FALCONIA, PROBA (7 risultati)

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1500 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 74 Language: Italian.

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 61.

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 41.

Paris : Gilles Gourbin, 1576. Petit in-8, 17 feuillets. Demi-chagrin vert signé Vogel (ca 1830-1850), dos lisse orné. Rare édition parisienne du premier écrit féminin imprimé. Elle fut donnée par Joannes Plateanus, c'est-à-dire Jean Desplaces (1559-1631), chanoine d'Autun en 1574 et vicaire général en 1614 (cf. Papillon, Bibliothèque des auteurs de Bourgogne, volume 1, p. 178). Cette édition de 1576 contient également les centons virgiliens de Plateanus, publiés ici pour la première fois. Proba Falconia est une aristocrate romaine du début du IVe siècle convertie au christianisme. On connaît deux de ses Å"uvres : un poème, perdu, sur la guerre qui opposa l'empereur Constance II et l'usurpateur Magnence, et le Cento Vergilianus de laudibus Christi, ou Cento Probae. Un centon est une pièce poétique composée à partir de vers ou fragments de vers empruntés à d'autres Å"uvres et arrangés pour créer un nouveau récit. Le Centon de Proba, qui compte 694 hexamètres, s'approprie l'Å"uvre de Virgile pour écrire une histoire de l'Ancien et du Nouveau Testament. « À certains égards, Proba peut ne pas être considérée comme extrêmement radicale - d'un côté, en tant qu'épouse d'un membre d'une famille consulaire, écrivant au service de l'Etat et de l'Eglise, on peut considérer qu'elle agissait dans les limites d'un système patriarcal. De l'autre, le fait qu'une femme écrive n'était guère la norme au IVe siècle ; trouver la "vérité chrétienne" dans les textes de Virgile marquait une étape intéressante dans l'histoire de la réception de son Å"uvre ; et certains ont soutenu que le poème de Proba était un défi audacieux à la législation antichrétienne de l'empereur apostat Julien. [.] En guise de coda, le Cento Probae parut pour la première fois sous la forme imprimée en 1472, ce qui fait donc de Proba la première femme de l'histoire à voir son Å"uvre publiée". (Prof. Roger Rees, "Faltonia Betitia Proba", 9 mars 2016, site web de l'école de lettres classiques de l'université de St Andrews). D'après Hélène Cazes, qui a consacré une partie de sa thèse à Proba, c'est "l'Å"uvre féminine la plus répandue en France, et probablement en Europe au XVIe siècle". "Le centon de Proba participe à l'expansion du lectorat féminin et au renforcement de la place des femmes dans la transmission du christianisme au XVIe siècle." (cf. l'article de Michèle Clément sur Proba sur le site de la SIEFAR, Société Internationale pour l'Étude des Femmes de l'Ancien Régime). Un lecteur du XVIIIe siècle a ajouté des notes manuscrites en français sur l'identité et la vie de l'autrice dans les marges des deux derniers feuillets, citant Saint Jérôme et le De Antiquitatibus Hortae de Fontanini (1708). Provenance : ex-libris manuscrit sur la première page de garde : "Varillas", avec la devise "Vive Jésus" - probablement Antoine Varillas (1624-1696), antiquaire et historien. Il fut brièvement historiographe de Gaston d'Orléans. Son affiliation au cercle Dupuy lui valut le poste de sous-bibliothécaire à la Bibliothèque royale en 1648 jusqu'au début des années 1660. Mais Colbert fut insatisfait de son travail et le renvoya. Il est surtout connu aujourd'hui pour son histoire de l'hérésie ; Louis-Philippe-François de Warenghien (1771-1854), homme politique (ex-libris héraldique gravé : "Bibliothèque de Mr. le Bon. de Warenghien" ; Warenghien utilisait deux ex-libris, celui-ci est postérieur à la Révolution française). Sa monumentale bibliothèque fut vendue aux enchères en juillet 1855 (cf. Catalogue de la bibliothèque de feu M. le baron de Warenghien, n° 1075) ; Camille de Warenghien (1890-1965) (ex-libris héraldique gravé).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. BY EARLY CHRISTIAN WOMEN 16mo. 3 parts in 1, pp. [8], 73, [5], 28, [4], 247, [1]. Greek Letter, with Roman. Printer s device to title, decorated initials and ornaments. Slight age yellowing, title a trifle dusty, minor bleeding from fore-edge paint to a8. A very good copy in elegant early C18 French crimson morocco, trible gilt ruled, inner edges gilt, spine gilt, gilt-lettered green morocco labels, marbled eps, a.e.g. C18 armorial bookplate of Thomas South to front pastedown, R.J. Hayhurst bookplate, red-ink ms 2889 and pencilled autograph JA Natwood 1859 to ffep, 1803 ms acquisition note to fly, early C17 ms French Jesuit ownership and shelfmark to title (faded). A charming copy of the first Estienne edition, the first to include this combination of texts, of this important florilegium of early Christian Greek and Latin poetry. The first work, Omerokentra , epitomizes Christian re-readings of Homer. In the Preface, Estienne explains that he sought to satisfy the wish of the Friends of Homer (i.e., scholars and philologists) who could not get hold easily of Aldine and German editions. Homeric centos were short poems, with a thematic title, made up entirely of Greek verse taken word by word from the Odyssey and the Iliad . Written by Eudocia Augusta (5thC), wife of Emperor Theodosius II, these Greek centones include poems which reflect on topics such as God, the Holy Trinity, the Wedding at Canaa and Lazarus, by using only direct quotes from Homer. Part II comprises 'Cento Vergilianus de laudibus Christi , produced from Virgilian lines (with only minimal variations) by Proba Falconia (Falconia Betitia Proba, 4th cent.), the earliest female Christian poetess whose work survives. The poem includes stories from the Old and New Testament. Part III comprises the paraphrasis of St John s Gospel by Nonnus of Panopolis (c.5thC AD), an important witness to the Greek poetry of late antiquity, here accompanied by a Latin translation. A charming, exquisitely bound pocket edition of important texts for the literature of Christian humanism. Thomas South (fl. C18) of Gosport, Hampshire, was a collector of spiritualist, alchemical and hermetic texts, as well as philosophical and classical works. A work like centones - presenting spiritual interpretations of classical works was very apt in his library. He was the father of the hermetist Mary Anne Atwood (b.1817), and the author of an alchemical poem. His daughter, with whom he collaborated, wrote Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery published anonymously in 1850. Most copies were burnt by them for fear they had revealed too many secrets. Renouard 147:4; USTC 450766; Gilmont 2678.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1617; First Collected Edition, Very Good/no dj, small 12mo., c.4"x6", original marbled boards hardcover, bright gold lettering on intact maroon leather title label, 3 tiny holes along exterior hinges, binding tight & solid, several works (centos) editing Virgil & Ovid texts to create a unique poem are bound together in this volume: pages 8-48 "Foeminae Clariss, Centones (by Proba); pages 49-65 De Diva Deipa-ra La Vretana Ovidio, (by Pola); pages 66-75 "De Divo Carolo Pont, Virgilio Cento (by Bruschi); pages 77-98 "Ludus in Seculi Amorem Inimicum Amoridivino (by Scribanius); 3-page preface by illustrator Raphael Sadeler, this volume does contain all 7 full-page b&w engravings by Sadlier plus the engraved half-title page and engraved tail-piece with all tissue-guards intact, only minor foxing, several vintage ink words & numbers top edges of endpapers o/w text clean & unmarked & entirely in Latin, a rare item: only a couple dozen copies known world-wide & few intact with all plates.

