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‎Satirae duae, Hercules tuam fidem sive Munsterus Hypobolimaeus, et Virgula divina. Cum brevioribus annotatiunculis, quibus nonnulla in rudiorum gratiam illustrantur. Accessit his accurata Burdonum Fabulae confutatio, quibus alia nonnula hac editione accedunt. ‎

‎Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1617. (Colophon at the end: 'Lugduni Batavorum, Typis Isaaci Elsevirii, anno 1617') ‎

‎12mo. (XXIV),619 (recte 529),(20),(3 blank) p. Overlapping vellum 13 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 832983446; USTC 1028202; Willems 123; Rahir 99; Berghman 1329 Graesse 6/1, 273/274; Not in Smitskamp's 'The Scaliger Collection', but it does figure in its list of Scaliger editions, p. 120) (Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Manuscript title on the back. The first Elzevier edition in small format) (Condition: Vellum age-toned and soiled. Front hinge cracking. Front flyleaf worn and inscribed. Title dustsoiled, and with 2 small ownership entries. Some old marginal notes, occasional ink underlinings) (Note: The French protestant classical scholar J.J. Scaliger, 1540-1609, was a genius, but was also vain and sharp tongued. Consequently he had many enemies. His greatest enemies were among members of the catholic Jesuit order. Scaliger had turned his back on France, and had come in 1592 to Leiden at the request of the authorities of that city and the local University, who desired nothing more than his inspiring presence. There he gathered around him a group of brilliant young man, among whom H. Grotius. In 1599 young Daniel Heinsius, 1580-1655, entered the group, and became 'because of his reputedly attractive personality and remarkable gifts' Scaliger's favorite student. (P.R. Sellin, Daniel Heinsius and Stuart England', Leiden etc., 1968, p. 14) Heinsius rapidly made a name as classical scholar and neolatin poet. In 1609 Scaliger died in his arms. One of Scaliger's foulest adversaries was a former friend, Gaspar Schoppe, or in Latin Scioppius, 1576-1649, who converted to catholicism. He distinguished himself by the virulence of his writings against the Protestants, and he even wanted to incite a war against these heretics. In 1607 this man published a vicious attack upon Scaliger with his 'Scaliger hypololymaeus', in English 'Suppositious Scaliger', or rather 'Basterd Scaliger'. 'Dem tobensten Schimpfen wird hier freier Lauf gelassen; Gifte jeder Art von Verunglimpfung und Verdächtigung werden zusammen gebraut'. (J. Bernays, 'Joseph Justus Scaliger', Berlin, 1855, p. 85) Scioppius wanted to throw discredit on Scaliger, and weaken his authority, so he attacked him at his weakest spot, his supposed noble birth. Scaliger had been raised in the belief that he was a descendent of the royal family Della Scala of Verona, and he let no opportunity pass to mention the splendour of his ancestry. The validity of his pretentions were however dubious. The challenge of Scioppius was accepted by the favourite pupil of Scaliger, Daniel Heinsius, who published one year later, in 1608, anonymously in defence of his master the 'Satirae duae, Hercules tuam fidem, sive Munsterus Hypobolimaeus, et Virgula divina', two mordant Menippean satires that covered Scioppius, who occasionally signed his letters off as 'G.S. a Munster' (hence Munsterus), with much abuse. As Scioppius himself had done with Scaliger, Heinsius smears with the mud of satire his scholarship, his name, the respectability of his parents, and his conversion to catholicism. In the following mockery 'Virgula Divina, sive Lucretii Vespillonis apotheosis', inspired by Seneca's Apocolocyntosis, Heinsius focusses on the humble origins of Scioppius, himself, he tells, a supposititious child. His 'father', called by Heinsius Vespillo, or corpse-bearer/gravedigger (See Martial I,47,1), is sentenced to become assistant of Charon. Scaliger has often admitted in his letters that Heinsius was the author of the satires, and the editor of the book, which opens with a preface dedicated to Scaliger, and a section of Scioppius praise of Scaliger from the time when he was still a friend and a protestant, then a support letter of the French scholar and friend of Scaliger, Isaac Casaubon. Next follow both satires of Heinsius, followed by an attack on Scioppius and his ancestry in a mock-biography: 'Vita et parentes Gasp. Schoppii, a Germano quodam contubernali eius conscripta', composed by Scaliger himself or by Ianus Rutgerus, a friend of Heinsius, and a student of Scaliger. The great man himself contributed, using the initials of his student Rutgerus (auctore I.R. Batavo, Iuris studioso) also to this own defence, a 'accurata Burdonum Fabulae confutatio', 'a precise refutation of the Burdonese story', with the help of charters and documents which should prove his noble origin. Nevertheless, the defence of Heinsius and Scaliger made 'einen sehr kühlen Eindruck auch auf die nähreren Freunde Scaligers'. (Bernays, p. 85). Few wanted to side with him on this matter; the answer of Scaliger was deemed not satisfactory. Scioppius' reputation was damaged too. Heinsius had portrayed him as a parasite and as 'Monster of Münster', labels which he never got rid of. A revised second edition of the 'Satirae duae' was published in the same year in Leiden by Johannes Patius, who had also published the first edition. 1609 he already produced his 4th edition. An eludicating survey of the hard to fathom content of both satires can be found in chapter 5 of 'Menippean Satire and the Republic of Letters, 1581-1655', of A. R. de Smet, Geneva, 1996. 'Hercules tuam fidem' is the title of Varro's 39th Menippean satire) (Provenance: On the title: 'Bern. à Mallinckroth', and also 'Sum J. Niefert'. On the front pastedown a Swedish name 'Henrik Kröijer', and probably one 'R. Berghes') (Collation: *12, A-Z12 (leaf Z11 verso and Z12 blank. Page numbers 513-529 misnumbered 603-619)) (Photographs on request) ‎

‎Danielis Heinsii in obitum V. Illustr. Josephi Scaligeri Iul. Caes. a Burden F. eruditorum Principis orationes duae. Accedunt Epicedia eiusdem & aliorum: effigies item ac monumentum Scaligeri, & Principum Veronensium aeri incisa. (And:) Oratio funebris dicta honori & memoriae maximi virorum Josephi Justi Scaligeri. Auctore D. Baudio I.C. et Historiarum in Illustri Academia Lugdun. Batavo. Professore. ‎

‎Ad 1: N.pl. (Leiden), Ex Officina Plantiniana Raphelengii, 1609. Lugd. Bat. prostant apud Lud. Elzevirium & Andream Cloucquium. (Ad 2:) Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Prostant apud Ludov. Elzevirium, & Andream Cloucquium, 1609. ‎

