1662 Erasmus of Rotterdam Duplici Copia Renaissance Writing Instruction Jansson
“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Erasmus
The ‘Duplici Copia’ was a wide-spread treatise by Erasmus written to accompany students who aspired to possess an elegant and high style of writing. “Foundations of Style”, as it is referred to in English, provided abundant examples of how to say the same word or phrase in a number of different ways. First appearing in 1512, this book found enormous success throughout the 16th-century. According to J.E. Walsh,
“This work is more important than its elementary nature might indicate, for it provided a handbook not only for the intimation of the words of the ancients but for the absorption of their ideas as well.”
This 1662 edition of “Copia” was published in Amsterdam by Jansson, bound in an impressive vellum binding.
Item number: #27973
Price: $499
1662 Erasmus of Rotterdam Duplici Copia Renaissance Writing Instruction Jansson
“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Erasmus
The ‘Duplici Copia’ was a wide-spread treatise by Erasmus written to accompany students who aspired to possess an elegant and high style of writing. “Foundations of Style”, as it is referred to in English, provided abundant examples of how to say the same word or phrase in a number of different ways. First appearing in 1512, this book found enormous success throughout the 16th-century. According to J.E. Walsh,
“This work is more important than its elementary nature might indicate, for it provided a handbook not only for the intimation of the words of the ancients but for the absorption of their ideas as well.”
This 1662 edition of “Copia” was published in Amsterdam by Jansson, bound in an impressive vellum binding.
Item number: #27973
Price: $499
ERASMUS, Desiderius
Des. Erasmi Roterod. De utraq[ue] verborum ac rerum copia lib. II ad sermonem & c stylum formandum utilissime
Amstelodami: Apud Ioannem Janssonius, 1662.
Details:
- Collation: Complete
- 249, [15]
- References: Herbert David Rix, “The Editions of Erasmus’ “De Copia”;
- Provenance: Handwritten
- D. Coleridge, 1857
- John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge PC (1820–1894) was an English lawyer, judge and Liberal politician. He held the posts, in turn, of Solicitor-General for England, Attorney-General for England, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and Lord Chief Justice of England. Coleridge was the eldest son of John Taylor Coleridge, and the great-nephew of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
- Ellis Edwards
- D. Coleridge, 1857
- Language: Latin
- Binding: Vellum; tight and secure
- Size: ~5.5in X 3.25in (14cm x 8cm)
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Category
Language Study & Reference
Authors
ERASMUS, Desiderius
Printing Date
17th Century
Language
Latin
Binding
Vellum
Book Condition
Excellent
Collation
Complete