Classical literatureThere are 19 items
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Opera [edited with a commentary by Christophorus Landinus]
Venice, Johannes de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, et Socii, 1483 (17 May)The complete works of Horace with the commentary of Cristoforo Landino, a copy owned and annotated by the Augsburg jurist, collector, and scholar Konrad Peutinger (1465–1547). In the early 1720s, when the first of Peutinger’s books and manuscripts entered the market, it was bought by the English bibliophile Edward Harley (1689–1741) for the Harleian Library. The book passed thereafter through the hands of the bookseller Thomas Osborne into the library of Bryan Fairfax (1766-1749), thence to Francis Child (c. 1735–1763), and by descent to Victor Albert George Child Villiers, 7th earl of Jersey (1845–1915), whose Osterley Park Library was sold in 1885. Since then, it has been in the William O’Brien (1832–1899) collection, its Peutinger provenance unrecognised. -
Romische historien Titi liuii mit etlichen newen Translation so kurtzuerschienen jaren im hohen thum Styfft zu Mentz jm latein erfunden und vorhyn nit mer gesehen sein [a free paraphrase by Bernard Schöfferlin, continued by Ivo Wittich, with additions by Nikolaus Fabri Carbach]
Mainz, Johann Schöffer, 1523First printing of a revised and enlarged German translation of Livy's Ab urbe condita, featuring illustrations from woodblocks cut for editions published by Johann Schöffer at Mainz in 1505, and by Johann Grüninger at Strasbourg in 1507, newly married with a large and highly acclaimed set of blocks attributed to Conrad Faber von Creuznach. -
Le Jupiter Olympien, ou l’art de la sculpture antique considéré sous un nouveau point de vue; ouvrage qui comprend un essai sur le gout de la sculpture polychrome, l’analyse explicative de la toreutique, et l’histoire de la statuaire en or et ivoire chez les Grecs et les Romains, avec la restitution des principaux monuments de cet art et la démonstration pratique ou le renouvellement de ses procédés mécaniques
Paris, Chez Du Bure Frères (De l’Imprimerie de Firmin Didot), 1815First edition (second issue) of the author’s speculations about the role of colour in Greek art and architecture, presented as reconstructions of about ten lost sculptures of Greek Antiquity, including the Chest of Kypselos (pls. III-IV), the Athena Parthenos (pls. VIII-X), the chryselephantine Zeus at Olympia (pls. XI-XVII), and a table for the Olympic Games, made of gold and ivory (pl. XXIV). The work fed a controversy concerning polychromy and the iconography of Greek sculpture. -
Peintures de Polygnote à Delphes dessinées et gravées d’après la description de Pausanias par F. & I. Riepenhausen
Rome, [Filippo & Nicola de Romanis], 1826-1827; 1829A set of engravings recreating an image of legendary beauty, the lost Polygnotan paintings in the Cnidian Treasury at Delphi. The reconstruction is based on the second-century description of the paintings given by Pausanias (Periegesis, X, 25-31) and the prints are executed in the Flaxmanesque outline style then deemed appropriate to a serious archaeological endeavour. The twenty plates of the first part imagine Odysseus's Descent to the Underworld (left wall); the eighteen plates of the second part depict the Sack of Troy (right wall). -
A Classical dictionary, containing a full account of all the proper names mentioned in ancient authors
London, Thomas & Joseph Allman, 1827(22.5 cm), xxiii, 726 pp. Contemporary leather, a collector’s binding. ¶ Presentation inscription on endpaper: Richard M.T. Bethell from E.M. Hutton | 5 Queen Anne Street | Feb.ry 16th 1928; exlibris “Westbury” (Richard Morland Tollemache Bethell, 4th Baron Westbury, 1914-1961). Good copy. -
Catalogus translationum et commentariorum : Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin translations and commentaries, annotated lists and guides
Washington, DC, Catholic University of America Press, 1960-1992Seven 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. -
Hispano-classical translations printed between 1482 and 1699 (Modern Humanities Research Association monograph, Duquesne Studies Philological series, 12)