‎4to. Ad 1: (VIII),100 p. Ad 2: 23,(1 blank) p. Contemporary vellum. 25 cm. (Ref: Not in Smitskamp's 'The Scaliger Collection', though mentioned in the bibliography. Ad 1: STCN ppn 840343604; Willems 54; Rahir 36; Berghman 795. Ad 2: STCN ppn 832983063; Willems 53; Rahir 34; Berghman 779) (Details: 3 thongs laced through the joints. Woodcut initials. Ad 1: Engraved printer's mark on the title, depicting an eagle in the clouds (aietos en nephelêsi). A full page engraved portrait of J.J. Scaliger, and of his father J.C. Scaliger. A full page engraving of the funerary monument erected by the University and the City Council of Leiden for Scaliger in the 'Vrouwekerk', the local Walloon church, where he used to attend divine service; it is a work of the famous Dutch architect Hendrik de Keyser. On the monument, now in the Pieterskerk, is an honorary inscription, probably by Daniel Heisius, in which Scaliger is proudly remembered as 'Principum Veronensium nepotis', offspring of the princes of Verona. After this follow 3 plates concerning the princely claims of Scaliger; one of them is folding. They depict 3 tombs of Veronese Scaligers, the 'Tomb of Cangrande I', the founder of the Scaliger dynasty, who died 1329, the 'Tomb of Cansignorio della Scala', and the 'Tomb of Mastino II'. Ad 2: Elsevier's first printer's mark, depicting an eagle that holds a bundle of 7 arrows in its beak, the bird is surrounded by the motto: 'A. 1595, Concordia Res Parvae Crescunt'; the seven arrows represent the union of the Seven Provinces of the Dutch Republic; since its foundation in 1588 the motto of the Seven United Provinces was 'Concordia Res Parvae Crescunt', in Dutch 'Eendracht maakt macht'. The saying was coined by the Roman historian Sallust. ('Bellum Jugurthinum', caput 10)) (Condition: Vellum age-tanned, slightly soiled and spotted. Short title in ink on the back. Name on the first title. Small stamp on the 2nd title. Paper yellowing) (Note: The place of Josephus Justus Scaliger, 1549-1609, in the history of classical scholarship is royal. His preeminence is summarized masterly in the text of the dustjacket of the intellectual biography of Anthony Grafton 'Joseph Scaliger, A study in the history of classical scholarship', Oxford, 1983/93. 'In an age of great classical scholars, Joseph Scaliger was the greatest. His early work as an editor of Latin texts won the attention of the learned throughout Europe and contained technical innovations that remain of interest. His later work as the founder of the discipline of historical chronology involved him in the superhuman task of trying to reconstruct every sophisticated calender and to date every significant event in human history. Along the way he emended hundreds of corrupt passages in classical texts, collated scores of manuscripts, quarrelled with dozens of his rivals, failed humiliatingly (...) to prove that he was descended from the della Scala of Verona - and dashed off in his spare time works that would remain standard for centuries, like Gruter's Corpus of inscriptions, the publication of which Scaliger oversaw. His work was perhaps most important in that it showed that the Bible and the events it recorded could not be understood except in the light of the writings of the pagans and the methods of classical scholarship'. In 1593 Scaliger filled the vacant place left by Justus Lipsius at the young the University of Leiden. 'His disinclination to lecture was duly respected; all that the authorities at Leyden desired was his living and inspiring presence in that seat of Protestant learning'. (Sandys 2/202) On this honorary post he produced works that made him immortal, and lend lustre to Leyden and its University. Scaliger spent the last 16 years of his life in Leiden as the jewel of the University. There he enjoyed also the friendship of a great number of pupils and admirers. To his circle belonged H. Grotius, D. Heinsius, his successor the Dousae, and in France Du Thou and Casaubon. Scaliger died in the arms of his favourite pupil and closest friend Daniel Heinsius, who wrote a funerary oration for him. Scaliger had inherited from his father Julius Caesar Scaliger a profound belief in his descent from the noble Veronese family Della Scala. Scaliger tried to prove his princely descent, but clearly failed according to his biographer Anthony Grafton. This title of 1609 contains the funerary oration of Heinsius, and secondly the speech he held on the occasion of the inauguration in the 'Vrouwekerk' of the funerary monument of Scaliger. At the beginning of the second speech we find the plate with the 'editio princeps' of the text of the epitaph. After the speech of the inauguration of the monument, follow 'Manes Scaligeri', a series of poems and epitaphs, some of them in ancient Greek. The first one is called 'Aphotheosis'. At the end we find 'Epicedia diversorum', poetic epitaphs by H. Grotius and other leading Dutch scholars. (p. 73-91). At the end there are 'Iudicia de Iosepho Scaligero ex infinitis pauca', the 'legatum' of Scaliger's books to the University library of Leiden, and a portrait of J.C. Scaliger. (p. 92-100) The added funerary oration of 24 pages is the work of the erudite Flemish humanist and cosmopolitan scholar Dominicus Baudius, colleague and friend of Scaliger, and one of the best Neolatin epistolary talents of his time. In 1603 he was appointed 'Professor Eloquentiae' (of Latin) at the University of Leiden) (Provenance: On the front flyleaf the name of 'M. Tijdeman'. Mr. Meindert Tydeman, 1741-1825, was from 1811 librarian of the University Library of Leyden, and in 1814 he was appointed professor of philosophy. Inscription on the title: 'Sum J. Didaci Nieuhoff'. We found only one Didacus Nieuhoff. His name occurs on a baptismal certificate, 's-Hertogenbosch, 1695) The name on the title page of Baudius' speech is illegible. He was 'Pfarrer in B, Freiburg i. Br.' and lived in the 'Joh. von Weerthstr. 4') (Collation: Ad 1: *4 (including full page portrait of J.J. Scaliger), A-L4, M6 (Full page portrait of J.C. Scaliger on p. 99). 1 engraved plate after page 32, 3 after p. 40, of which one is folding. Ad 2: A-C4 (leaf C4 verso blank)) ‎

‎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)) ‎

‎Illustriss. viri Iosephi Scaligeri, Iulii Caes. à Burden F. Epistolae omnes quae reperiri potuerunt, nunc primum collectae ac editae. Caeteris praefixa est ea quae est De gente Scaligera; in qua de autoris vita; & sub finem Danielis Heinsii De morte eius altera. ‎

‎Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Ex officina Bonaventurae & Abrahami Elzevir, 1627. ‎

‎8vo. (XXIV),887,(1 blank) p. Limp restored vellum 18 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 840010095; Willems 288; Berghman 1393; Rahir 253; Smitskamp Scaliger Collection 166; Graesse 6/2,289; Ebert 20438) (Details: Elsevier's printer's mark on the title, depicting an old man who stands in the shade of a vine- elmtree, symbolising the symbiotic relationship between scholar and publisher; the motto: 'Non solus', probably indicates the interdependency of publisher and scholar) (Condition: Binding recently restored antique style. Vellum soiled. Endpapers renewed. Old and small ownership entry on the title. Edges of the title and last leaf, and the tip of the upper corner of first & last 2 leaves skillfully restored. Last 2 leaves slightly soiled. Some faint pencil) (Note: The place of Josephus Justus Scaliger, 1549-1609, in the history of classical scholarship is royal. His preeminence is summarized masterly in the blurb text of the dustjacket of the intellectual biography of Anthony Grafton 'Joseph Scaliger, A study in the history of classical scholarship', Oxford, 1983/93. 'In an age of great classical scholars, Joseph Scaliger was the greatest. His early work as an editor of Latin texts won the attention of the learned throughout Europe and contained technical innovations that remain of interest. His later work as the founder of the discipline of historical chronology involved him in the superhuman task of trying to reconstruct every sophisticated calender and to date every significant event in human history. Along the way he emended hundreds of corrupt passages in classical texts, collated scores of manuscripts, quarrelled with dozens of his rivals, failed humiliatingly (...) to prove that he was descended from the della Scala of Verona - and dashed off in his spare time works that would remain standard for centuries, like Gruter's Corpus of inscriptions, the publication of which Scaliger oversaw. His work was perhaps most important in that it showed that the Bible and the events it recorded could not be understood except in the light of the writings of the pagans and the methods of classical scholarship'. In 1593 he filled the vacant place left by Justus Lipsius at the young the University of Leiden. 'His disinclination to lecture was duly respected; all that the authorities at Leyden desired was his living and inspiring presence in that seat of Protestant learning' (Sandys p. 202). On this honorary post he produced works that made him immortal, and lend lustre to Leyden and its Universtiy. Scaliger spent the last 16 years of his life in Leiden as the jewel of the University. There he enjoyed also the friendship of a great numbers of pupils and admirers. To his circle belonged H. Grotius, D. Heinsius, the Dousae, and in France Du Thou and Casaubon. Scaliger died in the arms of his favourite pupil and closest friend Daniel Heinsius, who wrote a funerary oration for him. The correspondence reflects his relations with contemporary scholars and scientists, and the scholarly circles in which he moved. He corresponded with Salmasius, Heinsius, Casaubon, Lindenbrogius, Gruter, Lipsius, Labbaeus and many others. Scaliger had inherited from his father Julius Caesar Scaliger a profound belief in his descent from the noble Veronese family Della Scala. The correspondence opens with a 58 page letter addressed to Dousa, and is on this matter, 'De vetustate gentis Scaligerae in qua & de vita utriusque Scaligeri'. Here Scaliger tries to prove his princely descent) (Provenance: Old ownership entry on the title of one 'J. Bridges', who also contributed some small marginalia in a clear and legible hand) (Collation: *8, 2*4; A-3I8, 3K4) (Photographs on request) ‎

