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OPSOPAEUS, Johannes

Sibylliakoi [Greek] Sibyllina oracula ex vett. codd. aucta, renouata et notis illustrata a D. Iohanne Opsopaeo Brettano. Cum interpretatione Latina Sebastiani Castalionis et indice
Paris
[Societas Typographica]
1607
€300 - €400

8vo: [16]-528 [= 516]-71-[2, 1 bl.] pp. Engraved title and 12 half-page engr. portraits (of Sibyls) by C. de MALLERY. The edition was dedicated by the Societas Typographica Parisiensis to J. A. de Thou. (toned, occasional spotting, sm. hole in L1 with loss of a few letters, sm. wormtrack in blank bottom margin of quires Mm-Pp). Contemp. vellum, flat spine with morocco label (sl. soiled). Enlarged scholarly edition of the famous Sibylline Oracles, with additional similar texts from Antiquity, by the German humanist physician Johannes Opsopoeus (1556-1596), first publ. 1589-1599. Ref. Smitskamp (Scaliger) 181. - Cp. Caillet 8135 (1599 ed.). Bound with - Oracula magica Zoroastris cum scholiis Plethonis et Pselli nunc primum editi e Bibliotheca regia studio Johannis Opsopoei. Ibidem, 1607. 194 [= 140] pp. Woodcut mark on title. - Oracula metrica Iovis, Apollinis, Hecates, Serapidis, et aliorum deorum ac vatuum tam virorum quam feminarum, a Ioanne Opsopoeo collecta. Item Astrampsychi Oneirocriticon a Ios. Scaligero digestum & castigatum, Graece & Latine. Ibidem, 1607. XXIIII [= 20]-114-[5, 1 bl.] pp. Woodcut mark on title

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