Typographus lectori, Adagiorum chiliades Des. Erasmi Roterodami toties renasci spero aequis lectoribus esse gratissimum, quando semper redeunt tum auctiores, tum emendatiores : in hac [a]editione, qu[a]e postrema autoris est recognitio, non magna quidem adiuncta est accessio, quòd opus propè ultra iustam magnitudinem excreuisse uidetur. Attamen loca quaedam uigilantiore cura pensitata sunt. Pulcherrimum uictoriae genus, usq[ue] seipsum uincere. Vale & fruere..
Erasmus, Desiderius,-1536.
Episcopius, Nicolaus,1501-1564,printer.
Froben, Hieronymus,1501-1563,printer.
Cockburn, Patrick,-1568,former owner.StEdNL
Lamb, William,16th century,former owner.StEdNL
Watson, Alexander,16th century,former owner.StEdNL
Hoppar, Alexander,16th century,former owner.StEdNL
Scone, David,16th century,former owner.StEdNL
Cranston, John,17th century,former owner.StEdNL
Hurt, James,17th century,former owner.StEdNL
Thompson, Mary,19th century,former owner.StEdNL
Buckland, C. S. B.,1894-1944,former owner.StEdNL
Jackson, Thomas Watson,1839-1914,former owner.StEdNL
Basileae : Ex officina Frobeniana,
an. M. D. XXXIX. [1539]
Woodcut printer's device to title and verso of last leaf, woodcut inititials throughout.
The 'Adagia', a collection of Greek and Latin moral sayings was first published in 1500 and continuously revised throughout Erasmus' lifetime. It soon earned vast popularity and was widely used in humanist schools throughout Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Includes an alphabetical index of proverbs.
Bezzel, I. Erasmusdrucke
Bib. Belgica
VD16
Adams
Numerous early inscriptions to title by various sixteenth-century owners, including Patrick Cockburn, William Lamb, Alexander Watson, Alexander Hoppar, and David Scone (‘Willielmi Lamb et Amicorum’; ‘alexandri[?] watsone et amicorum ex donoguilielmi lamb’; ‘bibliotheca davidis scone[?] ministri dei’). The 'Patricius Cocburn' is most likely the Patrick Cockburn (d. 1568) who graduated from St Andrews in 1526, taught at the Sorbonne, and later became the first Protestant Minister of Haddington in 1562. Late sixteenth or early seventeenth-century inscriptions by John Cranston (‘Johne Cranstoni’) and James Hurt, and practice Greek writing (including an alphabet) to final leaf, neat eighteenth-century annotations to text, early nineteenth-century inscription to p. 1070 and pen-trials to final leaf and endpapers of Mary Thompson, upper board inscribed inside by the historian C. S. B. Buckland, Merton College, 22 February 1915, acquired from the library of Thomas Watson Jackson (1839–1914), Worcester College.
Early seventeenth-century English calf, borders triple-ruled in blind, the new spine lettered directly in gilt in one compartment.
Proverbs, Latin
Switzerland Basel.