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Gr.-8°, Ppbd. 478 S., mit 8 s/w-Abb. Neuwertiges Ex. / Fine Copy // Macrobius` Kommentar zu Ciceros Somnium Scipionis ist einer der wirkungsmächtigsten Texte der Antike. Entstanden um 430 n. Chr. als philosophische Einführungsschrift eines hochrangigen römischen Politikers für seinen Sohn, wurde er über ein Jahrtausend als Kompendium der neuplatonischen Philosophie, vor allem aber als Kompendium der Traumtheorie, Arithmologie, Astronomie, Geographie und Musiktheorie der Antike gelesen. Friedrich Heberlein legt diesen Kommentar nun erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung vor und macht Macrobius` Text somit einem breiteren Publikum zugänglich ist Macrobius` Sprache doch weit vom klassischen Latein entfernt. Der beigefügte Lesetext auf der Basis der Ausgabe von Armisen-Marchetti erleichtert zudem eine Überprüfung des Originalwortlautes. Ein einführender Essay aus der Feder des bekannten Platonismusforschers Christian Tornau bietet eine grundlegende Orientierung über den Charakter des Werks. ISBN: 9783515123655 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 783.

Two parts in one vol., folio, ff.[II]XXXVI (wanting the first leaf, blank except for 'Macrobius'); LXXXVI; roman letter, woodcut initial, half-page woodcut world map (e6r), and 7 woodcut diagrams to first part, capital spaces with guide letters with initials supplied in red and blue in a contemporary hand, some passages in Greek; some browning, occasional light marks and light marginal damp-staining; overall very good in eighteenth-century vellum over boards, yapp fore-edges, manuscript title and imprint on spine, remains of nine earlier fore-edge tabs to text block; marginal annotations in a neat early sixteenth-century hand to c.164pp. and a 15-pp. manuscript index, in double columns, in the same hand, bound in at end.Sixth and last incunable edition of Macrobius, illustrated with a world map, with extensive early marginalia. The volume comprises Macrobius' two principal works, his important Neoplatonist commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis (the otherwise lost sixth book of the De Republica), and his Saturnalia, a significant contribution to Virgilian scholarship.Influenced by Porphyry and Plotinus, Macrobius' commentary on the Somnium 'examines the enigma of the soul and its destiny in the light of Neoplatonism and of the astronomy and mathematics of the day (incidentally covering many topics including music and geography), and tends to reinforce the doctrine of the "Dream", of the immortality and divine quality of the soul, from a pagan standpoint. Macrobius' commentary was attentively studied in the West during the Middle Ages, thereby transmitting much ancient science and Neoplatonic thought' (Oxford Companion to Classical Literature). Framed as conversations at a banquet during the Saturnalia festival, the second work contains much discussion of Virgil, including his power of expression, and his debt to Homer, Ennius and others; 'he is gradually built up to be the unique scholar and poet in a way which foreshadows the medieval view of him as a wonder-working magician' (ibid.). For the woodcut world map, see Shirley's The mapping of the world, no. 13. The present rendering differs slightly from the earlier versions found in the Brescia editions of 1483 and 1485 and the Venice edition of 1492.An early reader of this copy has picked out numerous passages of interest with neat marginal notes, and has added a thorough alphabetical subject index at the end, so neatly executed that it must have been copied from another manuscript or printed source.BMC V 499; Goff M13; Bod-Inc M-005; ISTC im00013000; Essling 1232; Sander 4075. Language: Latin.

