Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia

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Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia is a series linked to Humanistica Lovaniensia. Journal of Neo-Latin Studies and contains proceedings of conferences, exhibition catalogues and critical text editions, all in the field of Neo-Latin Studies.

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Orders should be sent to the publisher: Leuven University Press (http://www.kuleuven.be/upers/), Minderbroederstraat 4, bus 5602, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium (Fax: +32 16 325352; e-mail).

Editorial Board

General Editor: Prof. Dr. Gilbert Tournoy
Editors: Prof. Dr. Dirk Sacré; Dr. Godelieve Tournoy-Thoen.
 
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Volumes

1. G. Tournoy (ed.), Iohannis Harmonii Marsi. De rebus italicis deque triumpho Ludovici XII Regis Francorum Tragoedia
    [1978 - IV-76 p. - ISBN 90 6186 064 4 - € 10]
 

2. J. IJsewijn, J. Roegiers (eds.), Charisterium H. De Vocht (1878-1978)
    [1979 - VI-164 p. - ISBN 90 6186 085 7 - € 10]
 

3. J. IJsewijn, G. Vande Putte, R. Denayer (eds.), Judocus J.C.A. Crabeels. Odae Iscanae - Schuttersfeest te Overijse (1781)
    [1981 - VI-76 p. - ISBN 90 6186 113 6 - € 10]
 

4. C. Coppens, J. IJsewijn, J. Roegiers, G. Tournoy (eds.), Erasmiana Lovaniensia. Catalogus van de Erasmus-tentoonstelling in de Centrale Bibliotheek te Leuven, november-december 1986
    [1986 - 315 p. - ISBN 90 6186 226 4 - € 30]
 

5. J. IJsewijn, Companion to Neo-Latin Studies. Part I : History and Diffusion of Neo-Latin Literature. Second entirely rewritten edition
    [1990 - XII-370 p. - ISBN 90 6186 366 X - € 40]

In 1977 the first edition of the Companion to Neo-Latin Studies appeared. It evidently filled a long-felt lacuna, and was soon out of print. The first part of the second entirely rewritten edition came out in 1990; it consists in a concise, but comprehensive history of Neo-Latin writings (both literary and scientific) arranged according to geographical and cultural areas. Due to the explosive growth of Neo-Latin studies in the last decades, it took a couple of years to rewrite and to expand the second part (Part II: Literary, Linguistic, Philological and Editorial Questions; see nr. 14).

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6. A. Coebergh van den Braak (ed.), Petrus Bloccius. Praecepta formandis puerorum moribus perutilia
    [1991 - XII-88 p. - ISBN 90 6186 435 6 - € 19]
 

7. T. Sacré, G. Tournoy (eds.), Pegasus Devocatus. Studia in Honorem C. Arri Nuri sive Harry C. Schnur Accessere Selecta Eiusdem Opuscula Inedita
    [1992 - X-272 p. - ISBN 90 6186 474 7 - € 25]
 

8. G. Tournoy, J. Roegiers, C. Coppens (eds.), Vives te Leuven. Catalogus van de tentoonstelling in de Centrale Bibliotheek te Leuven 28 juni-20 augustus 1993
    [1993 - XIX-291 p. - ISBN 90 6186 555 7 - € 45]
 

9. E. Haan (ed.), Phineas Fletcher. Locustae vel Pietas Iesuitica. With Introduction, Translation and Commentary
    [1996 - LXXX-151 p. - ISBN 90 6186 737 1 - € 24]

The bilingual English poet Phineas Fletcher (1582-1650) is the author of a short Latin epic on the Gunpowder Plot (1605).
Mrs. Estelle Haan has provided the first critical edition based on all three manuscripts known and the original printed edition (Cambridge, 1627).
After the introduction with an essay on the Gunpowder Plot literature in Latin (including poets, such as John Milton) follows the critical edition of Locustae vel Pietas Iesuitica with an English translation and an extensive commentary.

