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Syntaxis, cum annotationibus J. Nemii, 1562

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Author Desiderius ERASMUS
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Note 1 Listed in M 296, folio 17v: 'Syntaxis Erasmi cum Annot[ationibus] Io. Nemii in 8⁰ A⁰ 1562, f[euilles] 6 [= meaning thus 96 pages], [price:] stuivers ½'.
Note 2 No copy known. Not in RDB and BB.
Note 3 In his article on J. Nemius in Biographie Nationale [de Belgique], 15, Column 587, P. Bergmans mentions: 'Syntaxis de Erasmi Roterodami adnotatiunculis fere Erasmicis illustrata, metricisque numeris astricta: cui accessit carmen de octo figuris constructionis, deque partium ordinatione, Antwerp, G. Silvius, 1562, 8⁰'. The mention in 'Quelques notes sur Guillaume Silvius, imprimeur d'Anvers (1560-1579)' in Bulletin du bibliophile belge, 1862, page 128, is still more detailed: 'Syntaxis D. Erasmi Roterodami adnotativncvlis fere Erasmicis illustrata, metrisque numeris astricta: cui accessit carmen de octo figuris constructionis deque partium ordinatione. Auctore Ioanne Nemio, scolae principalis apud Amstelredamos Archididascalo. Antverpiae, ex officina Gulielmi Silvij typographi regij. An. M.D.LXII. In 8⁰. Au titre la marque ordinaire; au vo l'epître dédic, de Jean Nemius à Jean Aegidius, datée de Nimègue Calendis Septembris 1550, Erasmus Lectoribus, feuill. 2.-Texte, feuill. 3-48. A la fin de l'ouvrage le typographe a reproduit sa marque'. Only known copy, in KU Leuven Libraries, destroyed in war. Very likely the work mentioned in Ms. 296. It must have been printed by Plantin for Silvius but as was often the case for this kind of editions some copies can have shown Plantin's imprint on the title-page.
Note 4 The prototype of this edition may have been: Syntaxis D. Erasmi Roterodami olim apud Novos Gelriae Magos adnotatiunculis aspersa, Iamque novis accessionibus in Hollandicae pubis usum adaucta, metricisque numeris absoluta: sic tamen ut ingeminata modum non excedat, sed absolutissimi libelli nomenclaturam facile tueatur, Autore Ioanne Nemio scholae Principalis apud Amstelredamos Archididascalo…'s Hertogenbosch, Joannes a Turnhout, 1556, 8⁰, 56 pages (Nauwelaerts, 'De geschriften van Joannes Nemius' in De Gulden Passer, 28, 1950, page 108).
Note 5 Foppens, Bibliotheca Belgica, II, 1739, page 701, notes 'Annotationes [J. Nemii] in Syntaxin Erasmi. Ibidem [= Antverpiae, Plant.] in 8' without giving further details.
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