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C. Pliniii Secundi Novocomensis Liber de viris in re militari & administranda republica illustribus, a multis mendis repurgatus, & novis commentariis nunc primum (nunc primum per Conradum Lycosthenem) ita illustratus, ut ad omnes Romanorum historias plurimum lucis & utilitatis adferat. Una cum eiusdem Plinii vita, rerumque & verborum omnium indice copiosissimo.
Basel (Basileae), no publisher, n.d. (Colophon on the last page: 'Basileae, Ex officina Ioannis Oporini, Anno salutis humanae 1547, mense Septembri)
8vo. (XXXII),595,(75 index),(2 blank) p. 19th century half vellum 17 cm (Ref: VD16 P 3521; Schweiger, 2,1139 (under Sextus Aurelius Victor); Graesse 5,350) (Details: Back ruled gilt, and with a green morocco shield. 2 woodcut initials) (Condition: On the title page the words 'per Conradum Lycosthenem' are carefully erased. This erasing has been repeated on the verso of the title, where in the heading of the short biography of Pliny Minor the words 'a Conrado Lycosthene' have been erased. This erasure signals the attempt to eradicate the memory of the editor of this title, the Alsatian protestant humanist and encyclopedist Konrad Wolffhart, latinized as Conradus Lycosthenes, 1518-1561. In 1557 he published at Basel a work, 'Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon', or ' Chronicle of omens and portents', with woodcuts of freaks, human monsters of all types, curious animals, comets, earthquakes etc. Two years later this title, and at the same time the entire oeuvre of Lycosthenes, was placed on the first catholic 'Index librorum prohibitorum' by Pope Paul IV. The 'Index' of forbidden books contained publications that were banned by the Catholic Church, because they were deemed heretical, anti-clerical or immoral. Often these books were censored or even destroyed. 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. This explains the erasing of his name on the title page of this Plinius. The censor also cut out the name of the famous protestant publisher Oporinus, leaving a neat rectangular hole of 7.5x1 cm. The censor overlooked however the name 'Conradus Vuolfhardus' in the heading of the 'praefatio') (Note: 'The full maturation of ancient biography did not occur before the Roman late republican and imperial periods. The purposes of Graeco-Roman biography were varied, ranging from instructive praise of a subject's virtues, to panegyric, to providing insurance against the jaws of oblivion by immortalizing the 'fama' good or ill, of notable individuals'. (The Classical Tradition, Cambr. Mass., 2010, p. 127) In the early imperial period the Greek author Plutarch composed a series of vitae, which are discursive and generally show a strong moral bias. The Romans were in the writing of biography not wholly dependent on the Greeks. 'The attitudes and customs of their own political and family life led them to put a special value on recording the achievements of their great men'. (OCD 2nd ed. p. 168) Tacitus (Agricola), Nepos (Liber De Excellentibus Ducibus Gentium), Suetonius (Vitae XII imperatorum, or Caesares) are the principle Roman biographers. In late antiquity they found a number of imitators and continuators, e.g. the 'Scriptores Historiae Augustae' or 'Sextus Aurelius Victor'. This 'Liber de viris in re militari & administranda republica illustribus', nowadays called in the edition of Pilchmayr 'Incerti Auctoris liber de Viris Illustribus Urbis Romae', is one of those imiations. It contains more than 75 biographies of famous Romans from Romulus to Pompeius and Sulla. When it was written no one knows, some say first or second century AD, others the fourth. This collection of Lives of famous Romans, including Hannibal, his brother Hasdrubal, and king Mithridates, was long time primarily ascribed to Plinius Minor, 62-ca. 113 AD. The editio princeps was printed ca. 1470 and enjoyed a great popularity among humanists and on schools. Since the edition of Aldus in 1508 the collection is often called the 'Liber de viris in re militari & administranda republica illustribus'. Schweiger records before this 1547 edition ca. 40 editions, and there must be more. It was printed in the 16th century also under the name of Suetonius and of Nepos. Hyginus and Aemilius Probus are also mentioned as the authors. The Flemish scholar Andreas Schottus attibuted the text in 1577 to Sextus Aurelius Victor. From then on till the second half of the 19th century he was thought to be the author of this collection. (Schweiger 2, 1140/41) But nowadays the author is an anonymous, because the style (genus dicendi) does not suit Sextus Aurelius Victor. It is doubtful whether the author was a christian. He belonged probably to the Optimates. Though many historical errors hurt the eye of the reader, still this collection of biographies offers much that is of great help for our understanding of Roman history of the