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Historia Animalium Sacra In Qua Plerorumque Animalium Praecipuae Proprietates In gratiam Studiosorum Theologiae & Ministrorum.
Wittenberg, Schurer & Gormann, 1616. 8vo. In contemporary full vellum with triple ruled fillets to boards. Title in contemporary hand to spine. Inner hinges split. Wear and soiling to extremities. Previous owner's name in contemporary to spine. Internally nice and clean. (48), 888, (32) pp.
Third edition of this interesting and highly popular work offering a theological interpretation of natural history typical of the early 17th century, where natural phenomena were often seen through religious and moral symbolism. Editions appeared in Wittenberg in 1612, 1613, 1616,1621, 1624, 1633, 1642, 1659 and Amsterdam in 1643, 1654, 1665 “In 1612, the protestant theologian Wolfgang Franzius published a book entitled Historia animalium sacra. Franzius (Franz or Frantze, 1564–1628) was Probst [Rural Dean] of Wittenberg and professor of theology at the university. Wittenberg – the city where Luther had initiated the Reformation in 1517 – was still a stronghold for the Reformation, but the Catholic Counter-Reformation was a threatening reality. The Historia animalium sacra was widely read: A long series of editions appeared from 1612 until 1671, and an English translation was published in London in 1670. To later readers, Franzius’s work was presented together with extensive commentaries written by Johannes Cyprianus (1642–1723), professor of physics and later of theology in Leipzig.” (Roggen, Biology and Theology in Franzius’s Historia Animalium Sacra).
Historiæ Naturalis de Piscibus et Cetis Libri V. Cum æneis figuris. + Historiæ Naturalis De Exanguibus Aquaticis Libri IV. Cum figuris Æneis.
Amstelodami (Amsterdam), Johannes Jacobi Schipperi, 1657. Folio. Bound in one later (ca. 1800) hcalf w. marbled boards, uncut. Back w. six raised bands and coloured title-labels. Hinges, capitals and corners w. traces of use. First 12 leaves of ""De Piscibus"" w. repair to lower margin (ca. 4 x 10 cm. and decreasing) w. waterstaining around it, neither repair nor waterstaining affecting text or illustrations. Otherwise internally nice and clean. Engr. t-p. and 48 engr. plates (most of them depicting between 7 and 20 animals that live in water), 5, (3), 160 pp. (De Piscibus) + woodcut title-vignette and 20 engr. plates (most of them depicting between 10 and 20 shell-fish etc.), 58, (2) pp.
Second edition of both works. The ""Exanguibus Aquaticis"" is in accordance with Nissen's description of the second edition (Nissen 2134), the second edition of the ""De Piscibus"", however, is described in Nissen without year and as containing 47 plates, as the first edition, whereas this copy has 48 plates (all numbered), place and printer are the same. The first editions were both printed in Frankfurt in 1650. Johnston (1603 - 1675) was born in Poland and of Scottish descend, he was primarily a medic and natural historian. His works are usually seen as compilations of information with no personal judgment accompanying it. None the less his works of natural history were of great importance to the growing interest in this field of the time. ""For example four of his dictionary-style works on fish, birds, quadrupeds, and insects -published between 1650 and 1653 with excellent illustrations- were widely read and translated"" (D.S.B. VII:164). Though he relied a lot on the writings of others (e.g. those of Aldrovandi), his works became of great importance, first of all because of their new educational approach, but they were also of paramount importance to the development of natural history in Japan. The first collected edition in Dutch of the Historia Naturalis published at Amsterdam in 1660, was presented as a gift to the Japanese ruler Shogun Yoshimune. It was the only source of knowledge of western natural history in Japan, until in 1750. ""Jonston's writings were a useful contribution to seventeenth-century thought, although he was not in the forefront of changing concepts of the time."" (D.S.B. VII:165).These two works are the separate volumes three and four of Johnston's six-volume work ""Historia Naturalis"". All the beautifully executed plates are by Merian, who printed the first edition. Wood mentions this 1657-edition as the ""editio princeps"" (Wood p. 409). Nissen 2133 + 2134.
De historia plantarum libri decem. Graecè & Latinè. Textum Graecum variis Lectionibus, emendationibus, hiulcorum supplementis: Latinam Gazae versionem nova interpretatione ad margines: totum Opus absolutissimis cum Notis, tum Commentariis: item rario... - [THE MOST IMPORTANT BOTANICAL WORK OF THE 17TH CENTURY]
Amsterdam, Heinric Laurentius, 1644. Folio. Contemporary full vellum with neat later (19th century) rebacking. Six raised bands and gilt title to spine. Some wear to extremities. Internally a fresh and clean copy with only a bit of occasional brownspotting. Endpapers with a bit of soiling. 2 bookplates to inside of front board: Gilbert Redgrave, London (dated 1894) & Gorden M. Jones, Virginia. Text in Greek and Latin. Woodcut title-page, numerous woodcut intials throughout, and more than 600 woodcut illustrations in the text. (20), 1187, (1), (88 - Index) pp.
