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MARGOLIN, J.-C., Recherches Erasmiennes. Droz, Genève, 1969. 188p. Cloth. Pages bit yellowed. € 25.00 (Antiquarian)

MARTELS, Zw. von, and M. GOLDSTEEN, Enea Silvio Piccolomini - Pius II (1405-1464): een humanistisch paus op de bres voor Europa. Een bloemlezing uit zijn brieven en geschriften. Uitgeverij Verloren, Hilversum, 2010. 592p. ills. Bound. With CD-Rom. The main part of the book, nearly 300 pages, is devoted to translated excerpts from the twelve books of the Commentarii, witnessing Enea’s spectacular career and his considerable self-love. In order to give coherence to the selected texts the editors provided introductions to every text and supplemented summaries of the omitted parts. This works very well, together with the short explanatory footnotes, for any reader who does not have the history of Italy and Europe during the second half of the fifteenth century at his fingertips. Enea’s lively style and interesting, often quite witty, arguments about European affairs in general and Italian political problems in particular come across very well in these careful translations.[…] A very welcome bonus, also for those who do not read Dutch, is the cdrom accompanying the book.The translated selections of both the letters and the Commentarii are given here in searchable form together with the Latin text and illustrations. (…) In this way, the editors have taken great pains to make their book quite as learned and as enjoyable as Enea’s original texts.’ (NICOLETTE MOUT in Church History and Religious Culture 92, 2012, pp.351-353). € 49.00 (New)

MASSING, J.M., Erasmian Wit and Proverbial Wisdom. An Illustrated Moral Compendium for François I. Facsimile of a Dismembered Manuscript with Introduction and Description. Warburg Institute, University of London, 1995. XI,212,XXXp. Original off white cloth. Erasmus of Rotterdam had his first great success in 1500, when his 'Adages' were published in Venice. the Greek and Roman proverbs which he recorded and explained in this book met the Renaissance taste for ancient ethical precepts which could be used as a guide to living in the modern world. In many later editions the maxims were vastly increased in number and Erasmus's commentaries often lengthened into moral essays. The 'Adages' became one of the most popular Latin books of the sixteenth century. Jean Michel Massing's edition of a unique manuscript provides an important early example of the influence, direct and indirect, exerted by Erasmus. In this vividly illustrated set of pithy texts, word and image enhance each other in a way that prefigures the emblematic form which was to become so influential throughout Europe. As is demonstrated in the Introduction, the manuscript was intended for the character training of the future King François I. Its texts were chosen by the young prince's tutor, François Demoulins, who combined them with pictures some time between 1512 and François's accession to the throne in 1515. Demoulins drew heavily on the 1508 edition of Erasmus's 'Adages', selecting those precepts which were most obviously appicable to court life and its pitfalls. He also included a number of sayings attributed to Pythagoras, who was much admired as a sage in the Renaissance. Desmoulins's Erasmian manuscript appeared briefly on the London book market in 1937. Fritz Saxl, then Director of the Warburg Institute, recognizing its interest and importance, had a photographic record made. These photographs, which form the basis of the present facsimile, are the sole surviving witness to the work originally presented to François I. the manuscript disappeared from view in the 1940s, reappearing as s set of single-sheet drawings with the text pages discarded and the inscriptions erased from the pictures. Massing's study places the manuscript in its historical, literary and artistic context, as well as emphasizing its significance for the development of the moral emblem. (Publisher's information). € 45.00 (Antiquarian)

MAXIMILIANUS, Vondelstudies. Overzien en ingeleid door L.C. Michels. De Forel, Terheijden, 1968. 426p. Cloth. Library marks on french page.A.o.: Vergilius en Joannes de Boetgezant (pp.3-89); Vondel en Ovidius (pp.89-119); Vondel en Horatius (pp.119-165). € 18.50 (Antiquarian)

MEER, F. van der, Onbekende Kathedralen in Frankrijk. Geïllustreerd met 134 foto's van H. Sibbelee, e.a. Elsevier, Amsterdam/Brussel, 1967. 327p. Cloth wrps. € 18.50 (Antiquarian)

MEERTENS, P.J., and H. SAYLES, (ed.), Nederlandse Emblemata. Bloemlezing uit de Noord- en Zuidnederlandse Emblemata-literatuur van de 16de en 17de eeuw. Nijhoff, Leiden, 1983. 171p. ills. Sewn. € 15.50 (Antiquarian)

MEEUWESE, K., Jan Luyken als dichter van de Duytse Lier. Met kanttekeningen vermeerderde herdruk van de uitgave Groningen, 1952. Bouma/Hagen, Groningen/Amsterdam, 1977. 328p. Cloth. € 50.50 (Antiquarian)

MEIJER, Th.J., Kritiek als herwaardering van het levenswerk van Jacob Perizonius (1651-1715). Universitaire Pers, Leiden, 1971. 252p. Sewn. Diss. Rijksuniversiteit Leiden. 'The title indicates the twofold intention of this bio-bibliographical study. Besides a critical revaluation of the character and writings of this unjustly forgotten Dutch scholar the book describes his critical attitude and makes an assessment of his own critical position. (...) the first three chapters deal successively with his parentage and childhood, his activities in Franeker and his Leiden years (...). The third chapter also contains a description of his personality and his partly amiable, partly diputatious and hair-splitting character. His merit as a philologist, demonstrated in his commentary on the 'Minerva' of Sanctius together with his edition of Aelian's 'Varia Historica' for instance, is also discussed. In the fourth chapter his importance as an historian is weighed. (...) Valuable are his 'Origenes Babylonicaeet Aegyptiacae', his vindication of the Roman historian Quintus Curtius, and his lectures on universal history. In these writings he proves himself to be a surprisingly modern historian. (...) The story of his live, finished in the fifth chapter, is followed by a detailed bibliography. A genealogical survey and tow appendices (...) are also included.' (Th.J. MEIJER in the Summary, pp.245-46). From the library of Prof. Dr. H.F.J. Horstmanshoff. € 17.50 (Antiquarian)

MEIJER, Th.J., Kritiek als herwaardering van het levenswerk van Jacob Perizonius (1651-1715). Universitaire Pers, Leiden, 1971. 252p. Folding chart. Original red gilt stamped cloth with dust wrps. Diss. Rijksuniversiteit Leiden. 'The title indicates the twofold intention of this bio-bibliographical study. Besides a critical revaluation of the character and writings of this unjustly forgotten Dutch scholar the book describes his critical attitude and makes an assessment of his own critical position. (...) the first three chapters deal successively with his parentage and childhood, his activities in Franeker and his Leiden years (...). The third chapter also contains a description of his personality and his partly amiable, partly diputatious and hair-splitting character. His merit as a philologist, demonstrated in his commentary on the 'Minerva' of Sanctius together with his edition of Aelian's 'Varia Historica' for instance, is also discussed. In the fourth chapter his importance as an historian is weighed. (...) Valuable are his 'Origenes Babylonicaeet Aegyptiacae', his vindication of the Roman historian Quintus Curtius, and his lectures on universal history. In these writings he proves himself to be a surprisingly modern historian. (...) The story of his live, finished in the fifth chapter, is followed by a detailed bibliography. A genealogical survey and tow appendices (...) are also included.' (Th.J. MEIJER in the Summary, pp.245-46). € 25.00 (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)