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
1563. “Rudimenta Fidei Christianæ; addita est ecclesiasticarum
precum formula; Græc. Lat.” 12mo.
This is Calvin’s Catechism, translated into Greek by Henry himself.
“De abusu linguæ Græcæ in quibusdem vocibus, quas Latina usurpat
admonitio.” 8vo. Of this treatise Henry was author as well as
publisher.
1564. “Fragmenta Pœtarum Veterum Latinorum, quorum opera non
extant, Ennii, Accii, Lucilii” etc. This work was undertaken out of
regard for the memory of his father, by whom the fragments had been
collected, but who had not been able to complete the preparation of
them for the press.
1566. “La confirmation de la discipline ecclésiastique observée
dans les églises réformées du royaume de France; avec la résponse
aux objections proposées à l’encontre.” This was printed in Geneva.
In the same year, was issued a Greek _Anthology_ to which the publisher
added certain annotations of his own. By way of exciting the emulation
of young poets, Henry promised an addition of such Greek epigrams
as had been turned into Latin metre by himself and others, and as a
proof of his own facility, he introduced into his annotations to the
_Anthology_ above mentioned more than fifty translations of a single
distich.
The publisher, in thus assuming responsibilities as an author, could,
of course, not escape the criticism of other authors claiming authority
in the same studies. Vavasseur, for instance, says of Henry’s literary
productions: “His verse is more faulty than his prose, his numbers
are harsh and unpolished, his muse is often triflingly diffuse. He is
fluent in writing, but frequently not correct. He is both fastidious
and dictatorial, talking freely of others and much of himself, and
forgetting the modesty which becomes the author.”[28] It is fair
to remember that Father Vavasseur was a Jesuit and was possibly,
therefore, no dispassionate judge of the defects of the scholarly but
heretical publisher.
1566. “Herodoti Historiæ Libri IX. et de vita Homeri Libellus,
Latine. Folio.”
This edition comprises also the _Opuscula_ of Herodotus, Plutarch,
and Porphyrius, relating to Homer’s life and poesy.
M. de Sallengre relates that Henry Estienne, having printed at a great
expense the histories of Herodotus, his enemies and above all the
monks, who sought every occasion to bring trouble upon him, decried his
history as filled with fables _et de contes à dormir debout_, and that
Henry, to repel the effect of this accusation, undertook to justify
himself by the composition of the following treatise, _Apologia pro
Herodoto, sive Herodoti Historia fabulositatis accusata_.
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