Cl. Claudiani quae Exstant: ex emendation viorum Doctorum

Claudian

Verlag: Plantin Press, 1603

Beschreibung

In good condition. Nicely bound later binding. Slightly slanted spine, does not affect binding. Toned end papers. Anno 1603 printed neatly on title page in old hand. Gorgeous printing. Lightly toned with some underlining in old hand. Light staining to pages 213-263 top right corner very small segment. Does not affect text in the least bit, but worth mentioning. Page 263 has small chip. An attractive book worthy of a collector s library. Please see photos. Printed by Plantin Press, this is one of the finest printed books of the early 17th century. Our book has Franciscus Raphelengius printer s device inside. He was a Flemish-born scholar, printer and publisher working in Antwerp and later Leiden. During the last decade of his life he was professor of Hebrew at Leiden University. He is famous for his 550 page Arabic-Latin dictionary which was the first book-length dictionary for the Arabic language in Latin. He collaborated won the Platin Polygot Bible and married one of Christophe Plantin s daughters in Antwerp. He later managed the Platin printing office in Leiden. We know that this was published in Leiden due to the date it was printed. He continued to print until 1619. His partner and father-in-law, Christophe Plantin was an influential French Renaissance humanist and book printer and publisher living and working in Antwerp. His works were meticulously preserved. Today, the building that housed the firm is called the Plantin-Moretus Museum.The polyglot bible is considered one of the finest bibles in all of Christendom This is a the work of Roman poet Claudian. His work written almost entirely in hexameters or elegiac couplets, falls into three main categories: poems for Honorius, poems for Stillcho and mythological epic. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers RAREE1603FHLA

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Cl. Claudiani quae Exstant: ex emendation ...

Verlag: Plantin Press

Erscheinungsdatum: 1603

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

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