Scrinium Classical Antiquity

ARISTOTELES, Über die Tugend. Übersetzt und erläutert von E.A. Schmidt. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 1980. 2nd corr.ed. 152p. Original black gilt stamped cloth with dust wrps. Series: Aristoteles Werke in deutscher Übersetzung, Band 18, Opuscula, Teil 1. € 22.00 (Antiquarian)

VERONA, HILLEL von, Über die Vollendung der Seele Herders Eingeleitet und mit Anmerkungen herausgegeben von Yossef Schwartz. Übersetzt von Yossef Schwartz in Verbindung mit Alexander Fidora. Herder Freiburg, 2009. 304p. Hardbound. Series: Herders Bibliothek der Philosophie des Mittelalters, Band 17. Nice copy. Hebrew - German text. Hillel ben Shmuel ben Elazar aus Verona steht in exemplarischer Weise für die Begegnung von jüdischem, islamischem und christlichem Denken im 13. Jahrhundert. Besonders eindrucksvoll zeigt sich dieser intellektuelle Austausch in Hillels philosophischem Hauptwerk, dem Traktat Vom Lohn der Seele, in dem ihm eine philosophiegeschichtlich ebenso wie systematisch höchst originelle Verknüpfung arabisch-jüdischer Argumente, insbesondere averroistischer und maimonidischer Prägung, mit lateinisch-christlichen Positionen, namentlich von Dominicus Gundissalinus und Thomas von Aquin, gelingt, mit deren Hilfe er zentrale Fragen zu Natur und Funktion der Seele beantwortet. (Publisher's information). € 40.00 (Antiquarian)

CICERO, Über die Wahrsagung. De Divinatione. Lateinisch - deutsch. Herausgegeben, übersetzt und erläutert von Chr. Schäublin. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, n.d. (Lizenzausgabe Artemis Verlag, 1991). 420p. Original orange cloth with dust wrps. Series: Tusculum. Nice copy. (Rare). € 65.00 (Antiquarian)

ARCHIMEDES, Über einander berührende Kreise. Aus dem Arabischen Übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen versehen von Y. Dold-Samplonius, H. hermelink und M. Schramm. Teubner, Stuttgart, 1975. 68p. 7 plates with 14 facsimilia loose in rear pocket. Cloth. Cover sligthly stained. Series: Bibliotheca Teubneriana, Archimedei Opera omnia, Vol.IV. € 19.50 (Antiquarian)

KNOCHE, U., Über einige Szenen des Eunuchus. Erster Teil. Zweiter Teil. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1936/38. pp.145-184;31-87. Sewn. Glued together with acid adhesive tape. Cover loosening. With author's dedication on front covers. (Rare). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 37.50 (Antiquarian)

HERMANN, K.F., Über Gesetz, Gesetzgebung und gesetzgebende Gewalt im griechischen Alterthume. Bound together with: (2) W. MANGELSDORF: Zu Xenophons Bericht über die Schlacht bei Kunaxa (3) Fr. PAULSEN: Friedrich Althoff; (4) A. WEBER: Kultursoziologie; (5) E. von STERN: Die griechischen Kolonisation am Nordgestade des Schwarzen Meeres im Lichte archäologischer Forschung; (6) B. DELBRÜCK: Die indogermanischen Verwandtschaftsnamen. Ein Beitrag zur vergleichenden Alterthumskunde; (7) E. TÄUBLER: Ein Weg zu Caesar (8) H. DESSAU: Die Vorgänge bei der Thronbesteigung Hadrian's; (9) H. SCHLIEMANN: Troia und seine Ruinen. Vortrag gehalten in der Aula der Universität Rostock, den 17. August 1875.; (10) B. NIESE: De Annalibus Romanis observationes alterae; (11) R. OEHLER: Neue Forschungen zur Schlacht am Muthul; (12) H. FUNKE: Der Platon des André Glucksmann; (13) H.J. DIESNER: Isidor von Sevilla und das westgotische Spanien. Nice professionally cloth rebinding of 13 scientific articles or off prints: (1) Dieterich, Göttingen, 1849. 66p. (2) Braun'schen Hofbuchdruckerei, Karlsruhe, 1884. 25p.; (3) Internationale Wochenschrift für Wissenschaft und Technik, 02.11.1907, 6p.; (4) Sonderabdruck aus 'Handwörterbuch der Soziologie, n.d.(>1928(, pp.285-294; (5) Sonderdruck aus Klio, 1909,Band IX, Heft 2, pp. 139-152; (6) Hirzel, Leipzig, 1889. Des XI. Bandes der Abhandlungen der philologisch-historischen Classe der Königl. Sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, No. V, pp.381-606; (7) Sonderabzug aus 'Die Antike' I, 1925;(8) Separat-Abdruck aus der 'Kiepert-Festschrift', Reimer, Berlin, 1898, pp.85-91; (9) C. Quandt, Waren, 1875. 21p.; (10) R. Friedrich, Marburg, 1887, XVIp.; (11) Sonderabdruck aus den Jahresheften des Österreichischen archäologischen Institutes, Band XII, 1909, pp.327-340; (12) Mannheimer Berichte, 1979, pp.441-445; (13) Akademie-Verlag, Berlin, 1977. Abhandlungen der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, Philologisch-historische Klasse, Band 67, Heft 3, 127p. € 75.00 (Antiquarian)

