SCALIGER, Joseph Justus (1540-1609). De emendatione temporum...
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SCALIGER, Joseph Justus (1540-1609). De emendatione temporum. Leiden: Officina Plantiniana, Raphelengius, 1598.
Expurgated copy, with manuscript annotations and cancellations made in accordance with the prescriptions of the Congregation of the Index, of the work that revolutionised chronological studies and laid the foundations of modern historical chronology. Through the systematic comparison of Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Arabic and other Eastern sources, Scaliger developed an innovative method for reconciling the different calendars and dating systems of antiquity, making possible a more rigorous reconstruction of universal history. The De emendatione temporum exercised a profound influence on philology, ancient history, numismatics and the history of science, establishing itself as one of the fundamental works of European scholarship between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Folio (345 × 215 mm). Text printed in Roman, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic and other Eastern types. Woodcut device of the Officina Plantiniana on the title-page, numerous figures, diagrams, typographical tables and woodcut initials. Nineteenth-century binding with vellum spine and gilt-lettered label (as in the copy described). Provenance: copy expurgated of passages deemed contrary to Catholic doctrine; the title-page bears the inscriptions auctoris damnatis ... prohibitum cum expurgatione tamen permissione . (1)
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SCALIGER, Joseph Justus (1540-1609). De emendatione temporum. Leiden: Officina Plantiniana, Raphelengius, 1598.
Expurgated copy, with manuscript annotations and cancellations made in accordance with the prescriptions of the Congregation of the Index, of the work that revolutionised chronological studies and laid the foundations of modern historical chronology. Through the systematic comparison of Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Arabic and other Eastern sources, Scaliger developed an innovative method for reconciling the different calendars and dating systems of antiquity, making possible a more rigorous reconstruction of universal history. The De emendatione temporum exercised a profound influence on philology, ancient history, numismatics and the history of science, establishing itself as one of the fundamental works of European scholarship between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Folio (345 × 215 mm). Text printed in Roman, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic and other Eastern types. Woodcut device of the Officina Plantiniana on the title-page, numerous figures, diagrams, typographical tables and woodcut initials. Nineteenth-century binding with vellum spine and gilt-lettered label (as in the copy described). Provenance: copy expurgated of passages deemed contrary to Catholic doctrine; the title-page bears the inscriptions auctoris damnatis ... prohibitum cum expurgatione tamen permissione . (1)
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