‎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. (Volume I) ‎

‎N.pl. (Geneva), (Jacob Stoer for Gaspard de Hus), 1574. ‎

‎8vo. (IV),663,(1 blank) p. Vellum. 18 cm (Ref: GLN-2523; USTC 450676; cf. Smitskamp's 'The Scaliger collection' no. 146; Brunet 5,179; Graesse 6/289; Ebert 20452) (Details: Back with 4 raised bands. Woodcut printer's mark on the title, depicting two men who are planting and watering young trees; above them, in a cloud, the divine Tetragrammaton, a 4-letter Hebrew word, the name of the biblical God of Israel, Yahweh. Printed in italics. Volume 1 only, containing the poetry of Julius Caesar Scaliger: 'Apiculae, p. 1; Nemesis, p. 59; Teretismata, ubi Satyrae, 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. 329; Hipponax, p. 385; Sidera, p. 458; Lacrymae, p. 526; Aenigmata, p. 546; Urbes, p. 582; Logogriphi, p. 614; Manes Catulliani, p. 634. Lacking the second volume with poetry of his son Josephus Justus Scaliger) (Condition: Vellum soiled and age-toned. Owner's inscription on the front flyleaf. Old stamp on the title, depicting the Holy Cross, on which rests the Crown of thornes; the monogram C.S. is written across its standard. A name erased on the title. Paper yellowing. On page 578 has been erased with black ink a 6 lines poem called 'Fratres monachi, iterum', 3 elegiac couplets directed against monks, who are compared to pigs. Volume 1 only, containing the poetry of Julius Caesar Scaliger only, and lacking the second volume with poetry of his son Josephus Justus Scaliger) (Note: The greatest contribution of the classical scholar of Italian origin Julius Caesar Scaliger (Giulio Bordone della Scala), 1484-1558, to the history of classical scholarship is his brilliant son Josephus Justus Scaliger. In 1524 Julius Caesar Scaliger moved to France where he became physician to bishop Antonio della Rovere of Agen, and where his son Joseph Justus 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. 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 Josephus Justus produced a new edition of his father's collected poetry during his stay at Geneva, where he took refuge because of the French wars of religion and St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (1572). Here he delivered public lectures and tutored students, and met fellow humanists, Beza, Henricus Stephanus et alii, all interested in or writing Neo-Latin poetry.) (Provenance: On the front flyleaf: 'Ad usum D. Romanus Merighij Camald.sis'. This is Don Romanus Merighius (Romano Merighi), born near Imola in 1658, head (procurator generalis) of the Camaldolese Order, the 'Ordo Camaldulensium', a monastic community that traces its lineage to a monastic movement begun by Saint Romuald. Their name is derived from the Holy Hermitage, Sacro Eremo, Camaldoli, near Arezzo. Because of the colour of their habit they are called 'White Benedictines'. Romanus was a theologian, but he also earned fame as a prominent vernacular poet. He is known for the Idyll in Toscan 'Nesso e Logilde'. He died in 1737. His portrait can be found via Google, search for "Porträtsammlung" and "ÖNB", then Schnellsuche: "Merighi". A useful article on Merighi in 'Centifolium Camaldulense, Sive Notatia Scriptorum Camaldulensium', by M. Ziegelbaur, Venice 1750, p. 69/71) (Collation: *4, a-z8, A-S8, T4 (leaf T4 verso blank) ‎

‎Jvlii Caesaris Scaligeri viri clarissimi Poemata in duas partes divisa.Pleraque omnia in publicum jam primum prodeunt : reliqua vero quam ante emendatius editae sunt. Sophoclis Ajax Lorarius, stylo. Tragico a Josepho Scaligero Julii F. translatus. Ejusdem epigrammata quaedam, tum graeca tum latina, cum quibusdam e graeco versis.‎

‎S.l., S.n.[Genève] : [Jacob Stoer pour Gaspard de Hus], 1574, 2 parties reliées en un fort petit in-8,663 pages-(1 p. blanche)+336 pages-(1 ff. chiffré 337 sur une page et non chiffré mais imprimé sur l'autre page.)-(1ff. blanc)-suivi de: Sophoclis Aiax Lorarius, stylo tragico a Iosepho Scaligero Iulii F.translatis. Anno DLXXIIII, 70 pages. Vélin époque à rabats, la partie supérieure du dos a été découpée; mouillures claires marginales. Armes non identifiées frappées à l'or au centre des plats.Annotation manuscrite ancienne au contreplat, nom manuscrit découpé et griffonné sur la page de titre de chaque côté de la vignette.(LXXXVIII)-(800 gr.)‎

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‎La première édition de cet ouvrage a été publiée à Lyon chez Godefridum et Marcellum Beringos en 1546. "Scaliger, Jules-César, médecin et philologue, né à Ripa, près de Vérone (Italie), le 22 avril 1484, mort à Agen le 21 octobre 1558. Soldat jusqu'à 40 ans, puis médecin à Vérone, il suivit en France Antoine de La Rovere, dont il était l'ami, quand ce prélat vint prendre possession du siège épiscopal d'Agen en 1525, à la mort de Léonard de la Rovère, son oncle. Scaliger se fixa chez nous. Il fut naturalisé français en 1528 et reçu bourgeois d'Agen. Il devint même , plus tard, consul de cette ville et s'y maria avec Audiette de La Roque-Lobéjac, une charmante agenaise de seize ans qui lui donna quinze enfants, dont sept survécurent, parmi lesquels le célèbre humaniste Joseph. Il reçut en 1584 le titre de médecin ordinaire des rois et reines de Navarre.Jules-César Scaliger fut un des hommes les plus remarquables de la première moitié du XVIe siècle". Andrieu Bibliographie de l'agenais II pages 282-286. "Vers 1524, le médecin Scaliger s'installe à Agen sur l'incitation de son ami Antonio della Rovera, petit-neveu du pape Jules II et promu évêque d'Agen en 1519. Sur son acte de naturalisation daté de mars 1529 (1528 anc. style), il est dit "docteur en médecine natif de la ville de Véronne en Italie" (Jules De Bourrousse de Laffore, "Jules-César de Lescale", in Recueil des Travaux de la Société d'Agriculture, Sciences et Arts d'Agen, 2e sér. T 1, Agen, 1861, p.28). Quelques jours plus tard, le 13 avril 1529, il épouse Andiette de La Roque Loubéjac, âgée de 16 ans, la fille orpheline d'Alain de La Roque en Quercy (décédé en 1518 selon Joseph Juste, le fils de Scaliger), qui lui apporta en dot une maison à Agen et le domaine de Vivès (cf. Jules Momméja, "Un domaine historique: Vérone-Vivès et les Scaliger" in Revue de l'Agenais 35, 1908, p.293). Sa réputation est établie, et il est nommé consul d'Agen en 1532".Patrice Guinard Corpus Nostradamus 89. Jules César Scaliger né Guilio Bordone, naturalisé sous le nom de Jules-César de l'Escale, était un des plus grands érudits de son temps, médecin, philologue, philosophe, traducteur,critique et poète. Il se signale par de fracassantes querelles avec des hommes de lettres, des savants, des philosophes, en particulier Cardan, et surtout Erasme, contre qui, avec une très grande violence, dans les Orationes duae adversus Desiderium Erasmum eloquentiæ romanæ vindices. Mais depuis la petite ville d'Agen il n'a pas la renommée qu'il mérite et il a du mal à se faire publier. cette renommée il la doit à un ouvrage posthume, une Poétique en sept livres et en latin (Poetices libri septem, 1561), dont l'influence sur le XVIIe siècle des lettres sera importante. Cette renommée il la partage désormais avec son fils Joseph-Juste,brillant philologue, chronologiste et historien,lui aussi esprit brillant et fort caractère, qui mourut à Leyde en 1609 avec la reconnaissance que n'avait pas connu son père. Un boulevard d'Agen porte le nom de Scaliger sans distinguer le père du fils. ‎

‎Jvlii Caesaris Scaligeri viri clarissimi Poemata in duas partes divisa.Pleraque omnia in publicum jam primum prodeunt : reliqua vero quam ante emendatius editae sunt. Sophoclis Ajax Lorarius, stylo. Tragico a Josepho Scaligero Julii F. translatus. Ejusdem epigrammata quaedam, tum graeca tum latina, cum quibusdam e graeco versis.‎

