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SOMNIUM SCIPIONIS
Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie. 1869. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Tâchée, Dos abîmé, Intérieur acceptable. Plaquette de 20 pages. Texte en latin, notes en français. Annotations sur le 1er plat et en page de titre. Tampon de librairie en page de garde.. . . . Classification Dewey : 470-Langues italiques. Latin
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Macrobii Ambrosii Aurelii Theodosii viri consularis & illustris in Somnium Scipionis libri II. Eiusdem Saturnaliorum libri VII. Ex vetustissimis manuscriptis codicibus recogniti & aucti. (Edited by) Joach. Camerarius.
Basel (Basileae), Ex officina Ioan. Hervagii, 1535. Cum privilegio Caesaris ad quinquennium.
Folio. (XL),334,2 p. Vellum 30 cm (Ref: VD16 ZV 20513; Schweiger 2,586: the first mentioned copy with the privilegium and the corrections. 'Neue, schätzbare Recension von Joach. Camerarius, nach 2 Handschriften'. Dibdin 2,220: 'under the care of the celebrated Camerarius, and by the help of several important MSS. there was hardly a verse in the poets quoted but what received very considerable emendation. (...) A volume, thus intrinsically valuable, will not fail to find a purchaser at a reasonable price'; Ebert 12716; Graesse 4,330) (Details: Later vellum (18th century?). Brown morocco shield on the back. 2 thongs laced through both joints. Large printer's mark of Hervagius (Johann Herwagen the elder) on the title, and a different one on the verso of the last leaf, both depicting a three headed Hermes on a pillar. Woodcut initials, 8 woodcuts and a woodcut map of the world in the text) (Condition: Some small and almost invisible repairs of the vellum. Corners of the shield on the back partly gone. Title browning, paper yellowing, some slight foxing. Wormhole in the right uppercorner of ca. 80 p., not coming near any text. Pastedowns affected by a few small unobjectional wormholes) (Note: Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius, a Roman senator and a classical scholar of the early 5th century A.D. 'was a notable link between the cultures of antiquity and the Middle Ages'. This edition contains his 2 most important works, the 'Saturnalia' and his 'Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis', the 'Dream of Scipio', a commentary on a part of 'De Republica' of the Roman orator Cicero. The 'Saturnalia' is a learned compilation in 7 books cast in dialogue form, in which the cultural life of the former generation is idealized. Macrobius' aim is to provide his son with all the necessary hard to come by scientific knowledge. He did so in the form of a banquet. Macrobius was inspired by the Ciceronian dialogues 'De Oratore' and 'De Republica'. 'Set during the Saturnalia of 383, it gathers several (conspicuously non-Christian) members of the aristocracy and their entourage to discuss matters ridiculous (...) and sublime, (...) above all the poetry of Virgil. Quarried from mostly unnamed sources - including Gellius, Seneca, Plutarch, and the tradition of scholastic commentary today known from Servius, the discussion presents Virgil as the master of all human knowledge'. More influential in the Middle Ages and Renaissance was the commentary of Macrobius on the 'Somnium Scipionis'. Macrobius uses Cicero's text (De Republica 6,10 ff) as the starting point for a thoroughly Neoplatonic treatment of (especially) cosmology and the soul's ascent to the One, with direct debts to Porphyry and Plotinus.' Discussed are matters of mathematics, physics, cosmology, astronomy, geography and