Edition plantinienne de Leyde.- MARTIAL.-
Estimation :
75 / 100
Adjudication :
80 €
Description
M. Val. Martialis nova editio. Ex museo Petri Scriverii. Lugduni Batavorum [à Leyde], Apud Ioannem Maire, 1619, petit in-12, [8]-16-8-312 p., marque au compas de l'officine plantinienne de Leyde au titre. Suivi de : Petrus SCRIVERIUS, Animadverisones [sic] in Martialem. Opus invenile, et nunc primum ex intervallo quindecim annorum repetitum. Même lieu, même édit., 1618, petit in-12, 283 (chiffrée 285 par erreur)-[1 blanche] p., marque au compas de l'officine plantinienne de Leyde. Suivi de : CL.VV. Iusti Lipsii, Iani Rutgersii, I. Isaci Pontani, Notae in Martialem. Ad Petrum Scriverium. Même lieu, même édit., petit in-12, 24 et 280 p. (les 280 reliées après la première oeuvre), marque typographique de Jean Maire, ensemble un vol. en plein vélin de l'époque à petits rabats (papier lég. bruni, petit trou au 1er f. 161/162 avec perte de qq. lettres). Rare first edition of the text of « De spectaculis » and the famous epigrams of the Roman poet Marcus Valerius Martialis as edited by the Dutch philologist Petrus Scriverius. Martial, who lived in the first cent. AD (ca 38-103 AD), brought the Latin epigram to perfection and provided in it a picture of Roman society during the early empire that is remarkable both for its completeness and for its accurate portrayal of human imperfections. His epigrams were also considered as of a high educational value. According to Simoni, the first 2 works have the device of the Officina Plantiniana Raphelengii in Leyden, because these works were printed by Raphelengius. Petrus Scriverius, the latinized form of Peter Schrijver or Schryver (1576-1660) was a Dutch writer and scholar on the history of Holland and Belgium. He was born at Amsterdam, and educated at the University of Leiden, where he formed a close intimacy with Daniel Heinsius. From 1611 to 1613 he was headmaster of the Latin School in Duisburg. Most of his life was passed in Leiden, but in 1650 he became blind, and the last years of his life were spent in his sons house at Oudewater, where he died in 1660. He is best known as a scholar by his notes on Martial. First edition of the works of Martial edited by Scriverius. Original edition of Scriverius' commentary on 'De spectaculis' (pp. 1-32), the epigrams (pp. 33-276), Xenia (pp. 277-80), and Apophoreta (pp. 280-3). Original edition of the notes and commentaries of various scholars, collected and edited by Scriverius : on the verso of the title there is a laudatory poem by Gerardus Joh. Vossius, followed by a letter of Justus Lipsius to Scriverius dated Louvain 1603, containing his notes to Martial (pp. 3-4), a letter by Janus Rutgersius to Scriverius containing his notes, dated Hamburg, 22 January 1618 (pp. 4-13), and a letter of Joh. Isaac Pontanus to Scriverius, with his notes, dated Harderwijk, 1 November 1618 (pp. 14-24) ; beginning with a half-title (« Jani Gruteri ad Martialem notae ») follows the commentary by Janus Gruterus (pp. 1-138), the « Diatribe critica » on Martial's « De spectaculis » by Josephus Scaliger (pp. 139-168), the notes on Martial by Johannes Brodaeus (pp. 169-208), the notes by Hadrianus Turnebus (pp. 209-265), and the notes by Angelus Politianus, preceded by a preface of Scriverius (pp. 266-280). Good copy.