Zustand: Buono (Good). In 8vo (mm. 159x95). Pp. 567, [73]. Segnatura: a-z? A-R? Marca tipografica al frontespizio, iniziali e illustrazioni xilografiche nel testo, marginalia a stampa. Al frontespizio annotazione manoscritta al margine inferiore (?Jo: Fran:ci Ang:la?), piccolo tarlo al margine superiore delle prime cc. (parzialmente intaccante il titolo al frontespizio). Lievi fioriture su alcune cc, a tratti lievemente brunito. Mezza pelle recente con fregi ornamentali e titolo in oro al dorso, taglio rosso. Nel complesso esemplare più che discreto.Il volume contiene due delle opere più significative di Macrobio, scrittore e funzionario latino del IV-V secolo d'origine africana. Nella prima, un commento neoplatonico al ciceroniano Sogno di Scipione in cui introduce le sue persuasioni filosofiche, ispirate ai princìpi e agli ideali del neoplatonismo del tempo e discute della natura dell'anima e di Dio, dell'universo e degli astri ed espone un concetto geocentrico della terra. Nei sette libri dei Saturnali in forma di dialogo, seconda opera del volume, l'autore tratta vari interessanti argomenti tra cui l'origine delle feste in onore di Saturno, la divisione dell'anno, il culto di alcune divinità e soprattutto l'arte e la tecnica di Virgilio; vari passaggi riguardano fisica, matematica, geografia ed astronomia. Macrobio si preoccupa soprattutto che non vada perduto il patrimonio della tradizione degli antichi, in un'epoca di incipiente decadenza della romanità. Di particolare interesse ed importanza geografico-scientifica è il mappamondo pre-Tolemaico in xilografia, la terra è formata da quattro grandi isole con una zona torrida inagibile a separare i due emisferi, che costituì per circa un millennio il modello geografico terrestre.IT\ICCU\TO0E\021870. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. FIRST ESTIENNE EDITION. 8vo. Ff. (vii) 569 (xlii). Italic and Roman letter. Figurative head pieces and ornamental initials. Later shelf no. to fep, very occasional earlier marginalia. Slight age yellowing, some leaves lightly inked. A good clean copy in exquisite C18 vellum, gilt ornamental and floriated borders in the Neoclassical style, gilt fleurons to spine, morocco label, blue silk moiré pastedowns and endpapers with border gilt, dentelles gilt, aeg. Exquisitely bound Estienne edition of these two texts by the Roman author Macrobius. The first is a commentary on the Dream of Scipio narrated by Cicero at the end of the Republic in which the elder Scipio appears to his grandson, and describes the life of the good after death and the constitution of the universe from a Stoic and Neo-Platonic point of view; from this Macrobius discourses upon the nature of the cosmos, transmitting much classical philosophy to the later Middle Ages. The second work, Macrobius' Saturnalia, with its idolisation of Rome's pagan past, has been described as a pagan "machine de guerre". It recounts the discussions held at the house of Vettius Agorius Praetextatus (c. 325-385) during the Saturnalia holiday and was written for the benefit of Macrobius' son Eustachius. He covers a broad range of topics mythological, astronomical and medical, tantalizingly citing numerous ancient texts, many of them now lost to history. This text was edited by the renowned printer Henri Estienne. Estienne apologised for the quality of the printing of this edition: some leaves are rather light, though the text remains clearly legible. This edition is important as it is based on manuscripts that had been recently viewed by Estienne himself. Upon its publication it was sent to the famed Frankfurt Fair. As well as the text and commentary, Estienne included an explanation of the process of examining ancient manuscripts in order to arrive at the most complete and definitive text possible, providing a fascinating insight into Renaissance textual transmission. BM STC Fr. P. 295; Ren 150:4; Adams M71; Not in Brunet.

Couverture rigide. - Philippi Iuntae (Giunta), Florentiae (Florence) 1515, In 8, (24) 279pp. (1), relié. - Edition originale rare et précieuse des oeuvres de Macrobe par Niccolo Angeli. Les indications éditoriales se trouvent au colophon, la page de titre n'affichant que le titre in extenso : Impressum Flor?tiae opera & sumptu Philippi Iuntae. Anno à natiuitate D. XV. supra mille mense Iulio. Leone Decimo Pontifice. On notera la typographie en italique et même celle de l'ensemble de l'ouvrage particulièrement en avance sur son temps, notamment par rapport à la France, l'Allemagne et l'Angleterre où elle sera plus tardivement imitée, vers 1550.7 vignettes dans le songe de Scipion, dont la représentation du monde en 5 zones climatiques de Macrobe, représentation qui aura durablement marqué le Moyen-âge.Plein Velin d'époque. Dos lisse muet. Bon exemplaire, bien frais. Lecture classique de la Renaissance, Les deux textes réunis dans cette édition constituent les uvres majeures de Macrobius, lequel vivait vers l'an 400 et dont on sait peu de chose sinon qu'il était un philosophe néoplatonicien et stoïcien opposé au christianisme de plus en plus répandu. L'idée du songe de Scipion est extraite de la république de Cicéron dans laquelle celui-ci attribue un rêve au jeune Scipion où se déroule une conversation entre les héros décédés de la République, et notamment son père et son grand-père. L'ouvrage est constitué des commentaires de Macrobius, notamment sur la constitution de l'univers. Le deuxième texte réfère aux Saturnales, journées de fêtes pour les romains , Macrobius y relate les discussions tenues dans la demeure de Vettius Praetextatus, l'auteur y traite de différents sujets, mythologiques et astronomiques, médicaux, citant de nombreux textes anciens. Ce livre est demeuré une source importante quant à la datation de nombreux textes disparus et il est également un des texte les plus importants pour le néoplatonisme ; et surtout, il constituera un modèle pour le XVIe siècle qui imitera abondamment cette façon d'exposer la science. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND] (24) 279pp. (1).

