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1556 Vellum Lazzaroni Mercuriii Maioris Latin Grammar Mercurius Famous Rare
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ApproximatelyEUR 987.17
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“Good with no dust jacket”
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Item specifics
- Seller notes
- “Good with no dust jacket”
- Book Title
- Mercurij Maioris, Sive Grammaticarum Institutionum Libri X
- Cover
- Vellum
- Language
- Latin
- Publisher
- Cominum De Tridino Montisferrati
- Publication Year
- 1556
- Place Published
- Venice
- Pages
- 418
- Format
- Vellum
- Title
- 1556 Vellum Lazzaroni Mercuriii Maioris Latin Grammar Mercurius
- Edition
- 2nd
- Book Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Features
- [8], 418 (incorrectly numbered as 304) , [25] pages. Last blank, DD8 used as final pastedown. Signatures *8A-DD8. Small octavo., Full contemporary vellum with remains of ties, spine has nice, old handwritten title, bottom corner of spine covering chipped, away. Interior no front blank. Date and printer from colophon, at rear. Title page a bit grubby, old handwriting looks like, printing information. Woodcut initials throughout, occasional, small spotting or foxing but otherwise clean and unmarked., Quite scarce, none for sale, only one auction record in the, last 50 years, very few copies in North America and the Venice, edition is even more unusual. OCLC 54264161. The Mercurius, Major is the principal work of the enigmatic grammarian, Augustinus Saturnius (Agostino Saturnio) , which attracted much, praise and opprobrium in the late Renaissance, clearly a, controversial work and now for the most part forgotten, hence, its scarcity. It has been viewed as a prime example of a, “humanistic grammar”, with something of an “eclectic, philosophy” -- in the mode of philosophising grammarians of the, late Renaissance; following in the tradition of Priscian as, well as later mediaeval grammarians, but adding a touch of the, “modern” as well, along with critiques of earlier modes;, representative of the earliest beginnings of the science of, linguistics. [see Lurhman: Augustinus Saturnius Laza and His, Place in the Grammatical Tradition] Hence, as with other early, Italian Latin grammars, it places great emphasis on the verb, (Saturnius was a controversial pioneer in treatment of the, impersonal verb). It was designed as an advanced grammar and, the first seven chapters are devoted to detailed and, theoretical issues of language, surprisingly more Aristotlean, than Platonic, with a refreshing take (contra to a degree to
- Binding
- Vellum
- Place of Publication
- Venice
- Year Printed
- 1556
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