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Collected works of a brilliant but prematurely deceased student, edited by Janus Dousa and printed by Plantin

FRUTERIUS, Lucas.
Librorum qui recuperati potuerunt reliquiae. Inter quos Verisimilium lib. II. Et Versus miscelli. Additus Iulii SEVERIANI prisci scriptoris liber. Omnia nunc primum edita, cura V. N. Iani Dousae a Nortwyck.


Titles with two variants of the 'Labore et constantia' printer's device of the Plantin office; some woodcut initials.

Titles with two variants of the 'Labore et constantia' printer's device of the Plantin office; some woodcut initials.



Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1584. 8vo. 17th or 18th century calf, triple gilt filets with four cornerpieces on both sides; spine gilt in compartments with red morocco label, lettered in gold. Titles with two variants of the 'Labore et constantia' printer's device of the Plantin office; some woodcut initials. 172, (4), 27(28) pp.

Antwerp issue of the original and only edition of the collected works of Lucas Fruterus edited by the famous Leiden humanist Janus Dousa Sr. The edition was printed in the Leiden Office, but a number of copies - also our copy - received a title-page with Plantin's Antwerp address.
Lucas Fruytiers was born at Bruges in 1541. He went to Paris to study Law and classical literature and it is said that he was a briljant student. In 1566, however, he suddenly died. Janus Dousa who studied also at the University of Paris in 1564, very likely must have met him there. It is unknown, however, why and how Dousa acquired his papers and why he waited eighteen years before he published his works: there are two privileges, one already given by the Emperor Maximilian II, dated as early as 20 February 1565, and one by the French King, dated 5 August 1582.
The Verisimilium libri contain a series of text-critical notes on a large number of Latin authors giving a good insight in the level of philological scholarship at Paris at the time.
On p. 135-64 follows a number of Neo-Latin poems by Fruytiers, including poems for Janus Dousa, Georgius Buchanan, Jos. Scaliger, Lambert and Adrian vander Burch and Hadrianus Junius; p. 164-72 contain poems by others, written on the occasion of Fruytiers's death, including poems by Janus Dousa himself and Victor Giselinus, mirroring  the life and circumstances of the students from the Low Countries at Paris in the 60s of the 16th century.
The book also includes the edition by Lucas Fruytiers of the Syntomata rhetorices sive praecepta artis rhetoricae of Julius Severanus, a Roman poet and rhetorician from the middle of the 5th century AD. The edition is printed with a separate title-page, but it forms in fact one volume with Fruytiers's collected works; both parts were normally sold together. The Syntomata is a treatise on rhetoric and it was dedicated by Fruytiers to Marcus Laurinus, Lord of Watervliet, etc. Although stated on the title-page that this was the first edition of Severianus, there were in fact two preceeding editions: in 1556 by Joannes Operinus at Basel and an edition by Sixtus a Popma published in 1569 with the title De arte dicendi libellus, attributing the treatise erroneously to Aurelius Cornelius Celsus, a Roman author of the 1st century AD: Cologne, Johannes Rotaeus, 1569.

Good copy. -(Some waterstaining at places; first title slighly soiled with two portraits scribbled in the lower margin; spine restored; bookplate of the 'Society of writers to Her Majesty's Signet.' pasted on the back of the front cover).
ΒΆ Belg. Typ. 5821; Voet 1219B and 2206B; Biogr. Nat. de Belg., 7 (1880), cols. 342-5

Related Subjects: Humanism  Neo-Latin  Philology  Plantin  Poetry 

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