Books and their makers during the Middle Ages : $b A study of the conditions of the production and distribution of literature from the fall of the Roman empire to the close of the seventeenth century, Vol. IIPutnam, George Haven
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Books and their makers during the Middle Ages : $b A study of the conditions of the production and distribution of literature from the fall of the Roman empire to the close of the seventeenth century, Vol. II
Putnam, George Haven
Books -- History -- 400-1450; Copyright; Freedom of the press -- History -- To 1500; Manuscripts; Printers
These ventures were followed by similar undertakings on the part
of Colines and Badius. The former issued editions of _Sophocles,
Aristophanes, Demosthenes_, and _Lucian_, while from the press of the
latter came the great _Commentary_ of Budæus on the Greek language, and
the _Areopagiticus_ of Isocrates.
Another Greek printer of enterprise was Christianus Wechel, who was
a friend of Erasmus. He issued, in 1529, a further edition of the
frequently printed Greek _Grammar_ of Gaza, and, later, many of the
_Opuscula_ of Galen, the latter printed in the original Greek with
Latin versions. Wechel came into trouble in 1534 for having sold
the treatise of Erasmus _De esu interdicto Carnium_, which had been
censured by the Theological Faculty.
In the year 1530, the production of Greek books in Paris was taken up
energetically by Gerardus Morrhius Campensis, who dates his impressions
from the College of the Sorbonne. His list includes a _Lexicon
Græco-Latinum_, the _Rhetorica_ and _Poetica_ of Aristotle, the _Ajax_
of Sophocles, and a number of the essays of Galen. The titles of the
works selected by these earlier Parisian printers have interest as
indicating the direction of the studies pursued at the time in the
University, or which were taken up in connection with special scholarly
undertakings outside of the routine university curriculum. While these
printer-publishers were usually able to secure, in preparing their
editions for the press, the services of scholarly editors (or, as they
were more frequently called, correctors), it is evident that no little
original learning as well as scholarly judgment was required on the
part of the publishers themselves in the selection of the texts and
in the supervision of the correctors, while in the majority of cases
the publishers added to their volumes original work of their own. Thus
to the _Lexicon Græco-Latinum_, Morrhius had contributed an elaborate
Latin preface, while to the _Interpretatio Didymi in Odysseam_, he
prefixed an analytical introduction in Greek.
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