republican period. The collection figures anonymously in the 'Bibliotheca Teubneriana' edition of that writer of 1966 edited by Pilchmayr. Especially the praefatio of Pichlmayer offers much useful information (p. X & XI)) Conradus Lycosthenes lectured grammar and dialectics in Basel from 1542. In 1545 he was appointed deacon and preacher of the local 'St. Leonhardskirche'. He married Christine Herbster, a sister of Johannes Oporinus, the printer of this book. The biographer of Lycosthenes's short biography in ADB calls his commentary in this 1547 collection his most excellent work. (ADB 19, 727/28)) (Provenance: On the front pastedown in pencil: '24 dec. 1963', written by the Flemish linguist Walter Couvreur, 1914-1996, Orientalist and professor of Indoeuropean linguistics at the University of Gent. It indicates the date of aquisition. The place of acquisition is written on the flyleaf at the end: 'Bologna, Galliera') (Collation: alpha-beta8, a-2T8 (leaf 2T8 blank)) (Photographs on request)
Cornelius Nepos. De Excellentibus Viris, notis perpetuis ex Longolio, Lambino, Schotto, Boeclero, Buchnero, Bosio, Cellario, aliisque, ad modum Johannis Minellii illustratus. Adjecta sunt ejusdem Fragmenta collecta ab Schotto, et index selectissimus. Editio altera.
Amsterdam (Amstelaedami), Apud Joannem Haffman, 1746.
8vo. (XVI),411,(36 index),(1 blank) p. Vellum 16 cm (Ref: Not in Schweiger) (Details: Five thongs laced through both joints. Title in red & black. Engraved printer's device on the title, depicting Hermes and Athena, between them the fountain struck by Pegasus, it's motto: 'Ex hoc fonte licet cuique levare sitim') (Condition: Vellum soiled. 'Nepos' in curly ink letters on both boards. Some old ink annotations in the margins) (Note: This is a school edition with notes of the only surviving complete work of the Roman historian Cornelius Nepos, ca. 100-24 B.C., De excellentibus ducibus exterrarum gentium, also known as De excellentibus Viris. This very well preserverd schoolbook was produced after the manner of the Dutch schoolmaster Johannes Minellius, an industrious and successfull compiler of schoolbooks. He published the works of several classical authors with ample notes which were easy to understand by young schoolboys who were still inexperienced in Latin, or just lazy. Minellius, or Min-ellius, born ca. 1625, was educated at the Schola Erasmiana at Rotterdam, and was from 1650 onward till his death in 1683 a Praeceptor at that school. Minellius' schoolbooks with accompanying annotations were a tremendous success. In 1653 he published his first, Sallustius, then Valerius Maximus in 1661, Florus in 1664, Terence in 1665, Vergil in 1666, Horace in 1668 and Ovid in 1684. His books were reissued many times, and his manner was followed by schoolmasters all over Europe, who wanted to participate in his success and who produced school-editions ad modum Joanni Minellii. At the end of the 17th and in the 18th century his editions were widely used on Dutch grammar schools. After that they were barred from the schools because they were too unscientific, and offered too much help. They were esteemed to be pontes asinorum (Van der Aa 12,2 p. 873). Minellius never published a Nepos edition. The printer/bookseller of this Nepos nevertheless announces on the very first page of the Lectori that this is an edition cum notis Minellii. In the following preface the anonymous compiler however eases off the pedal, and explains that Minellius never touched Nepos, but that the publisher asked him to make a Nepos secundum ejusdem institutum. Cornelius Nepos is the author of the first surviving ancient collection of biographies. De excellentibus etc. contains the lives of 20 Greek generals, and the Carthaginians Hamilkar and Hannibal. Nepos corresponded with Cicero and was close with Cicero's friend Atticus. The collection served probably as a model for Plutarch's Vitae Parallelae. In his own days and in late antiquity Nepos was considered to be a source of importance. The churchfather Hieronymus included him in his De viris illustribus (392 A.D.) in his list of great authors and historians) (Collation: *8, A-2E8 (leaf 2E8 verso blank)) (Photographs on request)
Eusebii Pamphili, Ruffini, Socratis, Theodoreti, Sozomeni, Theodori, Euagrij, & Dorothei Ecclesiastica Historia. Sex prope seculorum res gestas complectens; Latine olim a doctissimis viris partim scripta, partim e Graeco a clarissimis viris, Vuolfgango Musculo, Ioachimo Camerario & Iohanne Christophersono Britanno, eleganter conversa; et nunc ex fide Graecorum codicum, sic ut novum opus videri possit, per Ioan. Iacobum Grynaeum locis obscuris innumeris illustrata, dubijs explicata, mutilis restituta; Chronographia insuper Abrahami Bucholceri, ad Annum Epochae Christianae 1598. & lectionis sacrae historiae luculenta Methodo exornata. Cum continuatione in praesentem annum 1611. Et indicibus rerum verborumque locupletiss.
