Erasmus, Desiderius. Opera Omnia, Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami: Recognita et Adnotatione Critica Instrvcta Notisqve Illvstrata, Ordinis Primi, Tomvs Qvartvs. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1973. ISBN: 0720461545. [11097]
Gray publisher's cloth, ex library with the standard library matter including ink stamps on the closed page edges and a partially removed spine label, 26 x 18.5 cm (10 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches), tight. [VIII], 362 clean pages. Page edges with dust spots. Good. Hardcover.
The text is in Latin; the notes are in French.
"This volume of the Amsterdam edition of the Latin texts of Erasmus contains several works intended for scholarship in Classics. It includes discourse on the correct pronunciation of Latin and Greek, rhetoric, and Classical Latin, in a compendium of the handbook by Lorenzo Valla, as well as a declamation in praise of medicine. The volume offers a critical edition of the Latin text with introductions and commentaries in French and in English explaining the philological, linguistic and historical problems the reader could meet."
Desiderius Erasmus (1467-1536), “born at Rotterdam…educated at Daventer. Entered among the canons regular 1486. Ordained a priest 1492. Visited England 1497. Resided at Louvain, Padua, and Rome 1501 to 1510, when he returned to England and obtained the Margaret Professorship of Divinity and the Greek Lectureship at Cambridge. Went to Basil 1514, where he edited the Greek New Testament, the works of St. Jerome, and other works…He was considered the glory of his age and country, and contributed more than any other to the restoration of learning in Europe, and to the Reformation, although he did not join the Reformers.” – Darling, Cyclopedia Bibliographia.
