Item details: Opera. Ioh. Isacius Pontanus recensuit: & Saturnaliorum libros MS. ope auxit, ordinavit, & Castigationes sive notas adiecit [...]
£ 250.00
Macrobius:
Opera. Ioh. Isacius Pontanus recensuit: & Saturnaliorum libros MS. ope auxit, ordinavit, & Castigationes sive notas adiecit [...]
Imprint: Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden], ex Officina Plantiniana, apud Franciscum Raphelengium, 1597 Binding:
Hardback
Inscription:
Signed, Inscribed Or Annotated
8vo. pp. [viii], 697, [li]. Occasional light waterstaining towards the end of the volume. Early ownership signature of L. Gaillard on title. Contenporary vellum with yapp edges, slightly stained.
The works of the fourth century grammarian and Neoplatonist philosopher Macrobius, printed by Plantin’s protégé Raphelengien and containing the Saturnalia (wide ranging discussions, including some relating to the origins of the festival itself) and his commentary on “the Dream of Scipio”, narrated by Cicero at the end of his “Republic”.
