36
[
La Henriade de Voltaire. tome I
re. de ses Oeuvres.
]
1815 Catalogue, page 136, unnumbered. [La Henriade de Voltaire, Operum Tomo, 12mo.]
This entry is marked
missing in the contemporary working copy of the Library of Congress Catalogue of 1815.
For the
Oeuvres de Voltaire, see chapter XLIV.
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Quintus Calaber.
Gr.
Lat. not. var. de Pauw.
8
vo
1815 Catalogue, page 136, no. 22, as above.
QUINTUS SMYRNÆUS.
Quinti Calabri Prætermissorum ab Homero Libri XIV.
Græce, cum versione
Latina et integris emendationibus Laurentii Rhodomanni; et adnotamentis selectis Claudii Dausqueji; curante Joanne Cornelio de Pauw, qui suas etiam emendationes addidit.
Lugduni Batavorum: apud
Joannem van Abcoude,
mdccxxxiv
. [
Trajecti ad Rhenum. Typis
Petri Muntendam.] [1734.]
PA4407 .Q4 1734
8vo. 452 leaves, title printed in red and black, with engraved device,
Greek and
Latin text on opposite pages, notes in the lower margins; colophon on the recto of the last leaf.
Graesse V, 532.
Ebert 18494.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
10.
Quintus Smyrnaeus, Greek epic poet, probably flourished towards the end of the fourth century, A.D. The manuscript of this poem, which bridges
the gap between the story of the Iliad and that of the Odyssey, was found in Calabria, and the author is sometimes known as
Quintus Calaber. The first edition was printed by Aldus in 1504.
Johannes Cornelis de Pauw, fl. 1735, Dutch scholar and classicist, was born in Utrecht. He edited a large number of the classical authors.
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Statius variorum.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 136, no. 23, Statius, Notis Variorum, 8vo.
STATIUS,
Publius Papinius.
Publii Papinii Statii Sylvarum Lib. V. Thebaidos Lib. XII. Achilleidos Lib. II. Notis selectissimis in Sylvarum libros Domitii, Morelli, Bernartii,
Gevartii, Crucei, Barthii, Joh. Frid. Gronovii Diatribe. In Thebaidos præterea placidi Lactantii, Bernartii, &c. Quibus in
Achilleidos accedunt Maturantii, Britannici; accuratissime illustrati a Johanne Veenhusen.
Lugd. Batav.: ex Officina
Hackiana, A
o
1671.
8vo. 472 leaves, text in italic letter, long lines, notes in double columns in the lower margins, in roman letter, engraved
frontispiece by P. Appelmans, a few small engravings in the text, woodcut device on the title-page.
Graesse VI, 481.
Ebert 21685.
Publius Papinius Statius, c. A.D. 45-96, a Neapolitan by birth, settled in Rome and was admitted to the court of Domitian. Of his works contained
in this variorum edition, the Silvae, in five books, consist of occasional poems addressed to the poet’s friends; Thebais
took twelve years to write and is in twelve books; it contains the story of the quarrel between Eteocles and Polynices; the
Achilleis was brought to an end in the second book by the death of the poet.
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