‎MARTIALIS VALERII‎
‎Epigrammata‎

‎Iulii Caesaris Scaligeri viri clarissimi Poemata in duas partes divisa. Pleraque omnia in publicum iam primum prodeunt; reliqua vero quam ante emendatius edita sunt. Sophoclis Aiax Lorarius, stylo Tragico a Josepho Scaligero Iulii F. translatus. Eiusdem epigrammata quaedam, tum Graeca tum Latina, cum quibusdam e Graeco versis. ‎

‎N.pl. (Geneva), Apud Petrum Santandreanum (Pierre de Saint-André), 1591. ‎

‎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: Printed in italics. Some signs of censorship in the text. 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. 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 more on Dezeimeris: rfhl.org/pages/historique/bibliophiles-bordelais/reinhold-dezeimeris-1835-1913.html and especially a biography at: saint-blaise-cadillac.eklablog.com/reinhold-dezeimeris-a46642037. Scaliger pretended to be a descendant of the house of La Scala, for hundred and fifty years lords of Verona. Dezeiremis apparantly split up the binding with works of Scaliger that he bought from the famous price-cutting Berlin 'Antiquariat Mayer & Müller'. This fine binding with Scaliger's Poemata of 1591 was probably commissioned by him. The librarian who wrote 'Expurgata' on the title, probably also wrote the text on the leaf bound before the first flyleaf. It is in Italian, and refers to the decree of the Church for the prohibition of Scaliger's works, dated March 19, 1633) (Collation: *4, a-z8, A-S8, T4 (leaf T4 verso blank); Aa-Xx8; AA-DD8, EE4 (leaf EE4 verso blank)) ‎

‎M.V. Martialis epigrammata. M.V. Marcial Epigrams: translated and explained by ‎

‎M.V. Martialis epigrammata. M.V. Marcial Epigrams: translated and explained by A. Fet. In two parts. In Russian /M.V. Martialis epigrammata. M.V. Martsiala Epigrammy: v perevode i s obyasneniyami A. Feta.V dvukh chastyakh. Moscow: Type. A.I. Mamontov and K, 1891. XXIII, 934 p. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb7b0f81254195a240.‎

‎M. Val. Martialis Epigrammata, Demptis obfcenis, cum interpretatione, ac notis‎

‎collection d'épigrammes écrites par le poète latin Marcus Valerius Martialis, plus couramment connu sous le nom de Martial. Cette œuvre est également souvent appelée "Épigrammes de Martial". Martial était un poète romain du 1er siècle après J.-C., connu pour sa maîtrise de l'épigramme, un genre poétique court et incisif. Les épigrammes de Martial sont des poèmes succincts qui traitent de divers sujets, tels que la vie quotidienne, la satire, les portraits, l'amour et les aspects sociaux de la Rome impériale. L'œuvre complète de Martial est divisée en quinze livres, chacun contenant un grand nombre d'épigrammes. Ces poèmes offrent un aperçu vivant de la vie à Rome à l'époque impériale, avec des descriptions colorées de la société, des personnalités et des coutumes de l'époque. Les épigrammes de Martial sont souvent acérées et sarcastiques, utilisant l'humour et la satire pour critiquer certains aspects de la société et de la culture romaines. Les œuvres de Martial ont eu une influence durable sur la poésie épigrammatique et satirique ultérieure. Sa façon de jouer avec les mots, son sens de l'observation et sa capacité à capturer des détails de la vie quotidienne en ont fait un poète populaire de son époque et au-delà. Les épigrammes de Martial offrent également des informations précieuses sur la vie à Rome et sur les attitudes culturelles de cette période. En somme, "Epigrammata" de Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial) est une collection d'épigrammes qui offre un aperçu fascinant de la vie et de la culture de la Rome impériale à travers le prisme de la poésie satirique et humoristique. "Je vis dans une petite cellule, avec une fenêtre qui ne ferme même pas, Dans lequel Boreas lui-même ne voudrait pas vivre." vol in-8, 170x100, relié pleine basane époque, solidement relié, tranches jaspées, très bel état, leg traces brunes sur qq pages, 690pp + index. Parisiis, Simonis Benard, 1693. Rare ref/22/1‎

‎Epigrammata et poematia vetera. Quorum pleraque nunc primum ex antiquis codicibus & lapidibus, alia sparsim antehac errantia, iam undecunque collecta emendatiora eduntur. ‎