Couverture rigide. - Venundantur Iodoco Badio Ascensio [Josse Bade], s.l. [Paris] 1529 et 1524 pour les deux textes suivants, in-folio (20,5x31,5cm), A6 A8 a-t8 v6 x8 et Aa6 4 A-O8 et Aa10, relié. - Première édition parisienne du Libri de re rustica illustrée d'un titre-frontispice représentant une scène d'imprimerie, ainsi que diverses scènes mythologiques en encadrement. Une annotation manuscrite du temps sur la page de titre. Belles lettrines. Cette édition contient le glossaire de Giorgio Merula, les commentaires de Filippo Beroalda l'Ancien sur les treize livres de Columelle, ainsi que la table d'Alde Manuce sur la durée du jour et la taille des ombres portées, suivant les enseignements de Palladius. Troisième édition chez Josse Bade pour Macrobii Aurelii Theodosii Viri consularis, après celles de 1515 et 1519. Elle est suivie sous pagination particulière d'un opuscule de Censorin intitulé De die natali. Page de titre-frontispice répétée. Lettrines identiques au texte précédent ; un large bandeau représentant des astronomes, ainsi que plusieurs autres vignettes et schémas astronomiques in-texte. Une très importante carte de Macrobe représentant les zones climatiques. Reliure en plein vélin rigide crème d'époque. Dos à six nerfs. Titre à la plume contemporain de l'ouvrage dans le premier caisson et étiquette plus tardive dans le second. Restes de fermoirs. Toutes tranches mouchetées rouges. Quelques soulignements et annotations marginales de l'époque. Quelques pâles mouillures et déchirures marginales sans manque. Une déchirure en coin sans perte de texte au feuillet miiii du second texte. Exemplaire particulièrement frais. Le Libri de re rustica est une réunion de textes didactiques en prose sur l'agriculture et la vie à la campagne, laissés par les quatre grands agronomes antiques Caton l'Ancien, Varron, Columelle et Palladius ; y sont abordés la culture des champs et des jardins, l'élevage des abeilles, la pêche, l'économie rurale (recettes de cuisine, de médecine), ainsi que les travaux de plantation. Ces textes sont traditionnellement imprimés dans des éditions collectives et adoptent un ton scientifique et non littéraire comme avait pu le faire Virgile dans ses Géorgiques. Ainsi, dès 1472 et jusque vers le milieu du XVIIIème siècle, ces textes seront régulièrement et collectivement édités sous la coupe des plus grands imprimeurs européens, d'abord en Italie, le berceau de l'humanisme, puis en France et en Allemagne. Dans la deuxième moitié du siècle, on fit plutôt des éditions séparées, il faudra ensuite attendre le regain d'intérêt de la seconde moitié du XVIIIème pour les réalités agricoles et voir ces uvres éditées à nouveau. La seconde partie est constituée du célèbre Commentaire du Songe de Scipion par Macrobe, ainsi que des sept livres de ses Saturnales, banquet philosophique se déroulant à la période éponyme et durant lequel douze devisants dissertent sur l'histoire et la philosophie romaine, puis proposent une explication des textes de Virgile. Ces Saturnales sont aussi l'occasion d'un débat sur les aliments et leurs propriétés. De die natali (« Du jour de naissance ») traite de la naissance et de la vie de l'homme, des jours, les mois, des années, des rites religieux, il s'agit d'une importante mine d'information concernant les usages de l'Antiquité : calcul du terme de la naissance, zodiaque, la théorie de Pythagore sur la musique et les planètes, et l'influence sur la durée de gestation. Il y est question de la vie divisée en périodes ou années climatériques, et de sa durée limitée à quatre-vingts ou à cent ans au plus. Censorinus fournit aussi de nombreux repères chronologiques historiques. Très bel ensemble de textes tout à fait symbolique du regain d'intérêt des auteurs de la Renaissance pour les textes antiques classiques ou mineurs, et qui confirme la vision d'une Rome idéale et harmonieuse. [ENGLISH TRANSLATION FOLLOWS] Libri de re rustica M. Catonis, M. Terentii Varronis, M. Iunii Moderati Columelle, Palladii R A6 A8 a-t8 v6 x8 et Aa6 4 A-O8 et Aa10.