‎S.l., S.n.[Genève] : [Jacob Stoer pour Gaspard de Hus], 1574, 2 parties reliées en un fort petit in-8,663 pages-(1 p. blanche)+337 pages-(1 p.)-(1ff. blanc)-suivi de: Sophoclis Aiax Lorarius, stylo tragico a Iosepho Scaligero Iulii F.translatis. Anno DLXXIIII, 70 pages. Vélin époque à rabats, petite usure des coiffes,taché au second plat,petite galerie dans la marge des 150 premières pages, puis sur une autre centaine de pages n'altérant pas le texte. Interversion des pages 433 à 448 de la première partie. Ex-libris armorié de Charles Digues de la Souche.‎

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‎La première édition de cet ouvrage a été publiée à Lyon chez Godefridum et Marcellum Beringos en 1546. "Scaliger, Jules-César, médecin et philologue, né à Ripa, près de Vérone (Italie), le 22 avril 1484, mort à Agen le 21 octobre 1558. Soldat jusqu'à 40 ans, puis médecin à Vérone, il suivit en France Antoine de La Rovere, dont il était l'ami, quand ce prélat vint prendre possession du siège épiscopal d'Agen en 1525, à la mort de Léonard de la Rovère, son oncle. Scaliger se fixa chez nous. Il fut naturalisé français en 1528 et reçu bourgeois d'Agen. Il devint même , plus tard, consul de cette ville et s'y maria avec Audiette de La Roque-Lobéjac, une charmante agenaise de seize ans qui lui donna quinze enfants, dont sept survécurent, parmi lesquels le célèbre humaniste Joseph. Il reçut en 1584 le titre de médecin ordinaire des rois et reines de Navarre.Jules-César Scaliger fut un des hommes les plus remarquables de la première moitié du XVIe siècle". Andrieu Bibliographie de l'agenais II pages 282-286. "Vers 1524, le médecin Scaliger s'installe à Agen sur l'incitation de son ami Antonio della Rovera, petit-neveu du pape Jules II et promu évêque d'Agen en 1519. Sur son acte de naturalisation daté de mars 1529 (1528 anc. style), il est dit "docteur en médecine natif de la ville de Véronne en Italie" (Jules De Bourrousse de Laffore, "Jules-César de Lescale", in Recueil des Travaux de la Société d'Agriculture, Sciences et Arts d'Agen, 2e sér. T 1, Agen, 1861, p.28). Quelques jours plus tard, le 13 avril 1529, il épouse Andiette de La Roque Loubéjac, âgée de 16 ans, la fille orpheline d'Alain de La Roque en Quercy (décédé en 1518 selon Joseph Juste, le fils de Scaliger), qui lui apporta en dot une maison à Agen et le domaine de Vivès (cf. Jules Momméja, "Un domaine historique: Vérone-Vivès et les Scaliger" in Revue de l'Agenais 35, 1908, p.293). Sa réputation est établie, et il est nommé consul d'Agen en 1532".Patrice Guinard Corpus Nostradamus 89. Jules César Scaliger né Guilio Bordone, naturalisé sous le nom de Jules-César de l'Escale, était un des plus grands érudits de son temps, médecin, philologue, philosophe, traducteur,critique et poète. Il se signale par de fracassantes querelles avec des hommes de lettres, des savants, des philosophes, en particulier Cardan, et surtout Erasme, contre qui, avec une très grande violence, dans les Orationes duae adversus Desiderium Erasmum eloquentiæ romanæ vindices. Mais depuis la petite ville d'Agen il n'a pas la renommée qu'il mérite et il a du mal à se faire publier. cette renommée il la doit à un ouvrage posthume, une Poétique en sept livres et en latin (Poetices libri septem, 1561), dont l'influence sur le XVIIe siècle des lettres sera importante. Cette renommée il la partage désormais avec son fils Joseph-Juste,brillant philologue, chronologiste et historien,lui aussi esprit brillant et fort caractère, qui mourut à Leyde en 1609 avec la reconnaissance que n'avait pas connu son père. Un boulevard d'Agen porte le nom de Scaliger sans distinguer le père du fils. ‎

‎Iulii Caesaris Scaligeri Viri Clarissimi, De causis linguae latinae libri tredecim. (Bound with:) Poetica Latina Nova, methodo perspicua tradita, commentariis luculentis declarata, exemplis tum veterum, tum recentiorum Poëtarum illustrata (...). Per Scholae Giessenae nonnullos Professores Philosophos. ‎

‎Ad 1: (Geneva), Apud Petrum Santandreanum, 1597. Ad 2: Giessen (Giessae Hassorum), Excedubat Nicolaus Hampelius, 1607. ‎

‎8vo. 2 volumes in 1. Ad 1: (XXIV),451 (recte 455),(1 blank) p. Ad 2: (XV),393,(7) p. Overlapping vellum. 18 cm. - First edition of the Giessener Poetik - (Ref: Ad 1: GLN-3933; USTC 429694. Ad 2: VD17 23:295251P) (Details: 4 thongs laced through the joints. Woodcut printer's device on the title, Veritas: 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 ribbon with the text in Greek: 'Alêtheia Pandamatôr', i.e. 'Allmighty Truth') (Condition: Vellum soiled and spotted. Label pasted on front pastedown, bookplate on verso of the front flyleaf. Occasional old and small ink underlinings. Ad 1: Old ownership inscription and a faint stamp on the title. Paper yellowing. Small wormhole in the first 12 leaves, sometimes nibbling at a letter. Ad 2: Paper browning. Leaf K2 = p. 147/48 removed) (Note: Ad 1: The teaching of Latin was dominated during the Late Middle Ages by a 'fixed set of textbooks, namely the 'Ars Minor' by Donatus (4th cent.), the 'Doctrinale puerorum' by Alexander of Villadei (born ca. 1170) and a compilation of Donatus and Priscian (6th cent.) called 'Ianua cum rudibus primam cupientibus artem''. (M. Haspelmath et alii, 'Language Typology and Language Universals: An International Handbook, volume I', Berlin/New York 2001, p. 211) The first to challenge the rigid systematization of this kind of textbooks was the humanist Guarino Veronese (1374-1460) with his 'Regulae grammaticales' (before 1418). The Italian scholar Lorenzo Valla tried to break from this unscientific tradition with his 'Elegantiarum linguae Latinae libri sex'. (ca. 1444) 'In his mainly stylistically orientated compendium, he insisted on the usage of the language of the classical writers as the guideline for all grammar, thus taking grammar out of its self-contained existence'. (Idem, ibidem) One of the following major humanist linguistic innovations was published in 1540 by the Italian scholar Julius Caesar Scaliger (Giulio Bordone della Scala), 1484-1558. In 1524 he moved to France where he became physician to bishop Antonio della Rovere of Agen, and where his brilliant son Josephus Justus was born in 1540, the same year in which this 'De causis linguae latinae libri tredecim' was published. This work is among his most important philological works. Scaliger claimed 'that grammaticography was a science and not an art and (he) gave it a systematic framework with Aristotelian concepts.' (Idem, Ibidem). The work is 'an acute and judicious work on the leading principles of the language, in the course of which he claims to have corrected 643 mistakes made by Valla and his other predicessors'. (Sandys, 2/178) Scaliger's 'De causis' was reissued in Geneve in 1580 and 1584, and in Heidelberg in 1609 and 1623) Ad 2: The 'Poetica latina nova', better known in Germany as 'Giessener Poetik', was first published in Giessen in 1607. It was written, as is evident from the opening of the introductory poem, by 3 professors of the Giessen 'Gymnasium illustre', Christoph Helwig (Helvicus), Kaspar Finck (Finckius) and Konrad Bachmann (Bachmannus). (Leaf 7 verso) It saw eight reissues until 1671. This makes it, alongside Martin Opitz's 'Buch von der deutschen Poeterey' the most successful poetics of the 17th century. In the 'Giessener Poetik' the references to J.C. Scaliger's 'Poetices libri septem' (Lyon 1561) are numerous. Scaliger's poetics is used to such a degree that the 'Giessener Poetik' must for long stretches be regarded as an exegesis and paraphrasis. Dependence on Scaliger also blocks the professors' access to Aristotelian 'poetics', the existence of which is known to them, as occasional references show, but his 'poetics' left no trace. After a brief introduction follows the division of poetics into 2 parts: the first deals with the 'principia carminis', the other with the 'modus conficiendi'. The 'principia' are syllable quantity and verse foot, the discussion of which accounts for about three quarters of the total poetics. The 'modus conficiendi' encompasses the general principles, metrics and generic theory (Gattungslehre). (See: V. Wels, 'Begriff der Dichtung in der Frühen Neuzeit', Berlin/New York 2009, p. 97/100)) (Provenance: On the front pastedown a book ticket, and a catalogue clipping of the Dutch auctioneers Beijers. On the front flyleaf the name 'Münichmann, 1841'. On the verso of the front flyleaf a bookplate of 'Bibliotheek Mariënhage, Eindhoven'. This book was once the property of the Augustine monastery Eindhoven. A faint stamp on the first title page: 'St Joseph's Society, Mill Hill, London'. This was the Saint Joseph's Society for Foreign Missions, also called the Mill Hill Missionaries or Mill Hill Fathers, a society of apostolic life of Catholic missionaries, founded in 1866. On the title: 'Ex libris Joannis Schmidt Hamburg. in patria ad D. Nicolai (illegible word), 1622. (illegible word) sufficientissima Haeriditas'. We found one Joannes Schmidt who was Pastor of the Nicolai Church in Hamburg'. He died in 1629. A wild guess) (Collation: Ad 1: *8, 2*4, A-2E8, 2F4 (leaf 2F4 verso blank). Ad 2: 8, A-2B8. (Leaf K2 removed)) (Photographs on request) ‎