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10. A.M. Coebergh van den Braak, E. Rummel (eds.), The Works of Engelbertus Schut Leydensis (ca. 1420-1503)
[1997 - X-146 p. - ISBN 90 6186 788 6 - Euro € 24]

Engelbertus Schut Leydensis (ca. 1420-1503) belongs to the first generation of humanists of the Low Countries. After the conclusion of his studies in Cologne (1435-1438) he returned to Leiden, his native city. In 1458 he was appointed 'rector' of the municipal 'groote school' (since 1575 named 'Latin School', and since 1838 the municipal 'Gymnasium'), a position which he held for six years. He was regarded as a scholar, an authority both nationally and internationally. He was in touch with, among others, Cornelius Aurelius, Anthonius Haneron, Wessel Gansfort and Desiderius Erasmus.
Schut is the author of five Latin school-books, one about the art of writing and the drawing up of letters (De Arte Dictandi, ca. 1.500 hexameters). Two works (in prose) about the figures of speech (Colores Rhetoricales and Tractatus De Elegancia, Composicione, Dignitate Dictatus). Than two little reading-exercises for use in the class (De Moribus Mense and De Pane Dyalogus, each of them ca. 100 hexameters). The last work is an edition of Haneron's Diasynthetica, revised by Schut who added short headings (in hexameters) for each chapter, and also a prologue and an epilogue.
Mr. Antonius Coebergh van den Braak has provided the first critical edition of these works.
After the general introduction to Schut and his works follows the critical edition of the five works, each of them with a short introduction and with notes.

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11. H. Schulte Herbrüggen, Morus ad Craneveldium Litterae Balduinianae Novae. More to Cranevelt - New Bauduin Letters
    [1997 - XX -245 p. - ISBN 90 6186 792 4 - € 24]

The collection of original humanist letters to Frans van Cranevelt, discovered and acquired for K.U.Leuven in 1989, covers the years between 1520 and 1523, thus preceding the two collections edited by De Vocht in 1928. The new letters are litterae amicales too, written by Cranevelt’s friends, distinguished foreigners as Erasmus, Morus and Vives or familiar Netherlandish humanists like Fevinus, Laurinus, Geldenhouwer, or Clodius.
The present edition selects from the collection seven new letters from Sir Thomas More. In order to keep them in perspective, a detailed introduction is provided. Besides offering many illustrations, the introduction deals with the historical background (the rise of the National State, the Reformation, the international brotherhood of humanists); it sketches out the correspondents’ lives (including a genealogy of Cranevelt’s German ancestry, the Freiherrn von Kranefeld of Ilmenau, Thuringia) and the origin and early years of his friendship with More; it gives a general survey of the new bundle and draws a picture of More as emerging from the new letters (the diplomat, the humanist friend, the lover of art); it tries to reconstruct the provenance and tradition of their known correspondence; it confirms the authenticity of More’s letters (his hand and signatures, seals, paper and watermarks), shows the interlinking of the ‘old’ and ‘new’ letters, and discusses the problem of dating.
The edition proper offers a short introduction to each letter, a critical text placed opposite facsimile photographs of the original manuscripts, and critical textual and historical notes.
Appendices, a bibliography and an index are added for the reader’s convenience.

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12. G. Tournoy, D. Sacré (eds.), Ut granum sinapis. Essays on Neo-Latin Literature in Honour of Jozef IJsewijn
    [1997 - X-362 p. - ISBN 90 6186 816 5 - € 38]

In 1966 Jozef IJsewijn started the Seminarium Philologiae Humanisticae or Seminar for Neo-Latin Studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Thanks to the founder’s indefatigable efforts, the Seminar has become one of the leading conferences in the field of Humanism and Modern Latin. In 1997, the tenth International Congress for Neo-Latin Studies was held; the first of the series was organised some 25 years before professor IJsewijn and his team, and led to the founding of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies, of which IJsewijn became the first president. Also in 1997, Jozef IJsewijn celebrated his 65th birthday. For all these reasons, his colleagues considered it appropriate to honour this eminent scholar with a collection of essays on Neo-Latin literature.
The articles in this volume reflect the wide interest of the scholar IJsewijn. They cover a period of almost 300 years, from an early fifteenth-century commentary on Cicero’s speeches to the oratorical deliveries in the eighteenth-century Amsterdam Athenaeum of P. Francius.
 

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13. G. Tournoy, J. Papy, J. De Landtsheer (eds.), Lipsius en Leuven. Cataloog van de tentoonstelling in de Centrale Bibliotheek te Leuven
    [1997 - XIV-387 p. - ISBN 90 6186 836 X - € 45]

The scholar and professor Justus Lipsius (1547-1606) is considered to have been one of the greatest figures in European Humanism, and rightly so. Born in Overijse, he studied at Brussels, Ath and the University of Louvain. Following the habit of the intellectual elite of the 16th century, he travelled to Italy, birthplace of the Renaissance. It is here that he laid the foundations for his brilliant career as a linguist and historian and becomes a central figure in European intellectual life. Back in the Netherlands, he fleed from the wars of religion and found a more stabile position at the newly-founded University of Leiden, where he wrote his first important works and was elected rector. Lipsius longed back for his home country and in 1591 reverted back to Catholicism. As a symbol of the Counter-Reformation, Lipsius was an important figure for the University of Louvain, where he taught for the rest of his life.