ethics. He thus forged a kind of compendium of science and philosophy, which transmitted classical knowledge to the medieval world, and was to hold a central position in the intellectual development of the West during the Middle Ages. His books belong to the basic sources of the scholastic movement and of medieval science. His work left traces in the works of Dante, Chaucer, Vives and Spenser. (Source for M. and the quotations: 'The Classical Tradition', Cambr. Mass., 2010, p. 553). Joachim Camerarius, 1500-1574, holds one of the foremost places among the German classical scholars of the 16th century. Gudeman calls him even 'der bedeutendste Philologe Deutschlands im 16. Jahrh.' (Grundriss der Geschichte der klassischen Philologie, Lpz. 1909, p. 216) He held professorships at Nuremberg, Tübingen and Leipzig. 'His numerous editions of the Classics, without attaining the highest rank, are characterized by acumen and good taste'. (Sandys, 'History of Classical Scholarship' 2, p. 266/67) Camerarius was a man of vast knowledge. He also wrote on history, theology, mathematics, astronomy and paedagogy. He seems to have been just the man for editing the encyclopaedic works of Macrobius. Camerarius had evidently a high opinion of himself and his talents. Such we gather from the following distich on the titlepage: 'Qui tamen et nostri numerum vult scire laboris, annumeret versus totius ille libri', i.e. he left his mark in every line of verse in Macrobius. This book contains furthermore an interesting Macrobian map, a map which for a 1000 years formed the basis of world geography. It was first printed in 1482, showing the continents in the 'Alveus Oceani', a big Europe, and a rather small Africa and Asia. The round map is typically divided in 5 climatic zones. It shows the pre-Renaissance view of the world, Antipodeans and all. Our map shows the awakening of the passion for exploration and the cartographic progress in this period. Africa and Asia have grown hugely, and Europe has shrunk considerably. The lines of the climatic zone on the first map of 1482 were straight, suggesting a flat earth, on our map the lines are convex, indicating a world which is really a round ball. And the Antipodean part has gone. No sign however of America. The literature on the development of the Macrobian world view is immense) (Provenance: On the front flyleaf in pencil '7 januari 1961', written by the Flemish linguist Walter Couvreur, 1914-1996, who was an Orientalist, and professor of Indoeuropean linguistics at the University of Gent. It indicates the date of aquisition. The place of acquisition he wrote on the flyleaf at the end: 'Turijn, Bottega d'Erasmo') (Collation: alpha - beta6, gamma8, a-z6, A-E6) (Photographs on request)
M. T. CIC. DE OFFICIIS. Libri tres. Cato major, seu de Senectute.Laelius, seu de Amicitia. Paradoxia stoïcorum sex. Somnium Scipionis, ex libro sexto de Republica
Rothomagi ( Rouen ) Ex typographia privilegio distincta 1777 in 16 (12x6,5) 1 volume plein velin ivoire de l'époque, 451 pages. Cato major, seu de Senectute.Laelius, seu de Amicitia. Paradoxia stoïcorum sex. Somnium Scipionis, ex libro sexto de Republica. Bel exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
Très bon Reliure
Annotationes in quattuor et viginti pendectarum libros. A la suite : Libellorumque magistri in praetorio, altera aeditio annotationum in pandectas. Relié avec : MACROBE. In Somnium Scipionis… Paris, Josse Bade, 1524.
Paris, Josse Bade, 1532 In-folio de (8), CLXXVIII ff. - (4), LXX ff., veau brun, plats entièrement ornés d'un décor estampé à froid, dos à six nerfs, fermoirs (reliure de l'époque).
