Stephanus Gaselee

Stephanus Gaselee, vulgo Sir Stephen Gaselee (natus anno 1882; mortuus die 16 Iunii 1943) fuit legatus, eruditus, ganeo, amator librorum antiquorum Anglicus. Fuit bibliothecarius Collegii Magdalenae apud Cantabrigienses et amicus Alwini Scholfield qui eodem fere tempore bibliothecarius merebat universitarius.

Anno circiter 1902, annum vigesimum agaens, iam "character" vel "persona Cantabrigiensis" a Ronaldo Storrs delineatus est: membrum societatis "Decemvirorum" disputatorum philosophicorum una cum Ioannem Maynard Keynes et Lytton Strachey, eruditissimum litterarum classicarum, bibliophilum, liturgiologum, "qui tenilusor capillos reti retinebat, qui cattos suos Siamenses taetro pulmonis bovini frusto alebat (diu in patella prope cubile suum servato); qui quotidie per annum focum accendebat quippe Anglia sub climate frigido iacebat; qui societatem cenatoriam Deipnosophistarum condidit cuius socii purpuream synthesim gerentes serica syringea ornatam, vodca urbane praepotita, Oceanum sine chartis ciborum dialogorumque navigabant; qui Coptice legere scribere loqui potebat (id quod Copti ipsi iam trecentos annos non faciebant); qui calamo suo sacerdotali noctu fumebat dum Petronium vestimentaque ecclesiastica  et problemata culinaria exponebat; princeps saecularis et miles Ecclesiae, gastronomus regius" cum quo per hortos collegiorum lintro permeabat  cerasosque e magnis saccis rodebat dum fabulas Guidonis de Maupassant inter se viva voce recitabant.the Decemviri, a society ... which met every Wednesday night ... Charles Tennyson ... J. M. Keynes ... Lytton Strachey ... Stephen Gaselee was already at the age of twenty what he never ceased to be, a Cambridge Personality; Gaselee, with almost as many friends as interests, a first-class classical scholar, a bibliophile, a bibliographer, a liturgiologist; Gaselee, who when playing tennis wore his hair in a net; who kept Siamese cats, fed with a revolting portion of cow’s lung preserved on a plate above his bookshelf; who had a fire every day in the year because England has a cold climate; who founded the Deipnosophists’ dining club, where the members, robed in purple dinner-jackets lined with lilac silk and preluding dashingly on Vodka, would launch forth into an uncharted ocean of good food and even better talk; Gaselee, who read, wrote and spoke Ancient Coptic (which the Copts themselves had not done for 300 years); Gaselee, nightly puffing his long church-warden whilst he expatiated on Petronius, vestments, Shark’s Fin and cooking problems; a lay Prince of the Church, Ecclesiastic Militant and Gastronomer Royal ... afternoons spent with him in a canoe on the Backs with immense bags of cherries reading aloud to each other Guy de Maupassant: Ronald Storrs, Orientations (Londinii, 1937) pp. 15–16

 Opera 
 1910 : "The Bibliography of Petronius" in Transactions of the Bibliographical Society vol. 10 (1910) pp. 141-233
 1910 (editor) : Petronius, Satyricon Latine et Anglice cum imaginibus Normanni Lindsay
 1913 : "The Common People of the Early Roman Empire" in Edinburgh Review vol. 218 (1913) pp. 82–101
 1913 : "Petronius, cap. LXXXI" in Notes and Queries series 7 vol. 7 (1913) p. 195
 1915 (editor) : A collotype reproduction of that portion of Cod. Paris. 7989, commonly called the Codex Traguriensis, which contains the Cena Trimalchionis of Petronius, together with four poems ascribed to Petronius in Cod. Leid. Voss. 111. Cantabrigiae: Cambridge University Press 
 1915 (editor) : Lucius Apuleius, The Golden Ass, being the Metamorphoses of Lucius Apuleius with an English translation by W. Adlington. Londinii: Heinemann (Loeb Classical Library)  Textus apud Internet Archive
 1916 : The Greek manuscripts in the old Seraglio at Constantinople. Cantabrigiae Textus apud Internet Archive
 1916 (editor) : "The Love Romances of Parthenius, and other fragments", in Daphnis & Chloe, by Longus ... The Love Romances of Parthenius ... Londinii: Heinemann (Loeb Classical Library)  Textus apud Internet Archive 
 1917 (interpres) : Achilles Tatius, Leucippe et Clitophon. Londinii: Heinemann (Loeb Classical Library)  Textus apud Internet Archive
 1918 : Stories from the Christian East. Londinii: Sidgwick & Jackson Textus apud Internet Archive
 1921 (cum A. S. Duncan-Jones et E. G. P. Wyatt) : A Directory of Ceremonial. (Alcuin Club Tracts) Textus apud Internet Archive
 1921 : The early printed books in the Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. A hand-list arranged in order of country, town & press, with short references to Proctor's Index and other bibliographical works. Cantabrigiae: Cambridge University Press Textus apud Internet Archive
 1924 : "The Soul in the Kiss" in The Criterion vol. 2 (1924) pp. 349–359
 1925 (editor) : Nicolaus Monardes; Ioannes Frampton, interpres, Joyfull Newes out of the Newe Founde Worlde ex editionibus 1577 et 1580 refecta
 1925 (editor) : Anthology of Medieval Latin. Londinii: Macmillan Textus apud Internet Archive Recensio huius operis
 1927 (interpres, cum G. H. Box) : The Testament of Abraham, translated from the Greek text Textus apud Internet Archive
 1928 (editor) : The Oxford Book of Medieval Latin Verse Textus apud Internet Archive
 1931 : The transition from the late Latin lyric to the medieval love poem: being the substance of three lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge on the J.H. Gray foundation in the Michaelmas term, 1930. Cantabrigiae: Bowes & Bowes
 1942 : "Wine in Petronius" in Wine and Food vol. 36 (1942) pp. 171–172

 Notae 

 Bibliographia 
 Barry Baldwin, "A. E. Housman and Petronius" in Petronius Society Newsletter no. 36 (2006)  Textus
 Barry Baldwin, "Gaseleen Alleys" in Petronius Society Newsletter no. 38 (2009) pp. 23-27 Textus
 Andrew Dalby, "Gaseleiana" in Libraries Information Bulletin (Cambridge) no. 81 (1979) pp. 2-4
 A. S. F. Gow, "Sir Stephen Gaselee, K.C.M.G." in Proceedings of the British Academy vol. 29 (1943) pp. 441-461
 A. S. F. Gow, "Petroniana" in Classical Quarterly vol. 38 (1944) pp. 76-78 JSTOR
 Harold Nicholson, Friday Mornings 1941–1944 (Londinii, 1944) pp. 172–175
 A. B. Ramsay in Cambridge Review vol. 65 (1943) pp. 25–26
 Ronald Storrs, David McKitterick, "Gaselee, Sir Stephen (1882-1943)" in 
 Graham Whitaker in Robert B. Todd, ed., Dictionary of British Classicists vol. 2 (Londinii, 2004) pp. 358–359

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