To celebrate Lipsius' 450th birthday, the research group Neo-Latin organised an exhibition. As well as having a general frame of reference, the catalogue of this exhibition focuses on the following topics: the importance of Lipsius as a professor and pedagogue at the University of Louvain; his international fame as a promotor of the neo-stoic philosophy of the 17th century; his central place in the European intellectual world evidenced by his ample correspondence with scholars, artists and writers. A short section on the presence of Lipsius in modern-day Louvain closes the book.

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14. J. IJsewijn - D. Sacré, Companion to Neo-Latin Studies. Part II : Literary, Linguistic, Philological and Editorial Questions. Second entirely rewritten edition
    [1998 - XIV-562 p. - ISBN 90 6186 859 9 - € 74]

In 1977 the first edition of the Companion to Neo-Latin Studies appeared. It evidently filled a long-felt lacuna, and was soon out of print. The first part of the second entirely rewritten edition came out in 1990; it consisted in a concise, but comprehensive history of Neo-Latin writings (both literary and scientific) arranged according to geographical and cultural areas (Part I: History and Diffusion of Neo-Latin Literature).
Due to the explosive growth of Neo-Latin studies in the last decades, it took a couple of years to rewrite and to expand the second part. In this volume an attempt is made to cover all the relevant literary forms and genres of Neo-Latin literature; their characteristics and evolution are described and bibliographical aids have been added; the method is descriptive rather than theoretical.
This part is followed by linguistic, philological and editorial questions, discussing the features of Neo-Latin vocabulary, syntax, style, prosody and metre, old and modern editions, etc. A historical survey of Neo-Latin studies concludes the book. Several indexes facilitate access to the varied contents of the work. The two volumes of this Companion form an indispensable and up-to-date introduction to the immense and still largely unexplored field of Neo-Latin literature.

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15. G. Tournoy, J. De Landtsheer, J. Papy (eds.), Iustus Lipsius Europae Lumen et Columen. Proceedings of the International Colloquium Leuven 17-19 september 1997
    [1999 - XII-288 p. - ISBN 90 6186 971 4 - € 49]

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16. D. Sacré - G. Tournoy (eds.), Myricae. Essays on Neo-Latin Literature in Memory of Jozef IJsewijn
    [2000 - VIII-690 p. - ISBN 90 5867 054 6 - € 50]

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17. M. Verweij (ed.), Petrus Vladeraccus. Tobias (1598)
    [2001 - 191 p. - ISBN 90 5867 177 1 - € 30]

Petrus Vladeraccus. Tobias offers a text edition of this Latin school drama from 1598, staging the biblical history of Tobias. This edition is based upon the only preserved copy of the original print of 1598.
The actual text is preceded by an elaborate biography of Petrus van Vladeracken (1571-1618) and an analysis of the text and the problems he was confronted with while composing the play. The "Tobias" is the only play from the Old-Latin school of s'-Hertogenbosch to survive the ravages of time. It argues not only the survival of the schoolplay-tradition of the first half of the 16th century, but also the mentality in 's-Hertogenbosch around 1600, being a catholic and Spanish bastion versus the calvinistic Republic of the United Provinces.

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18. T. Van Houdt, J. Papy, G. Tournoy, C. Matheeussen (eds.), Self-Presentation and Social Identification: The Rhetoric and Pragmatics of Letter Writing in Early Modern Times
    [2002 - VI-478 p. - ISBN 90 5867 212 3 - € 60]