‎Prima Scaligerana, nusquam antehac edita, cum praefatione T. Fabri. ‎

‎Utrecht (Ultrajecti), Apud Petrum Elzevirium, 1670. ‎

‎8vo. (X),101,(1 blank) p. Modern half vellum 16 cm (Ref: Willems 1605: one of the few Elzevier-editions from Utrecht; Rahir 1782; Berghman 1339; Not in the 'Scaliger Collection', Smitskamp, Leiden 1993, only mentioned in the register, p. 128. Not in Brunet, Graesse or Ebert) (Details: Boards with marbled paper. Woodcut printer's mark on title, depicting a celestial sphere) (Condition: Small stamp on the title) (Note: The place of Josephus Justus Scaliger, 1549-1609, in the history of classical scholarship is royal. His preeminence is best understood from the entry which the French classicist Isaac Casaubon made in his diary after the death of this great man: 'Exstincta est illa seculi nostri lampas, lumen litterarum, decus Galliae, ornamentum unicum Europae'. His erudition was considered by his contemporaries to be a wonder of mankind. 'He not only exhibits a remarable aptitude for the soundest type of textual emendation; but he is also the founder of historical criticism. His main strength lay in a clear conception of antiquity as a whole, and in the concentration of vast and varied learning on distinctly important works' (Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship, p. 199-204). He was one of the first to point the way to a sounder method of emendation founded on the genuine tradition of MSS. In 1590 he filled the vacant place left by Justus Lipsius at the young the University of Leiden. 'His disinclination to lecture was duly respected; all that the authorities at Leyden desired was his living and inspiring presence in that seat of Protestant learning' (Sandys p. 202). On this honorary post he produced works that made him immortal. His immortality was further ensured by the publication after his death of the Prima Scaligerana, a collection of table conversations in which observations of great scientific value can be found, and which is an exeptional and much-quoted source in the historiography of the late humanistic republic of letters. The complicated history of this Prima Scaligerana and Secunda Scaligerana is explained best online at The Warburg Institute (research/projects/scaliger/scaligerana). The table conversations were originally penned down by a friend of Scaliger, the medicin François de Saint-Vertunien (Franciscus Vertunianus). 'Soweit sie also mündliche Aeusserungen Scaligers enthält, umfasst die Sammlung die Periode 1574 bis 1593.' (...) Nach Vertunians Tode (1607) blieben diese Aufzeichnungen unter seinen Papieren in Poitiers liegen, bis sie um das Jahr 1669 ein dortiger Advokat, de Sigogne, an sich brachte und dem Tanaquil Faber nach Saumur zur Herausgabe schickte'. (Bernays,J., Joseph Justus Scaliger, Berlin, 1855, p. 232) They left the press in Saumur in that same year under a fake imprint, i.e. 'Groningae, apud Petrum Smithaeum, 1669', this to escape the attention of the authorities of the church and the state. This work was edited by the French classical scholar Tanneguy Lefebvre, or in Latin Tanaquillus Faber, 1615-1672. In the short preface to this work M. Lefebvre explains also why this edition was called: Prima Scaligerana. That was because the edition of another collection of Scaligerana which was published a few years earlier (1666 & 1668) contained material of a later date than his edition. The Dutch printer Pieter Elzevier, one of the last Elzeviers of this celebrated family of booksellers, publishers and printers of the 17th century, published in 1670 this reissue of the Groningen edition of 1669. There exists an editio altera, priore emendatior, with the imprint Ultrajecti, Apud Petrum Elsevirium, 1671, which is however a counterfeit, executed in France, and considered a false Elsevier) (Collation: A-G8) (Photographs on request) ‎

‎Florilegium epigrammatum Martialis. Josephus Scaliger,... vertit graece ad Isaacium Casaubonium‎

‎ 1607 Lutetiæ, Ex Typographia Roberti Stephani, 1607; in-12 de (12) ff. (dont le titre, une étude en latin sur Scaliger et Casaubon, la table, l'extrait du privilège) - 70 ff. ch. Plein veau granité brun, fine roulettte à froid encadrant les plats, dos à nerfs orné de filets pointillés et petits fers dorés, coupes guillochées, tranches rouges ( reliure postérieure). Petit arrachage de cuir à l'angle supérieur du1er plat, sinon très bon exemplaire.‎

‎Epigrammes de Martial imprimées en latin et grec chez Robert III Estienne dans une édition donnée par Joseph Scaliger ( 1540- 1609), et Isaac Casaubon (Genève 1559 - Londres 1614). Scaliger et Casaubon étaient deux humanistes protestants, traducteurs et commentateurs des textes antiques. Casaubon était marié à la fille de l'imprimeur Henri Estienne. Intéressante édition, où se trouve au colophon la mention: "Excudebat Ionnes Ianonus in Typographia Rob. Stephani, Anno M. DC. VII". Jean Jannon (Genève 1580 - Sedan 1658) fit son apprentissage chez Robert III Estienne. Il est connu "pour avoir gravé par la suite un petit caractère d'une grande finesse: "la petite sedanaise" dont le nom évolua au cours des siècles en "romain de l'université" puis fut attribué à tort à Claude Garamond". Les études du XXe siècle en typographie ont rétabli la paternité de ce caractère à Jannon.( Reu-Bur) ‎

‎Iulii Caesaris Scaligeri viri clarissimi Poetices libri septem: I. Historicus, II. Hyle, III. Idea, IIII. Parasceue, V. Criticus, VI. Hypercriticus. VII. Epinomis. Ad Sylvium filium. Editio secunda. ‎

