Title: Μουσαίου ποιημάτιον τὰ καθ΄ Ἡρὼ καὶ Λέανδρον. Ὀρφέως Ἀργοναυτικά. Τοῦ αὐτοῦ ὕμνοι. Ὀρφεὺς περὶ λίθων. Musaei opusculum de Herone et Leandro  [...]
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:#FFFFFF;"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;">Full title: </span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;">Μουσαίου ποιημάτιον τὰ καθ΄ Ἡρὼ καὶ Λέανδρον. Ὀρφέως
Ἀργοναυτικά. Τοῦ αὐτοῦ ὕμνοι. Ὀρφεὺς περὶ λίθων. Musaei opusculum de Herone et
Leandro. Orphei argonautica. Eiusdem hymni. Orpheus de lapidibus</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;"></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;"></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;">8vo. ff. [2] blank, 80, [2] blank. Morocco; signature of John
Payne Collier (early hand) and of Gilbert A. Davies. Aldine anchor on title
page and also on verso of last leaf; capital spaces with guide-letters. Two
woodcuts illustrating the story of Hero and Leander on l. 8 verso and 9 recto.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;"></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;"></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;">Text of Musaeus (following the Aldine editio princeps of
[1494/95]) in Greek and Latin, translated by Markos Mousouros (ca. 1470-1517);
text of ‘Orpheus’ in Greek only.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;"></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;"></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;">The Argonautica and Orphic hymns follow the ‘editio princeps’ of
Filippo Giunta (Florence, 1500); De lapidibus is printed here for the first
time: see A. Renouard, Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde: ou Histoire des trios
Manuce et de leurs editions, par Ant. Aug. Renouard, Paris, 1834 (3rd ed.), p.
81. The surviving fragmentary ‘Orphic’ hymns, etc., are certainly not C7–C6 BC,
but "all pseudepigraphic" (cf. the new on-line edition-in-progress),
being Hellenistic and later. Nonetheless, they were long taken as genuinely
ancient, by Jean Dorat, Willem Canter, and the young Joseph Scaliger, the last translating
some as by Orpheus himself, ‘vates vetustissimus’: see A. Grafton, Joseph
Scaliger. A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship, Oxford & New
York, 1983, i: pp. 104–05 and n. 27.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;"></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;"></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;">Some texts are truly late, e.g. the Peri lithon, or De lapidibus
poema Orpheo, which Tyrwhitt re-edited in 1781 from a text published by Gesner,
attributing it to ‘the age of Constantius’, c. 357: see J. Sandys, A History of
Classical Scholarship. From Antiquity to the Modern Era, Cambridge, 1908, ii,
p. 419, and Bib# 4302657/Fr#34 in this collection. See also H. M. Adams,
Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge
Libraries. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1967, M1991.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;"></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;"></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;background:#FFFFFF;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4102580" rel="ugc nofollow"><span style="color:#4B64FF;">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog
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