that this collected edition of his works was “revue et corrigée par l’abbé J. B. Souchay, ou par l’abbé G. L. Pérau, avec
un Abrégé de la vie de Boileau, par l’abbé C. P. Goujet.”
Claude Pierre Goujet, 1697-1767, French abbé and canon of Saint Jacques de l’Hopital, was a member of the Académies of Marseilles, Rouen, Angers
and Auxerre.
Jean-Baptiste Souchay, 1687-1746, French abbé, was a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres.
Gabriel-Louis Calabre Pérau, 1700-1767, French abbé, was prior of the Maison de la Sorbonne.
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Manilii Astronomicon. Scaligeri.
p 4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 147, no. 58, as above.
MANILIUS,
Marcus.
M. Manili Astronomicon a Iosepho Scaligero ex vetusto codice Gemblacensi infinitis mendis repurgatum. Eivsdem Iosephi Scaligeri Notæ, quibus auctoris prisca astrologia explicatur, castigationum caussæ redduntur, portentosæ transpositiones in eo auctore
antiquitus commissæ indicantur.
Ex Officina
Plantiniana, Apvd
Christophorvm Raphelengivm, Academiæ
Lugduno-Batauae Typographum [Expensis
Ioannis Commelini]
cIɔ Iɔ iC. Cum Priuilegiu [1599.]
PA6500 .M4 1600
4to. 2 parts in 1, 84 and 266 leaves; the second part has the title: Iosephi Scalligeri Ivl. Cæs. F. castigationes et Notæ in M. Manili Astronomicon, with imprint;
Plantin compass device on both titles, second title and the colophon dated
1600; the text of Manilius printed in italic letter, woodcut diagrams.
Graesse IV, 364.
Ebert 12943.
Lalande, page 135.
Marcus Manilius lived in Rome during the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius. The
Astronomicon is a didactic poem on astrology in five books.
Joseph Justus Scaliger, 1540-1609, classical scholar, was of Italian descent; he spent the greater part of his life in France, and the last fifteen
years in Leyden. His Manilius was first published in 1579, and in this work “his interest in textual criticism is thrown into
the shade by his study of the astronomy of the ancients.”
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Virgilius evangelisans. Rossaei.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, p. 147, no. 43, as above.
ROSS,
Alexander.
Virgilius Evangelisans, sive Historia Domini et Salvatoris Nostri Jesu Christi. Virgilianis Verbis et Versibus descripta.
Opera Alexandri Rossaei.
London,
1769.
12mo. A copy of this edition was not available for examination.
This edition not in Lowndes.
Jefferson bought his copy from
Lackington, no. 17512 in his catalogue for 1792. In Lackington’s bill, presented December 31, 1791, paid January 2, 1792, the number,
key word and price are written by Lackington, the rest supplied by Jefferson thus: “17512 Virgilius
evangelisans 12mo. 1769.
6[d]”
Alexander Ross, 1591-1654, Scots miscellaneous writer, first published this history of Christ in the words of Virgil in 1634.
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