jacob thomasius ed (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. Early edition. 12mo: [4], 455, [1 blank], [80: indices (Latin, Greek, German) and errata]. Contempory vellum over boards, with exposed thongs. Several old entries at endleaves and title. Covers lightly soiled; lightly embrowned, else a very good, clean copy. First edition of this popular work on the Latin particles to be edited by the academic philosopher and jurist, Jacob Thomasius (1622-1684), who has supplied copious annotations. Thomasius was the father of the important early Enlightenment thinker, Christian Thomasius, and taught rhetoric and moral philosophy at the University of Leipzig, where Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was among his students. Orazio Torsellino (Horatius Tursellinus; 1545-1609) was a Roman-born Jesuit scholar whose works, especially on Latin grammar, were very influential. First published at Rome by A. Zanetti in 1598, revised editions appeared well into the nineteenth century; the present edition was also published at Antwerp by Arnold Brakel in the same year. Annotations: The first entry inscribed on the title page, "Ex libris Christophorii Friedelii. 1662." Among the inscriptions which appear at the endleaves is an evocative bit of verse: Se cupis, o lector, librum quis posfidet istum / Infra fluse oculos, perlege nomen ad est (If you wish, O reader, who trusts in this book, read the name of it inwardly with flowing eyes). References: Cf. De Backer and Sommervogel 8:146.10, not listing the present edition. Cf. Vancil, Cordell Collection, p.237 (eds. 1625; 1636). Full title and imprint: De particulis Latinae orationis Horatii Tursellini Romani libellus utilissimus. Nova editio, superioribus longè emendatior, locupletiórque adornate M. Jacobo Thomasio Lipsiensi, Scholae Sent. Conrect. [.] Impensis Philippi Fuhrmanni Bibliopol. Lipsisnsis. Jenae, Literis Georgi[i] Sengenwald. Anno M.DC.LI.