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CORDERIUS, Maturinus

Commentarius puerorum de Latinae linguae elegantia et varietate [...]. Cum Hispanica interpretatione
Leuven
Servatius Sassenus for the Widow of Arnold Birckmann
1549
€800 - €1.000

8vo: [16]-588 pp. Woodcut Birckmann mark on title. (missing final printer's mark and blank; marginal worming occasionally touching some letters). Contemp. limp vellum, flat spine titled in ink (loosening at front). Good copy

Very rare first edition (repr. Lyon 1551) of a Latin textbook for learners of Spanish, evidently published for university students and for those entering the trade with Spain. Maturin Cordier (1479-1564) was a French priest and teacher who became one of the first followers of Calvin. Ref. BT 5487. - Peeters-Fontainas (Suppl.) 273bis. - Iberian Books 3955. - Not in Adams, STCV. Prov. Old Spanish ownership entries on title, A8v and at the end

Humanism