Cl. Claudiani : Quae exstant varietate lectionis et perpetua adnoatatione : Illustrata a Io. Matthia Gesnero : Accedit Index Uberrimus
Lipsiae: Officina Fritschia, 1759.
Hardcover. Very Good- with no dust jacket. Item #15375
Professionally respined with original spine laid on, light tone with random foxing, label glue residue on front paste-down, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; Latin language. Fine binding of full morocco with gilt decor and spine lettering, six compartment spine, all edges gilt. Collected poetry by 4th century Roman poet Claudian, who wrote praise poems for the Emperor Horatius and general Stilicho, as well as an unfinished mythological epic on Proserpina. His praise poems of Honorius and Stilicho are valued contemporary historical sources from that tumultuous time, although Claudianus died shortly before the sack of Rome. Edited and notes by the classics scholar Johann Matthias Gesner. "John Matthias Gesner edited the poems of Claudian, with his own excellent and learned notes, well calculated to illustrate the poet: placing, between the text and the notes, a better selection of various readings, wiht a few conjectyures and criticisms of the learned. Copious and erudite prolegomena are prefixed; containing the literary history of Claudian, and an account of editions, &c. A copious index is added." - Ernesti, Bibl. Lat. vol iii, p 202 from Thomas Frognall Dibdin; An Introduction to the knowledge of rare and valuable editions of the Greek and Latin Classics; 4th edition, pages 471-472. A solid and attractive copy of this well-regarded 1759 edition of the works of Claudianus. ; xlviii, 720, (112) Index pages.
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