WOWER, JOAN A. (WOWERIUS).

De Polymathia Tractatio: integri Operis de studiis Veterum. Apospasmation (Greek). Editio Nova, cum Praefatione Jacobi Thomasii. Autoris Vita & Elogia: In Polymathiam item Tabellæ Synopticæ, cum Indice rerum ac Verborum.

Leipzig, Laurentius Sigism. Cornerus, 1665.

Contemp. full vellum, but back to wide as another work has been taken out. Engraved frontisp. (30),391,(30) pp. Some light browning to leaves. On verso of frontispiece a note in contemporary hand.

Scarce second edition of Wower's Polymathia presented as a fragment of a greater work he was writing "De Studia Veterum", i.e. on the intellectual pursuits of the ancients, or on the studies to which the ancients devoted themselves, by which he meant the "artes liberales" as appears from the plan of the work printed at the beginning of the "fragment". The "studia veterum" in Wower's eyes, the model and the point of departure from any studia of the moderns. The work concerns one of the great "artes liberales", namely "Grannatice". He tries to extract a theory of "grammatice" out of the staggering testimonies of ancient testimonies (from the third BC to the end of Antiquity), as though they were all campatible with each other, which they are not. (Benetto Bravo, Critice and Historical Criticism). - Not in Brunet . Not in Graesse.

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