Moeridis Atticistae lexicon atticum, cum Jo. Hudsoni, Steph. Bergleri, Claud. Sallierii, aliorumque notis. Secundum ordinem MSStorum restituit, emendavit, animadversionibusque illustravit, Joannes Piersonus. Accedit Aelii Herodiani Philetaerus, e Ms. nunc primum editus, item ejusdem fragmentum e MSS. emendatius atque auctius. by MOERIS ATTICISTES

Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Apud Petrum van der Eyk et Cornelium de Pecker, 1759. 8vo. (4),LXVI,(2),(44 index),480 p. Vellum. 21 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 240337786; Brunet 3,1788: 'Bonne édition, dans laquelle le texte a été rétabli d'après des manuscrits'; Graesse 4,558: 'la meilleure édition'; Ebert 14181: 'The best edition. A new recension from MSS. and restored to its original order'; Neue Pauly 8, col. 343/4: still the first listed edition) (Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Boards with blind ruled borders, 5 gilt floral ornaments on each board) (Condition: Back soiled. Small name in ink on the title. Gathering 2H-2K, the index, bound out of order immediately after the praefatio; pencil annotations on the endpapers) (Note: This edition is according to Klaus Alpers in the Neue Pauly, (2001) s.v. 'Lexikographie' a very important contribution to Greek lexicography. (NP. 15.130) Johannes Pierson was a much promising Dutch philologist, born in 1731, who died of smallpox in 1759 in Leeuwarden, where he was the Rector of the 'Schola Latina' since 1755. At the university of Franeker, where the Renaissance of Dutch Greek studies had begun, he was a pupil of J.C. Valckenaer and Is. Schrader. In 1751 he matriculated at the University of Leyden to hear T. Hemsterhuis. Hemsterhuis advised his students to use for their studies especially the lexica from antiquity. The ancient lexicographers could be of great use for the amending of texts of classical authors, and they were of great help to gain a profound knowledge of the Greek language and its vocabulary. Valckenaer chose Ammonius, Pierson Moeris Atticistes. This was a great age for ancient lexicographers. In 1754 David Ruhnkenius published his edition of the Platonic dictionary of Timaeus Sophista. (Sandys 2,461; NNBW 3, 976/77; Gerretzen, Schola Hemsterhusiana, 1940, p. 46 & 100) § Moeris (Moiris), a Greek grammarian and lexicographer from ca. 200 AD. He compiled a lexicon for the use of correct Attic under the title 'Lexeis Attikôn kai Hellênôn kata stoicheion'. Examples of correct Greek are taken from Plato, Thucydides, Xenophon, the Attic orators and Aristophanes. (NP 8,343/4). The last 50 p. of Pierson's edition are filled with the 'Editio Princeps' of the Philetaerus of Herodian. Nowadays this ancient lexicon is only ascribed to Herodian, one of the most important Greek grammarians, who lived in the 2nd cent. A.D. (cf. NP 5,465/6)) (Provenance: Name, 'Brinkgreve 165' in faint pencil on the upper margin of the title. This is probably also the person who wrote the Greek pencil annotations on the endpapers. The Dutchman Dr. Marius Roelof Johan Brinkgreve, 1888-1966, was a teacher of classics at the gymnasium of Utrecht, (1912-1919), later, till 1937, he was director of 'Koninklijke Begeer' a silver-factory in the small town of Voorschoten. He was ca. 1933 party offical of the 'Nationale Unie', and in 1934 leader of the 'Algemeene Nederlandsche Fascisten Bond'. During WW II he sided with the German oppressor. (See for Brinkgreve, 'Repertorium kleine politieke partijen, 1918-1967'; also G. Brinkgreve, 'Schrijvend in 't Aalsmeerder veerhuis, opstellen van Geurt Brinkgreve', 1982, p. 93/105, with a portrait. On the title also the name of 'Mehler'. This must be the German classical scholar Eugen Mehler, 1826-1896, who studied in Bonn under Ritschl and Welcker, but nevertheless left for Leiden after his dissertation to continue his studies, attracted by the fame of Cobet. The rest of his life, 50 years, he spent in the Netherlands, as rector of several Gymnasia. From 1871 till his death he was rector of the Gymnasium at Zwolle. He wrote widely for several reviews, and produced a host of schoolbooks for Dutch gymnasia, often revised and adapted editions of German schoolbooks. Until recently every Dutch boy or girl who started reading Homer used his lexicon 'Woordenboek op de gedichten van Homerus', first published in Sneek in 1882) (Collation: *-4*8, 5*4, 2H-2I8, 2K6, A-G8) (Photographs on request)