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Also in the collection is an edition of Proclus’ commentaries on Plato’s Timaeus and Republic printed in Basel in 1534 and edited by Simon Grynaeus (1493-1541). The famous bibliophile Thomas Dibdin reports that Grynaeus visited England, staying with Sir Thomas More, and during that visit came to Oxford where he was shown manuscripts of Proclus’ commentaries and was given permission to take them away so he could publish them. This edition also contains some fine woodcut initials that were produced by Hans Holbein, who was active in Basel at the time as a designer of engravings, title pages and initials. Woodcut initial by Hans Holbein Other books in the collection and put on display include an edition of the complete works of Plato from 1556, and a copy of the Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius (1536). The Parisian printer Robert Estienne is represented by his large four-volume folio edition of Cicero, printed in 1538, and Wolfson also has a copy of his edition of Virgil (1532). Both are especially fine examples of early printing and typography. The final book included in the display was an edition of Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura printed in Paris in 1514. The edition is noteworthy for containing the first modern commentary on Lucretius, although Lucretius’s modern bibliographer Cosmo Gordon has noted that ‘collectors have not been eager to acquire its pages, where a 117
few lines of text are surrounded by a sea of comment or consist sometimes of solid comment with no text at all’. The first line of Lucretius surrounded by a sea of commentary The copy at Wolfson may also be noteworthy in another way, for across the top of the title page is the signature of ‘Petrus doosterlinc a Gandavo’. This may be Petrus a Gandavo (c. 1486-1572), i.e. Pedro de Gante or Peter of Ghent, a Franciscan Friar, relative of King Charles V, and one of the earliest European missionaries to Mexico. He is remembered for founding the first school in the Americas and as the author of Doctrina cristiana en langua mexicana, published in 1547. If this identification is correct, it is possible that this copy of Lucretius travelled with Peter to the New World and back in the middle of the sixteenth century. There are approximately eighty early printed books (before 1800) in the Hornik collection and here I have briefly mentioned just eight in some way connected to ancient philosophy. One could easily imagine other selections (and perhaps displays) focused on ancient history, theology and early bibles, the Renaissance, and the history of scholarship – topics all represented in the collection. 118
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few lines of text are surrounded by a sea of comment or consist sometimes of solid<br />
comment with no text at all’.<br />
The first line of Lucretius surrounded by a sea of commentary<br />
The copy at Wolfson may also be noteworthy in another way, for across the top of<br />
the title page is the signature of ‘Petrus doosterlinc a Gandavo’. This may be Petrus<br />
a Gandavo (c. 1486-1572), i.e. Pedro de Gante or Peter of Ghent, a Franciscan Friar,<br />
relative of King Charles V, and one of the earliest European missionaries to Mexico.<br />
He is remembered for founding the first school in the Americas and as the author<br />
of Doctrina cristiana en langua mexicana, published in 1547. If this identification is<br />
correct, it is possible that this copy of Lucretius travelled with Peter to the New<br />
World and back in the middle of the sixteenth century.<br />
There are approximately eighty early printed books (before 1800) in the Hornik<br />
collection and here I have briefly mentioned just eight in some way connected<br />
to ancient philosophy. One could easily imagine other selections (and perhaps<br />
displays) focused on ancient history, theology and early bibles, the Renaissance, and<br />
the history of scholarship – topics all represented in the collection.<br />
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