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Images of books and writers I have scanned or photographed.

Ancient Greek Authors edit

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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 edit

General edit

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    Part of a bookshelf containing books by Latin poets and historians


Cicero edit

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

Horace edit

Please see:

Lucanus edit

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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 edit

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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) edit

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 edit

Jacob Cats edit

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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 edit

Theodor Pulmann (also Pulman or Poelmann) edit

Please see Lucanus

Gregor Reisch edit

Please see User:Aristeas/Galleries/Works of art

Italian Authors edit

Giacomo Leopardi edit

French Authors edit

René Descartes edit

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

Michel de Montaigne edit

German Authors edit

(Anonymous Publications) edit

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

Aloys Blumauer edit

Werner Böge (German mathematician) edit

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    Signature of Böge (ca. 1959)

Wolfgang Borchert edit

Theodor Haering edit

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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 edit

Walter Jens edit

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    Signature of Walter Jens (between 1978 and 1992)

Justinus Kerner edit

Karl Christian Friedrich Krause edit

Samuel Gotthold Lange edit

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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 edit

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    Title page of Weltliche Poemata, 1644 edition

August von Platen edit

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    Autograph by August von Platen

Johann Gottfried Seume edit

Christoph Martin Wieland edit

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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 edit

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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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