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Rare 16th-century schoolbook by a pupil of Erasmus
RIVIUS, Johannes.De Rhetorica, libri II. De periodis, libellus I. De puerorum institutione, liber I.    Louvain, Bartholomaeus Gravius, 1548. Small 8vo. Rebound: overlapping vellum, using a 17th-century vellum leaf with text written in Dutch. Woodcut printer's device on title with the motto 'In sole posuit tabernaculum suum' (Vandeweghe & Op den Beek, Marques typographiques, p. 129 (fig), woodcut initial. (72) lvs. (Collation: a-i8). Very rare edition of a schoolbook for learning rhetoric by Johannes Rivius (1500-53) from Attendorn, a German humanist scholar, theologian and teacher, and pupil of Erasmus, containing three of his main works. Rivius was the most outstanding pupil of the humanistic grammar school (Gymnasium) in Attendorn which was founded around 1500 by Tilmann Müller. After having completed his studies in Deventer (with Hegius) and Cologne he was appointed rector of the Latin school in Zwickau, Annaberg and Schneeberg before he went to Saxony to become a teacher of the Prince of Saxony and co-founder of the local Earl's school. Rivius played a very important role in the school reform and re-organization of the curriculum of the Latin schools in Saxony. His linguistic and pedagogical works were first published in Leipzig in 1539 (with many re-editions in 1541, 1543, 1544, 1545, etc.): De iis disciplinis, quae de sermone agaunt, ut sunt Grammatica, dialectica et rhetorica libri xviii. This book was also published by Bartholomaeus Gravius in Louvain in 1546 (re-edition in 1553). Parts of this work Gravius also published separately. In the present edition three of the main works are published together, including the pedagogical work De puerorum institione: on the instruction of pupils. The same selection was published by Gravius in 1546 (BT 4178), 1549 (BT 6643), 1550 and 1556, offering a very useful schoolbook for learnig the 'Triivium' during the first years in high school. Fine copy with wide margins.- (First leaves restored).
Belg. Typ. 6642; BMC 21: 734.683; cf. Adams, R. 599; Werner F. Cordes, 'Johannes Rivius aus Attendorn (1500-1553). Pädagoge und Schulbuchautor im Zeitalter der Reformation', in: Sauerland (2004/4), pp. 170-71; Bruno Hesse, 'Johannes Rivius Attendoriensis', in: Rivius-Gymnasium der Stadt Attendorn: Rivius 2000 (Attendorn), pp. 23-7; Otto SAXENBERGER, Johannes Rivius, sein Leben und seine Schriften (Diss. Leipzig 1886-87, Nr. 21; Breslau 1886).. Related Subjects: 16th Century Belgicana Education Humanism Louvain Schoolbooks Add to Shopping cart |
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