Anthologia Graeca. Ανθολογια διαφορων επιγραμματων... Florilegium diversorum epigrammatum in septem libros distinctum, diligenti castigatione emendatum. Cui nonnulla nuper inventa epigrammata in fine adiecta sunt, una cum indice tam rerum, quam auctorum copiosissimo. Venice: sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1550 (1551)
A richly annotated copy of the third Aldine edition of the Greek Anthology, containing additional verses from other writers and translations of the Greek verses in the hand of Jean Dorat, Janus Dousa and others, with an inscription from Dorat to Dousa: "Io. Auratus in gratiam amicissimi Doezae vertebat 1566".
Janus Dousa (1545-1604) was a Dutch scholar and statesman, who studied in Paris and learned Greek from the classical scholar Jean Dorat (1508-1588), professor of Greek at the Collège royal from 1556 to 1567 and a prolific writer of verses in Greek and Latin.
The annotations include verses from contemporary Latin poets such as Thomas More, Hadrianus Junius, Piero Valeriano and Lucas Fruytier, as well as classical authors such as Ausonius and Martial. Some are marked "ex versione nostra" or "Duzae" (Dousa). The leaf between B3-4 contains verses in Greek.
The book later came into the possession of the book collector Frances Mary Richardson Currer, whose library at Eshton Hall in Yorkshire was considered one of the largest in England. Her library catalogue stated that the binding was by Roger Payne.
8vo (152 x 88 mm). Greek type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-Z8 AA-NN8 *8 **4: 300 leaves (**3 blank). Woodcut Aldine device on title-page. Interleaved throughout with numerous verse translations into Latin. (Lacking final two leaves containing device only.)
binding: Early nineteenth-century straight-grained red morocco (160 x 100 mm), in the style of Roger Payne, gilt fillet border, flat spine, gilt edges. (Spine slightly darkened.)
provenance: Jean Dorat (1508-1588, presentation inscription to Janus Dousa on leaf between A2-3) — Janus Dousa (1545- 1604) and his son Janus (1571-1609, though not listed in his 1604 library catalogue) — Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), armorial bookplate — Mathew Wilson of Eshton Hall (Richardson's half-brother, 1802-1891), bookplate, sale of Richardson's library, Sotheby's, 30 July 1862, lot 37, 10s, to Willis & Sotheran — William, 6th Lord Monson (1796-1862), sale of property of the 10th Baron Monson, Sotheby's, 5 June 2013, lot 196. acquisition: Purchased from Benjamin Spademan, Paris, 2014. references: UCLA 401; Edit16 1975; Renouard 148/7
Anthologia Graeca. Ανθολογια διαφορων επιγραμματων... Florilegium diversorum epigrammatum in septem libros distinctum, diligenti castigatione emendatum. Cui nonnulla nuper inventa epigrammata in fine adiecta sunt, una cum indice tam rerum, quam auctorum copiosissimo. Venice: sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1550 (1551)
A richly annotated copy of the third Aldine edition of the Greek Anthology, containing additional verses from other writers and translations of the Greek verses in the hand of Jean Dorat, Janus Dousa and others, with an inscription from Dorat to Dousa: "Io. Auratus in gratiam amicissimi Doezae vertebat 1566".
Janus Dousa (1545-1604) was a Dutch scholar and statesman, who studied in Paris and learned Greek from the classical scholar Jean Dorat (1508-1588), professor of Greek at the Collège royal from 1556 to 1567 and a prolific writer of verses in Greek and Latin.
The annotations include verses from contemporary Latin poets such as Thomas More, Hadrianus Junius, Piero Valeriano and Lucas Fruytier, as well as classical authors such as Ausonius and Martial. Some are marked "ex versione nostra" or "Duzae" (Dousa). The leaf between B3-4 contains verses in Greek.
The book later came into the possession of the book collector Frances Mary Richardson Currer, whose library at Eshton Hall in Yorkshire was considered one of the largest in England. Her library catalogue stated that the binding was by Roger Payne.
8vo (152 x 88 mm). Greek type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-Z8 AA-NN8 *8 **4: 300 leaves (**3 blank). Woodcut Aldine device on title-page. Interleaved throughout with numerous verse translations into Latin. (Lacking final two leaves containing device only.)
binding: Early nineteenth-century straight-grained red morocco (160 x 100 mm), in the style of Roger Payne, gilt fillet border, flat spine, gilt edges. (Spine slightly darkened.)
provenance: Jean Dorat (1508-1588, presentation inscription to Janus Dousa on leaf between A2-3) — Janus Dousa (1545- 1604) and his son Janus (1571-1609, though not listed in his 1604 library catalogue) — Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), armorial bookplate — Mathew Wilson of Eshton Hall (Richardson's half-brother, 1802-1891), bookplate, sale of Richardson's library, Sotheby's, 30 July 1862, lot 37, 10s, to Willis & Sotheran — William, 6th Lord Monson (1796-1862), sale of property of the 10th Baron Monson, Sotheby's, 5 June 2013, lot 196. acquisition: Purchased from Benjamin Spademan, Paris, 2014. references: UCLA 401; Edit16 1975; Renouard 148/7
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