Anthologia [Graece]. Florilegium diversorum epigramamtum veterum.
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Renouard, 126:4; Schreiber, 159; Adams, A-1187. Première édition avec les importantes annotations et corrections donnée par Henri Estienne, typographe des Fugger comme indiqué sur la page de titre. « Henri Estienne s important edition of the Greek Anthology, which provided a much better text than any of its predecessors. For this edition Henri devised a system of diacritical marks peculiar to himself (notae sibi peculiares) to denote various classes of proper nouns: e.g. persons and famous animals, nations and cities, mountains, and bodies of water; he also employs in the margins the symbol of the hand with pointing finger to call attention to gnomic expressions in the text this was already used in the 1557 Aeschylus. The volume contains 154 pages of Annotationes by Estienne, who, in the course of these, gives a Latin translation of one epigram, and then provides 50 different alternate versions of the last distich ! In is preface the to the reader Henri claims that he performed this poetic tour de force in order to kindle the interest of young readers » (Schreiber). Provenance importante Ce beau volume provient de la bibliothèque de Jean-François-Paul Le Fèvre de Caumartin (1668-1732). Il débuta son éducation à l abbaye de Bouzai (diocèse de Nantes) à l âge de 7 ans sur la démission de son parrain, le cardinal de Retz. Doyen de la cathédrale de Tours, élu membre de l Académie française le 8 mai 1694, il fut nommé associé honoraire de l Académie des inscriptions et belles-lett
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