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[Latin literature - Woman poet]
Centones de fidei nostrae misteriis e Maronis carminibus excerptum opusculum [...] per Ioannem Plateanum Augustodunensem Heduum [...] in gratiam studiosae iuuentutis editum.
Paris, G. Gourbin, 1576
€ 220 / 250
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Lot description
8vo: 27-[1 bl.] ff. (toned, some minor spotting or dampstaining).
Wr. Good copy.
Extr. rare school ed. of the 4th-c. Latin Roman Christian female poet Faltonia Betitia Proba. Her “centones” (a patchwork of verses extracted from several works of Virgil) were very popular in Christian instruction. Woodcut mark on title. Ref. Pettegree FB 83940. - Adams F-130. - Not in BP16, STC French (BL).
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