DAHLMANN, H., Über Helvius Cinna. Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz / Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1977. 50p. Wire stitched. Series: Abhandlungen der geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse, Jahrgang 1977, Nr. 8. Nice copy. 'In dieser Abhandlung werden die wenigen erhaltene Verse der beiden größeren Gedichte des Helvius Cinna, des 'Protemticon Pollionis' und der 'Zmyrna' interpretiert. Durch möglichst eingehende Erklärung dieser Fragmente eines der berühmten Neoteriker wird sein Verhältnis zu andern Dichtern, besonders seinem Freund Catull, aber auch seine Bedeutung für die Augusteer, zumal Vergil, aber auch Ovid, deutlicher.' (H. DAHLMANN in dem Vorwort, p.4). From the library of the late Professor Doktor Nikolaus Himmelmann. € 14.50 (Antiquarian)

PELIKÁN, O., Übergangs- und Krisenperioden in der antiken Kunst. Phänomen des sog. Manierismus. Univerzita J.E. Purkyne V Brne, 1977. 141,48p. ills.(B&W photographs). Original off white cloth with pictorial dust wrps. With signature from Prof. Carl Deroux on free endpaper. 'Mannerism as a distinct style has only received recognition from art historians in recent years. The publication of this brief monograph was inspired by the spate of books on mannerist art of the sixteenth century that appeared in the years following the second world war. Pelikán, an authority on this subject, rightly points out the inadequacy of the conventional view of mannerism as the subjective development, in the post-Renaissance period, of exaggerated anti-classical tendencies that were only later to be resolved in baroque art. The author further contends, again with justification, that historians of ancient art have rarely treated mannerism seriously, being largely content to acknowledge the appearance of the style on an ad hoc basis as a quirk of the individual artist. (...). P.'s search for an historical interpretation of the style is to be welcomed. He sees it as an expression of the sense of crisis experienced in transitional periods of history, in which basic but contradictory conceptions of rendering an image (i.e. in representational or abstract form) appears simultaneously but in opposition to each other, so that final realization of the image is distorted in a manner that is visually disturbing to the viewer. Thus a figure may appear to be based on an idealized classical original, but the forms are treated in a manner that is wholly alien to the classical ideal. (...) P.s intention in writing this monograph is to examine the contradictions that appear in certain stages of development of ancient art in periods of political and social crisis and transition, and to consider the appearance of mannerist tendencies in ancient art as products of such instability. This is an interesting and exciting idea, but its exploration raises serious problems of methods. (...) The difficulty in forcing ancient works of art to conform to neat patterns my seem to detract from the author's claims for the historical roots of style. This weakness is the result of P.'s inadequate formulation of the historical structure within which mannerism was to be examined.' (SUSAN WALKER in The Journal of Roman Studies, 1980, pp.229-30). From the library of Prof. Carl Deroux. € 22.50 (Antiquarian)

GÜNTHER, H.-C., Überlegungen zur Entstehung von Vergils Aeneis. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1996. 95p. Sewn. Series: Hypomnemata, Untersuchungen zur Antike und zu ihrem Nachleben, 113. ‘Günther’s short monograph, a parergon he tells us arising out of his study of the text of Propertius, is an attempt to sift out some of the solid results of the (now largely unfashionable) analytical study of the stages of composition of the Aeneid, and in so doing to give the reader a glimpse into the ‘Werkstatt’ of the poet, a glimpse made possible by the fact that at the poet’s death the work lacked its final revision. G.’s starting point, (like that of Thomas Berres, whose ‘Die Entstehung der Aeneis (…) is the most recent major study of the topic, is the half-lines, those undoubted signs of incompletion. Like Berres, G. maintains that a large proportion of the poem’s fifty-eight half-lines are indices of later additions by Virgil to the draft of his poem (….); unlike Berres he maintains that in almost all of these cases the half-line marks the end of the later addition, rather than the end of the original text. (…) G. extends the result of his analysis of half-lines to wider considerations. The claim that book three was composed relatively late is strongly supported by the argument that half-lines in other books in passages relating to episodes in book three are clues to reworking of those other books undertaken after the composition of three. (…) G. also ventures fascinating reconstructions both of Virgil’s own working practice and of the procedures of the posthumous editor, Varius. (…) Varius is presented as a conscientious and careful editor, whom we make thank for as clean as possible a ‘Lesetext’, conforming closely to the intentions of the poet at the time of his death. At this point we enter the realms of a superior historical fiction. G. is conscious of the speculative nature of this and much else in the book. But this is highly intelligent and disciplined speculation, and G. fully makes his case that the development of the Aeneid is a topic that still deserves the attention of all Virgilians.’ (PHILIP HARDIE in The Classical Review (New Series), 1999, p.49-50). € 15.00 (Antiquarian)

BORNKAMM, G.,G. BARTH and H.J. HELD, Überlieferung und Auslegung im Matthäusevangelium. Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn, 1970. 6th ed. 326p. Original blue gilt-titled cloth with dust wrps. Series: Wissenschaftliche Monographien zum Alten und Neuen Testament, 1. € 15.00 (Antiquarian)