POEMATA OMNIA ex Museo Petri Scriverii: Editio Altera

Author: Scaliger, Joseph Justus
Title: POEMATA OMNIA ex Museo Petri Scriverii: Editio Altera
Publication: Berlin: A. Bath, 1864

Description: Hardcover. Sandys (History of Classical Scholarship II, 206) says about Scaliger (1540-1609): "He not only exhibits remarkable 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."

This edition divides the works in three groups: Scaliger's own writings, the Silvae, Encomia Librorum, Funeral Elegies, and others; secondly his translation of Latin authors into Greek which include Martial, Virgil, Horace, Catullus, sentences of Publius Syrus and Cato's distichs; and thirdly, his translations from Greek into Latin which include Sophocles' Ajax, Lycophron's Cassandra, the Orphic hymns, Theognis, and poems from the Greek Anthology.

Octavo: 412 p. with text in Latin and Greek. Full marbled paper-covered boards, with vellum tips, a blue paper spine label, and gilt stamping. Some very mild foxing and occasional pencil marginalia. Previous owner's ink signature to the front flyleaf, with a small bookseller's label to the rear pastedown. The spine is slightly darkened, with a bit of general edgewear; else very good. Very good.

Seller ID: 75740

Subject: Ancient History

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