Dicta poetarum quæ apud io. stobæum extant emendata et Latino carmine reddita ab Hugone Grotio. Accesserunt Plutarchi et Basilii Magri de usu Græcorum poetarum libelli.
Parisiis [i.e. Paris].
Apud Nicolaum Buon, 1623.
First edition.
Quarto.
[40], 200, 564pp. Parallel Latin and Greek text. Later speckled calf, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting green morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, upper joint starting, corners bumped. Worm-track to lower margin, running throughout text-block, occasionally touching text. Later armorial bookplate of the Gaddesden library (and therefore likely previously in the library of English courtier, diplomat, and alchemist Thomas Henshaw (1618-1700), whose books had descended there via his Halsey relatives), with manuscript shelf-marks to front endpapers.
The first edition of a translation of a selection of poetic Greek excerpts, transmitted by Joannes Stobaeus of Macedonia in the fifth century, compiled by Dutch jurist and scholar Hugo Grotius (1583-1645).
Grotius commenced his edition of Stobaeus whilst imprisoned in the Hague and Loevestein. Later, in Paris, he revised it following consultation of the Stobaeus manuscript at the Bibliothèque Royale. His edition draws only on the text of the Florilegium, and not the Eclogues, and nor does it include only material drawn from Stobaeus; he supplements it with extensive extracts from both Plutarch and St. Basil in praise of poetry.
£ 950.00
Antiquates Ref: 32740
Grotius commenced his edition of Stobaeus whilst imprisoned in the Hague and Loevestein. Later, in Paris, he revised it following consultation of the Stobaeus manuscript at the Bibliothèque Royale. His edition draws only on the text of the Florilegium, and not the Eclogues, and nor does it include only material drawn from Stobaeus; he supplements it with extensive extracts from both Plutarch and St. Basil in praise of poetry.