‎Paris (Parisiis), Apud Nicolaum Gillium, sub trium Coronarum signo, 1590. (Colophon at the end: Parisiis, Excudebat Dionysius Duvallius typographus, 1589, mense Septembri) ‎

‎12mo. (VIII),191,(1 blank); 491,(1 blank) p. Calf 13 cm. The first edition which bears any resemblance to what is now the Anthologia Latina (Ref: Schweiger 2,6 (under Anthologia Latina); Graesse 2,486; Ebert 6804: 'very scarce and interesting'; Brunet 2,1017: 'recherché et assez rare') (Details: Back gilt elaborately, and with 5 raised bands. Red morocco shield in the second compartment. Woodcut printer's mark on title, depicting within a wreath a scepter and three crowns, the motto is hic labor. Edges dyed red. At the end, between 2K and 2L, a gathering has been inserted with signature 2K7-2K14, adding a panegyric of Porphyrius, a letter of Porphyrius to the emperor Constantine, a letter from Constantine to Porphyrius, and 'Phoenix incerti auctoris', from a codex owned by the French scholar and collector of manuscripts Franciscus Iuretus, or in French François Juret) (Condition: Wear to the extremities of the binding. Front joint slightly cracking, corners grazed. Some faint foxing. Small ownership inscription in ink on the verso of the first flyleaf) (Note: In 1590 the French scholar and jurist Pierre Pithou, latinized as Petrus Pithoeus, 1539-1596, published this Epigrammata et poematia vetera, which includes much material from the Codex Thuaneus, (B). Many epigrams and poems were published here for the first time. Pithou's edition is the first which bears any resemblance to what is now called the Anthologia Latina, an anthology or libellus of epigrams compiled around 500 A.D., probably in Vandal North Africa. There are four main manuscripts which form the basis of what is known as the Anthologia Latina. One of them, now indicated as B (Paris lat. 8071), was written in central France in the ninth century, and was once owned by Jacques de Thou, whence its usual name of the Codex Thuaneus. It was used by Pithou for this present 1590 edition. The existence of the most important manuscript for the Anthologia Latina, the Codex Salmasianus, was unknown in Pithou's time. The term Anthologia Latina is a 'modern designation, and derives from P. Burman the Younger's edition and specially his treatise which preceded it, the Specimen novae editionis Anthologiae Latinae. These works were published in Amsterdam between 1747 and 1773 (...)'. Anthologia Latina was then the title Alexander Riese gave to his two-volume Teubner edition of 1869/70'. (Epigrams from the Anthologia Latina: Text, Translation and Commentary (by) N.M. Kay, London 2006. p. 20) Pithou arranged his selection in four books, Ad sacra et mores pertinent, Elegia, Epitaphia and Miscellanea et amissa. 'His anthology nicely illustrates the major dilemma which (...) forces itself upon editors of this corpus (...) namely that of arrangement: confronted with diverse types of poetry originating from different mss., written by different authors (often anonymous) at different dates, should an editor try to impose order by subject matter (as Pithou chose), by date of composition, by author, by manuscript, or in some other way?' (Idem, p. 21) The edition of Pithou was reissued in 1596 (Lyon) and 1619 (Geneva). Pithou, who owned a fine library, including an important collection of manuscripts, furthermore 'produced the first important text of Juvenal and Persius (1585) (...) and the editio princeps of Phaedrus (1596), the Pervigilium Veneris (1577), Salvianus (1580), and the Edict of Theodoric (1579) (...) He narrowly escaped death in the massacre of St. Bartholomew (1572) and became a Catholic in the following year'. (Sandys, 2,192)) (Provenance: Inscription on the verso of the front flyleaf: 'Précieux recueil pub. par Pithou. Je l'ai trouvé le 29 fevrier 1840, rare et précieux. Voyez La Biblioth. de Colomies ed. de 1731, p. 265, et le Dict. bibliogr. de Brunet'. Alas, no name) (Collation: *4; A-H12 (leaf H12 verso blank); 2A-2T12, 2V6. 2X12 (leaf 2X12 verso blank) (Between 2K and 2L a gathering has been inserted bearing the signature 2K7-2K14)) (Photographs on request) ‎

