Union Académique Internationale

Seven volumes (26-28 cm), I (1960): xxiii, 249 pp. II (1971): 440 pp. III (1976): xvi, 486 pp. IV (1980): V (1984): 427 pp. VI (1986): 203 pp. VII (1992): xxi, 356 pp. Volumes 1-4 uniformly bound in collector’s black cloth; volumes 5-7 in the publisher’s bindings. - A basic tool, providing bio-bibliographical data of all the Latin translations (to the year 1600) of Greek works composed before 600 AD, and of Latin commentaries on ancient Greek and Latin authors, at its best in sketching the past importance of now-forgotten authors. “One cannot praise too highly the devoted energy of the authors and editors who have assembled so much reliable information, and the generosity of a university press willing to print so massive a work without a subsidy” (Anthony Grafton, in a review of volume IV, in Renaissance Quarterly, volume 35, 1982, p.61). The work was first proposed in 1945 and planned in fifteen volumes; the first seven volumes are offered here. At the time of writing, vols. I-VI have passed out-of-print, and four further volumes have appeared: VIII (Washington, DC 2003; ISBN 9780813213002); IX (Washington, DC 2011; ISBN 9780813217291); X (Toronto, Ontario: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2014; ISBN 9780888449504); XI (Toronto, Ontario: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2016; ISBN 9780888449511). ¶ Excellent set.