Basel (Basileae), Per Sebastianum Henricpetri, n.d. (1611)
Folio. (LXXX),807,(1 blank),(23 index),(1) p. Overlapping vellum 34 cm (Ref: VD17 23:297069D; Hoffmann 2,107) (Details: Latin translation only. Woodcut printer's mark on the title; 'From 1496 until the seventeenth century, the Petris printed in Basel, and for three generations--Adam Petri, Heinrich Petri, and Sebastian Henripetri--the printers mark alluded to the family name: a stone being smashed by a godlike hammer over which fire is blown by a heavenly face. The symbolism is explained by the biblical motto (Hieremias Propheta, 23,29) printed in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew in some books, 'numquid non verba mea sunt quasi ignis ait Dominus, et quasi malleus conterens petram', 'Is not my Word like fire, like a hammer that shatters stone?' (Source: University Library Illinois, webpage 'Windows Printers' Marks') The printer's mark is repeated on the last page. One woodcut headpiece. Some woodcut initials) (Condition: Vellum soiled, some small brown stains on the upper board. Paper somewhat yellowing. Bookplate on front flyleaf. Short title in ink on the back) (Note: The church father Eusebius Caesariensis, ca. 260-339, was elected to the see of Caesarea in Asia Minor, nowadays Kayseri, in 313 A.D. He had an impressive ecclesiastial career, but his literary achievements made him immortal. His important 'Historia Ecclesiastica' (History of the Church) runs up to 324; The object of this work was to present the apostolic 'succession' of the 4 great episcopal thrones, Rome, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem, and to describe the intellectual, spiritual and institutional life of the Church, the persecutions and the heresies. 'It cannot be too strongly emphasised that Eusebius, like all early church historians, can be understood only if it be recognized that whereas modern writers try to trace the development, growth and change of doctrines and institutions, their predecessors were trying to prove that nothing of the kind ever happened. According to them the Church had had one and only one teaching from the beginning. It had been preserved by the 'succession', and heresy was the attempt of the devil to change it'. (Eusebius, the Ecclesiastical History, With an English transl. by K. Lake, Cambr. Mass., 2001, vol.1, p.XXXIV) The Latin West came to know this Greek work through the translation of 403 by Rufinus of Aquileia. The 'Historia Ecclesiastica' was first published, together with the works of the later church historians Socrates Scholasticus, Sozomenus and Theodoretus in Paris in 1544 by Robertus Stephanus. The editor of our Latin edition of 1611 is the Swiss theologian and classical scholar Joannes Jacobus Grynaeus, 1540-1617, professor at the University of Basel. He was more a theologian than a philologist. In 1570 he had already published for Henricpetri a Latin translation of the 'Opera Omnia' of Eusebius. (GG 421) In the same year, 1570, a separate edition of Grynaeus' Latin translation of the 'Historia Ecclesiastica' was published by the Basler printer Episcopius. (GG 416) Hoffmann says that our 1611 edition is a repetition of the 'Historia Ecclesiastica' edition of 1570. This cannot be correct. The titles are different, and the edition of 1611 has a preface dated 1587. We found in VD16 an edition (not mentioned by Hoffmann), with exact the same title