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ERASMUS, Desiderius (c. 1466-1536). Catalogus novus omnium lucubrationum Erasmi Roterodami cum censuris, & digestione singularum in suos tomos. Basel: Hieronymus Froben, September, 1524.
8o (156 x 106 mm). One four-line initial, Cadiceus devices on title and last leaf. Eighteenth-century half vellum, marbled paper sides. Provenance: numerous underlinings in red in a contemporary hand, facilitating the tracing of titles etc.; excerpts in an eighteenth- century hand on the flyleaves; Brighton Public Library (bookplate, unobtrusive blind stamps on the margins of title and last leaf, ink shelf numbers on title verso).
FIRST EDITION of the final redaction of Erasmus's auto-bibliography, written as a letter, dated first February, 1523, to his friend, the humanist Johannes Botzheim, canon at Constance, with whom he had stayed for three weeks the previous year. This epistolary auto-bibliography is of prime importance for the history of Erasmus's life and works; he not only lists his writings, but relates the circumstances of their composition, and often of their publication. There are also observations on his controversies with Luther and Hutten. The first version Froben had printed in 1522, and twice in 1523 (both printed in April). In this "new catalogue" Erasmus brings the work up to September, 1524 (see fol. b2v)--though the letter is still dated February, 1523--and adds a substantial new section which he arranges under subjects in nine volumes - a scheme followed by Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus Episcopius in their edition of the Opera, Basel, 1540-1541 (i.e. 1538-1542). This new section Froben cites as the justification for this new edition, appearing so shortly after the previous ones, in his address to the reader. There were apparently two issues, not specified by either VD16, E2123/4, or Bezzel 307/8. Only three copies have survived of both issues in German libraries, a fourth, in Munich, having disappeared. NUC records three further copies in American libraries (Illinois, Newberry, Yale).
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FIRST EDITION of the final redaction of Erasmus's auto-bibliography, written as a letter, dated first February, 1523, to his friend, the humanist Johannes Botzheim, canon at Constance, with whom he had stayed for three weeks the previous year. This epistolary auto-bibliography is of prime importance for the history of Erasmus's life and works; he not only lists his writings, but relates the circumstances of their composition, and often of their publication. There are also observations on his controversies with Luther and Hutten. The first version Froben had printed in 1522, and twice in 1523 (both printed in April). In this "new catalogue" Erasmus brings the work up to September, 1524 (see fol. b2v)--though the letter is still dated February, 1523--and adds a substantial new section which he arranges under subjects in nine volumes - a scheme followed by Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus Episcopius in their edition of the Opera, Basel, 1540-1541 (i.e. 1538-1542). This new section Froben cites as the justification for this new edition, appearing so shortly after the previous ones, in his address to the reader. There were apparently two issues, not specified by either VD16, E2123/4, or Bezzel 307/8. Only three copies have survived of both issues in German libraries, a fourth, in Munich, having disappeared. NUC records three further copies in American libraries (Illinois, Newberry, Yale).