More often than not, humanist, scholarly and 'scientific' correspondences from the early modern period have been analyzed from a rather narrow point of view. They were either exploited to reveal new biographical and historical evidence or assessed as literary achievements, as precious (or not so precious) pearls of artistic prose and composition. However legitimate such an outspokenly positivist and aesthetic approach may be, it does not exhaust the various possibilities for historical and literary study that early modern correspondences offer. It may, for instance, be doubted whether the traditional approach enables us to address, let alone to answer, one of the key questions that can and should be raised when dealing with letter writing in early modern times: how did the genre function as a social practice? This question can be reformulated as follows: who was writing, what, for whom, and why?
At first glance, many, if not most, of the correspondences seem to have functioned as a means to discuss business and family affairs, to express friendship (and, to a lesser extent, love), or to communicate scholarly information. If we scrutinize them more carefully, however, we will discover that epistolary exchange was far more signicifant and played a far more crucial role than this superficial enumeration of topics to be found in early modern correspondences would make us believe. It can indeed be argued that many humanists and other intellectuals wrote letters in order to define themselves as literators, scholars, or scientists. In other words, letters were used as a means of self-presentation and social identification. It is through letters that literators, scholars, and scientists presented a particular, quite often highly apologetic, self-image which they wanted to be divulged and perpetuated. It is through letters, moreover, that literators, scholars, and scientists defined themselves as belonging to a specific group of people who shared the same interests and ideals, and were engaged in similar endeavours.
Although these issues have not been entirely neglected by scholars in the past, this book brings together philologists, literary historians and historians of ideas to reflect upon the phenomenon of letter writing, and concentrates on four particular issues: the rhetoric of letter writing, friendship and patronage, criticism and libel, reputation and fame. Moreover, particular attention has been given to the functioning of letter writing as a means of self-presentation and social identification, linking together more closely text and context, literature and society.

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19. Tuomo Pekkanen, Carmina viatoris
[2005 - 266 p. - 16 x 24 cm - sewn-paper - ill. - ISBN 978 90 5867 509 5 - € 30]

Longe plurima Carminum Viatoris ex variis rhythmis constant, quibus exemplum dederunt duo poetae mediaevales inter se aequales, Hugo Primas Aurelianensis (c. 1093-1160) et Archipoeta (fl. 1159-1165). More eorum rima pura binarum syllabarum adhibetur neque hiatus intra versum admittitur. Ex rhythmis adhibitis usitatissimi sunt versus quadri-, penta-, hexa-, hepta- vel octosyllabi trochaici aut iambici, simplices aut mixti. In initio quidem sunt aliquot hendecasyllabi, distichon semel occurrit, semel etiam hexametrum Leoninum; in versionibus poematum Graecorum metrum auctoris Graeci servatum est.
Prima pars operis, Carmina viatoris proprie dicta, est velut diarium, in quo non tantum consuetudines quaedam septimanales et annua rotatio vitae academicae describuntur, sed etiam de comitibus, amicis familiaribusque et de vicissitudinibus vitae humanae refertur. Sunt etiam versus, quibus causam dederunt conventus aut seminaria peregrina (113-114). Lugubriores animi sensus praeferunt verba in memoriam proximorum (110, 115). Curriculum auctoris Granivicense claudit actio gratiarum (117), qua institutio Latina plus duorum decenniorum paucis versibus comprehenditur. Prima operis pars Hymno Latino Europaeo terminatur: Europaei, gaudeamus, / foedus firmum fecimus, / laetum carmen concinamus, / Unionem iunximus, / constitutis aequitatis, / libertatis iuribus, / in commune comprobatis / Europaeis legibus, etc.
Aenigmata, quae ad dona amicis data pertinent, exemplum habent in sententiis pittaciorum ad apophoreta Trimalchionis affixa (Petr. 56,7-10), ea autem differentia, quod solutio, unde nomen doni patet, non ex verbis aequivocis sed ex rima est conicienda.
Vota, salutationes gratulationesque partim sunt breviores amicis dedicata, partim ad dissertationes doctorales aut sollemnia academica scripta et in illis primum recitata. His carminibus continuatur usus in Finnia saecularis, cuius testimonia sunt versus gratulatorii aut votivi in dissertationibus academicis aut in programmatis promotionum academicarum divulgati. Gratulationes ad dies natales collegarum aut amicorum compositae merita specialia uniuscuiusque in memoriam revocat aut relationes et consuetudines, quas auctor cum illis habuit, paucis versibus refert.
Variationes auctorum sunt exercitationes poeticae, quibus propositum didacticum haud deest, cum ostendant, quo modo idem argumentum eisdem fere verbis sed formis variis poetice tractari possit. Aliquot ex variationibus Horatianis et Catullianis, a cantatrice Reine Rimón et grege eius iazzico cantatae et in discos compactos receptae (Variationes Horatianae iazzicae 1993) et Variationes iazzicae Catullianae 1997), tanta gratia apud latinistas acceptae sunt, ut uterque discus brevissimo tempore divenderetur.
In carminibus Finnicis vertendis et in cantionibus tam Finnicis quam peregrinis structura auctoris rhythmica diligenter observata est rimaeque adhibitae, si auctor ipse illis usus erat. Threnus Carelicus, rhythmis metrisque solutus, est rarissimum exemplum generis sui et traditionis ore populi Carelici ad hodierna tempora conservatae.
Differentia inter variationes et versiones est aliquotiens minima. Cum poemata metrica aut textus prosaici in versus rhythmicos transformantur, eventus est haud dubie variatio. Similiter argumenta ex litteris Sanscriticis, Germanicis aut Francogallicis mutuata et liberius veste Latina rhythmica induta, variationes potius sunt quam versiones. Multa huius generis iam poetae aetatis renascentiae scripserunt, neque facile est dictu, quando versus de argumentis antiquorum scripti tantummodo versiones sint, quando variationes, quando prorsus nova carmina.
Libri aut commentarii periodici, in quibus aliquot ex his carminibus antea edita sunt, in notis ad textus additis nominantur. Maior pars in hoc libro primum est divulgata.

