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Bentley, Philostratus, and the German printers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

Tomas Hägg
Tomas Hägg
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University of Bergen, Norway
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Referring to a copy of F. Morel's edition of Philostratus (Paris 1608), which contains MS notes by Richard Bentley and bears the shelfmark 679.g. 13, the British Museum General Catalogue of Printed Books clxxxix (London 1963) Col. 253 states:

Imperfect; wanting all that in the preceding copy follows the work of Euscbius against Hierocles. The first four leaves are inserted from another edition, and between the fourth and thirteenth page the leaves are wanting.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 102 , November 1982 , pp. 214 - 216
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1982

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References

1 P. xv with n. 2 Cf. also Kayser, in his Heidelberg edn of Vitae Sophistarum (1838) xxxviii f.Google Scholar, and RE xx.I (1941) 174Google Scholar.

2 The printer has demonstrated one of his Greek founts on p. 1–2, another on p. 3–4. The first Latin fount has been used on p. 1–3, the second on p. 4 only. The second Greek fount is without ligatures, apparently a very early example of its kind. I wish to thank Dr S. Fogelmark (Lund) for discussion and elucidation of this and several other points in the present paper.

3 The present writer, who is preparing a new critical edition of Vita Apollonii for the Bibliotheca Teubneriana (Leipzig), would be grateful to be notified if someone knows of the existence of more pages of Bentley's unfinished edition: Professor Tomas Hägg, Department of Classics, Sydnesplass 9, N–5000, Bergen, Norway.

4 In Olearius' edn of Philostratus (Leipzig 1709) p. x, in Fabricius' Bibl. Gr. (cf. below), and in the Bentley Bibliography by A. T. Bartholomew (Cambridge 1908) no. 138.

5 Quoted from The Correspondence of Richard Bentley i (London 1842) 87Google Scholar.

6 Dr Fogelmark calls attention to the similarity of the Greek fount used on p. 1–2 of the second specimen with that used for the edition of Dionysius of Halicarnassus which appeared with Chr. Günther in Leipzig in 1691.

7 Eloquently introduced in Tentzel's, W. E.Monatliche Unterredungen, June 1691, 521–6Google Scholar. On Heinrich Muhlius (1666–1733) and his mainly theological career, cf. Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie xxii (Leipzig 1885) 481 f.Google Scholar

8 Op. cit. (n. 5) 89.

9 Op. cit. (n. s) 11. The earlier edition of Bentley's, letters, Richardi Bentleii et doctorum virorum epistolae partim mutuae (Leipzig 1825) 127Google Scholar, reads ‘which I shall send out this next year’, which may have misled Monk.

10 Op. cit. (n. 5) 46.

11 Vol. iv. 2 (Hamburg 1711) 53. The whole passage is reprinted, without corrections, in the 3rd edn, vol. v (Hamburg 1796) 555 f.

12 November 1693, 882: ‘Dannenhero ist kein Zweiffel, der Philostratus, so ietzo in Leipzig mit seiner neuen Lateinischen Version und Annotationibus in Druck kommet, werde bey der gelehrten Welt angenehm und willkommen seyn.’

13 Cf. op. cit. (n. 5) 18 (Feb. 1691?), 164(15 Feb. 1698), 194 (20 Aug. 1702: ‘scias me toto hoc biennio vix unum et alterum diem vacavisse humanioribus literis’).

14 Op. cit. (n. 5) 158, 175.

15 Op. cit. (n. 5) 138–43.

16 Op. cit. (n. 5) 175 f.