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Famous text edition of a Greek Platonist, with translation into Latin and notes by Daniel Heinsius

MAXIMUS TYRIUS.
Dissertationes XLI. Graece. Cum interpretatione, notis, & emendationibus Danielis Heinsii. Accessit Alcinoi in Doctrinam Platonis introductio ab eodem emendata: & alia ejusdem generis.

Title printed in red and black with woodcut printer's device on title.

Title printed in red and black with woodcut printer's device on title.



Leiden, Joannes Paets, 1607. 3 parts in one vol. 8vo. Contemporary overlapping scheep, title written on spine, ties lacking. Title printed in red and black with woodcut printer's device on title. (24), 408 pp. (collation: *8, 2*4, a-v8, x4, y-z8, 2a-2c8)

With:
(2) MAXIMUS TYRIUS, Dissertationes XLI. Interprete Daniele Heinsio. Leiden, Joannes Paets, 1607. 8vo. With woodcut printer's device on title. (12), 411, (5) pp. (Collation: #2, b-z8, 2a-2d8, 2e4).

(3) HEINSIUS, Daniel, Notae et emendationes ad Maximum, Philosophum. Leiden, Joannes Paets, 1607. 8vo. With woodcut printer's device on title. (160) pp. (Collation: a-k8).

Rare first edition of the text of Maximus Tyrius established by the well-known philologist from Leiden Daniel Heinsius (1580-1655), one of the most famous scholars of the Dutch Renaissance, together with his Latin translation, notes and emendations. Maximus Tyrius (Maximus of Tyre) was a Greek rhetorician and philosopher who flourished in the time of the Antonines and Commodus, 2nd century A.D. After the manner of the sophists of his age, he travelled extensively, delivering lectures on the way. His writings contain many allusions to the history of Greece, while there is little reference to Rome; hence it is inferred that he lived longer in Greece, perhaps as a professor at Athens. Although nominally a Platonist, he is really an Eclectic and one of the precursors of Neoplatonism.
There are still extant by him forty-one essays or discourses on theological, ethical, and other philosophical commonplaces. With him God is the supreme being, one and indivisible though called by many names, accessible to reason alone; but as animals form the intermediate stage between plants and human beings, so there exist intermediaries between God and man, viz. daemons, who dwell on the confines of heaven and earth. The soul in many ways bears a great resemblance to the divinity; it is partly mortal, partly immortal, and, when freed from the fetters of the body, becomes a daemon. Life is the sleep of the soul, from which it awakes at death. The style of Maximus is superior to that of the ordinary sophistical rhetorician.
In 1614 Paets printed a second edition of all three parts. The editio princeps was published in Basel by Froben in 1519; another earlier important edition was printed by Henricus Stephanus in Paris in 1557. The best modern edition is in the Teubner series by Michael B. Trapp (1994). There is an English translation (1804) by Thomas Taylor and a German translation by Otto & Eva Schönberger (Würzburg 2001).
Ad 1: After the title (verso blank), follow the dedication to Johannes de Wittenhorst (p. (3-15)), and contents. The text of the 41 dissertationes is on p. 1-244. On p. 245-300: the original Greek texts of the "Ex quorundam Pythagoreorum libris fragmenta ..."; p. 301-4: Letter of Henricus Stephanus to Arnoldus Arlenius; p. 305-27: the notes and emendations of Henr. Stephanus on Maximus Tyrius's text; p.329-408: the Greek text of "Alcinoi Philosophi in Platonis doctrinam introductio".
Ad 2: After the title (verso blank), follow a correction leaf, the preface (p. (5-8)) and contents (p. (9-12)). The text of the 41 dissertationes is on p. 1-290. On p. 291-323: the "Ex quorundam Pythagoreorum libris fragmenta, in quibus de philosophia morali agitur", translated into Latin by Willem Canter; p. 325-384: the translation into Latin of the "Alcinoi Philosophi in Platonis doctrinam introductio"; p. 385-411: Apuleius, De deo Socrates liber; p. (1-4): Cosmos Placius, Praefatio in Sermones Maximi Tyrii philosophi Platonici ...
Ad 3: After the title (verso blank), follow the dedication to Gerardus Tuningius and Reinerus Bontius (p. (3-6)), the preface (p. (7-8)), and the 'emendationes and notae' of Daniel Heinsius on p. (9-147); p. (147-8) introduction by Heinsius on his Latin translation of a dissertatio by Plato: "De pulchro Socratico", which serves also as a kind of commentary on Maximus Tyrius (p. (149-61)).
Good copy.- (Two double lvs. loose, some sl. browning at places).
Brunet 3, col. 1552; Graesse 4, p. 453; H. Hobein, De Maximo Tyrio quaestiones philol. (Jena, 1895).

Related Subjects: Greek & Latin  Leyden  Literary History, Classics  Netherlands  Philology 

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