Scrinium Classical Antiquity

YALOURIS, N., Pegasus. Ein Mythos in der Kunst. Von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein, 1987. 171p. Richly ills.(134 full colour and 13 B&W pictures). Imitation leather bound. Pictorial slipcase. From the library of the late Professor Doktor Nikolaus Himmelmann. € 14.50 (Antiquarian)

YEGÜL, F., Bathing in the Roman World. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (...), 2010. 1st ed. XIII,256. Richly ills.(B&W photographs and line drawings). Paperback. Nice copy. Fikret Yegül donne ici un livre de synthèse sur les bains romains, qui n’est pas un simple abrégé de son précédent ouvrage (Baths and Bathing in Classical Antiquity, 1992, 1995) et qui peut désormais remplacer une introduction comme celle de E. Brödner (Die römischen Thermen und das antike Badewesen, 1983). Cet ouvrage, clair, bien illustré, s’appuie sur toute la science de son auteur, spécialiste reconnu du sujet, qui a un contact direct tout spécial avec les constructions d’Asie Mineure, et qui est compétent aussi bien du point de vue architectural et archéologique (voir par exemple ses travaux sur Sardes) que du point de vue littéraire et anthropologique (voir sa belle étude du texte de Lucien, Hippias, en 1979). Le livre offre même plus que le titre ne l’annonce puisque on y trouve des développements sur les hammams de la période islamique, les étuves médiévales, et des reproductions d’oeuvres d’Alma Tadema au début et d’Ingres ou Gérôme à la fin. Certes le petit format du livre et ses 250 pages et ses 103 figures n’ont pas permis de présenter une somme ou des travaux de première main (Krencker 1929 est resté inégalé) mais c’est une excellente introduction au sujet, rédigé souvent d’un style enjoué (voir ainsi p. 131 le récit de la visite de l’auteur à Las Vegas). (ROGER HANOUNE in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.10.56). € 25.00 (New)

YELLIN, D., and I. ABRAHAMS, Maimonides. Published for the Jewish Historical Society of England by Macmillan, London, 1905. XV,178p. ills. Cloth. Gilt titled. Upper edge gilded. Endpapers and fore edge a bit foxed.Cover a little bit stained. € 17.50 (Antiquarian)

YETKIN, S.K., L'Architecture Turque en Turquie. Maisonneuve et Larose, Paris, 1962. 178,CIVp. ills.(B&W photographs and plans). Bound with dust wrps. Pages due to paper quality partly yellowed. € 19.50 (Antiquarian)

YOUNG, Douglas, The Puddocks. A verse play in Scots. From the Greek of Aristophanes. Makarsbield, Fife, 1958. 2nd ed. with glossary and additional notes. Cloth. Small personal library mark, name as well as author’s dedication on free endpaper.'I have enjoyed it enormously. It is the most brilliant and amusing achievement. The Lallans is so delightfully classical a language (I had not known this before) that it catches the neatness and sharpness of the Greek as our new Chicago or Minneapolis versions completely fail to do. I am so glad also that you have allowed metre to have its way. It is really needed, and without it, or with only adumbrations of it, one wonders where one is. The songs are most enjoyable – lively and, as Gilbert Murray used to say, ‘irresistibly songful.’ Rhyme is a great help with this kind of song – and you have used it with delightful effect.' (SIR MAURICE BOWRA). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 19.50 (Antiquarian)

YOUNG, Frances, L. AYRES, and A. LOUTH, (eds.), The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (...), 2006. (Reprint 1st ed.2004). XXV,(2),538p. Cloth wrps. 'There are three standard approaches to the study of ancient Christianity. One is historical, another is theological, and finally a third approach is literary. … The present Cambridge history masterfully integrates these three approaches into one volume, which its editors rightly hope will become 'a standard work of reference.' It is indeed a superb volume, which as its title indicates surveys early Christian literature from its beginnings up to the middle of the fifth century.' (Gregorianum). € 125.00 (Antiquarian)

YOURCENAR, M., Het hermetisch zwart. Vertaald door J. Tuin. Athenaeum - Polak & Van Gennep, Amsterdam, 1986. 5th ed. 322p. Original black gilt titled cloth with dust wrps. Dust wrps to extremeties slightly scratched. Series: Grote Belletrie Serie. Nice copy. € 25.00 (Antiquarian)

YOURCENAR, M., Hadrianus' Gedenkschriften. Vertaald door J.A. Sandfort. Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep, Amsterdam, 1995. 14th ed. 307p. Paperback. Spine slightly discoloured. Gift intention on title page. € 8.00 (Antiquarian)

YOURCENAR, M., Electra, of de val van de maskers. Vertaald door J. Tuin. International Theatre Bookshop / Theater Persona, Amsterdam, 1986. 84p. Small paperback. Name and date on title page. € 8.00 (Antiquarian)

YOUTIE, L.C., P. Michigan XVII. The Michigan Medical Codex (P.Mich. 758 = P.Mich. inv. 21). Scholars Press, Atlanta (Georgia), 1996. XXV,87,13p. ills.(B&W photographs). Original red cloth. Spine gilt titled. ‘This collection of medical papyri, with a clipped and clear introduction by Ann Hanson (pp.XV-XXV), represents the finest of both medical history and papyrology: the texts are not ‘edited’, nor (except in rare instances) do they have comments by later readers; they are the stuff of landfills (in this case in Egypt, to about A.D. 600), fragments of tracts probably recopied by a wary scribe fro an ever-impatient physician of midwife who needed the recipes for actual practice. This generally overlooked aspect of classical studies has received some notice, thanks to the presumed Library of Philodemus at Herculaneum. (…) Louise Yountie’s ‘Michigan Papyri XVII’ deserves a place in any medical library that has a pretence to holdings in the history of medicine, for it is essential to anyone working through the puzzles and mysteries of Greco-Roman drug lists. (…) The appearance of similar formulae in multiple papyri suggest several essential characteristics of drug lore and pharmacy among the Greeks and Romans (…). But the papyri presented by Youtie may indicate as well a a ‘filtering up’ of information drawn from long centuries of folk medicine. (…) Youtie’s documents are holographs, original, and the modern medical historian notes that these one-of-a-kind pieces of evidence tell exactly what drugs were employed, (…). They also show that these scraps often neatly match want one finds in the ‘great names’ of ancient medicine: if a Galen was not above copying out thousands of lines from his pharmacological predecessors, one can discern how drug recipes were passed along, sometimes crudely, sometimes with great sophistication.’ (JOHN SCARBOROUGH in Isis, 1997, pp.530-531). € 75.00 (Antiquarian) (97)