Pittsburgh, Duquesne University, 1970(26 cm), xi, 176 pp. Publisher’s boards, dust jacket. - Details of 216 translations (529 editions) from Latin and Greek into Spanish, with extensive comments on each, an analysis of publishing trends and discussion of patronage; it is a work “essential to any one engaged in the study of Spanish golden-age versions of the classics or of a single classic” (Edward M. Wilson, in Hispanic Review, volume 41, Winter 1973, pp.98-100). “A Chronology of First Editions and Reprints” (pp.137-156). Indexes of Classical authors translated and of translators. ¶ Excellent, unmarked copy. Loosely inserted are offprints of Beardsley’s “The classics and their Spanish translators in the sixteenth century” (from Renaissance and Reformation, volume 6, 1971, pp.2-9); and “Spanish printers and the Classics 1482-1599” (from Hispanic Review, volume 47, Winter 1979, pp.25-35). -
Martianus Capella and the seven liberal arts, Volume 1: The Quadrivium of Martianus Capella : Latin traditions in the mathematical sciences 50 BC – AD 1250 : with a study of the Allegory and the Verbal Disciplines by Richard Johnson with E.L. Burge § Volume 2: The Marriage of Philology and Mercury [De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii] : translated by William Harris Stahl and Richard Johnson with E.L. Burge (Records of Civilization: Sources and Studies, 84)
New York, Columbia University Press, 1971-1977Two volumes (24 cm), I: xiv, 274 pp. II: (8), 389 (1) pp., illustrations. Publisher’s cloth bindings. - The translation is made from the text of Martianus edited by Adolf Dick (Leipzig: Teubner, 1925). ¶ As new. -
Catalogus translationem et commentariorum : Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin translations and commentaries, annotated lists and guides. Volume II
Washington, DC, Catholic University of America Press, 1971(26 cm), xv, 440 pp. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - A basic tool for researching the textual transmission of ancient authors through commentaries and translations of their works, at its best in sketching the past importance of now-forgotten authors. This volume contains articles on the Vita Secundi (by Ben E. Perry), Aeschylus (Vera R. Lachmann and F. Edward Cranz), Demetrius Phalerius (Bernard Weinberg), Gregory Nazianzen (Sr. Agnes Clare Way), Ps. Longinus (Bernard Weinberg), Olympiodorus (Charles B. Schmitt), Pappus (Marjorie Boyer), Pausanias (George Parks), Stephanus Byzantius (Aubrey Diller and Paul Oskar Kristeller), Strabo (Aubrey Diller and Paul Oskar Kristeller), Theophilus (Robert M. Grant), Theophrastus (Charles B. Schmitt), Apicius (Mary Ella Milham), Livius (A.H. MacDonald), Lucretius (Wolfgang B. Fleischmann), Martianus Capella (Cora E. Lutz), Ps. Theodolus (Betty Nye Quinn), and addenda et corrigenda to various previously published articles. ¶ Light offsetting on upper wrapper; otherwise as new. -
The Renaissance discovery of classical antiquity
Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1973(22 cm), x, 222 pp., illustrations. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. - Second impression (originally issued in 1969). The discussions of “The Rise of Classical Epigraphy”, “The Study of Ancient Numismatics”, and “The Collections of Antiquity” are of enduring value. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
The Classical text : aspects of editing in the age of the printed book (Sather classical lectures; 44)
Berkeley & London, University of California Press, 1974(24 cm), xi, 174 pp. Publisher’s cloth, pictorial dust jacket. - A history of the editing and criticism of classical (mostly Latin) texts from 1465 until the present day, with accounts of editorial practice across the same period. In the fourth chapter, the author surveys libraries, library catalogues, and the accessibility of manuscripts between the 16th and 18th centuries. ¶ Very good copy. -
Deutsche Antikerezeption 1450-1550 : Teil I : Verzeichnis der deutschen Übersetzungen antiker Autoren : Mit einer Bibliographie der Übersetzer (Veröffentlichungen zur Humanismusforschung, 1)
Boppard am Rhein, Harald Boldt Verlag, 1976(24 cm), v (1), 202 pp. 433 catalogue entries. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - A bibliography of translations from Greek and Latin into German, alphabetically arranged by ancient authors, then by work, with the German translations following in chronological order. At the end are a list of lost translations and multiple indexes, including one of manuscripts, and another of translators with short bio-bibliographical data. The planned second volume, in which the author intended to examine the motivations and intentions of the translators through an analysis of their prefaces and letters of dedication, never appeared. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
Pindaric bibliography
