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First critical text-edition of this heroic poem

CLAUDIANUS, Claudius.
De raptu Proserpine, ed. by Jacob Locher. [(in large textualis type:) Hoc in volumine infra scripta continentur. (in smaller roman type:) ¶ Epistola dedicatoria Philomusi Ad Reuerendum ac nobilem patrem dominum Georgium truchses Auhusensis monasterii: ad Varaniae fluminis ripam siti ... ¶ Catalogus Illustrium auditorum eiusdem Philomusi. ¶ Opus aureum Clau. Claudiani De raptu Proserpinae; cum quibusdam declaratoriis glossematibus ... que ex Servio, Paulo Marso, Parrhasio Philomusus transsumpsit ... Eiusdem Philomusi argumenta in singulos libros, cum epistola ad iuventutem exhortatoria. ¶ Elegia eiusdem, de origine et officio poetarum. Ad nobilem et studiosum iuvenem Eustachium von der Alben, cum Epistolio.]


With woodcut printer's device on recto of last blank.

With woodcut printer's device on recto of last blank.

With woodcut printer's device on recto of last blank.



Nuremberg, Fridericus Peypus, 5 November 1518. 4to. 19th century gilt vellum, gilt binding edges, red painted edges. With woodcut printer's device on recto of last blank. (4), (40) lvs. Collation (A4), B-L4, including last blank).

First critical text-edition of the heroic poem De raptu Proserpinae by Claudius Claudian(us) (370-408 AD) by the famous German humanist and Neo-Latin poet, Jacob Locher (ca. 1470-1528), by his  contemporaries also called in praise 'Philomusus'.
Unfortunately the first quire of 4 lvs. does not belong to the present work; it is the first quire of Complurium eruditorum vatum carmina, ad magnificum virum D. Blasium Holcelium, sacri Caesdaris Maximiliani consiliarium Moecenatem eorum precipuum (Augsburg, in cerleberrimo principum conventu, impressa. 1518), with the title in magnificent Renaissance woodcut border: a collection of poems edited by Pietro Bonomi.
From the second quire onwards, however, Locher's edition is complete including the last leaf with the woodcut printer's device on its recto (in our copy the original first quire with Locher's dedicatory texts, is supplied in coloured photocopies).
Starting with the 5th leaf (f. B1): Ad Lectorum Philomusi Tetrachon. (List of) Principes et praelati; f. B2r-B4v: Life of Claudian taken from Crinitus, abstracts, and reviews by classic authors.
The text-edition itself is  beautifully printed in a widely printed Roman type with annotations printed in the broad margins in a smaller and more compact Roman type (f. C1r-K2r).
At the end follows a letter by Locher to the 'studious youth' (f. K2r-v), and  various laudatory poems and epigrams on the author and the book by Nicolaus Haider, Hieronymus Rotfrom Ulm, Conrad Gaillinus, a letter by Philomusus to Eustachius von der Alben, an elegy on the origin and vocation of poets 'De origine et officio poetarum'  by Lochner. and various poems by Petrus Schlettel, Blasius Kotterle, Geiorgius Schakius, Johannes Clavius, Jacobus Ehringer from Ulm, dated: Ingolstadt, 10 September 1518, and Petrus Chalyber. On f. L3v is the colophon.

Apart from the missing first quire (supplied in col. photocopies) a fine copy, with the bookplate of Thomas Hodgkin.- (First quire interchanged with first quire of another similar work).
D16 C-4043; G.W.Zapf, Jacob Locher (Neurenberg 1803), XXXVIII; STC German 211 not in Adams not in NUC.

Related Subjects: 16th Century  German  Humanism  Poetry 

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