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ERASMUS, Desiderius (c. 1466-1536). Catalogi duo operum Des. Erasmi Roterodami ab ipso conscripti & digesti; cum praefatione Bonifacii Amerbachii ... Accessit in fine epitaphorum ac tumulorum libellus quibus Erasmi mors defletur. Edited by Bonifacius Amerbach (1495-1562). Basel: Hieronymus Froben & Nicolaus Episcopius, 1537 (colophon 1536).
4o (209 x 155). Roman, Greek and Hebrew types. Caduceus devices on title and last leaf, several historiated initials. Disbound.
THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS COMMEMORATIVE VOLUME, edited by Erasmus's friend, heir and executor of his will, Bonifacius Amerbach, professor of Roman law and syndic of Basel, prefaced by a ten-page obituary, addressed to Johannes Baumgartner at Nürnberg, Germany's richest financier after Fugger, and a friend of Erasmus and other humanists. In it, Amerbach recounts the last years and death of Erasmus. Amerbach reprints the Erasmian auto-bibliography as published in 1524 (see preceding lot), but enlarged by Erasmus's letter to Hector Boece, March 1530, and an eight-page "Index omnium Des. Erasmi Roterodami lucubrationum," a subject index of the works, and the scheme for a collected edition, and now brought up to date, arranged in ten "ordines." The second, intrinsically commemorative part (pp. 84-119), consists of contributions in prose and verse: a letter by the French poet Germain de Brie, addressed to Guillaume Du Bellay, the commander and diplomat (followed by three short poems presumably by him), a letter by the humanist Paul Volz addressed to Beatus Rhenanus, and (at end) a text in Hebrew by Sebastian Münster; there are long poems by Johannes Sapidus (almost 14 pp.), Georg Sabinus, Vitus Kopp (3 pp.), and shorter ones by Simon Grynaeus, Eustathius Quercetanus, Guillaume Bigot, Giovanni Bressani, N. ex Brabantia, Nicolas I Bourbon, Jean Morel, Johannes Ulpius, Johannes Huser, Nicolaus Episcopius, Gilbert Cousin, and Hieronymus Froben. On p. 117 the epitaph on Erasmus's tomb. RARE: NUC records only 5 copies. Bezzel 311.
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THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS COMMEMORATIVE VOLUME, edited by Erasmus's friend, heir and executor of his will, Bonifacius Amerbach, professor of Roman law and syndic of Basel, prefaced by a ten-page obituary, addressed to Johannes Baumgartner at Nürnberg, Germany's richest financier after Fugger, and a friend of Erasmus and other humanists. In it, Amerbach recounts the last years and death of Erasmus. Amerbach reprints the Erasmian auto-bibliography as published in 1524 (see preceding lot), but enlarged by Erasmus's letter to Hector Boece, March 1530, and an eight-page "Index omnium Des. Erasmi Roterodami lucubrationum," a subject index of the works, and the scheme for a collected edition, and now brought up to date, arranged in ten "ordines." The second, intrinsically commemorative part (pp. 84-119), consists of contributions in prose and verse: a letter by the French poet Germain de Brie, addressed to Guillaume Du Bellay, the commander and diplomat (followed by three short poems presumably by him), a letter by the humanist Paul Volz addressed to Beatus Rhenanus, and (at end) a text in Hebrew by Sebastian Münster; there are long poems by Johannes Sapidus (almost 14 pp.), Georg Sabinus, Vitus Kopp (3 pp.), and shorter ones by Simon Grynaeus, Eustathius Quercetanus, Guillaume Bigot, Giovanni Bressani, N. ex Brabantia, Nicolas I Bourbon, Jean Morel, Johannes Ulpius, Johannes Huser, Nicolaus Episcopius, Gilbert Cousin, and Hieronymus Froben. On p. 117 the epitaph on Erasmus's tomb. RARE: NUC records only 5 copies. Bezzel 311.