1651 History of England Polydoro Virgilio Latin Text Joannis Maire For Sale

Offered:Historiae Anglicae libri XXVI. Autore Polydoro Virgilio, ... Ex nova editione Antonii Thysii, J.C. Lugduni Batavvorum Sumptibus Joannis Maire 1651Historiae Anglicae Libri XXVII, by PolyDoro Virgilio Urbinate, printed at Lugduni Batavorum by Joannis Maire, 1651. Early leather binding. Newer flyleaves. Very Good. Internally Fine, 878 pages. Measures 5 x 7.75\".

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Virgilio

Historiæ anglicæ libri XXVII. . Autore Polydoro Virgilio urbinate, ...

Polydore Vergil (1470-1555).

Historiæ Anglicæ, libri XXVII

Authors:Polydore Vergil, Antoine Thysius, Johann Maire (Publisher), Philip de Croy (Printer)

Print Book, Latin, 1651

Edition:Ex nova editione Antonii Thysii

Publisher:Sumptibus Joannis Maire, Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden, Netherlands], 1651

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

[880] p. ; 18 cm. (8vo)

Subjects:

Grande-Bretagne Histoire 1485-1603 (Tudors)

Grande-Bretagne Histoire Jusqu\'à 1485

Great Britain

Great Britain History To 1485

Great Britain History Tudors, 1485-1603

History

To 1603

Historiæ Anglicæ, libri XXVII.

Vergil, Polydore, 1470?-1555.

Notes:

Running title: Polyd. Verg. Angl. histor

Originally published in 1534 in 26 books, and in 1555 in 27 books

Errors in pagination include: p. 351-352 repeats

Includes appendices: Series regum Angliæ -- Testimomia [sic] veterum de Britannia, Julius Cæsar -- De historicis Angliæ -- Memorabilia ex veterum Anglo-Saxonum legibus

Includes indexes

***Polydore Vergil or Virgil (Italian: Polidoro Virgili; commonly Latinised as Polydorus Vergilius; c. 1470 – 18 April 1555), widely known as Polydore Vergil of Urbino, was an Italian humanist scholar, historian, priest and diplomat, who spent much of his life in England. He is particularly remembered for his works the Proverbiorum libellus (1498), a collection of Latin proverbs; De inventoribus rerum (1499), a history of discoveries and origins; and the Anglica Historia (drafted by 1513; printed in 1534), an influential history of England. He has been dubbed the \"Father of English History

Vergil\'s history of England, the Anglica Historia, was begun at the instigation of King Henry VII, perhaps as early as 1505. This first version was completed in 1512–13. However, the work was not published until 1534; and four distinct versions can therefore be identified:

Manuscript written in 1512–13: covering events up to 1513 (MS)

First edition, Basle, 1534, folio; covering events up to 1509 (A)

Second edition, Basle, 1546, folio: covering events up to 1509 (B)

Third edition, Basle, 1555, folio: covering events up to 1537 (C)

The third edition was published in 1555, the year of Vergil\'s death. In this case the revisions were minor and largely stylistic. However, Vergil added a new book (XXVII) giving an account of Henry VIII\'s reign to 1537, and which included a highly critical portrait of Wolsey. Vergil claimed that most of his work on the last book was done contemporaneously, and that the work was interrupted by a visit to Italy. This must refer to his visit of 1533–34, and the entire period from 1530 to 1537 is in fact treated cursorily. Denys Hay finds it reasonable to suppose that at first Vergil planned this book to describe events up to 1530, but that he postponed the publication of it due to the political uncertainties in England, enabling him to extend the terminal date.

Vergil drew on an impressively wide range of sources for his work, including published books and oral testimony.[24] He claimed to have been diligent in collecting materials, and to have drawn on the work of foreign as well as English historians. For this reason, he remarked, the English, Scots and French would find things reported in his pages far differently from the way they were used to hearing them within their own countries.[4] In his search for information he applied to James IV of Scotland for a list of the Scottish kings and their annals; but not even his friendship with Gavin Douglas could make him accept the historical theories of the latter, who traced the pedigree of the Scots down from the banished son of an Athenian king and Scota, daughter of the Egyptian Pharaoh.[4]

Vergil opened the Anglica Historia with a passage heavily influenced by Caesar\'s Commentarii de Bello Gallico:

**JOANNES MAIRE AS A PRINTER AND PUBLISHER (1626-1657)

Two books from the year 1626 proudly announce on their title-pages \'typis

Iohannis Maire\' or \'ex typographia Ioannis Maire\'. Apparently at some time in

that year Maire bought his own printing equipment. Since we do not know

exactly what it consisted of - the number of presses and the amount of type

(which was sold by the pound), we have no idea how much he paid for it.

Prices were not much higher than, for example, in 1609, when Barent Otsz. in

Amsterdam bought two presses, 1232 pounds of type and the rest of a printing

office for the sum of 550 guilders. Maire may haveinherited money from his father-in-law, which he then used for this specific

purpose.

Where Maire got his press(es) and type from is not clear, nor whether he

bought his press(es) new or second-hand. 2 New type and other utensils presented

no problem: it was on sale in sufficient quantities from typefounders. Two

printing offices in Leiden had closed the year before, those of Thomas Erpenius

and Petrus Mullerius, with whom Maire had been in close contact. Erpenius\'s

printing material, however, was sold to the Elsevirs, so there is a possibility that

at least some of Maire\'s material came from Mullerius (or even from others

from outside Leiden).3 Four years later, on 15 April 1630, Govert Basson,

\'Boeckverkoper en Drucker tot Leyden\', sold the stock of his bookshop.

According to a note on page 70 of the sale catalogue, \'the type, presses and

bookbinder\'s material\' were to be sold at a later date.

FAC ET SPERA

Joannes Maire

Publisher, Printer and Bookseller in Leiden

1603-1657

ONLY TEN FOUND WORLD WIDE IN NATIONAL LIBRARIES AND UNIVERSITIES
* WOODCUT DEVICE OF JOANNIS MAIRE WITH MOTTO \"FAC ET SPERA\" ON TITLE PAGE
***NOTE: COLOPHON \"LUGDUNI BATAVORUM TYPIS PHILIPPE DE CROY-Y ANNO 1649**Coat of arms pastedown of R.E. Maddison with motto \"Fays Ceque avien Que Pourra (sp) Actually French \" Fais Ce Que Dois Advienne que Pourra\" or ***Do what you have to do;Come what may***