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Un volume petit in-12° (15, 4 x 11cm), reliure ancienne velin souple ivoire d'aspect irrégulier, dos à trois nerfs, reste d'attaches. Nom de l'auteur (MACROBE) manuscrit sur le dos. 567 pages imprimées en italiques, 32 feuilles d'index , caractères tous en italique (texte en latin et partiellement en grec, soit in-texte soit en notes marginales), 4 illustrations (p. 101, 109, 137 et 144). La dernière d'entre elles étant particulièrement connue (p.144) car il s'agit d'une cartes du monde qui fut une des premières à représenter la terre sous forme d'une globe et à séparer les deux hemisphères. L'ouvrage date en principe de 1575. C'est ce que l'on peut lire sur la page de titre mais on notera qu'un des chiffres romains X a été inscrit à la main. Quoi qu'il en soit ce volume contient 2 textes, comme quasiment chaque édition des oeuvres de MACROBE, lequel en a écrit une troisième, moins connue, un traité de grammaire sur les différences et ressemblances entre le grec et le latin.Ses deux oeuvres majeures donc auraient été composées vers 430. MACROBE, né en Numidie vers 370 fut un haut fonctionnaire de l'Empire romain et ses oeuvres semblent avoir été lues tout long du moyen âge. On peut dire aussi qu'Il fut un philosophe et un philologue néoplatonicien (doctrine de l'antiquité tardive, inspirée non seulement de PLATON mais de plusieurs courants de la spiritualité orientale et grecque. Le COMMENTAIRE DU SONGE DE SCIPION (pp. 3-177 )permit entre autres richesses de retrouver un texte de CICERON (De Republica) qui avait, complètement disparu et qui en occupait les paragraphes 9 à 29 du livre VI . MACROBE en avait extrait ce texte pour le traiter comme une sorte de fable autonome (SCIPION rêve qu'il s'elève jusqu'au ciel pour y retrouver ses aieux , lesquels lui expliquent le mécanisme du cosmos, la place de la Terre et de l'homme au sein de l'univers et le principe de l'immortalité). Dans ce texte MACROBE s'appuie sur une carte du monde.Dans le 2ème texte, LES SATURNALES (pp.178-267), MACROBE nous décrit une sorte de colloque littéraire où au milieu des trois jours des fêtes des Saturnales de l'an 384 douze savants romains, dont un grammairien serbe, décident de s'enfermer pour parler de divers sujets, Virgile, les antiquités et les traditions romaines, la philosophie, la grammaire, l'astrologie, divers citations d'auteurs souvent disparus, des curiosités des anecdotes etc. On peut dire qu'il s'agit avec ce texte, d'un hommage à l'ancienne Rome païenne. Exemplaire compact dans sa reliure d'époque en vélin, et en BON ÉTAT. [50276].

Two parts in one. Folio, ff. XXXVI; LXXXVI [122 leaves total], roman letter with some Greek characters, with woodcut map and diagrams, spaces for initials. Scattered early marginalia. The last fifteenth-century edition of the influential text by the fifth-century writer Macrobius. "The works of Macrobius. were of great popularity throughout the Middle Ages. His neoplatonic commentary on Cicero includes, among many references to the pseudo-sciences, a geographical concept which is different from that of Ptolemy. The inhabited world north of the equator is balanced by a southern continent divided from it by water" (Shirley). This printing complete with that woodcut world map figuring a massive antipodal southern continent (Fol. XXX). One of the very earliest world maps, this half-page woodcut depicts a world split into two Europe and the balancing Antipodes and surrounded by ocean at the edges. This remarkable image, which survived by manuscript transmission from the fifth century into the age of printing, had a strong and lingering effect on post-Renaissance and pre-discovery geography. Reprints appeared throughout the next century in at least editions of 1521, 1528, 1565 and 1574, as well as additional crude variants. This splendid Venetian incunable printing was only the fifth or sixth edition of Macrobius to appear in print. The first edition (Venice, 1472) did not include a map; in the subsequent fifteenth-century printings Shirley has identified four varying woodblocks: Brescia, 1483; Venice, 1489 (in another work); Venice, 1492; and Venice, 1500 (the present printing). There is an immense literature on