Houtsma E O (3 results)

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Tome 2, pp. 151-161, Illus, Extracted from orig vol, begins with title page, trimmed & stapled, thus is like a pamphlet, VG.

Van Doesburgh, Leiden, 1870. 78p. Theses. Sewn. Binding weak. Cover worn. Diss.Academia Lugduno-Batava.

8vo, pp. [4], 87, [1]; printed paper wrappers pasted down over later cloth-covered boards; very good and sound. The Cambridge Rhetorical Lexicon consists of "a series of marginal notes in the Cambridge manuscript of Harpocration .The first scholar to realize that it was an independent work by someone other than Harpocration himself was Meier, who provided the third edition of the LRhC in 1844. Before that, the work had been published by Dobree in Cambridge, once together with Harpocration's lexicon (1822, repr. Leipzig 1823) and once separately (1832). After another edition by Nauck in 1867, the Dutch scholar E.O. Houtsma published the LRhC for the fifth and, so far, last time as his doctoral thesis in 1870; the text is accompanied by a critical apparatus and valuable notes on almost every entry with remarks on the restitution of the text and the similarities to other lexica as well as references to the passages of classical authors quoted by the anonymous writer. All these editions are difficult to come by" (ancientworldonline[dot]com).…