First edition thus, being the most important and influential edition of Theophrastus' seminal work ""Enquiry into Plants"" - the first systematization of the botanical world and the most important contribution to botanical science up until the Renaissance. Bodaeus von Stapel's groundbreaking edition constitutes the first illustrated edition of Theophrastus' masterpiece as well as the first with both Greek and Latin text. Furthermore, von Stapel has not only collected all relevant commentaries and knowledge, he has also added corrections and much foundational information, turning the work into one of the most influential botanical works of the 17th century, profoundly influencing the likes of Linnaeus and contributing significantly to the development of modern scientific botany. ""This edition displays great care and research" the notes are numerous and learned, and all botanical information to be gleaned from Aristotle, Pliny, Dioscorides, and other ancient writers, seems to be embodied in this work. The Greek text is Heinsius's" the Latin version is that of the editor, who has placed Gaza's in the margin, with frequent corrections. The conjectures of Scaliger, Constantine, and Salmasius, are also incorporated... it has collected into one body the opinions of the old writers on the subject of the PLANTS. It contains some wood-cuts of the rarer species, which are much better uncoloured than coloured."" Dibdin II:498). The numerous woodcut plant illustrations were partly copied from other sources and partly made especially for this edition. Thus, apart from being ""one of the best and most thoughtfully prepared of all the editions of Theophrastos"" (Hunt), our editor has also made original contributions that are of great importance. ""It is interesting not only because of the brilliance of the editing, but, curiously enough, to the American botanist as well, for involving in the discussion certain species from Virginia, other parts of the New World, and Asia. The illustrations of these plants have been largely overlooked in botanical history, because of their incidental presence in a work which might not be expected to contain anything of the sort. Some were merely borrowed from l'Ecluse or de Lobel, but others seem original in this work"" (H.H. Bartlett: Fifty-five Rare Books - quoted by Hunt).At the height of the Renaissance, with the expansion of the known world and the spreading of the book due to the invention of the printing press, many new publications on plants appeared. Most of these publications, however, were primarily concerned with the medicinal qualities of individual plants and only few authors or editors took an interest in the general nature of the plants and how they could systematically be classified. One of the few exceptions was Bodaeus von Stapel. With his seminal 1644 edition of ""Historia Plantarum"", he focused on the overarching classification system of plants and took Theophrastus' work a step further, adding essential commentaries and illustrations - illustrations that were to be copied for centuries after. These illustrations remain the standard illustrations of Theophrastus' foundational work. This edition of Theophrastus' ""Historia Plantarum"" became the standard edition of that earliest work on systematic botany and the edition that all serious scientific botanists of the 17th and 18th centuries will have studied. ""Linnaeus, in the practice of his favourite art of systematizing, classified not only plants but the writers about them. The writers he distinguishes primarily as Botanists, and Plant Lovers, recognizing as Botanists only such as treat of plants from some philosophic or scientific point of view. Choosing his illustrations from annals of remote antiquity, he names among the earliest of the Greeks who wrote of plants Hippocrates"" but because he wrote of plants only in the interests of medicine Linnaeus styles him Father of Medicine... Similarly Aristotle... is down in the Linnaean list of ancient celebrities as Prince of Philosophers. To Theophrastus, however, he accords the title Father of Botany. From this opinion, far from having been newly promulgated in Linnaeus's time, there has been no dissenting voice. On the contrary, Albert Haller, one of the most learned men in Europe in his day, and a botanist of such renown that Linnaeus held him in reverence, and also in some fear, denominates Theophrastus ""the first of real botanists in point of time."" Kurt Sprengel in the nineteenth century, having rehearsed the names of a long line of ancient authors who had written more or less concerning plants, says: ""But the most illustrious of them all, and the true father of botany, was Theophrastus Eresius…."" (Greene, Landmarks of Botanical History, I:128).It is no wonder that Linnaeus should find in Theophrastus the Father of his own field - The ""Historia Plantarum"" was not only the earliest work on systematic botany, it also contained Theophrastus' description of the formation of the plant seed, the earliest account known and the best that was made for 2000 years.Hunt: 240" Pritzel: 9197 BM: V:2091 Dibdin: II:498.
Corpus Christianorum. Arator Subdiaconus Historia apostolica,
Turnhout, Brepols, 1959 Hardback, IV+584 p., 155 x 245 mm. ISBN 9782503013015.
