Live auction - Lot 1253
[Neo-Latin poetry - Petrarchism]
Veneres Blyenburgicae, sive Amorum hortus [...] fragrantissimis cxlviij. celeberrimorum poetarum flosculis refertus [...].
Dordrecht, I. Canin for D. Episcopius, 1600
€ 250 / 400
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Lot description
8vo: [16]-865-[88-1 bl.] pp.
Contemp. vellum, flat spine titled in ink, red edges (fore-edge border split, front bottom corner def.). Very good copy.
Important and extensive anthology of Neo-Latin love poems, arranged according to Petrarchan concepts as flowers in a garden, by the Dordrecht lawyer and poet Damas Blijenburg (1558-1616). Authors represented include Alciatus, Bargaeus, Bembus, Bonefonius, Buchanan, Doletus, Dousa, Erasmus, Gruterus, Lernutius, Lotichius, Marullus, Th. More, Scaliger, Secundus, Torrentius, Utenhovius, and many more.
Ref. STCN 3165712X. - TB 667. - Pettegree (NB) 5246. - Not in Oberlé.
Prov. "Godefridus Lemnius Boxtellensis" (1609-16xx), son of Rochus Lemnius, steward of Boxtel (Noord-Brabant) (old name on title). - Nordkirchen (bookpl.).
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