Magni Des. Erasmi Roterodami vita; partim ab ipsomet Erasmo, partim ab amicis æqualibus fideliter descripta. Accedunt epistolæ illustres plus quam septuaginta, quas ætate provectiore scripsit, nec inter vulgatas in magno volumine comparent [...]

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Magni Des. Erasmi Roterodami vita; partim ab ipsomet Erasmo, partim ab amicis æqualibus fideliter descripta. Accedunt epistolæ illustres plus quam septuaginta, quas ætate provectiore scripsit, nec inter vulgatas in magno volumine comparent [...]

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Desiderius Erasmus, Petrus (ed.) ScriveriusPublished 1615

Full title: Magni Des. Erasmi Roterodami vita; partim ab ipsomet Erasmo, partim ab amicis æqualibus fideliter descripta. Accedunt epistolæ illustres plus quam septuaginta, quas ætate provectiore scripsit, nec inter vulgatas in magno volumine comparent. P. Scriverii, & fautorum auspicijs. 12mo. pp. [2] (blank), [24], 286, [2] (blank). Signatures: *¹² A-M¹². Bound in parchment covered with (worn) manuscript Latin text with red majuscules. Label marked with manuscript "578" over crossed numbers. 17th century manuscript notes and ownership inscriptions on pastedown (Laurentius Adelgaier, Abraham Elhesser [?]) and 1st blank. "DT" on title page. Ink markings. Printer's device on title page. Engraved initials. Printed in Roman and Italic characters. "Desiderii Erasmi Epistolarum illustrium, & in magno volumine non comparentium" has separate title page. Bound with Justus Lipsius’s Politicorum sivi civilis doctrinae libri sex. Frankfurt, 1615. Second edition of Paulus Merula’s Vita Des. Erasmi Roterodami (first published by Thomas Basson in 1607), edited by Leiden-based philologist Pieter Schrijver or Scriverius for Basson’s son Govert. Merula’s name never appears, with Scriverius, through Basson and his successors, receiving full credit for the volume. The work contains Erasmus’s 1523 autobiography, Compendium Vitæ, together with two books of epistles. It adds four further letters to Merula’s eighty-four, but cancels all of Merula’s preliminaries, and rededicates the text to the magistrates of Rotterdam and their pensionary, Hugo Grotius. It was reissued in 1617, 1642, and 1649. The writing style in the Compendium Vitæ diverts from Erasmus’s ordinary style, which has triggered a debate about its authenticity. By now, the scholarly consensus is that, although the humanist occasionally stretched the truth, the work is not a forgery. On the authenticity of the Compendium Vitæ, see, e.g., the introduction to F.M. Nichols, The Epistles of Erasmus From His Earliest Letters to His Fifty-first Year Arranged in Order of Time. London, New York & Bombay, 1901; K. Goudriaen, New Evidence on Erasmus’ Youth. In Erasmus Studies, 39 (2019), 2, pp. 184-216. See also E. Rahir, Catalogue d'une collection de volumes imprimé par les Elzevier et divers typographes hollandais du XVII siècle. Paris, 1896, no. 1803; A. Freeman, Julia Alpinula, pseudo-Heroine of Helvetia. How a Forged Renaissance Epitaph Fostered a National Myth. London, 2015, pp. 45-46. <a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_5654741" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a>

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