SN - Officinae Ioannis ravisii textoris epitome - 1593

Rare edition of one of the most influential humanist encyclopedias of the Renaissance, conceived from the work of Jean Tixier de Ravisi (Ravisius Textor), a celebrated French grammarian, pedagogue and scholar of the 16th century -

This work presents itself as a vast methodological directory intended for students, teachers, preachers, jurists, writers and orators, bringing together in a condensed form a considerable body of knowledge borrowed from ancient Greek and Latin authors as well as from the main medieval and humanist writers -

Organized according to an alphabetical and thematic classification, it gathers thousands of notices on famous characters, ancient peoples, deities, mythological heroes, philosophers, emperors, kings, generals, scholars, poets, cities, rivers, mountains, political institutions, magistracies, customs, festivals, monuments, sciences, arts and liberal disciplines -

SN - Officinae Ioannis ravisii textoris epitome - 1593 - Antonium Gryphium -
412- 426- 79pp -

Good condition of the binding, book in its brown calf of the period, wear from use, some minor defects on the cover, missing spine and holes from dry insect, damaged headcap, split joints, worn corners, speckled red edges, spine with raised bands, manuscript titling on the title piece, gold-ruled frames surrounding the boards with a central motif -

Good interior condition, some foxing and holes from dry insect, dampstains, title page restored, vignette on the title, handsome initial, nice headings, endpapers in reasonable condition, good copy -

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