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Collection of 8 orations by the famous professor Petrus Burmannus the Elder (Utrecht and Leiden) and others (2, Leiden)

BURMAN the Elder, Pieter.
Oratio funebris in obitum viri clarissimi Joannis Georgii Graevii, Magnae Brittanniae Regis historici, politices, historiarum & eloquentiae professoris ordinarii. Dicta XI. Kal. Martias MDCCIII.

Woodcut coat-of-arms of Utrecht on title.

Utrecht, Willem van de Water, 1703. 8 works in one vol. 4to. Contemporary half calf, ribbed spine, gilt with title lettered in gold, marbled covers with central gilt vignette of the 'Society of Writers to the Signet' on both sides. Woodcut coat-of-arms of Utrecht on title. 57, (26) pp.

With:
(2) Idem. Oratio pro pigritia, publice habita. Ad diem XX Febr. M.DCCII.
No place, 1702. Woodcut title-vignette. 23 pp.

(3) Idem. Somnium, sive iter in arcadiam novam, publice narratum in majori Academiae Ultrajectinae Acroaterio. Ad diem IX. Septembris MDCCX.
No place, (1710). (39) pp.

(4) Idem. Oratio pro comoedia, publice in auspiciis Academicarum recitationum, quibus Terentii fabulae explicantur, habita, a.d. XIV Septembris MDCCXI.
Utrecht, Willem van de Water, 1711. Woodcut printer's mark. (4), 36 pp.

(5) Idem. Oratio in humanitatis studia. Habita a.d. VIII. Februarii MDCCXX. Cum magistratu Academico abiret.
Leiden, Samuel Luchtmans, 1720. Woodcut printer's mark. 61 pp.

(6) Idem. Pro literatoribus et grammaticis oratio, habita a.d. VIII Februarii MDCXXXII. Cum magistratu academico abiret.
Leiden, Conrad Wishoff & Daniel Goedval, (1732). Woodcut title-vignette and head- and tailpiece. (2), 75, (1) pp.

(7) RÜCKER, Joannes Conradus. Oratio de honoribus academicis, magno doctrinae praemio. Habita cum virum eruditissimum Danielem ... van Alphen, Lugduno Batavum, juris utriusque doctorem, more majorum renuntiaret. A.d. XIII. Dec. MDCCXXXV.
Leiden, Samuel Luchtmans, 1735. Woodcut printer's mark and end-piece. 28 pp.

(8) VITRIARIUS, Johannes Jacobus. Oratio funebris, in obitum eruditissimi ac celeberrimi viri, Antonii Schultingii, Joh. fil. ... Dicta Publice a.d. XII. April A. MDCCXXXIV.
Leiden, Samuel Luchtmans, (1734). Woodcut printer's mark and end-piece. 37,(3) pp.

Six academic orations in Latin, all in original editions, held by Pieter Burman, or Petrus Burmannus (1668-1741), a Dutch classical scholar and one of the best classical philologists of the eighteenth century, known as the Elder, to distinguish him from his nephew Pieter Burman the Younger, was born at Utrecht as the son of Frans Burman, professor of Theology at Utrecht. At the age of thirteen he entered the university where he studied under Graevius and Gronovius. He devoted himself particularly to the study of the classical languages, and became unusually proficient in Latin composition. As he was intended for the legal profession, he spent some years in attendance on the law classes. For about a year he studied at Leiden, paying special attention to philosophy and Greek.
On his return to Utrecht he took the degree of doctor of laws (March 1688), and after travelling through Switzerland and part of Germany, settled down to the practice of law, without, however, abandoning his classical studies. In December 1696 he was nominated to the professorship of eloquence and history in Utrecht. To this chair was soon added that of Greek and politics. In 1714 he paid a short visit to Paris and ransacked the libraries. In the following year he was appointed successor to the celebrated Perizonius, who had held the chair of history, Greek language and eloquence at Leiden. He was subsequently appointed professor of history and in 1724 he became the 9th Librarian of Leiden University.
His numerous editorial and critical works spread his fame as a scholar throughout Europe, and engaged him in many of the stormy disputes which were then so common among men of letters. Burman was rather a compiler than a critic; his commentaries show immense learning and accuracy, but are wanting in taste and judgment. Among the classical authors Burman edited were Horace (1699), Petronius (1709), Quintilianus (1720), Justin (1722), Ovid (1727), and Suetonius (1731).

Ad 1: Funeral oration held by Burman on 19 February at the University of Utrecht for the famous Johannes Georgius Graevius who had died on the 11th of January 1703. Graevius (b. 1632) was appointed as successor of Gronovius as professor of rhetoric, history and politics at the Utrecht University. There was a special occasion why Burman was asked to held the oration because Graevius had been a friend of his father and after his father's death in 1679, Graevius had been his educator and instructor. Burman's elegy is added on pp. 51-57, and elegies by Graevius's friends and collegues Henricus Pontanus, M. Leydecker, L. vande Poll, Cornelius van Eck, Jac. Perizonius, Petrus Francius, Janus Broekhusius, Adriaan Reland, J. Vollenhoven, F. Hesselius, David van Hoogstraten, and others are added on the following 26 pp.
Ad 2: Public oration held on 20 February 1702 on slowness.
Ad 3: Oration in Latin verses held in the Aula of the Utrecht University on a dreamed new Arcadia.
Ad 4: Oration on the old and notorious dispute between Church and School/University about theatre playing for youth, set off again by an attack on the indecency and harmfulness of the theatre, launched by the Utrecht Church Council against the magistrate of Utrecht. Pieter Burman took up the defence of the theatre as a useful tool in education.
Ad 5: Oration held in Leiden University on the usefulness of the study of humanities.
Ad 6: Oration more or less on the same subject: for the benefit of literary men and grammarians.
Ad 7: Orationon the value of a doctoral degree by Joannes Conradus Rücker (d. 1778; NNBW II, cols1240-41), professor of law at Leiden University since 1734, held as the tutor of Daniel van Alphen taking his doctoral degree on 13 December 1735.
Ad 8: Funeral oration held by Johannes Jacobus Vitriarius (16791745; NNBW III, col. 1316), professor of law at Heidelberg (1706), Utrecht (1708), and Leiden (1720) on prof. Antonius Schulting (1659-12 March 1734; NNBW I, cols. 1462-4), prof. of law at Harderwijk (1691), Franeker (1694), and Leiden (1713).

Provenance: Our copy has been in the possession of one of the 'Writers to the Signet' at Edinburgh, the famous psalmist Robert Boswell (1746-1804), who entered his name on the bacl of the front cover (DNB V, p. 400).

Good copies.- (Occ. sl. browned; first free endpaper loosening; corners of binding sl. bumped).

NNBW IV, p. 354f; Dekkers, p. 30; Sandys, p.443ff.

Related Subjects: 18th Century Classical Antiquity Law Leyden Utrecht

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