the Macrobian world view: in terms of its relationship to the later history of voyages and discovery, Carlos Sanz (El primer mapa del mundo con la representación de los hemisferios concebido por Macrobio, Publicaciones de la Real Sociedad Geográfica, Serie B Número 455, Madrid, 1966) has studied the significance of the maps with regard to Quiros and subsequent voyages of discovery into the southern hemisphere, while Beaglehole in his great edition of the journals of Cook has neatly written of 'the circular maps of another cycle, that of Macrobius [who] goes rather further than Cicero or St. Isidore; for whereas Cicero thought the southern zone habitable, and St. Isidore noted that there 'the Antipodes are fabulously said to dwell', Macrobius considered that the heat of the torrid zone would forever keep men from providing any proof. There however is the neatly balanced round of the Macrobian map: in the middle the broad Bath of Ocean, bounded on either side by the wavy coastline of an insular continent, northern and southern, snugly fitted into the waters of its half-circle. Each is divided into three bands: the first, rather narrow, facing on the Alveus Oceani and labelled Perusta - 'burnt up' So seductive, in the field of science, was harmony, symmetry, balance, the fitness of things; so difficult has it been for the geographer, as for other men, to wait on facts. So little, one is tempted cynically to add, has it mattered in the long run' (Beaglehole, Journals, I, pp. xxv-vi). Campbell, Earliest Printed Maps, 90 (reproducing the map) &, pp.114-117; Sander, Le livre à figures Italien, 4075; Shirley, 13 (block 4); Bod-inc M-005; BMC V 499; BSB-Ink M-5; Goff M13; GW M19705; HC 10430*; Oates 2079; Pr 5326; Walsh 2472, 2473; ISTC im00013000 Contemporary wooden boards, leather spine worn, clasps missing; scattered minor worming and minor dampstaining to inner margins; coverall in good original condition. Housed in a green morocco backed box. Provenance: R. David Parsons (booklabel) Two parts in one. Folio, ff. XXXVI; LXXXVI [122 leaves total], roman letter with some Greek characters, with woodcut map and diagrams, spaces for initials. Scattered early marginalia.

Legatura antica in pergamena con nervi e titolo ms. al ds. Tagli spruzzati. Antica nota di appartenenza al frontespizio, sottolineature e glosse a margine di mano coeva. Alcune piccole macchie e una mancanza all angolo inferiore dell ultima carta che lede due-tre lettere del testo. Nel complesso esemplare in ottimo stato di conservazione. Edizione originale giuntina e prima edizione in piccolo formato delle due opere maggiori di Macrobio. Cfr. Adams, M-59. 8vo (cm. 14,7), 12 cc.nn., 279 cc., 1 c.nn. con fregio xilografico al verso. Con 7 diagrammi astronomici e geografici n.t. (tra cui il celebre mappamondo e la rappresentazione della Terra suddivisa in cinque zone climatiche).

Small folio (302 x 198mm), 191 leaves (initial blank leaf discarded), with seven diagrams and a world map within the text; capital spaces blank; a fine, large copy in handsome Regency russia leather, sides richly tooled in gilt and blind with anthemion and scroll motifs, spine lettered in gilt and stamped in blind and gilt in compartments, all edges gilt, with lavender endpapers, by S. Ridge, of Grantham, with his ticket; Syston Park bookplates (see below). A superb copy of this great book, from the library at Syston Park, with the first appearance in print of the famous Macrobian world map, the most influential of all pre-Renaissance views of the world, including an antipodean, southern continent. Printed in Brescia, in the first decade of printing there, this strikingly handsome production is the first edition of Macrobius's Commentary on the Dream of Scipio to print the scientific diagrams and the world map. Since these had not been included in the only earlier printing of the text (Venice 1472, an edition which was therefore less than complete, as the map and diagrams are specifically referred to by Macrobius to illustrate ideas discussed in the text), this is the preferred early edition. This very fine and beautifully bound copy was from the library of the noted book collector Sir John Hayford Thorold of Syston Park, probably originally purchased