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Original edition of the best Martialis text of the 17th century, together with the most important notes and commentaries, edited by Petrus Scriverius

MARTIALIS, Marcus Valerius & Petrus SCRIVERIUS.
M. Val. Martialis nova editio. Ex museo Petri Scriverii.

With woodcut printer's device of the Officina Plantiniana Raphelengii in Leyden.

Leiden, Johannes Maire, 1619. 3 works in one vol. 12mo. Contemporary vellum, spine with gilt ornaments, sides with gilt fillet along the edges and gilt corner pieces. With woodcut printer's device of the Officina Plantiniana Raphelengii in Leyden. (8), 16, 312 pp.

With:
2) Petrus SCRIVERIUS, Animadversiones in Martialem. Opus invenile, & nunc primum ex intervallo quindecim annorum repetitum.
Leiden, Johannes Maire, 1618. 12mo. With woodcut printer's device of the Officina Plantiniana Raphelengii in Leyden. 284 (last blank) and blank, unnumbered leaf between pp. 140-141
(2) Justus LIPSIUS, Janus RUTGERSIUS, Joh, Isacus PONTANUS (Janus GRUTERUS, Jos. SCALIGER, and others), Notae in Martialem. Ad Petrum Scriverium.
Leiden, Johannes Maire, 1619. 12mo. With woodcut printer's device of Maire on title. 24, 280 pp.

Rare first edition of the text of 'De spectaculis' and the famous epigrams of the Roman poet Marcus Valerius Martialis as edited by the Dutch philologist Petrus Scriverius. Martial, who lived in the first century AD (ca. 38 - 103 AD), brought the Latin epigram to perfection and provided in it a picture of Roman society during the early empire that is remarkable both for its completeness and for its accurate portrayal of human imperfections. His epigrams were also considered as of a high educational value. According to Simoni, the first 2 works have the device of the Officina Plantiniana Raphelengii in Leyden, because these works were printed by Raphelengius.
Petrus Scriverius, the latinized form of Peter Schrijver or Schryver (12 January 1576 - 30 April 1660) was a Dutch writer and scholar on the history of Holland and Belgium. He was born at Amsterdam, and educated at the University of Leiden, where he formed a close intimacy with Daniel Heinsius. From 1611 to 1613 he was headmaster of the Latin School in Duisburg. Most of his life was passed in Leiden, but in 1650 he became blind, and the last years of his life were spent in his sons house at Oudewater, where he died in 1660.
He is best known as a scholar by his notes on Martial. He also has edited Ausonius, and the Pervigilium Veneris; the poems of Joseph Justus Scaliger (Leiden, 1615), the De re militari of Vegetius Renatus, the tragedies of Seneca the Younger. His Opera anecdota, philologica, et poetica (Utrecht, 1738) was edited by A. H. Westerhovius, and his Nederduitsche Gedichten (1738) by S. Dockes. He made also many valuable contributions to the history of Holland, including his famous: Batavia Illustrata (4 parts, Leiden, 1609); Beschryvinghe van Out Batavien (Arnheim, 1612); Het oude Goutsche chronycxken van Hollandt, as editor, and printed at Amsterdam in 1663; and Principes Hollandiae Zelandiae et Frisiae (Haarlem, 1650).

Ad 1: The first edition of the works of Martial as edited by Scriverius; the preliminaries contain a dedication to Jacob Dyck, dated 1 September 1618, laudatory poems by Hugo Grotius, Testimonia and a contents (pp. (8), 16), followed by Martial's work 'De spectaculis' (on the Roman games) (pp. 1-8), and the XII books of his epigrams, including book XIII ((Xenia) and XIV (Apophoreta (pp. 1-306). On pp. 307-12 are an 'Ad lectorem' and an Appendix.
Ad 2: Original edition of Scriverius' commentary on 'De spectaculis' (pp. 1-32), the epigrams (pp. 33-276), Xenia (pp. 277-80), and Apophoreta (pp. 280-3).
Ad 3: Original edition of the notes and commentaries of various scholars, collected and edited by Scriverius: on the verso of the title there is a laudatory poem by Gerardus Joh. Vossius, followed by a letter of Justus Lipsius to Scriverius dated Louvain 1603, containing his notes to Martial (pp. 3-4), a letter by Janus Rutgersius to Scriverius containing his notes, dated Hamburg, 22 January 1618 (pp. 4-13),and a letter of Joh. Isaac Pontanus to Scriverius, with his notes, dated Harderwijk, 1 November 1618 (pp. 14-24); beginning with a half-title ('Jani Gruteri ad Martialem notae') follows the commentary by Janus Gruterus (pp. 1-138), the 'Diatribe critica' on Martial's 'De spectaculis' by Josephus Scaliger (pp. 139-68), the notes on Martial by Johannes Brodaeus (pp. 169-208), the notes by Hadrianus Turnebus (pp. 209-65), and the notes by Angelus Politianus, preceded by a preface of Scriverius (pp. 266-80).

Good copy.- (Occasional browning, somewhat loose in hinges).

Simoni M48; Dibdin II, pp. 230-1 (citing Dr Harwood: "... this excellent edition ... is one of the best and most valuable editions of Martial ever published ... it is a very uncommon book and the very learned and judicious notes of Scriverius greatly add to the classical happiness of that scholar who possesses it"); Sandys II, p. 307 ad 1: Breugelmans, Fac et spera, 1619: 6 (pp. 160-1); ad 2: Breugelmans, 1618: 7 (p. 148); ad 3: Breugelmans 1619: 5 (pp. 157-9).

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