VIGERUS,F. De praecipuis Graecae dictionis idiotismis. Auctore Francisco Vigero Rotomagensi. Leiden (Lugd. Batav.), Apud Danielem à Gaesbeeck, 1680. 12mo. (XVI),492;28,(88 index),(4 blank) p. Overlapping vellum 13 cm (Ref: Brunet 5,1216) (Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Manuscript title on the back. Woodcut printer's mark on the title, depicting the entrance of a safe harbour; in the foreground a big wooden semaphore, the entrance is between 2 rocks on which 2 columns stand (the columns of Hercules?); in the distance 2 ships, ready to enter; the motto reads: 'Intelligentibus') (Condition: Vellum age-toned, and slightly soiled. Name on the front pastedown. A few old ink underlinings and 1 ink annotation by the first owner) (Note: The French Jesuit scholar and hellenist François Viger or Vigier, latinized as Franciscus Vigerus, was born in Rouen (Rothomagus) in 1590. He died there in 1647. Vigerus is best known for his linguistic treatise De Idiotismis præcupuis linguæ graecae, which was first published in Paris in 1632. It enjoyed for two centuries throughout Europe many revised and augmented editions. It is due to significant increases made by the Hellenists Hoogeveen, Zeune and Hermann that this work continued to be used in schools in Germany, Holland and England well into the nineteenth century, till it was made obsolete by a new linguistic approach. Vigerus is known among patricists for his translation into Latin with accompanying commentary of Eusebius Præparatio Evangelica, a three volume set in folio, Paris, 1628) (Provenance: : On the pastedown: 'Julius Micrander, Holm, 1680'. Julius Eric Micrander Uplandiensis, 1640-1702, was a Swedish professor, rector of Uppsala University, member of parliament. At the age of 10 he entered the university of Uppsala. In 1676 he was appointed there extraordinary professor of Greek, a year later he became ordinarius. In 1685 he was also appointed professor of theology. As a professor of theology, he ended up in the eye of the storm of the Cartesian battle which raged at the University. Micrander was influenced by the German theologian Johann Adam Osiander and published his strongly anti-Cartesian Collegium theologicum in præcipuas Controversies theo Logica habitum Olim in Sweden in 1690. The opinion of Micrander was that Descartes' philosophy threatened the purity of the evangelical faith. (Source Wikipedia 'Julius Micrander', English & Swedish) (Collation: *8, A-V12, X6, Y12, Z6; 2A-2G6 (leaf 2G5 & 2G6 blank) (Photographs on request)
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