Incerti Scriptoris Graeci Fabulae Aliquot Homericae de Ulixis Erroribus

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Incerti Scriptoris Graeci Fabulae Aliquot Homericae de Ulixis Erroribus, Ethice Explicatae
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Title page from Incerti Scriptoris Graeci Fabulae Aliquot Homericae de Ulixis Erroribus, Ethice Explicatae, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary.

Author Homer; Johannes Columbus
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Published Lugduni Batavorum: Apud P. Bonk
Date 1745
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Language Greek text and Latin translation on facing pages; subsequent notes chiefly in Latin
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Pages [16], 150, [7]
Desc. 8vo (21 cm.)
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Initial capital, page 69.
This book is a collection of “an anonymous Greek writer’s allegories on the wanderings of Ulysses” or Odysseus.[1] This work was given to George Wythe by Thomas Jefferson in 1787. Jefferson wrote to Wythe from Paris on September 16th and listed it as one of many books being shipped to him separately.[2] Jefferson bought the copy on August 16, 1785 from the bookseller Froullé in Paris.[3] This particular work is a translation by Johan Columbus (1640-1684) who was a Swedish humanist and Latin poetry professor at Upsala.[4] It was first published in 1678 and includes Columbus’ annotations as well as his Latin translations of the original Greek, which are laid out on opposite pages of the book.[5]

Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Included in a shipment sent by Thomas Jefferson to Wythe on September 16, 1787. The last two pages of the enclosed letter list the "Contents of the box marked G.W. "Fabulae Homericae de Ulixe. 8vo." is among the titles in the section "for Mr. Wythe." The precise edition is unknown. Both the Brown Bibliography[6] and George Wythe's Library[7] include the 1745 edition of Incerti Scriptoris Graeci Fabulae Aliquot Homericae de Ulixis Erroribus as the edition Jefferson sent to Wythe—LibraryThing lists it as the "probable edition." Dean's Memo[8] suggests the 1754 edition. The Wolf Law Library followed the recommendations of Brown and LibraryThing, and purchased the 1745 edition.

Loose page of notes, filed at page 109.

Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy

Bound in period style quarter-calf with marbled boards. Front free endpaper signed by previous owner; title page stamped "Dr. Johannes Hertel." Copy includes a loose page of manuscript notes filed at page 109.

View this book in William & Mary's online catalog

Inscription, front flyleaf.

References

  1. ↑ E. Millicent Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 4: 418 [no.4275].
  2. ↑ Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 16 September 1787
  3. ↑ E. Millicent Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 4:418 [no.4275].
  4. ↑ Ibid.
  5. ↑ Ibid.
  6. ↑ Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.
  7. ↑ LibraryThing, s. v. "Member: George Wythe", accessed February 27, 2014.
  8. ↑ Memorandum from Barbara C. Dean, Colonial Williamsburg Found., to Mrs. Stiverson, Colonial Williamsburg Found. (June 16, 1975), 4 (on file at Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary).

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