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| Keywords: Phaedrus Fabulist 1745 engraving.jpg en Phaedrus 15 BC-50 AD Phaedri Aug Liberti Fabularum Aesopiarum libri V Cum integris commentariis Marq Gudii Conr Rittershusii Nic Rigaltii Is Neveleti Nic Heinsii Joan Schefferi Jo Lud Praschii excerptis aliorum Curante Petro Burmanno Leiden Samuel Luchtmans and Son 1745 The Dutch scholar Pieter Burman 1668-1741 ”in Latin Petrus Burmannus and also known as the Elder to distinguish him from his nephew of the same name ”first published an edition of Phaedrus' Fables in an octavo format in Amsterdam in1698 This was followed by two others in octavo and duodecimo formats published by Henricus Scheuleer in The Hague in 1718 and 1719 respectively However Burman's best known edition is the 1727 quarto published by Samuel Luchtmans in Leiden It incorporated the notes by the famous English philologist Richard Bentley 1662-1742 Schweiger 1834 733-8; Dibdin 1827 281 Regarding the1745 octavo edition printed in Leiden of which our Collection Highlight is a copy Luchtmans presents it as being the third edition Ed tertia coming after those of 1698 and 1718 and as being corrected Emendatior and augmented aucta by the rich index of the quarto edition of 1727 Indeed a clever way to avoid the fact that this edition is basically a reprint of the quarto Apart from the title page see the publishers' preface Aequo Lectori S D S Luchtmannus Clearly the book addresses not the needs of the young student learning the foundations of the Latin language but the expectations of the future scholar interested in a deep philological examination of the text of the Fables See for instance the image displayed below where Phaedrus' verses are commented upon line by line word by word Even the text itself could be a challenge to young students as Edward Harwood 1729-1794 observes in his View of the Editions of the Greek and Roman Classics London G Robinson 1782 2015-03-22 http //www lib rochester edu/index cfm PAGE 4361 author other versions PD-old-70-1923 Uploaded with UploadWizard Phaedrus | ||||
