Scholia in Georgicorvm P. Vergilii Maronis Lib. IIII Doctissima / D. Philippo Melanthone autore nunc primum in lucem edita ; Praeterea, Vt Ivsta Commentaria essent, Eobani Hessi, poëtae uenustissimi, annotationes ijs adiunximus. Ad haec Brevis Explicatio Vocabulorum quorundam de agricolarum instrumentis, addita est / per Iodocum Vuillichium Resellianum.
1544
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Scholia in Georgicorvm P. Vergilii Maronis Lib. IIII Doctissima / D. Philippo Melanthone autore nunc primum in lucem edita ; Praeterea, Vt Ivsta Commentaria essent, Eobani Hessi, poëtae uenustissimi, annotationes ijs adiunximus. Ad haec Brevis Explicatio Vocabulorum quorundam de agricolarum instrumentis, addita est / per Iodocum Vuillichium Resellianum.
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Basileae : Vuesthemerus, 1544.
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335 pages.
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Melanchthon, Philip, 1497-1560.
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FAST ACC 271711 (quarto)
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Purchase made possible by The Professor Emile V. Telle Acquisitions Fund. Ordered from E. K. Schreiber, D9345, 2019-09-10, email quote. From dealer's description: "Text in italic, with occasional use of Greek; printed side-notes in tiny roman; two woodcut initials; woodcut printer's device on final page. [NOTE: p. 380 is misnumbered 370, causing the misnumeration also of the following nine pages]. Handsomely bound in blind-ruled modern brown calf, spine with four raised bands, red morocco label titled in gilt in upper compartment; leaves rounded at corners; a few leaves lightly damp-stained. Two early signatures on title page: "Johannes Chiliani" and "Magnus Olai" [see below]. FIRST (and only) EDITION of Virgil's Georgics accompanied by this particular pair of extensive commentaries: those of Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560), and Helius Eobanus Hessus (1488-1540), one of the most prolific and admired Latin poets of the German Renaissance. Following these two commentaries is a 25-page essay by Jodocus Willich (1501-1552), in which he defines the agricultural terms, including of wine and winemaking, found in the Georgics; this essay originally served as the introduction to Hessus's own edition of the Georgics (1539). As stated in the title, Melanchthon's comments make their first appearance in the present edition, and those of Eobanus Hessus are reprinted from his own edition of the Georgics (Cologne, 1536). On the title are two signatures in early 17thcentury hands: that of Johannes Chiliani, a Lutheran theologian, author of several works, including a Latin dissertation whose title translates as, Comparison of the Augustan Confession with the Teachings of Zwingli and Calvin (1618). The second signature is that of one Magnus Olai: of the several individuals bearing that name the most likely to be the one who owned this copy, based on the early 17th-century handwriting, must have been Magnus Olai Cochus (1582-1630), Swedish pastor in the Glimakra and Örkened parishes. A very rare first edition: the only two copies that may be located in American collections are those at Princeton and Yale. § VD16, V1554; Mambelli 647; Hartfelder (Melanchthon), p. 600, no. 363; Kallendorf, Bibliography of the Early Printed Editions of Virgil, p. 120: LG1544.1; Kallendorf (Princeton), p. 105: L1544-1548.
Folger accession
271711