IOULIANOU AUTOKRATOROS ta sôzomena. Juliani Imperatoris Opera quae extant omnia. A Petro Martinio Morentino Navarro, & Carolo Cantoclaro Consiliario Regio, Supplicumque libellorum in Curia Magistro, latina facta, emendata, & aucta. Eiusdem Martinii praefatio de vita Juliani. His accesserunt Epistolae aliquot nondum prius editae. Additus praeterea est a Carolo Cantoclaro liber eiusdem Iuliani peri basileias. & a Theodoro Marcilio humnos eis basilea Hêlion, ab iisdem recogniti & illustrati. Una cum variis lectionibus ex vetustis codicibus manuscriptis. (2, Bound with:) Dominici Baudii Orationes quae exstant, quarum maior pars nunc primum prodit, ex bibliotheca Iani Rutgersii. Edente Matthia Byvortio. (3, And:) Tractatus Synodicus ad Synodum Dordracenam. In quo de Synodorum sive Conciliorum Institutione, usu, causis, firmitate, authoritate, & praerogativa. Authore Laurentio Beyerlinck Archipresbytero Civitatis Antverpiensis. (4, And:) Oratio funebris in obitum Catholicae ac Potent by JULIANUS

Paris (Parisiis), Apud Dionysium Duvallium, 1583. Ad 2: Leiden, (Lugduni Batavorum), Typis Iacobi Marci, 1619. Ad 3: Antwerpen (Antverpiae), Apud Gulielmum a Tongris, sub signo Gryphi, 1619. Ad 4: (Brussels, (Bruxellae)), 1611. 8vo. 4 volumes in 1: Ad 1: (II title),11-342,(8 index),(2 blank) ;112 ; (VII),(1 blank);55,(1 blank); (VIII),56 p. Ad 2: (XVI),415,(1). Ad 3: 154,(6 index). Ad 4: (VI),80p. Vellum 18 cm (Ref: Ad 1: USTC 95045; Neue Pauly, Suppl. 2, p. 338; Hoffmann 2,492/93; Brunet 3,595/96; Graesse 496; Ebert 10986. Ad 2: STCN ppn 059594446; Ad 3: STCV 6701923; Ad 4: not yet in STCV) (Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Edges dyed red) (Condition: Binding age-toned and soiled. Some insignificant worm damage to the joint of the upper board. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Small oval stamp on the first title. Paper of 2 & 3 yellowing. Pinpoint and almost invisible wormhole in the blank lower corner of the first part of the first work) (Note: Ad 1: First more or less complete edition of the works of the Roman emperor Julian Apostata, 331-363, so called because he was the last emperor who rejected christianity. All copies of this edition start with page 9, so nothing is missing. It contains the Greek text of 'Misopogon', 'Epistulae', 'Convivium sive Caesares', accompanied by a Latin translation and notes, and the editiones principes (Greek only) of the second and the fourth 'logos', the 'humnos eis basilea Hêlion' and the 'peri basileias', and also of four recently found letters. § Julianus is the best documented ruler of late antiquity. He was a nephew of Constantine the Great, ca. 280-337 A.D., who had adopted christianity, and imposed it on his empire. For dynastic reasons Constantine wiped out in a massacre the boys family. In exile Julian covertly converted to neoplatonic polytheism. Julian was later, at the age of 24, appointed Caesar by the successor of Constantine, the emperor Constantius II. In this capacity he proved himself a successful general in Gaule, where he repeatedly drove back and crushed the invading Germanic tribes. After the death of Constantius in 361 the new emperor Julian openly adopted and promoted paganism. Hence the title 'Apostata', because he was the last emperor who rejected and challenged christianity. He tried to revive the pagan state cult, and to restore the traditional pagan religious practices. His reign however lasted only 18 months, from 361 till 363. 'Julian's voice can be heard memorably in his surviving writings, particularly in his letters, in a fierce denunciation of the people of Antioch (Misopogon, Beard-Hater), and in a satire on his imperial predecessors (Caesars), which ends with a vicious portrait of Christ'. (The Classical Tradition, Cambridge Massachusetts, 2010, p. 500) Ad 2: The erudite Flemish humanist and cosmopolitan scholar Dominicus Baudius, 1561-1613, was one of the best Neolatin epistolary talents of his time. He excelled also in iambic poetry. In 1603 he was appointed 'professor Eloquentiae' at the University of Leiden, where his friend J. Scaliger taught. He lectured also on Tacitus and on Roman law. Booze and women brightened up his life, but brought him besides financial problems, also troubles with students and officials of the University. In 1612 he finally succeeded in marrying a wealthy woman, but in August 1613 he went on a drinking binge for several days on