‎N.pl. (Geneva), Apud Petrum Santandreanum (Pierre de Saint-André), 1581. ‎

‎8vo. (XXIV),945 (recte 949; p. 1-432, 431-462 459-945),(67 index) p. Half calf. 18 cm (Ref: GLN-2893; Graesse 6/1,289; Ebert 20450) (Details: Back gilt and with 4 raised bands. Santandrea's 'Veritas' printer's device on the title: 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 ribbon with the text in Greek: 'Alêtheia Pandamatôr', i.e. 'Allmighty Truth) (Condition: Small hole at the junction of the spine and the joint near the foot of the spine. Wear to the head and tail of the spine. Edges a bit worn. Marbled paper on the boards wearing away. Right upper corner of the upper board bending. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Endpapers slightly stained. Three small wormholes in the first leaves. Some small wormholes in the blank lower margin in a few places. Paper yellowing) (Note: The greatest contribution of the classical scholar of Italian origin Julius Caesar Scaliger (Giulio Bordone della Scala), 1484-1558, to the history of classical scholarship is of course his brilliant son Joseph Justus Scaliger. In 1524 he moved to France where he became physician to bishop Antonio della Rovere of Agen, and where his son Joseph Justus was born in 1540, the same year in which his 'De causis linguae latinae libri tredecim' was published. This work is among his most important philological works. A far more comprehensive work is Scaliger's 'Poetices libri septem', posthumously published at Lyon in 1561, which offers his generically organized classifications of kinds of ancient and modern Latin poems, and comparative criticism of ancient and modern poets, recognizing the rivalry and imitation in Greek, Roman and modern writings. It is 'one of the earliest modern attempts to treat the art of poetry in a systematic manner. Here he deals with the different kinds of poems, and the various metres, together with figures of speech and turns of phrase, criticises all the Latin poets ancient and modern, and institutes a detailed comparison between Homer and Virgil to the distinct advantage of Virgil, while the epics of Homer are regarded as inferior to the 'Hero and Leander' of Musaeus. He also declares Seneca inferior to none of the Greeks in majesty. He makes all literary creation depend ultimately on judicious imitation'. (Sandys 2, p. 178) This Genevan edition of 1581 is a reissue of the edition of 1561. This fundamental work remained the standard in matters of Latin poetry well into the 18th century) (Provenance: Engraved armorial bookplate of 'Robert Chambre Vaughan Esq. Burlton Hall, Co. Salop'. Vaughan, Robert-Chambre, esq. of Burlton Hall in the County of Salop, born in 1796, was a graduate of Brasenose College, Oxford. (See for him and his ancestors J. Burke, 'A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland', London 1835, Volume 2, p. 238/242). In 1818 the degree of Bachelor of Arts was conferred to him. He died in 1876)(Collation: *8, 2*4, a-z8, A-Z8, Aa-Rr8, Ss4) ‎

‎SCALIGERANA Editio altera ad vervm exemplar restitua, & innumeris jusque foedissimis mendis, quibus prior illa passim ...‎

‎Coloniae Agrippinae( Rouen ? ) Apud Gerbrandum Scagen ( A. Daillé ) 1667 1 vol. in-18 ( 16 x 9 cm ) T. , (5) ff. n. ch. , 268 ( i. e. 254 ) pp. . Texte en petits caractères . Avec Lectori S. et Errata . Au titre , marque typographique à la sphère armillaire . Veau brun granité de l' époque . Dos à cinq caissons ornés et titre dorés . Toutes tranches jaspées rouges . Reliure solide . Manquent la coiffe sup. et une partie du caisson sup. ; coiffe inf. légèrement arasée . Manque au plat inf. ( éraflure peu visible ) . P. 97 ch. 79 ; p. 195 ch. 209 , p. 196 ch. 210 et ainsi de suite jusqu' à la fin ( p. 254 ch. 268 ) . ( Collat. complet ) ‎

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‎" Recueil des propos tenus par Joseph Juste Scaliger au cours de conversations avec Nicolas et Jean Vassan, transcrits par le second qui confia ses notes à Pierre Dupuy ; quelques familiers de celui-ci en firent des copies ; celle réalisée par Claude Sarrau fut à son tour copiée et mise en ordre alphabétique par Adrien Daillé ; c'est cette copie que Isaac Vossius fit imprimer en 1666 à l'insu de Daillé, qui, jugeant l'édition pleine de fautes, aurait réalisé cette édition en 1667. - Imprimé à Rouen sous une fausse adresse d'après P. des Maizeaux ; cependant, d'après le matériel typographique, si l'impression est effectivement française, elle ne présente aucune des caractéristiques des impressions rouennaises. " ( BnF , Catalogue général , Notice bibliographique , https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb30383762r ) . " La première édition du Scaligerana Secunda , parue en 1666 sous le nom de Scaligeriana , est en principe à éviter : elle a été faite d' après une copie hâtive et les fautes sont nombreuses . L' édition de Rouen ( sous le nom de Cologne ) de 1667 ( Scaligerana, editio altera , ad verum exemplar restituta ...) doit être considérée comme la véritable première édition " ( F. Wild , " Le prima Scaligerana . Registre d' une amitié savante " , in : " Albineana , Cahiers d'Aubigné " , 7 , 1996 , p. 130 ) . " Les Scaligerana , ou bons mots de l' illustre humaniste protestant Joseph-Juste Scaliger ( 1540 - 1609 ) , ont toujours eu mauvaise réputation . Dès 1666, à leur première parution , Guy Patin confiait à son collègue médecin André Falconet , que " c' est un livre fort curieux , mais un peu dangereux ". Jusqu' à la fin du XVIIe siècle , son parfum de scandale lui valut d' innombrables rééditions, et autant de contrefaçons . Toutes parurent en terre hérétique , à La Haye , à Saumur , ou chez les imprimeurs rouennais . Dans le même temps , ce livre eut une postérité également extraordinaire qui lui valut d' être considéré comme le père d' un genre nouveau , les ana ." ( J. Delatour , " Pour une édition critique des Scaligerana " , in : " Bibliothèque de l' Ecole des chartes ", 1998 , T. 156 , livraison 2 , p. 407 ) . J. Delatour ajoute en note : " Les lieux des premières éditions ont été systématiquement supposés " et renvoie à Pierre Des Maizeaux ( " Scaligerana, Thuana, Perroniana, Pithoeana, et Colomesiana , ou Remarques historiques, critiques, morales, & litteraires de Jos. Scaliger, J. Aug. de Thou, le cardinal du Perron, Fr. Pithou, & P. Colomiés " , Chez Cóvens & Mortier, 1740 , T. 2 , p. XXVI ) qui intitule la préface de notre ouvrage " Préface de Mr. Daillé sur la seconde édition du Second Scaligerana , imprimée à Rouen , sous le nom de Cologne , en 1667. " ‎

‎ΑΡΙΣΤΟΤΕΛΟΥΣ ΠΕΡΙ ΖΩΩΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑΣ. Aristotelis historia de animalibus. Iulio Caesare Scaligero interprete, cum eiusdem commentariis; Philippus Jacobus Maussacus, in senatu Tolosano consiliarius regius, ex bibliotheca paterna opus a multis abhinc annis expetitum primus vulgauit & restituit, additis prolegominis & animaduersionibus ; Accedit fragmentum quod decimus historiarum inscribitur, multo quam antea antea emendatius & auctius ; Additi praeterea indices, unus auctorum qui in opere citantur & emendantur, alter rerum & verborum notabilium.‎

‎Tolosae, Apud Dominicum & Petrum Bosc., 1619. In-folio de [32]-1248-[24] pages, plein veau fauve de l'époque, dos à 6 nerfs orné de fleurons, filets, roulettes et titre dorés, double filet doré encadrant les plats. Tampon de bibliothèque au titre. ‎

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‎Illustré d'un belle vignette de titre. Bandeaux et lettrines. Première édition de cette version de Scaliger, un des plus célèbres polémistes de la renaissance, publiée à titre posthume sous la direction de l'excellent helléniste P. J Maussac qui a fourni une traduction latine et quelques notes pour accompagner les extraits d' Aristote en grec et les longs commentaires de Scaliger. "Né enItalied'une famille qu'il prétendait illustre et qui fut très vraisemblablement obscure, condottiere de l'épée avant de devenir «gladiateur des lettres» (Nisard), tour à tour étudiant et moine, Jules César Scaliger (1484-1558) s'initie à la médecine, qu'il vient exercer en France: il se fixe à Agen, qu'il ne quittera pratiquement plus. Doué d'une force de travail et d'une mémoire exceptionnelles, il acquiert une érudition immense qui fait l'étonnement de ses contemporains mêmes. Traducteur (en latin) et commentateur savant mais aussi critique d'écrits scientifiques grecs — du livre d'Hippocrate sur l'insomnie (1538), duTraité des planteset de l'Histoire des animauxattribués àAristote(1556), [...] il se signale par de fracassantes querelles avec des hommes de lettres, des savants, des philosophes, en particulier Cardan, et surtout Erasme [...]" [J.-Y. Pouilloux, Encycl. Uni.]. ‎

‎M. Manili astronomicon libri quinque‎

‎apud Mamertum Patissonium [ Mamert Patisson] [ Robert Estienne] Roberti Stephani | Lutetiae (Paris) 1579 | 10 x 16 cm | 2 parties reliées en un volume‎