by his father the equally famous bibliophile Sir John (1734-1815). The younger Thorold commissioned Lewis Vulliamy to build his new library at Syston between 1822 and 1824. The contents of the famous library were dispersed firstly in 1884 (by Sotheby's) and then in 1923, and the house was demolished in 1925. Macrobius, writing in the early fifth century, was one of the select band of encyclopaedists who preserved and transmitted classical philosophy and science to the medieval world and whose works were 'to hold a central position in the intellectual development of the West for nearly a millennium. To the medievalist, Macrobius's Commentary is an intensely interesting document because it was one of the basic source books of the scholastic movement and of medieval science' (W. H. Stahl, Macrobius: commentary on the Dream of Scipio, 1952). 'To the mere persistence, through a few compendia, of the knowledge that the earth is a globe, Europe owed the discovery of the New World. The astronomical and geographical science in Macrobius alone was sufficient to furnish a basis for Columbus when the passion for exploration had been reawakened, as it was in the fifteenth century' (Thomas Whittaker, Macrobius, 1923, p. 83). Macrobius's famous map figures a massive antipodal southern continent. One of the very earliest of all maps of the world, this woodcut shows a globe split into two -- Europe and the balancing Antipodes - and surrounded by ocean at the edges. This remarkable image, which survived by manuscript transmission from the fifth century into the age of printing, had a strong and lingering effect on post-Renaissance and pre-discovery geography. It is also the first printed map to show the currents of the oceans. Its large southern continent carries the legend 'Pervsta / Temperata, antipodum / nobis incognita'. For a thousand years the Macrobian world map formed the basis of world geography, until Renaissance exploration replaced it with discovered fact, and all pre-discovery mapping was to some extent based on it, as were all ideas of a southern hemisphere, a southern continent, or an antipodes. --- There is an immense literature on the Macrobian world view: Carlos Sanz (El primer mapa del mundo, Real Sociedad Geográfica, B 455, Madrid, 1966) has studied the significance of the maps with regard to Quirós and subsequent voyages of discovery into the southern hemisphere, while Beaglehole in his great edition of the journals of Cook has neatly written of 'the circular maps of another cycle, that of Macrobius [who] goes rather further than Cicero or St. Isidore; for whereas Cicero thought the southern zone habitable, and St. Isidore noted that there 'the Antipodes are fabulously said to dwell', Macrobius considered that the heat of the torrid zone would forever keep men from providing any proof. There however is the neatly balanced round of the Macrobian map: in the middle the broad Bath of Ocean, bounded on either side by the wavy coastline of an insular continent, northern and southern, snugly fitted into the waters of its half-circle. Each is divided into three bands: the first, rather narrow, facing on the Alveus Oceani and labelled Perusta - 'burnt up'. 'Beyond these are the broader temperate bands: on the north, Aphrica, Europa, India, with the four cardinal cities of Carthage, Alexandria, Jerusalem and Babylon; on the south, Temperata Antipodum Nobis Incognita. Beyond these again are the final bands labelled Frigida; containing on the north Britain, Thule, and the Rhiphei montes, on the south naturally nothing beyond the simply frigid. So seductive, in the field of science, was harmony, symmetry, balance, the fitness of things; so difficult has it been for the geographer, as for other men, to wait on facts. So little, one is tempted cynically to add, has it mattered in the long run' (J.C. Beaglehole, The Journals of Captain James Cook, Vol. I, The Voyage of the Endeavour, pp. xxv-vi ). . Provenance: Syston Park (armorial bookplate to front pastedown); Sir John Hayford Thorold, 10th Baronet, (1773-1831), engraved monogram. Closed marginal tear to gutter of ai, closed marginal tear to lower margin aii, aiv-aviii with neat marginal annotations in an early hand in Greek and Latin.