"Précieuse édition donnée par Josse Bade ; elle offre, à la même date, la réunion des deux parties des Annotations sur les Pandectes. ""Ce livre était le fondement de la science juridique… Peut-être est-ce la première œuvre de philologue que nous ayons eue en France ; elle est à coup sûr un modèle de critique philologique…"" (Plattard, Guillaume Budé et les origines de l'humanisme en France). Une vision encyclopédique. Guillaume Budé n'expose pas seulement ses recherches, il explore, pour ainsi dire, devant son lecteur et en sa compagnie. Ses travaux ne veulent négliger aucune voie, fût-elle digressive. ""Dans son mouvement, le commentateur, tel que le conçoit Budé, élargit sans cesse le champ de son enquête, et il est légitime par là de parler d'encyclopédie"" (Tous les savoirs du monde, 164-180). Le Maître de la Librairie du Roy. Issu d'une grande famille de fonctionnaires royaux anoblie par Charles VI, Guillaume Budé nait à Paris le 26 janvier 1468. Son père, Jean Budé, conseiller du roi, est un lettré et un bibliophile, possesseur d'une riche bibliothèque. Après des études de droit civil, son fils assumera les charges de notaire et secrétaire du roi. Dès le début du règne de François Ier, Guillaume Budé se rapprochera de la cour royale pour y plaider la cause des belles-lettres et de la philologie. Il militera pour la création d'un collège où seraient enseignées les langues de l'antiquité, le latin, le grec, l'hébreu : c'est le futur Collège de France, fondé en 1530 par François Ier. Guillaume Budé porta le titre de ""Maître de la Librairie du Roy"". Il fut lié avec Thomas More, Bembo, Etienne Dolet, Rabelais et surtout Erasme qui écrivit, après une querelle littéraire, ""Je ne suis point réconcilié avec Budé ; je n'ai jamais cessé de l'aimer."" Relié avec : MACROBE. In Somnium Scipionis M. Tulli Ciceronis libri duo, et saturnaliorum libri VII. Cum scholii & indicibus Ascensianis. Addito libello argutissimo Censorini de die Natali, subsequente eiusdem indice. Paris, Josse Bade, 1524. (6), [IV ff. de dédicace qui manquent], CXII, IX, (I) ff. Très belle édition de l'œuvre principale de Macrobe. Elle est illustrée d'un grand bois (93 x 146 mm) représentant 3 astronomes au travail, d'une suite de 10 vignettes de style vénitien, plusieurs fois répétées ; l'une d'elles montre un joueur d'orgue et un joueur de vièle (44 x 70). Au f° XXVIII, une mappemonde d'après le bois de l'édition de Venise, 1500. Le Commentaire au Songe de Scipion est d'une importance singulière : Scipion Emilien, alors jeune commandant lors de la Troisième Guerre punique, rêve qu'il s'élève vers les régions célestes, où il est accueilli par ses deux aïeuls Scipion l'Africain et Paul Émile. Ils lui montrent et lui expliquent le mécanisme du cosmos et le principe de l'immortalité de l'âme. Très bel exemplaire, entièrement réglé, en reliure d'époque décorée. Renouard, Bibliographie des impressions et des œuvres de Josse Badius Ascensius, II, p. 231, A7 et p. 232, B3 (pour les œuvres de Budé). III, p. 55, 3 (pour Macrobe). - Mortimer-Harvard, French Sixteenth Century Books, n° 120 (pour la seconde partie des Annotations seulement). - Veyrin-Forrer, Bn, Cat. de l'exposition Guillaume Budé, 1968. - Brun, Le Livre français illustré de la Renaissance, 242-243. - Plattard, Guillaume Budé et les origines de l'humanisme en France, 17-19."
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In Somnium Scipionis, Lib. II. Saturnaliorum, Lib. VII.
Lugduni (Lyon), Seb. Gryphium, 1556. 8vo. Cont. full calf. Raised bands, gilt borders on covers. A gilt centerpiece on both covers. Leather at upper compartment of back gone and a nick to lower compartment. Corners bumped and worn, somewhat rubbed. 567,(71) pp. Old repair to foot of title, no loss of text. Some old ownership inscriptions on endpapers and title, 2 old engraved bookplates pasted on front-and endpapers. Internally with a few mainly marginal brownspopts and a faint dampstain in lower corners of the first leaves. Woodcut initials. ""Somnium"" pp. 3-178 having geographical woodcuts in the text and a woodcut map of the old world. Printers woodcut-device on title.
