| The complete title to this work is: ADAGIA, ID EST; PROVERBIORUM, PAR OE MIARUM ET PARABOLARUM OMNIUM, QUAE APUD GRAECOS, LATINOS, HEBRAEOS, ARABES, &c. In usu suerunt, Collectio absolutissima, in locos communes digesta. In qua continentur suis quaequae locis accurato ordine posita: Des. Erasmi Roterodami Chiliades. Hadriani Junii, Medici Adagia. Joann. Alexander Brassicani JC. Symmicta. Joannis Ulpli JC. Epitome. Petri Godoiredi Catcassonensis JC. Proverbia. Gulielmi Canteri JC. Adagia Juridica. Victoris Giselini, Medici Specimen adagiorum. Henrici Stephani Animadversiones in Erasmum. Gilberti Cognati Nozareni Sylloge. M.Grunnii Corocottae Porcelli Testamentum Polydori Vergilii Adagia. Caroli Bovilli Proverbia. Hadriani Turnebi & M.Antonii Mureti excerpta Adagia. Gulielmi Gentii JC. Adagia Juridica. Melchioris Neipei Bredenani Adagia. Quorum Omnium Ac Singulorum Proverbiaet Adagia juxta locorum communium seriem, Erasmicis, praepositocujusq Authoris nomine, commodissima methodo subjunguntur. Adjecti sunt Indices Tres accuratissimi, primus Locorum Communium, secundus Proverboirum juxta ordinam Alphabeti, Tertius Rerum & Verborum. The author, Desiderius Erasmus, was born circa 1466 at Rotterdam, and died in 1536. He was an ordained Catholic priest and was also a prolific writer. The Adagia was a collection of Greek and Latin adages. The leather cover is loose over the spine, allowing you to see the fragments of an earlier hand-illuminated manucript which were used in the binding of this volume. |
