1758 CLAUDIAN 4th Century Latin Poet Tomus II Ann. Copius Index Mattias Gesner

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OFFERED  Claudians which exist by varieties of reading and perpetual registration Illustrated  by Matthew Gensoro with a very rich (Copius) index Lipsia In the workshop of Friitschia, Lipsia 1758.

Tomus II Only, Contemporary leather, front board detached but present 491-720 INDEX unpaginated {194 pp.) {2} Addendum, page toning minimal  damp staining COMPLETE Book TWO.

TITLE Cl. Claudiani quae exstant varietate lectionis et perpetua adnotatione, illustrata a Io. Matthia Gesnero ..

**** CLAUDIAN, CLAUDYAN. Claudius Claudianus, a Greek poet, fl. A.D. 395-404, was born in Alexandria. He became official poet to the young emperor Honorius, for whose wedding he wrote an epithalamium. He also wrote panegyrics on the emperor's great general Stilicho. The poem for which he is best known is De raptu Proserpinae. Claudian remained a popular writer for two hundred years after his death, as shown in the work of several poets who borrowed from him; for example, Dracontius, who lived in Carthage toward the end of the fifth century, wrote De raptu Helenae, showing Claudian's influence. From the seventh to the eleventh centuries, however, there is hardly a trace of his work in the literature. Interest was rekindled in the twelfth century, when the centers of the revival of classical learning were England and France. Excerpts from Claudian were then found in the schoolboy's reading list, in a school reader including the Distichs of Cato and the Fables of Avianus. Chaucer would have read Claudian at school if he attended the Almonry School. The headmaster of the Almonry bequeathed a number of books to the school, among them the works of Arianus, Lucan, Juvenal, and Claudian. Chaucer would not have known a separate edition of Claudian's poems but rather would have become acquainted with him through excerpts found in the Liber Catonianus, an anthology containing the Distichs of Cato, the Fables of Avianus, pieces by Statius, Maximianus, and the De raptu Proserpinae by Claudian. The version of De raptu in the Liber Catonianus was an edition of the classical text with its two prefaces, to which medieval editors had added a preface to the third book. This preface was taken from Claudian's Panegyricus de Sexto Consulatu Honorii Augusti. 

***Johann Matthias Gesner (9 April 1691 – 3 August 1761) was a German classical scholar and schoolmaster.

In 1715, he became librarian and vice-principal at Weimar, where he became good friends with Johann Sebastian Bach who later dedicated his Canon a 2 perpetuus BWV 1075 to Gesner.

At the University of Göttingen he became Professor of Poetry and Eloquence (1734) and subsequently librarian, continuing to publish works on classical languages and literature as well composing Latin poetry.

n his Aesthetics (1750), quoted passages from writers such as Horace, Virgil, Catullus, Juvenalis, and Cicero and many of those passages were taken from Gesner’s Novus Linguae et Eruditionis Romanae Thesaurus  or the New Thesaurus of the Roman Language and Learning.

Gesner won a wide reputation as a reformer, a scholar, and a humanist.

  • Condition: 265 Year Old Book Age Appropriate See; Description
  • Binding: Leather
  • Language: Latin
  • Author: Johan Mattias Gesner
  • Publisher: In The Workshop of Fritschia, Lipsia 1758
  • Topic: 4th Century Poet Claudinus
  • Subject: Claudinus 4th Century Poetry
  • Original/Facsimile: Original

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