‎Edition originale, rare. La première partie à pagination séparée est constituée par le texte de Manilius (caractères italiques), la seconde, qui possède sa propre page de titre et sa pagination, par les commentaires de Scaliger, lesquels sont deux fois plus long que le texte. Cette seconde partie est accompagnée de quelques diagrammes, notamment hors-texte. Marques de l'imprimeur sur les deux pages de titre. Plein Parchemin d'époque. Dos lisse avec titre à la plume noire. Coin droit manquant sur quelques mm sur le plat supérieur. Bordure ouverte sur 3 mm au plat inférieur. Les astronomiques de Manilius, poète let astrologue latin du début du premier siècle, est un poème didactique sur l'astronomie et l'astrologie. Le livre premier constitue une description du ciel, le second est consacré au zodiaque, le troisième apprend comment établir un horoscope d'après l'observation des cieux, le livre quatre est une analyse des peuples de la terre selon l'influence astrale, et le dernier livre une explication de l'influence des planète selon leurs positions. On notera que pour la première fois dans l'histoire de l'astrologie appraît dans ce texte le concept de "Maison", toujours utilisé. Les commentaires et réflexions de Saliger sont les premiers existants sur cet ouvrage. Scaliger, on le sait, fut un des plus importants érudit du XVIe siècle et succèda à Juste Lipse à L'université de Leyde. Son intérêt pour la chronologie, l'astrologie et l'astronomie l'a accompagné sa vie durant. Ses détracteurs lui reprochèrent cependant en ce domaine une approximation dans ses sources et une certaine erreur dans ses jugements sur l'astromie ancienne. - Photographies et détails sur www.Edition-Originale.com -‎

‎Scaligerana. Editio altera, ad verum exemplar restituta, & innumeris jisque foedissimis mendis, quibus prior illa passim scatebat, diligentissime purgata.‎

‎Cologne, Gerbrandum Scagen, 1667. in-12, 6ff.n.ch.-268pp. Relié veau brun granité, dos à nerfs orné, tranches marbrées. (Reliure de l'époque).‎

‎Titre à la sphère armillaire, texte en petits caractères, erreurs de paginations. Entrées assemblées par ordre alphabétique, notices en français ou en latin. Le florilège de propos tenus par le protestant Joseph-Juste Scaliger (fils du grand humaniste Jules-César) fut recueilli par Nicolas et Jean Vassan au cours de leurs conversations. Des copies manuscrites circulèrent, et celle réalisée par Claude Sarrau fut à son tour copiée et mise en ordre par Adrien Daillé. C'est cette copie que Isaac Vossius fit imprimer en 1666 à l'insu de Daillé qui, jugeant l'édition fautive, aurait établi la présente édition en 1667. "Imprimé à Rouen sous une fausse adresse d'après P. Des Maizeaux, mais le matériel typographique ne présente aucune des caractéristiques des impressions rouennaises" (notice cat. collectif de France, exemplaires B.N. - P. Des Maizeaux, préface aux Scaligerana in édit. Amsterdam 1740). Le suffixe Ana désigne un recueil de pensées et bons mots d'un homme illustre. - Coiffes légèrement frottées, un mors fendu, papier très légèrement et uniformément jauni, très légère atteinte d'humidité au début du volume, visible sur la garde.‎

‎Hippolyti Episcopi Canon Paschalis: cum Josephi Scaligeri Commentario. Excerpta ex Computo Græco Isacii Argyri de Correctione Paschatis. Josephi Scaligeri Elenchus et castigatio Anni Gregoriani. [relié avec] Ioannis Meursi De luxu romanorum liber singularis siue Commentarius Vberior in locum Senecae epist. CXIV item Mantisa.‎

‎Lugduni Batavorum, ex Officina Plantiniana, apud F. Raphelengium, [et] Hagae-Comitis : ex officinâ Hillebrandi Iacobi, 1595 [et] 1605. 2 volumes reliés en un de [12]-78 et [8]-88-[8] pages ( *6; A-I4; K3 et *4; A-M4) reliés en plein vélin (reliure XXème). ‎

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‎ Commentaire de Joseph-Juste Scaliger sur le comput de Pâques établi par Hippolyte de Rome au troisième siècle. Après l'adoption par l'église catholique du calendrier grégorien en 1583, Scaliger publie "Opus novum de emendatione temporum" ou il établi un comput du temps à partir du lundi 1 janvier - 4712. De là il continue sans cesse, entre autres matières - à s'occuper de calendriers. Johannes von Meurs est un érudit hollandais qui fut philologue classique, lexicographe et historien d'expression latine.Nom de possesseur ancien au premier feuillet blanc du premier ouvrage. Ex-libris Édouard Chapuisat, avec sa devise "Juste et courtois". Mouillure, papier un peu bruni. ‎

‎Pervigilium Veneris ex editione Petri Pithoei, Cum ejus & Justi Lipsii Notis ; Itemque ex alio Codice Antiquo, Cum Notis Cl. Salmasii et Pet. Scriverii Accessit ad haec Andr. Rivini Commentarius. Ausonii Cupido Cruci Adfixus, Cum Notis Mariang. Accursii, El Vineti, Pet. Scriverii et Anonymi. Accessere ad Calcem Jos. Scaliger et Casp Barthii animadversione‎

‎1 vol. in-8 reliure de l'époque pleine basne marbrée, dos à 5 nerfs orné, coupes et chasses ornées, Apud Henricum Scheurleer, Hagae Comitum [ Den Haag ; La Haye ], 1712, XVI-208 pp. et 8 ff. n. ch. Rappel du titre complet : Pervigilium Veneris ex editione Petri Pithoei, Cum ejus & Justi Lipsii Notis ; Itemque ex alio Codice Antiquo, Cum Notis Cl. Salmasii et Pet. Scriverii Accessit ad haec Andr. Rivini Commentarius. Ausonii Cupido Cruci Adfixus, Cum Notis Mariang. Accursii, El Vineti, Pet. Scriverii et Anonymi. Accessere ad Calcem Jos. Scaliger et Casp Barthii animadversione‎

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‎Le manuscrit de la "Veillée de Vénus" ("Pervigilium Veneris") fut découvert en 1507 à Venise, par Erasme, dans la bibliothèque d'Alde Manuce, mais il ne fut publié par Pierre Pithou qu'en 1587. Le poème décrit le réveil printanier de la flore et de la faune. Bon état (ex-libris en garde). Good condition (ex-libris).‎

‎M. Verrii Flacci quae extant Sex. Pompei Festi De Verborum Significatione libri XX.‎

‎M. Verrii Flacci quae extant Sex. Pompei Festi De Verborum Significatione libri XX. Et in Eos Josephi Scaligeri Iul. Caesaris Filii Castigationes nunc primum publicatae.Marcus Verrius Flaccus (né vers 55 avant J.-C., mort en 20 après J.-C.), est un savant érudit, historien, philologue, poète, grammairien et maître d'école (grammaticus) romain, exerçant sous les règnes d'Auguste et de Tibère.Festus Grammaticus, Sextus Pompeius Festus est un grammairien latin de la fin du IIe siècle ap. J.-C, ayant peut-être vécu à Narbo (Narbonne).Il avait composé, sous le titre de Significatione Verborum, une sorte de dictionnaire précieux pour la connaissance des antiquités romaines, de la langue latine et de la mythologie.Joseph Juste Scaliger, fils de Jules César Scaliger, né en 1540 à Agen et mort en 1609 à Leyde est l'un des plus grands érudits français du XVIe siècle. Il surpassa de loin son père comme philologue, et se fit en outre un nom comme chronologiste et historien.Sans lieu (Genève), Apud Petrum Santandreanum 1574-1575. Préface, 200 pages, index, et Annotationes (1574), 76 pages.Reliure plein vélin de l'époque. Dos à nerfs avec titre manuscrit (restauré). Quelques mouillures. 2 coins frottés. Pas de rousseur. Bon état. Format in-12°(17x12).‎

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‎Scaliger Epistolae aliquot nuc primum vulgate. [suivi de : Familiarium exercitationum libris].‎

‎ 1620 1 Toulouse, Dominicum Bosc & Petrum Bosc, 1620, in-4° en deux parties de 79 et 52 pp., reliure vélin XIXe, gardes renouvelées. ‎

