Title: Lud. Cas. Valckenari Diatribe in Euripidis Perditorum Dramatum Reliquias
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Small folio, pp. [8], 311, [1]. Signatures: *⁴ A-2Q⁴. Contemporary blind-stamped vellum boards, top hinge cracked with front cover nearly detached. With engraved initials, head- and tailpieces.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Bound after Valckenaer’s bilingual edition of Euripides’ Hippolytus (Leyden, Luzac &amp; Le Mair, 1768, pp. xxviii, 322, [16]).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">This massive study by the Dutch scholar Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer (1715-1785) of the fragmentary Greek tragedies of Euripides, as well as Menander and others, includes – along with the same scholar’s Phoenissae (1755) – the first formal questioning (since doubts expressed in Alexandrian Antiquity) of the authorship of the Rhesus, a tragedy attributed to Euripides: see Caput IX-X, ‘De Rhesu dramate’, and ‘De Rhesu incerti dramate’, pp. 88-114.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991008854739707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>