ARTEMIDORUS: NIPHUS. HORAPOLLO. Artemidori de somniorum interpretatione libri quinque a Iano Cornario latina lingua conscripti. Basel, Froben, 1544.
Bound with:- NIPHUS Augustinus. De auguriis Lib. II. His adiecimus Ori Apollinis Niliaci dehieroglyphicis notis Lib. II. a Bernard Vicentino latinitate donatos. Basel, J. Hervagius, 1534 8vo: two works in one volume, devices on title-page and last leaf of each. Contemporary calf over wooden boards, panelled with blind stamped rolls of flowers and leaves. Hinges very worn but sewing absolutely firm, portion of leather (40mm. long & 15mm. wide at largest point) missing from upper cover, metal and leather clasps intact. Ownership inscription dated 1710 on title-page; occasional marginal annotations in a contemporary hand together with four sketches of arms appropriate to the 'hieroglyphs' described. In spite of the defects to the binding noted above, a nice copy in its first binding. The Greek text of the Oneirocrita had been published by Aldus in 1518. The first Latin translation, by Cornaro, was first published by Froben and Episcopius in 1539: this is a reprint (?re-issue) of that edition. Durling 322 & 3348. Nifo's treatise on augury, here in second edition, was the chief work on the subject written during the sixteenth century. He devotes the first book to describing the auguries in which the ancient authors believed - Aristotle, Pliny, Plutarch and the Peripatetics. In the second book he gives his own opinions and criticisms of earlier views. The work is fully analysed by Thorndike VI pp.484-486. Hervagius here adds to it Horapollo in Trebatio's translation which, more concise than Fasanino's was the version in which this influential text spead through Europe.
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