordained a priest and Mercurian, Superior General of the order, charged him with writing a life of Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1585). Mercurian subsequently sent him to Portugal to write, from the archives of the kingdom, a general history of the Portuguese Missions in the East Indies. The work, Historiarum Indicarum Libri XVI which appeared in 1588, is Maffeis masterpiece, and is particularly prized for its contribution to Japan. Beautiful copy in its period binding of this rare work, one of the first sources on Japan.
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Gallimard Gallimard 1970, In-8 broché sous jaquette illustrée. 330 pages. Trés bon état.
Traduit de l'anglais par Roger GIROUX Toutes les expéditions sont faites en suivi au-dessus de 25 euros. Expédition quotidienne pour les envois simples, suivis, recommandés ou Colissimo.
Apollonii Rhodii Argonauticorum libri quatuor. Edidit, nova fere interpretatione illustravit, priorum editorum notas praecipuas selegit, Sanctamandi nunquam prius editis nonnullas suas adjecit, necnon indices tres addidit, Joannes Shaw, A.M. Coll. Beatae Mariae Magdalenae apud Oxonienses socius.
Oxford (Oxonii), E Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1777.
4to. 2 volumes. Volume 1: (XII),496,(1 errata),(1 blank) p.; Volume 2: (II),129,(1),(156 indices),(2 blank) p. Contemporary calf. 28 cm. (Ref: ESTC Citation No. T133192; Ebert 826; Graesse 1,164; Hoffmann 1,207/08; Dibdin 1,276/77; Moss 1,68) (Details: Backs gilt in a wave like pattern, and with 5 raised bands. A shield in the 2nd and 4th compartment. Marbled endpapers. Volume 1 contains the Greek text, followed by a Latin translation. Volume 2 contains the 'Scholia' (p. 1/99), 'Notae et Variae Lectiones', (p. 101/129), an index on the Scholia, and an 'index verborum') (Condition: Bindings worn. Boards scuffed, with some spots and scratches. Some leaves slightly yellowed, occasional light foxing, especially in the blank upper margins) (Note: The Greek poet Apollonius Rhodius was probably born on the island Rhodes ca. 295 B.C. At a young age he moved to Alexandria, attracted, as many others, by the court of the Ptolemaei, where he met the poet Callimachus. Biographic fiction has it that Apollonius' epic the 'Argonautica' was badly received in Alexandria at a recitation (epideixis), that he became an enemy of Callimachus, and then retired to Rhodes, where he revised the poem, which made him famous. The fictional quarrel between both poets is probably an invention of the first biographer of Apollonius the grammarian Theon. ('Apollonius Rhodius, Das Argonautenepos. Herausgegeben, übersetzt und erläutert von R. Glei & S. Natzel-Glei', Darmstadt, 1996, page XIII) The 'Argonautica' is the only surviving posthomeric epic of the Alexandrian period, and places Apollonius direct under the shadow of Homer. The poets modernity is his creation of a short epic of ca 5900 verses (half the Odyssey). He also created a new hero type, democratic, and group oriented. A further innovation is the role of women in this epic, which was traditionally men's business. He is the first to introduce a woman as a hero in an epic, Medea, and he 'erzählt die Ereignisse im wesentlichen aus ihrer Sicht, eine psychologische Meisterleistung'. (o.c. page XIV) In Alexandrian style he delights in displaying his ethnographic erudition, explaning names, cults, geography, relics and habits. The story of the Argonauts belongs to the oldest myths in Greek literature. It is supposed that Homer adopted elements of a prehomeric epic of the voyage of the Argonauts, who sailed with Jason on the Argo to Colchis to secure the Golden Fleece. 'The story has been reworked by modern writers such as Robert Graves (Hercules, my Shipmate, 1945) and John Gardner (Jason and Medeia, 1975) and there have been 2 films called Jason and the Argonauts (1963 and 2000)'. (The Classical tradition, Cambr. Mass., 2010, p. 67) This edition of 1777 was produced by the English scholar John Shaw, 1750-1824, Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, who based his Apollonius on the previous Apollonius edition of Hoelzlin, Leiden 1641. ('secutus sum Hoelzlinum', preface, leaf b1 recto) He proudly boasts that he has done more for the eludication of Apollonius than Hoelzlin. Shaw revised and updated also the literal, wooden Latin translation by Johannes Hartung, (ille fidus adeo interpres) of Basel 1550, often following him. (nec interdum ab Hartungo mutuum accipere dedignatus sum) The reader has, he adds, now a 'interpretationem fidam satis, nec tamen, ut spero, prorsus inelegantem'. (Idem, leaf b1 verso) Shaw also excerpted the earlier commentaries and notes, of Hartung, Henri Estienne (1574), Holstein and Hoelzlin. He also added the notes of one James St. Amand (Jacobus Sanctamandus or Sanctus Amandus) that he found in the Bodleian Library, and the notes and explanations of the recently deceased Oxford scholar John Upton, which he had jotted down in his copy of the 1574 edition of Henri Estienne. The notes of St. Amand are, according to Hoffmann, 'nicht wichtig'. St. Amand was born in 1687. He matriculated in 1703, and left Oxford without taking a degree. He died in 1754. John Upton, 1707-1760, of Merton and Exeter College, edited an Epictetus edition, 1739-1741) (Collation: Vol.1: a-c2, A-N2, P-5I2, 5L-6L2, X1; Vol. 2: pi1, A-2B2, X2, 2C2, 2E2-4C2 (leaf 4C2 blank)) (Photographs on request)
