Pseudo Oppian (3 results)
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More images1786 Oppiani poemata de venatione et piscatione cum interpretatione Latina et scholiis accessit Eutechnii paraphrasis [IxeutikoÌn] et Marcelli Sidetae fragmentum de piscibus. Tomus I. Cynegetica ad quatuor mss. codd. fidem recensuit & suis auxit animadversionibus Jac. Nic. Belin de Ballu.
Oppian [Pseudo-Oppian]; Jacques-Nicolas Belin de Ballu [ed.]
Published by Sumptibus Bibliopolii Academici, Argentorati 1786
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Add to basketHardback. Condition: Good. A rare Latin scholarly edition of this epic poem on hunting, ascribed here to Oppian. With notes by French Hellenist Jacques-Nicolas Belin de Ballu. A very scarce copy of this scholarly edition, in Greek and Latin, edited by the French ancient Greek scholar Jacques-Nicolas Belin de Ballu.Two records of… this work in past auctions.Only this first part ('Cynegetica') was published.Rebacked, with the contemporary boards and later paper spine, with paper spine label. Bound with the half title.A rare work on this hunting poem once ascribed to Oppian, the 2nd-century Greco-Roman poet. The manuscripts of theCynegeticaall ascribe the poem toOppian, and it was not until 1776 that the first scholar,Johann Schneider, argued that Oppian'sHalieuticaand theCynegetica must have been composed by two different poets. In order to distinguish the creator, he is generally referred to as Pseudo-Oppian. Rebacked, with the contemporary boards and later paper spine, with paper spine label. Externally, rubbing and toning to the original boards, with a couple minor damp stains. Loss to the corners. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are toned with occasional scattered spots, heaviest to the first and last few leaves. 19th-century ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. Good. None (illustrator). book.
La chasse, poëme d'Oppien, traduit en françois par m. Belin de Ballu; avec des remarques: suivi d'un extrait de la grande histoire des animaux d'Eldémiri, par m. ***.
OPPIAN (of SYRIA, or PSEUDO-OPPIAN) & AL-DAMIRI, (KAMAL AL-DIN MUHAMMAD IBN MUSA).
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. Strasbourg, a la Librairie academique, 1787. 8vo. XVI,212,(2),CXLVII-CLIV,155-224 pp. + [extract from: Nouveaux mélanges de poésies grecques, auxquels on a joint deux morceaux de littérature angloise. Amsterdam & Paris, 1779]. 8vo. 127-210 pp. Near contemporary full green calf, spine richly tooled in gilt,…covers with elaborately ruled border, and with inner gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Spine faded and browned, with some cracking. Some occasional light foxing. Faint dampstain in lower margin of pp. 61-62 and 77-78. A small tear in lower margin of p. 93 and small stain in lower outer corner of pp. 135-136 in the second part. Extensive bibliographical manuscript notes in a 19th-century hand on front free endpaper. An attractive copy with Gunnar Brusewitz's signature. Souhart Bibliographie générale des ouvrages sur la chasse 360. Ceresoli Bibliografia delle opere italiane latine e greche su la caccia 391. Thiébaud Bibliographie des ouvrages français sur la chasse 698. Schweiger Handbuch der classischen Bibliographie 218. Third French translation of Oppian's " ", the previous appeared in 1575 and 1690 respectively. This ancient poem on hunting was earlier attributed to the same Oppian, an ancient Greek writer from Cilicia, who wrote a poem on the fishermen called " ". Research has found that the present work has another author, probably from Apamea in Syria. His name is not known, but he is mostly referred to as Pseudo-Oppian or Oppian of Syria. The "Cynegetica" is written in the same form as "Halieutika", so the author was evidently familiar with that work. The time of its conception is uncertain, but probably it was written around 215 AD. The translator of the "Cynegetica", Jacques Nicolas Belin de Ballu (1753-1815), was a noted professor of ancient languages in Bordeaux and became an associate member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1787. He later emigrated to Russia and became professor of Greek in St. Petersburg. The second text, presented as "La grande histoire des animaux", is a translation of excerpts from "Hayat al-hayawan", commonly translated as "The Life of Animals" by the Cairo-based scholar Kamal al-Din Muhammad ibn Musa al-Damiri (1341-1405). The translation of al-Damiri is an early work by noted orientalist Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758-1838). On the title page, Belin de Ballu is named as "conseiller a la cour des monnoies", a position which was also held by Silvestre de Sacy from 1781. The final extract from "Nouveaux mélanges de poésies grecques" contains the texts of "L'enlèvement d'Hélène" by Coluthus of Lycopolis and "La prise de Troye" by Tryphiodorus, both translated by Scipion Allut (-1786).
