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GALLEUS, Servatius

Dissertationes de Sibyllis, earumque oraculis cum figuris aeneis

Amstelodami
Henricum & Viduam T. Boom
1688

€280 - €360

4to, (16), 658, (48) pp., engr. title-print., engr. fold. portr. & 14 engr. plates by R. de Hooghe, & 3 text-ills. Some stamps 'Sacré-coeur - Conflans'. Cont. vellum

"Gallaeus or Galle (1627-1709), Dutch clergyman and philologist, brought together everything relevant to these famous pronouncements; it was his principal work. The sibyls were the prophetesses of Greco-Roman antiquity, whose utterances were in Greek hexameter verses, the authenticity of which was said to be assured by the presence of acrostics within. Ref. Hoffmann III, 398-99; Caillet III, 10165; Thorndike VIII, 476; Landwehr, R. de H., 72."

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