Uppsala, 1976Offprint from Eranos: Acta Philologica Suecana, volume LXXIV, 1976, pp.69-102. - A review of Douglas Gerber, A Bibliography of Pindar, 1513-1966 (Cleveland 1969); and of Maria Rico, Ensayo de bibliografia pindarica (Madrid 1969), in which Fogelmark aims “to point out what material they have omitted or treated incorrectly”. ¶ Author’s presentation inscription on first page. Loosely inserted is an offprint of Fogelmark’s contribution to Arktouros: Hellenic studies presented to Bernard M.W. Knox on the occasion of his 65th birthday (Berlin 1979), pp.71-80 (also inscribed by the author). -
Catalogus translationum et commentariorum : Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin translations and commentaries, annotated lists and guides. Volume III
Washington, DC, Catholic University of America Press, 1976(26 cm), xvi, 486 pp. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - A basic tool for researching the textual transmission of ancient authors through commentaries and translations of their works, at its best in sketching the past importance of now-forgotten authors. This volume contains articles on Arrianus (by Philip A. Stadter), Dionysius Periegetes (George B. Parks and F. Edward Cranz), Musici Scriptores Graeci (F. Alberto Gallo), Priscianus Lydus (Charles B. Schmitt), Thessalus astrologus (David Pingree), Caesar (Virginia Brown), Claudianus (Amy K. Clark and Harry L. Levy), Columella (Virginia Brown), Palladius (R.H. Rodgers), Persius (Dorothy Robathan and F. Edward Cranz, with the assistance of Paul Oskar Kristeller and with a contribution by Bernard Bischoff), Petronius (A. Fred Sochatoff), Silius Italicus (Edward L. Bassett, Joseph Delz, and A. J. Dunston), Vitruvius (Lucia Ciapponi), and addenda et corrigenda on various previously published articles. ¶ Superior copy in new condition. -
History of classical scholarship from 1300 to 1850
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1978(24.5 cm), ix (1), 214 pp. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. ¶ Good, unmarked copy. -
Texts and transmission : a survey of the Latin classics
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1983(24 cm), xlviii, 509 pp., illustrations. Publisher’s cloth, printed dust jacket. - First edition. “A series of concise and up-to-date accounts of the manuscript tradition and transmission of Latin texts. All authors and texts down to Apuleius which have their own independent transmission are included, together with a generous selection of later authors who may be regarded as belonging to the classical tradition” (publisher’s abstract). ¶ Fine, unmarked copy. -
Scholars, texts, traditions : the influence of classical antiquity in Western culture (catalogue of an exhibition held at the Cecil H. Green Library, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 6 January-7 March 1984)
Stanford, Stanford University Libraries, 1984(23 cm), 74 pp., illustrations. 92 catalogue entries. Publisher’s wrappers. - The exhibition included a book lent by R.S. Speck (St Augustine, Confessiones, Milan 1475). ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
Graecogermania : Griechischstudien deutscher Humanisten : Die Editionstätigkeit der Griechen in der italienischen Renaissance 1469-1528 (catalogue of an exhibition held at the Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, 22 April-9 July 1989; Ausstellungskataloge der Herzog-August-Bibliothek, 59)
Weinheim, VCH Verlagsgesellschaft, 1989(26 cm), xxiii (1), 419 (1) pp., about 200 illustrations (11 in colour). 201 catalogue entries. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Catalogue of an exhibition concerned with the editing of Greek texts during the Renaissance, featuring some extraordinary volumes, among them Dürer’s personal copy of Euclid (nos. 150-151) and Erasmus’ of Reuchlin’s Hebrew grammar (item 155; items 154-164 unexpectedly deal with Hebraists Johannes Reuchlin and Sebastian Münster). Text in German and Greek. ¶ Slight edge wear. Very good, unmarked copy. -
Latin for the illiterati : exorcizing the ghosts of a dead language
New York & London, Routledge, 1996(23 cm), xv (1), 201 (3) pp. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - “A reference guide to nearly 6000 Latin words, phrases and standard abbreviations taken from art, law, philosophy, religion, theater, medicine and theology” (from the publisher’s abstract). The author’s More Latin for the Illiterati appeared in 1999. ¶ Fine, unmarked copy.
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