CONTINENTAL BOOKS

DANISH KINGS
21. ERNST, Heinrich, editor. Regum aliquot Daniae genealogia et
series anonymi, ex veteri codice M. S. chronici cuiusdam ecclesiae
Laudunensis, quod definit in anno Christi MCCXVIII ... nunc
primum edidit, emendavit, ac notis illustravit, in quibus hanc partem
historiae Danicae veritati asseruit, et a variorum corruptelis liberavit.
Una cum epistola de fructu e lectione Historiarum petendo ... Sorø,
Henricus Crusius for Georgius Holstius, 1646.
8vo, pp. [ii], 126; lightly browned but a very good copy in
contemporary quarter vellum over marbled boards, somewhat worn;
contemporary ink note at head of title.
£175
First edition of this account of
nine Danish kings of the tenth
to the thirteen centuries,
including Cnut the Great,
edited by the Danish jurist and
philologist Heinrich Ernst
(1603-65). Ernst was tutor to
Valdemar-Christian of
Schleswig-Holstein, son of
Christian IV of Denmark,
taught at Sorø Academy, and
served as an assessor at the
Danish chancellery and as a
judge at the Supreme Court.
COPAC shows three copies
(British Library, Oxford,
NLS); Worldcat records only
one US copy, at Columbia.
COLLATED AGAINST A MANUSCRIPT EXEMPLAR
22. EUGIPPIUS, Abbas (J. HEROLD, editor). D. Eugypii Abbatis
Aphricani Thesaurorum ex D. Augustini operibus … tomus primus (-
secundus) ... Basel, Robert Winter, 1542.
Two vols in one, folio, vol. I: ff. [26], 116, [2, last blank]; vol. II: ff. [28], 115
(i.e. 111), [1]; roman letter, woodcut initials, printer’s device on title to vol. I
and at the end of each vol.; a fine copy in contemporary blind-stamped calf
over wooden boards, catches and clasps, red edges, lettered in manuscript on
fore-edge; joints cracked, but sewing strong.
£2500
First edition of this six-century ‘treasury’ of the writings of St Augustine,
containing selections from over forty of his works, including the De civitate
Dei and the Confessions, and providing the best evidence we have for the way
Augustine was read at that time. The compiler, Eugippius (c. 455-535), was
from North Africa – like Augustine himself – and became Abbot of
Lucallanum, near Naples. He was probably involved in the revision of the
Vulgate text of the Gospels. His text was very widely read throughout the
Middle Ages.
Almost the whole of vol. I of this copy (103 of 116 leaves) has been annotated
in the margins by two contemporary readers, identifiable by their
different hands, who have collated the text against a manuscript exemplar.
The provenance of the manuscript is not given; it is simply referred to as
‘noster manuscriptus’ or in ‘exemplari manuscripto.’ The annotations detail
frequent textual variations and corrections (e.g. voluntates / voluptates;
immortali / immutabili; habiliorem / avidiorem; a terrenis / aeternitatis, etc.),
the re-ordering of chapters, and the omission of words or whole passages. A
few annotations represent changes to the Greek (e.g. πασχειν for παθειν).
Adams E1026. COPAC records copies at the British Library, Cambridge and
Oxford only.
See illustration overleaf.