Fourth Lyon-edition of Macrobius's 2 main works. In the ""Somnium"" he uses passages of Cicero's work as mere suggestions to construct a treatise on Neoplatonic philosophy - the most satisfactory and widely read Latin compendium on Neoplatonism that existed during the Middle Ages. Macrobius was one of the leading popularizers of science in the Latin West, and his conception of the world geography as an equatorial and meridional ocean (depicted in the book) dividing the earth into four quarters, dominated scientific thinking on world geography in the Middle Ages. - His ""Saturnalia"" deals with Roman feasts in form of table-talk at a banquet in Rome, giving information of food and drink and their preparation (Vicaire 986 (ed.1492, Simon p. 547 (ed. 1492)). and is fascinatingly rich in philological, historical, antiquarian and scientific lore, throwing a clear light on the interests and taste of the period. - Adams vol. II: M 68.
M.T. Ciceronis De officiis, ex recensione Heusingerorum. Cato major, Laelius, Paradoxa, Somnium Scipionis, ex recensione J.A. Ernesti.
Utrecht (Trajecti ad Rhenum), Apud B. Wild & J. Altheer, 1794.
12mo. (II),288 p. Vellum 13.5 cm (Ref: Schweiger 2,205; cf. Dibdin 1,415; cf. Moss 1,309) (Details: 2 thongs laced through the joints. Edges dyed red. Label with woodcut coat of arms of Rotterdam, measuring 3,5 x 4,5 cm, on the front pastedown. Latin text of Cicero only, no preface, notes, translation or commentary) (Condition: Vellum a bit rubbed and soiled) (Note: This collection of philosophical works of the Roman politician and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 BC, the De Officiis, Cato Major, Laelius, Paradoxa and the Somnium must have seen, ever since it first appeared in 1469, hundreds of editions. Of these five texts the first one, on the Offices, was the most important and the most popular. The editio princeps of the Offices was published in 1465. The excellent Heusingerii-edition of the Offices dates from 1783, 'without which no critical student can fully comprehend this treatise of Cicero. It may be called the joint production of Grandfather, Father and Son (Heusingeri). (...) I give this edition a ready and hearty recommendation to every classical collector'. (Dibdin) The German 'Schulmann' and local historian Johann Michael Heusinger, 1690-1751, was rector of several Gymnasia, in Laubach, from 1730 in Gotha and from 1738 in Eisenach. His edition of Cicero of the Offices has 'noch jetzt ihre Brauchbarkeit nicht eingebüßt. Als guter Beobachter des Sprachgebrauchs hat er im Lateinischen mehrere Sprachgesetze ausgestellt, die sich als richtig bewährt haben; als Kritiker war er besonnen, so daß ihm manche sichere Verbesserung verderbter Stellen verdankt wird'. (ADB 12, 334/335) His son, Jakob Friedrich Heusinger, 1719-1778, was also a 'Gymnasialrektor'. Johann Michael collated for the text several manuscripts and consulted late antique sources, his son consulted five more manuscripts from Wolfenbüttel, and used ancient grammarians and earlier editions. 'Der erste beschäftigte sich vorzürglich mit der Erläuterungen, Jakob Friedrich mehr mit der Critik'. (Hoffmann) However both men died before the edition was finished. The son of Jakob Friedrich, Konrad Heusinger, 1752-1820, finally edited the work of both his father and grandfather, wrote an introduction, produced an index, and published it in 1783 in Braunschweig. Konrad was also a 'Schulmann', and classical scholar. He succeeded his father at the Gymnasium of Wolfenbüttel. (ADB 12,336/37) The four remaining texts of Cicero in this collection were adopted from the third edition (1774/77) of the Opera Omnia edition of the German classical philologist and theologian Johann August Ernesti, 1707-1781. This collection on 1794 is a school text. It offers the Latin text of Cicero's treatises only, no preface, notes, translation or commentary) (Provenance: The label with the woodcut coat of arms of Rotterdam is perhaps an indication that the book was a small gift of the City Council) (Collation: pi1, A-M12 ) (Photographs on request)
