LUCIANUS. LOUKIANOU SAMOSATEÔS HAPANTA. Luciani Samosatenis Opera. Ex versione Ioannis Benedicti. Cum notis integris Ioannis Bourdelotii, Iacobi Palmerii a Grentemesnil, Tanaquilli Fabri, Aegidii Menagii, Francisci Guieti, Ioannis Georgii Graevii, Iacobi Gronovii, Lamberti Barlaei, Iacobi Tollii & selectis aliorum. Accedunt inedita scholia in Lucianum, ex Bibliotheca Isaaci Vossii. (At the end: Scholia in volumen primum (& secundum) Luciani. Nunquam hactenus edita. Recensuit & notulas adjecit Johannes Clericus) Amsterdam (Amstelodami), Ex Typographia P. &. I. Blaeu, Prostant apud Wolfgang, Ianssonio-Waesbergios, Boom, a Someren, & Goethals, 1687. 8vo. 2 volumes: (XXIV),1060,(18 index),(2 blank); (IV),922,(26 index); (VIII),46,(2 blank);55,(1 blank) p., engraved frontispiece. Vellum 20 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 853061254; Hoffmann 2,537; Dibdin 2,193; Moss 2,262/3; Brunet 3,1207; Graesse 4,278; Ebert 12384) (Details: 6 thongs laced through both joints. Engraved frontispiece: Lucian seated at his desk, surrounded by scenes from his writings. Woodcut printer's mark on both titles, depicting a celestial sphere, flanked by Hermes and Chronus, the motto is 'Indefessus agendo'. Woodcut initials. 1 woodcut engraving. Greek text with facing Latin translation) (Condition: vellum slightly soiled. Old paper shelf number at the foot of the spines) (Note: This is a typical Variorum edition. It offers a 'textus receptus' which was widely accepted, accompanied with the commentary and the annotations of various specialists, taken, or excerpted from earlier useful, normative or renewing editions. Editions like these, 'cum notis Variorum', were useful, but never broke new ground. This edition was produced by Johann George Greffe, or Graeve, better known as Johannes Georgius Graevius, (1632-1703), who was of German origin. He went to the Dutch republic to study classics. He later was appointed professor at Duisburg, then at Deventer, and finally at Utrecht, where he was the last 42 years of his life a star of the first order which adorned its University. He limited his attention almost mainly to Latin prose. This 'Variorum' edition of Lucianus edited by Graevius seems to have escaped the attention of Sandys. Hoffmann & Brunet erroneously state that Johannes Clericus is the editor. Johannes Georgius Graevius himself however tells the reader in a 'Lectori' on p. (XVII) of vol. 1 about his 'modus operandi' in the production of this edition. He tells his readers that he produced this new edition of Lucian on request of the publishing firm of Blaeu. Graevius consulted the work of the best preceding editors and commentators, like Bourdelotius, Palmerius, Faber and others, including the not yet published notes of scholars like Menagius, and Jacob Gronovius which they had sent to him. Graevius says he also used the editio princeps of 1496, the Aldus edition of 1503, and the Basel editions of 1555 & 1563 etc. For the Greek text and Latin translation Graevius follows the edition of Johannes Benedictus of 1619. At the end of the second volume have been added 46 and 55 p. with not yet published scholia. Graevius tells the reader that these scholia, which were part of the manuscript collection of the Dutch classical scholar Isaac Vossius, arrived just after the printing had been completed. These scholia have been edited by the Dutch scholar of Swiss origin Johannes Clericus, 1657-1736. Clericus himself explains in his 'Bibliothèque Choisie' vol. 16, p. 400/1, that he certainly didnot produce this edition of Lucianus, but that he only edited the scholia. There he also sneers at Graevius, and complains about the mediocre quality of the scholia, and tells that Vossius sold the printer a bad copy of the scholia for too high a price. (See Moss 1,263) Dibdin: 'Dr. Harwood calls it (this edition of 1687) 'a tolerably correct edition, and greatly superior to all that preceded it') (Provenance: From the library of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, 1653-1716, a Scottish author and politician. He was leading the opposition against the 1707 Act of Union between Scotland and England. He also was an passionate book collector. A very fine set, with the manuscript entry of Fletcher on the pastedown of both lower boards) (Collation: *8, 2*4, A-3X8 3Y4 (leaf 3Y4 blank); *2, A-3N8 3O2; 2*4, a-f4 (leaf f4 blank); a-g4)) (Photographs on request)
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