page_title: Library of Sir Thomas Browne
section_title: Roman literature
hierarchical_section_title: Library of Sir Thomas Browne / Roman literature
caption_attribution_description: English: Frontispiece of Quintilian’s Institutio oratoria, ed. by Pieter Burman(n) the Elder, Leiden 1720. Full title: M. Fabii Quinc[!]tiliani de institutione oratoria libri duodecim, cum notis et animadversionibus virorum doctorum, summa cura recogniti et emendati per Petrum Burmannum. Lugduni Batavorum, Apud Joannem de Vivie, MDCCXX. The copper engraving by F. Bleyswyk shows Quintilian teaching rhetorics. Deutsch: Frontispiz von Quintilians Institutio oratoria, hrsg. von Pieter Burman(n) dem Älteren, Leiden 1720. Voller Titel: M. Fabii Quinc[!]tiliani de institutione oratoria libri duodecim, cum notis et animadversionibus virorum doctorum, summa cura recogniti et emendati per Petrum Burmannum. Lugduni Batavorum, Apud Joannem de Vivie, MDCCXX. Der Kupferstich von F. Bleyswyk zeigt Quintilian, wie er seinen Schülern die Redekunst lehrt.
context_page_description: The 1711 Sales Auction Catalogue of the Library of Sir Thomas Browne highlights the erudition of the physician, philosopher and encyclopedist, Sir Thomas Browne. It also illustrates the proliferation, distribution and availability of books printed throughout 17th century Europe which were purchased by the intelligentsia, aristocracy, priestly, physician or educated merchant-class.
context_section_description: Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy, 1653
  Censorinus, De die natali  Leiden 1593
  Cicero, Dream of Scipio 
  Opera 2 vols. 1527
   Epistulae ad Familiares 1550
  Florus, Historia, Leiden 1655
  Hyginus, Fabulae Paris 1578
  Isidore of Seville, Originum 20 Books
  Martianus Capella, de nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, 1577
  Juvenal, Satyrae, Leyden 1523
  Macrobius, Somnium Scipionis (Dream of Scipio) 1556
  Marcus Aurelius, notes by Meric Casaubon, London 1643
  Ovid, Opera, London 1656
  Petronius, Satyricon, 1654
  Plautus, Comedies, with notes by Denis Lambin 1581
  Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, Brussels 1496
  Propertius, cum Notis Varior. Traj. 1658
  Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1575
  Seneca, Tragedies, Leiden 1651
  Suetonius, Lives of the 12 Caesars, trans. Philemon Holland 1659
  Terence, Comedies, 1625
  Valerius Maximus, with notes, Leiden 1651
  Virgil, Opera, Amsterdam 1654
  Vitruvius, L'Architetturra di Vitruvio, tradotta & commentata da Daniele Barbaro Venice 1641
caption: Frontispiece 1720 edition of  Institutio Oratoria, showing Quintilian teaching rhetoric
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