Scrinium Classical Antiquity

MEYER, W., Die Arundel Sammlung mittellateinsiche Lieder. Weidmann, Berlin, 1908. 52p. Cardboard. (Aniline) pencil annotations. Series: Abhandlungen der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, philologisch-historische Klasse, neue Folge, Band XI-2. € 24.00 (Antiquarian)

MEYER-LÜBKE, W., Einführung in das Studium der romanischen Sprachwissenschaft. Winter, Heidelberg, 1920. 3rd.rev.ed. XVI,301p. Cloth. Bit yellowed. Series: Sammlung romanischer Elementar- und Handbücher. I. Reihe: Grammatiken. € 19.50 (Antiquarian)

MEYERS, J., L'art de l'emprunt dans la poésie de Sedulius Scottus. Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 1986. 220p. Original blue gilt stamped imitation leather bound. Corner cut from half title. Else fine. Series: bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège, Fascicule CCXLV. ‘Ce beau livre intéresse non seulement les philologues mais les historiens de la culture médiévale. Notre collègue de Liège a courageusement choisie un auteur latin carolingien, ce qui n’est pas encore très habituel car les écrivains de cette époque sont généralement considérés comme mineurs, voire décadents, par certains latinistes ‘classiques’. Saluons donc cette entreprise et félicitons l’auteur du résultat. (…) Pirenne (en 1882) avait remarqué que Sedulius empruntait beaucoup et avait conclu qu’il ‘butine un peu au hasard’ et que ‘tout lui est bon pourvu qu’il puisse utiliser ses lectures et en transporter dans ses vers les souvenirs les plus disparates.’ Partant de cette réflexion M. Meyers a voulu démontrer que les emprunts faits par Sedulius étaient au contraire très étudiés qu’il le faisait ‘en toute conscience et ce dans un but précis’. Le plan de son livre: emprunts de mots, emprunts d’expression, emprunts de phrases, accumulation d’emprunts, cache la richesse de l’information, la finesse des analyses, la solidité des conclusions. Ce livre est une excellente introduction à l’oeuvre surtout poétique de l’Irlandais. On découvre que Sedulius connaît admirablement la Bible comme beaucoup de ses contemporains et qu’il sait en utiliser des passages à bon escient, qu’il connaît fort bien les classiques et surtout Virgile, et qu’il sait ici combiner emprunts profanes et religieux, et là choisir des textes bibliques uniquement selon le sujet ou la personne à qu’il s’adresse.’ (PIERRE RICHÉ in Revue belge de philologie et d’histoire, 1989, p.809). From the library of Professor Carl Deroux. € 27.50 (Antiquarian)

MEYERS, J., Le classicisme lexical dans la poésie de Sedulius Scottus. Droz, Genève, 1994. 327p. Sewn. Cardboard with dust wrps. Unopened. Series: Bibliothèque de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège, Fascicule CCLIX. ‘In a series of chapters Meyers deals first with the small residue of nonclassical vocabulary and then with several aspects of the literary classicism that dominated Sedulius’s lexicon. If, as Walter Ong once remarked, medieval Latin poetry was mostly ‘a hothouse linguistic growth’, the evidence of the present study suggests that Sedulous cultivated his fair share of exotic flowers. First, Meyers assesses Sedulius’s sensitivity to language by categorizing the nonclassical words on the basis of their presence in postclassical literatures as either late antique, Christian, or medieval, before he investigates possible Sedulian neologisms. While these words represent less than 10 percent of Sedulius’s total vocabulary, they consistently reveal a taste for compound word formation, rare words, neologisms, and a limited number of latinized Greek words. (…) In the second part Meyers demonstrates convincingly Sedulius’s adherence to the morphology, Latinity, and poeticisms of classical poets, the only deviation being the frequency with which Sedulous used compound verbs, nouns, and adjectives. (CHRISTOPHER J. McDONOUGH in Speculum, 1996, pp.179-180). From the library of Prof. Carl Deroux. € 30.00 (Antiquarian)

MEYIER, K.A. DE, Codices Vossiani Latini. Pars I: Codices in folio. Cum indice auctorum. Universitaire Pers, Leiden, 1973. XVI,261p. Sewn. Nice copy. € 26.50 (Antiquarian)

MHEALLAIGH, Karen ní, Reading Fiction with Lucian. Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (...), 2018. 1st paperback ed. IX,305p. Paperback. This book offers a captivating new interpretation of Lucian as a fictional theorist and writer to stand alongside the novelists of the day, bringing to bear on his works a whole new set of reading strategies. It argues that the aesthetic and cultural issues Lucian faced, in a world of mimesis and replication, were akin to those found in postmodern contexts: the ubiquity of the fake, the erasure of origins, the focus on the freakish and weird at the expense of the traditional. In addition to exploring the texture of Lucian's own writing, Dr ní Mheallaigh uses Lucian as a focal point through which to examine other fictional texts of the period, including Antonius Diogenes' The Incredible Things Beyond Thule, Dictys' Journal of the Trojan War and Ptolemy Chennus' Novel History, and reveals the importance of fiction's engagement with its contemporary culture of writing, entertainment and wonder. (Publisher's information). € 32.50 (New)

MICHAELIS, A., Ein Jahrhundert kunstarchäologischer Entdeckungen. Seemann, Leipzig, 1908. 2nd ed. XI,365p. Bound. Ex libris. € 24.00 (Antiquarian)

MICHAELSON, S., A.Q. MORTON and N. HAMILTON-SMITH, To Couple is the Custom. A general stylometric theory of writers in English. The Department of Computer Science, The University of Edinburgh, 1977. 88p. Soft cover. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. (Rare).From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 12.50 (Antiquarian)

MICHALOWSKI, K., Ägypten. Kunst und Kultur. Vorwort von E. Otto. Herder, Freiburg (...), 1973. 3rd ed. 594p. Richly and nicely ills.(B&W and full colour photographs). Cloth wrps. Slipcase. € 45.00 (Antiquarian)

MICHALOWSKI, K., Die Ägyptische Kunst. Neubearbeitet und erweitert von J.-P. Corteggiani und Alessandro Roccati. Mit einem Vorwort von N. Grimal. Herder, Freiburg / Basel / Wien, 2000. 621p. Richly ills.(full colour as well as B&W phototgraphs). Original cloth with pctorial dust wrps. In carton slipcase. Nice copy. Requires extra shipping costs: weight including packing from 2 - 5 Kg. € 55.00 (Antiquarian)