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CELTES, Conradus (1459-1508). Septenaria sodalitas litteraria Germaniae. - pseudo-AUSONIUS. Sententiae septem sapientum - AUSONIUS. Ludus septem sapientum. - HIERONYMUS. Epistola ad magnum oratorum urbis Romae. Vienna: [Johann Winterburg] for Conradus Celtis, 1500.
Median 4° (210 x 148mm). Collation: [18] (1/1r title, 1/2-8 text). 8 leaves. 39 lines, spaces for Greek filled in. Type: 1:78G, 6:79G, 5:104G. 2 initial spaces. Modern pigskin blindstamped in antique style. Provenance: Christian Voll (contemporary inscription and notes).
FIRST AND ONLY 15TH-CENTURY EDITION of Celtes's important verse celebration of German literary brotherhood, in which he lets seven poets speak from the banks of the rivers Danube, Vistula, ? Oder, Elbe, Drave, Rhine and Neckar. Celtes, the arch-humanist of Germany, did much to further the study of Greek, wrote the best Latin poetry north of the Alps, discovered the Tabula Peutingeriana and Hroswitha's Latin plays. He initiated German classical and historical scholarship, and established a number of learned societies on the model of the Italian academies. He was the first German to be crowned poet laureate of the Empire, and Maximilian I appointed him professor of poetry and rhetoric at Vienna. The Greek words in the accompanying texts by Ausonius and Jerome had to be supplied in manuscript, since Vienna's only printing shop, Winterburg's, in 1505 had no Greek type. A fine copy of a rare pamphlet. HC 2182; GW 6470; BMC III, 811 (IA.7673); Goff C-374.
Median 4° (210 x 148mm). Collation: [18] (1/1r title, 1/2-8 text). 8 leaves. 39 lines, spaces for Greek filled in. Type: 1:78G, 6:79G, 5:104G. 2 initial spaces. Modern pigskin blindstamped in antique style. Provenance: Christian Voll (contemporary inscription and notes).
FIRST AND ONLY 15TH-CENTURY EDITION of Celtes's important verse celebration of German literary brotherhood, in which he lets seven poets speak from the banks of the rivers Danube, Vistula, ? Oder, Elbe, Drave, Rhine and Neckar. Celtes, the arch-humanist of Germany, did much to further the study of Greek, wrote the best Latin poetry north of the Alps, discovered the Tabula Peutingeriana and Hroswitha's Latin plays. He initiated German classical and historical scholarship, and established a number of learned societies on the model of the Italian academies. He was the first German to be crowned poet laureate of the Empire, and Maximilian I appointed him professor of poetry and rhetoric at Vienna. The Greek words in the accompanying texts by Ausonius and Jerome had to be supplied in manuscript, since Vienna's only printing shop, Winterburg's, in 1505 had no Greek type. A fine copy of a rare pamphlet. HC 2182; GW 6470; BMC III, 811 (IA.7673); Goff C-374.