First edition in this format. First edition in this format. The first book is illustrated with twelve large woodcuts of the sibyls and ornamented with several historiated and white-on-black knotwork woodcut initials. Roman and rotunda types, 42 lines. In later vellum. (28) leaves. Coll.: [A2], B-D4, E2; a-c4. Beautifully illustrated Italian post-incunable edition, illustrated with twelve large woodcuts of the Sibyls and elaborate initials. Previously thought to be incunabula, this edition was printed after 1500. The strong woodcuts depicting the twelve Sybils are Venetian copies of those in earlier Roman editions, each with 4-part border, embellished with historiated and ornamental woodcut initials. The text, which is extracted from the larger collection of Filippo Barbieri's opuscula published twice in Rome at the beginning of the 1480s, most likely a compilation of contemporary Italian manuscripts detailing the names, origins, and predictions of the Sibyls. The "Testimonies of the Jews and gentiles concerning Christ," mentioned on the title-page, do not appear in the book, nor in the earlier Roman collections. The second title, "Cento Vergiliana" is an arrangement of Virgilian verses by the Roman authoress Proba Falconia, considered as one of the earliest testimonies to the extraordinary power of Virgil's words within the Christian tradition. This part was included in the earlier Roman editions and was printed also as a separate work. Benali apparently issued his Proba Falconia both together with Barberiis' treatise on Sibyls (including it on the major title-page), like this copy, and separately as well, which explains the separate title-page, quiring, and colophon. At the end of the Middle Ages and at the beginning of the Renaissance the Christian theology attempted to embrace various parts of different pagan traditions. The concept of the Greek Sibyls was one of those. In the Christian teachings these pagan female oracles turned into prophets delivering the messianic message, however, their number, age, even their respective prophecies were inconsistent and argued. In many cases - like in the present book - their number was twelve, matching with the number of the Old Testament prophets. Benali published this work together with an addition of a thirteenth female companion, Falconia Proba, poetess of the fourth century, whose composition, a Sacred History in Virgilian quotations, was much appreciated in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Bibl.: Cazes, H.: Verbum inuisibile palpabitur: The Sibyls in the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century: Repetition as Oracular Poetics. In: Mason Sutherland, Ch.; Sutcliffe, R. (editors): The Changing Tradition: Women in the History of Rhetoric. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1999. pp. 85-96. . Title in brown ink on spine. Wide-margined, very well preserved copy. In fine condition. The first book is illustrated with twelve large woodcuts of the sibyls and ornamented with several historiated and white-on-black knotwork woodcut initials. Roman and rotunda types, 42 lines. In later vellum.