User:Aristeas/Galleries/Books and writers

Images of books and writers I have scanned or photographed.

Ancient Greek Authors

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  Bookshelf with books by ancient philosophers, mostly by Plato and Aristotle
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  ditto
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  Bookshelf with books by Aristotle
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  Bookshelf with books by ancient philosophers, mostly by Plato and Aristotle

Roman Authors

General

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  Part of a bookshelf containing books by Latin poets and historians

Cicero

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  Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares, Venice 1547, p. 329
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  Woodcut on the same page: Cicero writing

Horace

Please see:

• Samuel Gotthold Lange
• Christoph Martin Wieland

Lucanus

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  Lucanus, De bello civili ed. Pulmann (Plantin/Moretus 1592), title page
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  Detail: Plantin/Moretus emblema (Druckermarke)
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  Page 2-3: Beginning of Pulmann’s foreword
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  Page 4-5: End of Pulmann’s foreword

Quintilian

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  Frontispiece of Burman’s edition of Quintilian’s Institutio oratoria (1720)
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  Title page of Burman’s edition of Quintilian’s Institutio oratoria (1720)
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  Detail from the title page: allegorical engraving
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  Page 209 of this book
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  Page 209 of this book, detail: emblematic woodcut
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  Marbled endpaper from my copy of this edition

Pervigilium Veneris (anonymous, probably by Tiberianus)

The complete poem in codex S (the Codex Salmasianus):

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  1st text page in codex S
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  2nd text page in codex S
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  3rd text page in codex S
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  4th text page in codex S
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  5th text page in codex S

The complete poem in codex T (the Codex Thuaneus or Pithoeanus, now Codex Parisinus 8071):

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  1st text page in codex T
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  2nd text page in codex T

The complete poem in codex V (the Codex Sannazarii):

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  1st text page in codex V
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  2nd text page in codex V
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  3rd text page in codex V
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  4th text page in codex V
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  5th text page in codex V
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  6th text page in codex V

Neolatin Authors

Jacob Cats

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  Emblem from Jacob Cats, Monita amoris virginei (Amsterdam 1620), p. 66
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  From the same work, p. 226

Nikolaes Heinsius the Elder

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  Title page of the Poemata by Nikolaes Heinsius the Elder, Leiden 1653
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  Cropped version for the use in WP articles etc.
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  Detail: the Elzevier printer’s mark
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  Page 248-249: the Elzevier Roman and Greek typeface

Theodor Pulmann (also Pulman or Poelmann)

Please see Lucanus

Gregor Reisch

Please see User:Aristeas/Galleries/Works of art

Italian Authors

Giacomo Leopardi

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  [C 129_2949] Giacomo Leopardi, Opere vol. 1/2, Naples 1835

French Authors

René Descartes

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  Descartes’ sketch of a rainbow, from his Discours de la méthode (1637)

Michel de Montaigne

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  Portrait of Michel de Montaigne from the Tietz edition (1753)

German Authors

(Anonymous Publications)

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  Cover of Kurzer Abriß des Lebens von Johann Georg Hauseisen in Bonfeld, Heidelberg 1866

Aloys Blumauer

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  Title page of vol. I of Aloys Blumauer’s Virgils Aeneis travestiert (1st ed. 1784)
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  Title page of vol. II of Aloys Blumauer’s Virgils Aeneis travestiert (1st ed. 1784)
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  Title page of vol. III of Aloys Blumauer’s Virgils Aeneis travestiert (1st ed. 1784)

Werner Böge (German mathematician)

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  Signature of Böge (ca. 1959)

Wolfgang Borchert

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  Title page of the 1st edition of Borchert’s Draußen vor der Tür (1947)

Theodor Haering

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  Personal dedication in a copy of Haering’s Philosophie des Verstehens, 1963
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  Detail of the former image, showing the signature only

E. T. A. Hoffmann

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  Original jacket of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Lebensansichten des Katers Murr

Walter Jens

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  Signature of Walter Jens (between 1978 and 1992)

Justinus Kerner

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  Autograph of Justinus Kerner with a so-called ‘Kleksographie’

Karl Christian Friedrich Krause

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  Portrait of Karl Christian Friedrich Krause

Samuel Gotthold Lange

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  Samuel Gotthold Lange’s German Horace translation (1st ed. 1752): title
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  From the same book: dedication
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  From the same book: preface
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  From the same book: preface
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  From the same book: preface
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  From the same book: preface
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  From the same book: preface
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  From the same book: preface
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  From the same book: Odes I 1
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  From the same book: Odes I 1

Martin Opitz

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  Title page of Weltliche Poemata, 1644 edition

August von Platen

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  Autograph by August von Platen

Johann Gottfried Seume

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  Portrait of Johann Gottfried Seume

Christoph Martin Wieland

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  Title page of vol. 1 of Wieland’s translation of Horace’ Satires (1st ed. 1786)
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  Text pages from the same volume
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  Title page of vol. 2 of Wieland’s translation of Horace’ Satires (1st ed. 1786)
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  Text pages from the same volume

Ex libris

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  Ex libris L. de Ronchaud, ca. 1735
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  Ex libris Henry Swan Dudding, ca. 1815

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