‎Callimachi Hymni, epigrammata et fragmenta ex recensione Theodori J.G.F. Graevii, cum ejusdem animadversionibus. Accedunt N. Frischlini, H. Stephani, B. Vulcanii, P. Voetii, A.T.F. Daceriae, R. Bentleii commentarius, et annotationes viri illustrissimi Ezechielis Spanhemii, nec non praeter fragmenta, quae ante Vulcanius & Daceria publicarant, nova, quae Spanhemius & Bentleius collegerunt, & digesserunt. Hujus cura & studio quaedam quoque inedita epigrammata Callimachi nunc primum in lucem prodeunt. ‎

‎Utrecht (Ultrajecti), Apud Franciscum Halmam, Guilielmum vande Water, 1697. ‎

‎8vo. 2 volumes: (XXXII),1-438; 369-496,(138); (16),758,(64 index) p., frontispiece, 6 engraved plates, and occasional engraved text illustrations. Vellum 21 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 833518089; Hoffmann 1,429: 'Vorzügliche Werth erh. diese Ausg. durch Spanheim's u. Bentley's Noten'; Dibdin 1,368/69: 'An excellent and erudite edition' and the scholar 'will have abundant reason to rejoice in the acquisition of this edition'; Moss 1,249; Brunet 2,1481/2: 'Belle édition faisant partie de la collection Variorum'; Graesse 2,17; Ebert 3344) (Details: 6 thongs laced through both joints. The frontispiece depicts Callimachus while offering to the gods. Title of the first volume in red & black. Engraved printer's mark on the title, it depicts Athena and Ceres, who are holding between them a painting with an allegorical scene which shows people harvesting a crop. They are surrounded by putti, the motto is: 'cultior his vita est'; another and bigger version of the printer's mark on the second title. 6 plates, showing statues of Greek gods, drawn by G. Hoet, and etched by I. van Vianen. Greek text with opposing Latin translation, commentary & notes) (Condition: Vellum slightly soiled; some gatherings are yellowing) (Note: The Greek poet and scholar Callimachus of Cyrene, c. 305 - c. 240 B.C. was given employment at the famous Alexandrian library. There he produced the first scientific literary history. 'It is clear that Callimachus was a poet of great originality and extraordinary refinement. His amazing productivity (...) was accompanied by bold experimentation in his poetry, and a great versatility of style. The scholarly element, it is true, often adds a frigidity to his verse, but the lively personal and realistic touches which appear, never allow his writings to degenerate into arid selections of obsure myths'. (OCD 2nd ed. p. 195/6) This edition of the surviving works of Callimachus of 1697 was prepaired by the Dutch scholar Theodorus Georgius Graevius (1669-1692), the promising son of the professor of Classics at the University of Utrecht, Johannes Georgius Graevius (1632-1703). The young man died when 23. The book was finished and published posthumously by his mourning father in 1697 with pain in his heart. 'Id non potest non gravissimum rescindere vulnus' he laments in the 'Dedicatio'. Johannes Georgius Graevius (Greffe), of German descent, was the last 42 year of his life a star of the first order which adorned the University of Utrecht. (Van der Aa 7,353/58 & Van der Aa 7,358). The young man, the father tells in the 'praefatio', was fascinated by Callimachus, and he was planning an edition of that poet with his own notes and commentary and that of others. Alas, an immature death took away the young man's hopes and promisses, but still he left his Callimachus finished. 'Non infrequenter' had he also corrected the Latin translation. When the German scholar Ezechiel Spanheim, 1629-1710, heard that the father was preparing the posthumous edition, he sent him all he had written about Callimachus. His 'In Callimachi Hymnos observationes' fill the second volume of the set. The fame of Graevius also enticed the 'splendissimum Britanniae lumen' Richard Bentley, 1662-1742, to send him old and new material, emendations and notes, he had on Callimachus in his portfolio. (On Spanheim see Sandys 2,327)) (Collation: Volume I: *-2*8, A-2D8 (minus leaf B8; STCN erroneously doesnot mention this omitted leaf; nothing however is missing, the pagination is correct, the catchword between p. 30 and 31 is correct, and the text also connects correctly), Ee4. 2a-2i8 (between leaf 2i3 and 2i4 have been bound 2 gatherings: +8, 2+4, in STCN notation: 2i8(2i3+8 24)), 2k-2p8, 2q4 (leaf 2q4 recto has 'aan den binder' (for the binder), where the irregular pagination of the first volume is explained) Volume II: 2*8, 2A-3E8, 3F4 (leaf 3F4 blank)) (Photographs on request) ‎