end, and drank himself in no time, first to madness and then to death. Baudius was a much admired Orator. This collection Orations contains his 'Oratio ad Studiosos Leidenses, ob caedem commilitonis tumultuantes' (1609), his funeral speech for Scaliger (1609), 'Oratio' for Elizabeth, Queen of the English, and for King Jacob I and IV, his 'Dissertatio de Induciis Belli Belgici' (1613), on the realization of the twelve Year's Truce (1609-1621) during the War of the Netherlands against Spain, which work was commissioned by the Dutch State General, and Baudius' inaugural lecture 'Oratio Auspicalis in C. Plinii Panegyricum', and several prefaces that he wrote. Ad 3: At the end of the Twelve Year's Truce the 'Synode van Dordrecht' was held. This was an international Synod held by order of the State General of the young Dutch Republic in Dordrecht in 1618-1619, by the Dutch Reformed Church. Representatives from eight foreign Reformed churches were also invited. The aim was to end the religious controversy between the moderate Remonstrants, called the Arminians, the party of Jacobus Arminius, and the strictly orthodox calvinist Contraremonstrants, called after their leader Gomarus, the Gomarists. This conflict had developed in the previous years into a divisive element, which poisoned Dutch society and politics.The Remonstrants had oecumenic intentions, and were accused by their opponents to be papalists, and even to be political creatures of the Spanish enemy. Rome showed much signs of interest in the discord in the Netherlands during the Truce. It was hoped that many protestants would return to the Mother Church because of the discontent of many Dutchman with the vicious political and religious climate created by the orthodox calvinists. Some Roman catholic clerics, even Jesuits, attended this protestant Synode, to the annoyance of the orthodox party. There was a rumour that even monks from Antwerp were among the visitors. One of them could have been Laurens Beyerlinck, the writer of this 'Tractatus synodicus'. In february of 1619 the nuntius of the Pope reported that Beyerlinck was writing a book agains the Synode, and that this would be finished soon, and that he would send the Pope a copy. (See for Beyerlinck and the Synode: J. Lindeboom, 'Betrekkingen tusschen Roomsch-Katholieken en Remonstranten in den tijd der Synode van Dordrecht', in ; 'Nederlands archief voor kerkgeschiedenis', NS, Vol. 28 (1935-1936), p. 3-20) The Pope will not have learned much from this book, we fear, it is a survey of the phenomenon 'Synode' from antiquity till Beyerlinck's own time, and is a defence of catholic practices concerning synodes. The book seems to be rare. § Beyerlinck was born in Antwerp in 1578, where he was a canon of the cathedral, archpriest and censor of books. He died in 1627. He is best known for his encyclopedic survey 'Magnum Theatrum vitae humanae') Ad 4: The lamented queen in the title is Margaretha of Austria, 1584-1611, wife of the Spanish king Philip III. She was his cousin, a sister of Ferdinand II, the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. She was extremely pious, and Philip had, Wikipedia says, an 'affectionate, close relationship' with Margaret, and paid her additional attention after she bore him a son in 1605'. We belief so, for this booklet als contains nine 'elegiae' from the hand of her husband, headed 'Rex Philippus his novem elegiis amantissimae coniugi & amori suo parentat'. Whether he wrote the 20 pages himself or not, we could not find out) (Provenance: Bookplate: 'E libris gymnasio Mauritiano Magdeburgensi, a venerabili Carolo Funk, theol. doctore et gymnasii directore A. 1857 hereditate relictis'. Stamp on the title: 'Lehrerbibliothek, Ver. Dom.-u. Klostergymnasium'. The 'Vereinigte Dom- und Klostergymnasium' was founded in 1675, and still exists as 'Domgymnasium Magdeburg'. The most famous pupil of the precursor of this gymnasium, the 'Domschule', is without doubt Martin Luther) (Collation: ad 1: 1, A8, B4, C-V8, V12, X4 (gathering V12 has been added after the completion on the printing, and is signed irregulary, but it is complete and sound; gathering X4, the index, has been bound between the leaves V11 and V12 (blank) of this later added gathering); 2, A-8, B4, C-V8; 3, Aa-Gg8; â4 (leaf â4 verso blank); 4, Aaa-Ccc8, Ddd4 (leaf Ddd4 blank); Ad 2: A-2C8; Ad 3: A-K8; A4: *4 (minus blank leaf *4), A-E8) (Photographs on request)