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Macrobius: Opera. Ioh. Isacius Pontanus recensuit: & Saturnaliorum libros MS. ope auxit, ordinavit, & Castigationes sive notas adiecit [...]  Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden], ex Officina Plantiniana, apud Franciscum Raphelengium 1597

Book, 8vo. pp. [viii], 697, [li]. Occasional light waterstaining towards the end of the volume. Early ownership signature of L. Gaillard on title. Contenporary vellum with yapp edges, slightly stained.

The works of the fourth century grammarian and Neoplatonist philosopher Macrobius, printed by Plantin’s protégé Raphelengien and containing the Saturnalia (wide ranging discussions, including some relating to the origins of the festival itself) and his commentary on “the Dream of Scipio”, narrated by Cicero at the end of his “Republic”.

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