Folio. (XL),334,2 p. Vellum 30 cm (Ref: VD16 ZV 20513; Schweiger 2,586: the first mentioned copy with the privilegium and the corrections. 'Neue, schätzbare Recension von Joach. Camerarius, nach 2 Handschriften'. Dibdin 2,220: 'under the care of the celebrated Camerarius, and by the help of several important MSS. there was hardly a verse in the poets quoted but what received very considerable emendation. (.) A volume, thus intrinsically valuable, will not fail to find a purchaser at a reasonable price'; Ebert 12716; Graesse 4,330) (Details: Later vellum (18th century?). Brown morocco shield on the back. 2 thongs laced through both joints. Large printer's mark of Hervagius (Johann Herwagen the elder) on the title, and a different one on the verso of the last leaf, both depicting a three headed Hermes on a pillar. Woodcut initials, 8 woodcuts and a woodcut map of the world in the text) (Condition: Some small and almost invisible repairs of the vellum. Corners of the shield on the back partly gone. Title browning, paper yellowing, some slight foxing. Wormhole in the right uppercorner of ca. 80 p., not coming near any text. Pastedowns affected by a few small unobjectional wormholes) (Note: Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius, a Roman senator and a classical scholar of the early 5th century A.D. 'was a notable link between the cultures of antiquity and the Middle Ages'. This edition contains his 2 most important works, the 'Saturnalia' and his 'Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis', the 'Dream of Scipio', a commentary on a part of 'De Republica' of the Roman orator Cicero. The 'Saturnalia' is a learned compilation in 7 books cast in dialogue form, in which the cultural life of the former generation is idealized. Macrobius' aim is to provide his son with all the necessary hard to come by scientific knowledge. He did so in the form of a banquet. Macrobius was inspired by the Ciceronian dialogues 'De Oratore' and 'De Republica'. 'Set during the Saturnalia of 383, it gathers several (conspicuously non-Christian) members of the aristocracy and their entourage to discuss matters ridiculous (.) and sublime, (.) above all the poetry of Virgil. Quarried from mostly unnamed sources - including Gellius, Seneca, Plutarch, and the tradition of scholastic commentary today known from Servius, the discussion presents Virgil as the master of all human knowledge'. More influential in the Middle Ages and Renaissance was the commentary of Macrobius on the 'Somnium Scipionis'. Macrobius uses Cicero's text (De Republica 6,10 ff) as the starting point for a thoroughly Neoplatonic treatment of (especially) cosmology and the soul's ascent to the One, with direct debts to Porphyry and Plotinus.' Discussed are matters of mathematics, physics, cosmology, astronomy, geography and ethics. He thus forged a kind of compendium of science and philosophy, which transmitted classical knowledge to the medieval world, and was to hold a central position in the intellectual development of the West during the Middle Ages. His books belong to the basic sources of the scholastic movement and of medieval science. His work left traces in the works of Dante, Chaucer, Vives and Spenser. (Source for M. and the quotations: 'The Classical Tradition', Cambr. Mass., 2010, p. 553). § Joachim Camerarius, 1500-1574, holds one of the foremost places among the German classical scholars of the 16th century. Gudeman calls him even 'der bedeutendste Philologe Deutschlands im 16. Jahrh.' (Grundriss der Geschichte der klassischen Philologie, Lpz. 1909, p. 216) He held professorships at Nuremberg, Tübingen and Leipzig. 'His numerous editions of the Classics, without attaining the highest rank, are characterized by acumen and good taste'. (Sandys, 'History of Classical Scholarship' 2, p. 266/67) Camerarius was a man of vast knowledge. He also wrote on history, theology, mathematics, astronomy and paedagogy. He seems to have been just the man for editing the encyclopaedic works of Macrobius. Camerarius had evidently a high opinion of himself and his talents. Such we gather from the following distich on the titlepage: 'Qui tamen et nostri numerum vult scire laboris, annumeret versus totius ille libri', i.e. he left his mark in every line of verse in Macrobius. This book contains furthermore an interesting Macrobian map, a map which for a 1000 years formed the basis of world geography. It was first printed in 1482, showing the continents in the 'Alveus Oceani', a big Europe, and a rather small Africa and Asia. The round map is typically divided in 5 climatic zones. It shows the pre-Renaissance view of the world, Antipodeans and all. Our map shows the awakening of the passion for exploration and the cartographic progress in this period. Africa and Asia have grown hugely, and Europe has shrunk considerably. The lines of the climatic zone on the first map of 1482 were straight, suggesting a flat earth, on our map the lines are convex, indicating a world which is really a round ball. And the Antipodean part has gone. No sign however of America. The literature on the development of the Macrobian world view is immense) (Provenance: On the front flyleaf in pencil '7 januari 1961', written by the Flemish linguist Walter Couvreur, 1914-1996, who was an Orientalist, and professor of Indoeuropean linguistics at the University of Gent. It indicates the date of aquisition. The place of acquisition he wrote on the flyleaf at the end: 'Turijn, Bottega d'Erasmo') (Collation: alpha - beta6, gamma8, a-z6, A-E6) (Photographs on request) 2000 gr.