as the one of 1611, and published in 1587 in Basel by Episcopius ( VD16 ZV 5530, also BL shelfmark 3627.ff.4). The only difference being that the 'Chronographia' at the end of the book has been continued till 1611). So this edition of 1611 is a reissue of the Basel edition of 1587, which was brought on the market by Eusebius Episcopius. This title contains Eusebius' 'Historiae Ecclesiasticae libri X', and 'De vita Constantini Magni', translated by Johannes Christophorsonus (John Christopherson), and the 'Oratio Constantini Imperatoris', and Rufinus' 'Historiae Ecclesiasticae libri II', and a Latin translation of Socrates Scholasticus' 'Ecclesiasticae Historiae libri VII', and Theodoretus' 'Historiae Ecclesiasticae libri V', translated by Joachim Camerarius, and a Latin translation of Sozomenus' 'Ecclesiasticae Historiae libri IX', and Euagrius Scholasticus' 'Historiae Sacrae libri VI', and Dorotheus Lector's 'Quomodo apostoli et prophetae vixerint ac mortui sint', translated by Wolfgang Musculus. At the end (p. 625/807) has been added the 'Chronologia' or 'Index Chronologicus' of the German historian and theologian Abraham Buch(h)olzer up to 1611) (Provenance: A modern bookplate with the text: 'Ex libris Henn Wolfram Riedesel Freiherr zu Eisenbach'. At the top a part of the coat of arms of the Riedesel family, the head of a donkey, with 3 reed leaves in its mouth. The Riedesel Freiherren zu Eisenbach family belongs to the ancient nobility in Hesse, Germany) (Collation: alpha8, alpha6, beta6, gamma6, delta6, epsilon8; a-z6 A-Z6 Aa-Vv6 Xx8, Yy-Zz6) (Photographs on request) (Heavy book, may require extra shipping costs)
C. Plinii Secundi Novocomensis DE VIRIS ILLUSTRIBUS LIBER Nova editio
Burdigalae Apud Viduam G. de La Court & N. de La Court , Regis , Illust. D. D. Archiepisc. & Universitatis typog. 1699 1vol. in-16 (12,5 x 9 cm ) 78 pp. (dont t. ) . En latin . Avec in fine Additamentum Virorum illustrium . Au titre , croix pattée . Reliure simple vélin , sans carton , cousue au centre . Pas de garde au début . In fine , ex-libris sur la garde : " Hic liber pertinet ad me Labat quartanum acquitanum le 28 novembre 1704 " ; dessins et caricatures du XVIII s. à l'encre et au crayon rouge . Vélin un peu rétréci . Des ff. aux coins émoussés . ( Collat. complet )
Cet ouvrage n' est plus attribué à Pline le Jeune : " texte attribué à tort au titre à Gaius Caecilius Plinius Secundus, en réalité d'Aurelius Victor " ( BnF) . Mais même l' attribution à Aurelius Victor est très douteuse . Traditionnellement le De Viris illustribus , suite de 86 biographies des grandes figures de la Monarchie et de la République romaine , est l' un des trois ouvrages constituant le Corpus tripertitum ou Corpus Aurelianum , mais seul le dernier ouvrage ( Liber De Caesaribus ) est effectivement d' Aurelius Victor . Exemplaire non entièrement coupé d' un étudiant qui a dû quelque peu s' ennuyer en cours de latin , si l' on en juge par ses dessins et caricatures in fine .
Catalogus Sigeberti Glembacensis Monachi De Viris Illustribus
1974 Herbert Lang, Frankfurt/M Soft cover 1° Edition
Langue: allemand. Langue et littérature latines du Moyen Âge, édité par le professeur Dr. Alf Önnerlors, Robert White, Catalogus Sigeberti Glembacensis Monachi De Viris Illustribus, édition critique, couverture souple, 21,5 x 14,5 cm, 160 p, en bon état [Cette description peut avoir été traduite par une IA.]
