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M. Terentii Varronis Opera quae supersunt : In lib. De ling. Lat. coniectanea / Iosephi Scaligeri, recognita & appendice aucta ; in libros De re rust. notae eiusdem Ios. Scal. non antea editae ; his adiuncti fuerunt Adr. Turn. Comment. in lib. De lingua Latina: ; cum emendationibus Ant. Augustini. Item P. Victorii Castigationes in lib. De re rustica.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Varro, Marcus Terentius.
- Standardized Title:
- Works. 1573
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Varro, Marcus Terentius.
- Latin language--Grammar--Early works to 1800.
- Latin language.
- Latin language--Grammar.
- Agriculture--Early works to 1800.
- Agriculture.
- Varro, Marcus Terentius--Criticism, Textual.
- Criticism, Textual.
- Genre:
- Printers' devices (Printing) -- France -- Paris -- 16th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gaisford, Thomas, 1779-1855 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Baillie, Alexander William Mowbray, 1843-1921 (autograph) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Hannah, Ian C. (autograph) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Rasse des Noeux, François, fl. 1562-1575 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Augustinians (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 5 parts (4 unnumbered pages, 160 pages, 80 unnumbered pages; 151 pages, 21 unnumbered pages; 276 pages, 28 unnumbered pages; 176 pages, 16 unnumbered pages; 98 pages, 2 unnumbered pages) ; 18 cm (8vo)
- Fingerprint:
- s.i- o-i- ost, poqu (3) 1573 (R) pt.1
- s&u- r-i- a-ra tucu (3) 1573 (Q) pt. 2
- m,o- hiri eti- tuce (3) 1573 (Q) pt.3
- ,aam s.m, o-t. roCe (3) 1573 (Q) pt. 4
- i:us umIn s.s? vemn (3) 1573 (Q) pt. 5
- Place of Publication:
- [Geneva] : Excudebat Henr. Stephanus, anno MDLXXIII [1573]
- Contents:
- M. Terentii Varronis De lingua latina ad M. Tullium Ciceronem liber quartus[-nonus]
- M. Terentii Varronis De re rustica libri III
- Iosephi Scaligeri Iulii Caesaris F. Coniectanea in M. Terentium Varronem de Linga Latina. Appendix ab eadem, nunc primùm ab eo edita. Eiusdem Iosephi Scaligeri Notae ad Varronis libros De re rustica
- In M. Terentii Varronis libros De lingua Latina, qui supersunt, Adriani Turnebi commentarii & emendationes. Antonii Augustini emendationes
- Petri Victorii Explicationes suarum in Varronem castigationum.
- Notes:
- Place of printing from Adams.
- Date precedes printer statement on title page.
- Work in 5 parts consisting of Varro's "De lingua Latina" and "De re rustica" as well as commentaries on his texts by Joseph Scaliger, Turnèbe, Pietro Vettoris and A. Agustin.
- Each section has separate divisional half title page and blank leaves at end.
- Signatures: pi² a-k⁸, ²a-e⁸ (²e8 blank); A-K⁸ v⁶ (v6 blank); a-t⁸ (t7-8 blank); a-m⁸ (m7-8 blank); a-f⁸ g² (g2 blank)
- Woodcuts: device on title page; initials.
- Estienne printer's device on title page depicting male figure underneath an olive tree has motto: "Noli altum sapere".
- Includes indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has armorial bookplate of Thomas Gaisford, Dean of Christ Church reading "T Gaisford, S.T.P. Aed. Xti. Decan" with motto "Insevit libris". Cf. Franks.
- Culture Class Collection copy has inscription appearing on several half title pages: Ex libris Augustinij ... 1621.
- Culture Class Collection copy has description from catalog mounted to front pastedown.
- Culture Class Collection copy inscribed: "A. W. M. Baillie left to I.C. Hannah" [i.e. Alexander William Mowbray Baillie left to Ian Campbell Hannah]
- Culture Class Collection copy with ms. bibliographic notes on front free endpaper reading: "This edition of Scaliger's observations upon Varro is curious as it contains the spurious verses of Trabeas which Muretus imposed upon Scaliger and which are omitted in subsequent editions."
- Culture Class Collection copy with early ms. ink ownership inscription from French surgeon and bibliophile François Rasse des Noeux which reads: "Franciscus Rassius Noëus Chir[urgus] Par[isiensis] ... 1578.
- Culture Class Collection copy wanting final blank leaf (g2 at end).
- Cited in:
- Cathedral Libraries Catalogue V168
- Renouard, A.A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne (2nd ed), p. 140, no. 7
- Adams V282
- Schweiger, F. Classischen bibliographie, II, p. 1116
- Contains:
- Varro, Marcus Terentius. De lingua Latina.
- Varro, Marcus Terentius. Rerum rusticarum libri tres.
- Scaliger, Joseph Juste, 1540-1609. Coniectanea.
- M. Terentii Varronis De lingua latina ad M. Tullium Ciceronem liber quartus.
- M. Terentii Varronis De re rustica libri III.
- Iosephi Scaligeri, Iulii Caesaris F. coniectanea in M. Varronem De lingua Latina.
- In M. Terentii Varronis libros De lingua Latina, qui supersunt, Adriani Turnebi commentarii & emendationes. Antonii Augustini emendationes.
- Petri Victorii Explicationes suarum in Varronem castigationum.
- OCLC:
- 8403920
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