Octavo, ff. [xii], 280, italic letter, woodcut printer's device on last leaf, with six woodcuts; contemporary vellum. The first popular pocket edition of Macrobius's influential text, printed by the Giunta family in Florence; such smaller format publications were a feature of publishing in the early sixteenth century and must have looked as startlingly modern then as Allen Lane's first Penguins looked in the 1930s or 40s. This printing includes a slightly developed form of the famous Macrobian world map with its massive southern continent. One of the very earliest world maps, this half-page woodcut depicts a world split into two - Europe and the balancing Antipodes - and surrounded by ocean at the edges. This remarkable image, which survived by manuscript transmission from the fifth century into the age of printing, had a strong and lingering effect on post-Renaissance and pre-discovery geography. Carlos Sanz (El primer mapa del mundo, Real Sociedad Geográfica, B 455, Madrid, 1966) has studied the significance of the maps with regard to Quirós and subsequent voyages of discovery into the southern hemisphere, while Beaglehole in his great edition of the journals of Cook has neatly written of 'the circular maps of another cycle, that of Macrobius [who] goes rather further than Cicero or St. Isidore; for whereas Cicero thought the southern zone habitable, and St. Isidore noted that there 'the Antipodes are fabulously said to dwell', Macrobius considered that the heat of the torrid zone would forever keep men from providing any proof. There however is the neatly balanced round of the Macrobian map: in the middle the broad Bath of Ocean, bounded on either side by the wavy coastline of an insular continent, northern and southern, snugly fitted into the waters of its half-circle. Each is divided into three bands: the first, rather narrow, facing on the Alveus Oceani and labelled Perusta - 'burnt up' So seductive, in the field of science, was harmony, symmetry, balance, the fitness of things; so difficult has it been for the geographer, as for other men, to wait on facts. So little, one is tempted cynically to add, has it mattered in the long run' (Beaglehole, Journals, I, pp. xxv-vi ). . A bit stained, but a good copy.

*: Venezia, [ Giovanni Tacuino ], Impressum Venaetiis ; in aedibus Ioannis Tacuini de Tridino, 1521, Die XVIII Iulii , in-folio, 30 x 21 cm, (8)nn pp + 110 pp (numbered 1-105) + (2)(blank) (complete collation identical with USTC 839412). Title page printed in red & black, with printer's device ''St. John the Baptist'' with motto '' Ecce agnus''. Several woodcuts in the text, on pp. 26verso a large worldmap showing the ''Alveus Oceani''. Bound in 16th century vellum, edges painted blue, gilt title on smooth spine. Very nice copy notwithstanding a very few minor perpendicular worm galleries (not in the text) and a clear very faint waterstain at a few pages. With the manuscript ex-libris of '' Francisci Pontij Placentini'' in the upper margin of the title page. BOUND WITH Aulus GELLIUS , Auli Gelii Noctium Atticarum commentaria per Bonfinem Asculanum., Venezia, [ Giovanni Tacuino ], Impressum Venetiis ; per Ioannem de Tridino alias Tacuinum, 1517 die primo Decemb. (44)nn pp + 270 pp (numbered 1-135) , complete but for the last blank leaf. (USTC 832153). Copy with some darker marginal stains at the first 10 leaves, some faint clear waterstains at some pages and marginal stains at the last pages, still a fine/good copy. Convolute containing two postincunables printed by Giovanni Tacuino. This printer is represented with 28 imprints in Adams (not the Macrobius).

Lugduni (Lyon), Seb. Gryphium, 1556. 8vo. Cont. full calf. Raised bands, gilt borders on covers. A gilt centerpiece on both covers. Leather at upper compartment of back gone and a nick to lower compartment. Corners bumped and worn, somewhat rubbed. 567,(71) pp. Old repair to foot of title, no loss of text. Some old ownership inscriptions on endpapers and title, 2 old engraved bookplates pasted on front-and endpapers. Internally with a few mainly marginal brownspopts and a faint dampstain in lower corners of the first leaves. Woodcut initials. "Somnium" pp. 3-178 having geographical woodcuts in the text and a woodcut map of the old world. Printers woodcut-device on title. Fourth Lyon-edition of Macrobius's 2 main works. In the "Somnium" he uses passages of Cicero's work as mere suggestions to construct a treatise on Neoplatonic philosophy - the most satisfactory and widely read Latin compendium on Neoplatonism that existed during the Middle Ages. Macrobius was one of the leading popularizers of science in the Latin West, and his conception of the world geography as an equatorial and meridional ocean (depicted in the book) dividing the earth into four quarters, dominated scientific thinking on world geography in the Middle Ages. - His "Saturnalia" deals with Roman feasts in form of table-talk at a banquet in Rome, giving information of food and drink and their preparation (Vicaire 986 (ed.1492, Simon p. 547 (ed. 1492)). and is fascinatingly rich in philological, historical, antiquarian and scientific lore, throwing a clear light on the interests and taste of the period. - Adams vol. II: M 68.

Teubner, Leipzig, 1970. 2nd ed. X,466p. Cloth. Original blue cloth. Signature on free endpaper.