commelin jerome (3 risultati)

21872.jpg. 169, [6] pp. Text double-column, in Greek & Latin. 5 page index at rear. Last page blank. Pinter's device to t.p. Headpieces. Decorative initial capital letters. 8vo: A - L8. 18 cm x 11 cm. This edition contains the additions of his Legationes, the only surviving portion of his history, from a manuscript owned by Andreas Schott. Some expected soiling to the binding. Bit of age-toning & foxing to paper. A VG+ copy. Early paper boards, off-white in color. Hand-inked title to spine.

FIRST EDITION. Leather-bound; hardcover; folio (33 x 21 x 3.5 cm); pp. [2], 348, 353-580, [10, index]. Latin text, edited and printed by Hieronymus Commelinus. Beautifully bound in the 19th-century by Riviere in full dark brown levant morocco gilt; all page edges gilt; Hieronymus Commelinus's woodcut device on title page depicting a naked woman sitting on stool and holding the sun in her right hand and an open book in her left hand, surrounded by a wreath of fruit with Greek text; tail-pieces; woodcut decorative initials; printed marginal notes; bibliographical references and index. From the title page: Galfredi Monumetensis, cognomento Arturi de origine & gestis regum Britanniae libri XII. Pontici Virunnii Britannicae historiae libri VI quibus G. Monumentensis libros sex priores in epitomen redegit. Gildae Sapientis, De excidio & conquestu Britanniae epistola. Bedae Anglosaxonis Historiae ecclesiasticae gentis Anglorum libri V. Continuatio eiusdem historiae, incerto auctore, libris III. comprehensa, ac iam primum publicata. Gulielmus Neubricensis De rebus anglicis libri V. Ioannis Frossardi Historiarum epitome, in qua de bellis inter Anglos & Gallos gestis, praecipue agitur. Condition: VERY GOOD. Bound without the dedication and terminal blanks, but otherwise complete. Binding tight and secure, the hinges and joints intact, with a few slight scuffs to covers. Interior very well-preserved, remaining largely fresh and clean, with a circular armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Scarce. Notes: First edition of the first book published by the great scholar Jerome Commelin (Hieronymus Commelinus). It compiles important texts of the Venerable Bede (Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum), Gildas (Liber querulus de excidio Britanniae), Jean Froissart (Chroniques), William of Newburgh (Historia rerum Anglicarum) and Geoffrey of Monmouth the Bishop of St. Asaph (Historia regum Britanniae). "The work did much to foster the interest in and study of the Middle Ages in the 17th century" - Bloomsbury. Adams C819; USTC 690695.

[Heidelberg], Ex Bibliopolio Commeliniano, 1599, 1 volume petit in-8 de 110 x 170 mm environ, (32) ff. (Titre gravé, Epistola dedicatoria, Index), 327 pages. Plein vélin souple d'époque au dos muet (titre inscrit à l'encre partiellement effacé), traces de lien. Exemplaire de bibliothèque portant une étiquette papier sur le plat supérieur et des tampons. Vélin griffé et marqué par endroits, galeries de vers, quelques rousseurs, il manque 2 feuillets (p.147-148 et 219-220).