‎ Scaliger, grand érudit, donne ici ses commentaires sur Aristote et son "Histoire des animaux" ; à la suite, figurent les reliquats savants d'un rat de bibliothèque assidu à la fréquentation des livres. ‎

‎Catulli, Tibulli, Properti, nova editio. Iosephus Scaliger Iul. Caesaris F. recensuit. Eiusdem in eosdem Castigationum Liber. Ad Cl. Puteanum…‎

‎ 1582 basane XVIIe, dos à n. (reliure très usée, un plat détaché). in-8, (6ff.), 274pp., (1f. bl), 240 (4ff.), 192pp., (3ff.), Anvers apud Aegidium Radaeum 1582‎

‎M. Manil Asto, omicon libri quinque. Josephus Scaliger Iul. Caes. F. recensuit ac pistino ordini suo restituit. Ejusdem Ios. Scaligeri Commentarius in eosdem libros et castigationum explicationes.‎

‎Lutetiae, apud Marnerum Patissorum typographum Regius, in officina Roberti Stéphani, 1579 ; deux parties avec titre propre reliées en un volume in-8, veau marbré, dos à nerfs décoré et doré avec le chiffre de Mathieu Molé, armes de Mathieu Molé au centre des plats ; (12)-136 pp. , (6) p. , (1) f. blanc ; 292, (12) pp.volume in-8, veau marbré, dos à nerfs décoré et doré avec le chiffre de Mathieu Molé, armes de Mathieu Molé au centre des plats ; (12)-136 pp. , (6) p. , (1) f. blanc ; 292, (12) pp.‎

‎Première édition donnée par Scaliger, qui a suivi un manuscrit très ancien de l'Abbaye de Gembloux et y a joint de très longs commentaires qui forment la seconde partie ; cette édition est d'ailleurs l'une des plus appréciées et des plus érudites. Exemplaire aux armes de Mathieu Molé, seigneur de Champlâtreux (1584-1656), conseiller au Parlement de Paris en 1606 à 22 ans, puis président d'une chambre des enquêtes, procureur général en 1614, enfin premier Président en 1641. Il joua un grand rôle de conciliateur entre le Parlement et Anne d'Autriche pendant la Fronde, souvent au péril de sa vie ; fervent bibliophile, ses livres passèrent à son troisième fils abbé de Sainte-Croix. (OHR 258, fer 1 pour le plat et 3 pour le dos). Ex-libris gravé du XVIIe : Ex-bibliotheca de Meaux : Etienne de Meaux, seigneur de Châtillon, Marbé, la Douze, premier président au baillage et présidial de Mâcon (ORH 276). Le poème de Manilius est autant astrologique qu'astronomique. On y trouve : liber I, notions de la sphère de la figure de la terre, de la division du ciel et des constellations ; liber II, les sexes et autres qualités des signes du zodiaque ; liber III, les correspondances astrologiques entre les signes et les années, les mois, les jours ; liber IV, des considérations sur la grandeur et l'intelligence ; liber V, l'astrognosie extra-zodiacale, les levers et couchers des constellations, la distinction des étoiles en six grandeurs (la plus ancienne mention de ce genre). Contemporain d'Auguste, affranchi originaire de Syrie, Manilius a rédigé ce traité sous forme de vers, fort beaux, du reste ; la première édition date de 1472, il y avait eu, en raison de son immense succès, une dizaine d'éditions incunables et autant au XVIe siècle. Petites usures aux coiffes et coins mais bel exemplaire dans l'ensemble, l'intérieur est frais et la provenance prestigieuse. (Renouard-I-181-4 ; Houzeau-Lancaster-1037). ‎

‎Priapeia, sive diversorum Poetarum in Priapum Lusus ; Illustrati Commentariiss Gasperis Schoppii, Franci, L. Apuleii Madaurensis Anechomenos, Heraclii Imperatoris, Sophoclis Sophistae, C. Antonii, Q. Sorani, & Cleopatrae reginae, Epistolae, De propudiosa Cleopatrae Reginae libidine, Huic editioni accedunt Joseph Scaligeri in Priapeai commentarii ac Frederici Linden-Bruch in eadem notae.‎

‎1 vol. petit in-8 cartonnage de l'époque, Apud Gerhardum Nicolaum V., Patavii [ Amsterdam ], 1664, 8 ff., 175 pp. Rappel du titre complet : Priapeia, sive diversorum Poetarum in Priapum Lusus ; Illustrati Commentariiss Gasperis Schoppii, Franci, L. Apuleii Madaurensis Anechomenos, Heraclii Imperatoris, Sophoclis Sophistae, C. Antonii, Q. Sorani, & Cleopatrae reginae, Epistolae, De propudiosa Cleopatrae Reginae libidine, Huic editioni accedunt Joseph Scaligeri in Priapeai commentarii ac Frederici Linden-Bruch in eadem notae.‎

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‎Cette édition savante enrichie notamment des commentaires de Scioppius et de Scaliger est l'une des premières éditions complètes des "Priapées". "Voici, selon une conjecture du très docte Scioppius, l'origine des "Lusus in Priapum" : une niche, en forme de petit temple, abritait dans les jardins de Mécène, la statue du dieu des jardins ; un des convives du maître de la maison passa un jour devant la grotesque image ; il improvisa quelques vers, et il les inscrivit sur le mur de la niche ; d'autres vinrent, lurent et tinrent à ne pas rester en arrière. Ainsi se forma une sorte d'album qui est venu jusqu'à nous" (Gay, III, 848-850). Bon état (cartonnage un peu frotté, très bon état par ailleurs, ex-libris en garde).‎

‎Catalectes, ou Pièces choisies des anciens, recueillies en deux livres par Ioseph Scaliger. Traduction en vers par Michel de Marolles, abbé de Villeloin.‎

‎"5. Paris, s.e., 1667, in-8°, xvi + 256 pp, contemporary full calf, rather worn, extremeties damaged, headcaps missing, joints cracked but holding, interior fine apart from a tiny worm gallery in the inner margin of the last work. 16 Pages containing the notes, are bound before the title page. Followed by other translations by Villeloin; Le livre des spectacles et le premier livre des Epigrammes de Martial, 100 pp; Les estreines et les apophorettes ou les présens de Martial, qui composent les deux derniers livres des Epigrammes de ce Poëte, ib., 110 pp; Lettre de M. l'abbé de Villeloin à Monsieur l'abbé de la Victoire, Touchant quelques Traductions de l'Eneïde de Virgile, 1667., 24 pp; L'histoire auguste des six autheurs anciens..., Paris, 1667, 32 nn pp; notes, 48 pp, with a 17th-c. score for two songs from Antiquity. Joseph-Juste Scaliger, 1540-1609, philologist and historian. Michel de Marolles, 1600-1681, neither a good translator nor a good priest, but whose collection of engravings is the nucleus of the Cabinet des Estampes."‎

‎Caligeri Exotericarum exercitationum Liber XV. De Subtilitate, Ad Hieronymum Cardanum. In Fine duo Sunt Indices : ‎

‎ LUGDUNI (Lyon) Sumptibus Viduae Antonii de Harsy ad insigne seuti Coloniensis 1615 Page de titre bicolore rouge et noir (7ff), 897, (37 ff index), manquent les ff EE6-8-FF1-2Plein vélin d’poque, quelques manques, déboité Charmants bois dans le texte illustrent la première partie Jules César Scaliger (1484-1558) d’origine italienne s’installe en 1524 à Agen ou il fréquente Nostradamus, devenu médecin du roi de Navarre, il attaque violemment Jérome Cardant dans ses Exotericarum exercitationum dont l’édition originale paraît en 1560. ‎

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‎La Poétique. Livre V : Le Critique [ Livre dédicacé par le traducteur ]‎

‎Présentation, traduction et notes de Jacques Chomarat, 1 vol. grand in-8 reliure pleine toile rouge éditeur, Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, Librairie Droz, Genève, 1994, 412 pp.‎

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‎Bel exemplaire enrichi d'un envoi du traducteur. Le cinquième livre de la Poétique de Scaliger est consacré à une comparaison des poètes latins et des poètes grecs.‎