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 [...]
Publisher: Ex Officinâ Godefridi Basson Govert Basson
Published: 1615
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: lat
Number of pages: 890
Description: <p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Full title:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"> 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. </span><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;" xml:lang="fr">P.
Scriverii, & fautorum auspicijs.</span></p><p></p>

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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;" xml:lang="fr">12mo.
pp. [2] (blank), [24], 286, [2] (blank). Signatures: *¹² A-M¹². </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">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.</span></p><p></p>

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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Bound with Justus Lipsius’s Politicorum sivi
civilis doctrinae libri sex. Frankfurt, 1615.</span></p><p></p>

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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">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.</span></p><p></p>

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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">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. </span><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;" xml:lang="fr">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. </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">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.</span></p><p></p>

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