Am 6. April 544 uberreichte Arator seine Historia apostolica, ein Bibelepos, das die Apostelgeschichte in zwei Buchern von 1076 bzw. 1250 Hexametern behandelt, dem Papst Vigilius mit einem Widmungsbrief. Schon sieben Tage nach der Uberreichung begann Arator, inmitten der Wirren des ostgotisch-byzantinischen Krieges, mit Genehmingung des Papstes sein Werk in der Kirche S. Petri ad uincula in Rom offentlich unter grossem Beifall vorzulesen: die letzte offentliche antike Dichterlesung, von der wir Kunde haben. Wege ihres reichen Wortschatzes, ihrer gewandten Ausdrucke, ihrer kuhnen Allegorien und Zahlenmystik und dank ihrem erbaulich-didaktischen Gehalt wurde diese Dichtung im Mittelalter viel gepriesen und gelesen, und ist unter die christlichen , in der Schule zu lesenden Klassiker eingereiht worden. Arator wurde also, bereits im fruhen Mittelalter, zu einem der beliebtesten Dichter und seit der Karolingerzeit wurde auch er im Schulunterricht neben der heidnischen Klassikern verwendet und mitunter selbst uber einen Vergil gestellt. Als Schultext wurde Arators Historia apostolica denn auch zu wiederholten Malen in Autoren-Sammelcodices, versehen mit zahlreichen interlinearen und marginalen Glossen und Kommentaren, uberliefert worden. Unsere neue Edition der Historia apostolica von Arator grundet sich auf alle 27 bis zum Ende des 11. Jahrhunderts (= dem Hohepunkt der Glossierungstatigkeit in den Arator-Handschriften) mit Glossen und Kommentaren versehenen Arator-Hss., und ist zweigliedrig: geboten wird einerseits eine kritische Edition der Historia apostolica mit einem ausfuhrlichen Quellenapparat, welche hinsichtlich der Ausgabe von McKinlay (CSEL 72, Wien 1951) und Perugi (Roma 1911) manche Verbesserungen aufweist, und andrerseits eine erste kritische Ausgabe der mittelalterlichen Glossen und Kommentare zu Arators Historia apostolica. Der kritischen Edition der Historia apostolica und der mittelalterlichen Glossen und Kommentare geht eine eingehende Einfuhrung voraus uber Arators Leben und Werk, das Fortleben der Historia apostolica im Mittelalter, Arator als Schulautor, die Historia apostolica und die Schulautoren-Codices, die handschriftliche Uberlieferung von Arators Historia apostolica, die Testimonia usw. Die Ausgabe schliesst mit einem Appendix zu den Quellen der Historia apostolica, einem Index Biblicus, Index Auctorum und einem Verzeichnis der althochdeutschen Glossen. Languages: Latin, French.
Corpus Christianorum. Arator Subdiaconus Historia apostolica Glossae,
Turnhout, Brepols, 2006 Hardback, IV+695 p., 155 x 245 mm. ISBN 9782503013039.
Am 6. April 544 uberreichte Arator seine Historia apostolica, ein Bibelepos, das die Apostelgeschichte in zwei Buchern von 1076 bzw. 1250 Hexametern behandelt, dem Papst Vigilius mit einem Widmungsbrief. Schon sieben Tage nach der Uberreichung begann Arator, inmitten der Wirren des ostgotisch-byzantinischen Krieges, mit Genehmingung des Papstes sein Werk in der Kirche S. Petri ad uincula in Rom offentlich unter grossem Beifall vorzulesen: die letzte offentliche antike Dichterlesung, von der wir Kunde haben. Wege ihres reichen Wortschatzes, ihrer gewandten Ausdrucke, ihrer kuhnen Allegorien und Zahlenmystik und dank ihrem erbaulich-didaktischen Gehalt wurde diese Dichtung im Mittelalter viel gepriesen und gelesen, und ist unter die christlichen , in der Schule zu lesenden Klassiker eingereiht worden. Arator wurde also, bereits im fruhen Mittelalter, zu einem der beliebtesten Dichter und seit der Karolingerzeit wurde auch er im Schulunterricht neben der heidnischen Klassikern verwendet und mitunter selbst uber einen Vergil gestellt. Als Schultext wurde Arators Historia apostolica denn auch zu wiederholten Malen in Autoren-Sammelcodices, versehen mit zahlreichen interlinearen und marginalen Glossen und Kommentaren, uberliefert worden. Unsere neue Edition der Historia apostolica von Arator grundet sich auf alle 27 bis zum Ende des 11. Jahrhunderts (= dem Hohepunkt der Glossierungstatigkeit in den Arator-Handschriften) mit Glossen und Kommentaren versehenen Arator-Hss., und ist zweigliedrig: geboten wird einerseits eine kritische Edition der Historia apostolica mit einem ausfuhrlichen Quellenapparat, welche hinsichtlich der Ausgabe von McKinlay (CSEL 72, Wien 1951) und Perugi (Roma 1911) manche Verbesserungen aufweist, und andrerseits eine erste kritische Ausgabe der mittelalterlichen Glossen und Kommentare zu Arators Historia apostolica. Der kritischen Edition der Historia apostolica und der mittelalterlichen Glossen und Kommentare geht eine eingehende Einfuhrung voraus uber Arators Leben und Werk, das Fortleben der Historia apostolica im Mittelalter, Arator als Schulautor, die Historia apostolica und die Schulautoren-Codices, die handschriftliche Uberlieferung von Arators Historia apostolica, die Testimonia usw. Die Ausgabe schliesst mit einem Appendix zu den Quellen der Historia apostolica, einem Index Biblicus, Index Auctorum und einem Verzeichnis der althochdeutschen Glossen. Languages: Latin, French.