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20. Jan Cornelis Bedaux, Die Marias von Cornelius Aurelius: Einleitung, Textausgabe und Anmerkungen
[2006 - 198 p. - 16 x 24 cm - sewn-paper - ISBN 978 90 5867 514 9 - € 30]

Die Textausgabe der Marias, ein Gedicht von Cornelis Aurelius, umfaßt eine Einleitung, den Text des Gedichtes, Anmerkungen zum Text und schließlich einen Index nominum und einen Index fontium. Die Edition basiert auf der einzigen Handschrift der Marias, die heute in der Athenaeumbibliotheek in Deventer bewahrt wird. Diese Handschrift umfaßt neben einem Widmungsbrief des Autors an den Deventer Schulmeister Jacobus Faber und einer introductio die ersten zehn Bücher des Gedichtes; die zweite und dritte Decade sind nicht erhalten.
Die Einleitung zur Edition behandelt zunächst kurz das Leben des niederländischen Humanisten Cornelis Aurelius (ca. 1460 bis vor Dezember 1531). Es folgen die Datierung des Werkes (zwischen 1491 / Anfang 1492 und Herbst 1497) und ein Inhaltsverzeichnis – das Leben Marias bis zum Auftreten Jesu bei den Schriftgelehrten (Luc. 2, 41-52). Bei der anschließenden Charakterisierung des Werkes wird auch ein Passus aus dem Widmungsbrief des Aurelius erörtert. Hier erklärt der Autor, daß er den Text von Baptista Mantuanus’ Parthenice prima erst nach der Vollendung der ersten Decade in die Hände bekam. Obwohl er behauptet, den überschwänglichen Stil dieses Werkes zu mißbilligen, stellt sich heraus, daß er dennoch dem Werk von Mantuanus namentlich in den ersten drei Büchern der Marias vieles entlehnt hat. Daneben hat Aurelius häufig Sabellicus’ Elegiae XIII divae virginis Mariae und Agricolas Anna mater benutzt. Auffällig sind außerdem die von Aurelius wörtlich übernommenen Passagen aus der Ilias latina und aus Petrus Rigas Aurora. Obwohl seine Zeitgenossen Aurelius wegen seiner dichterischen Fähigkeiten loben, läßt er wiederholt durchblicken, dies zu bezweifeln. Aber natürlich können seine diesbezüglichen Bemerkungen auch als captatio benevolentiae gedeutet werden. Auf die Einleitung folgt der Text des oben genannten Widmungsbriefes und des Gedichtes (die introductio und die Bücher I bis X). Das gesamte Gedicht umfaßt 4452 Verse.
Der Anmerkungsapparat zur Ausgabe der Marias enthält Verweise auf die von Aurelius verwendete Literatur. Neben den Passagen, die deutlich Entlehnungen darstellen, sind auch die Stellen aufgenommen, die Reminiszensen an oder Echos von – vor allem antiken – Autoren anklingen lassen. Auffälligerweise trifft man hierbei Entlehnungen aus Werken anderer Autoren nicht regelmäßig verteilt über den gesamten Text an. Offenbar hat Aurelius schon im Vorhinein für jede Passage die Stellen ausgesucht, die er aus seinen Vorlagen verwenden wollte. Dieses Verfahren kann man auch aus dem Index fontium ableiten, der zusammen mit dem Index nominum diese Edition abschließt.
Die Ausgabe der Marias ist ein schönes Beispiel dafür, wie die frühen niederländischen Humanisten religiöse Poesie schrieben und dabei von italienischen Autoren wie Mantuanus und Sabellicus beeinflußt wurden.

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21. Jeanine De Landtsheer - Dirk Sacré - Chris Coppens, Justus Lipsius (1547-1606): een geleerde en zijn Europese netwerk
[2006 - xviii-626 p. - 16 x 24 cm - geb. - ill. - ISBN 978 90 5867 567 5 - € 65]

In 2006 is het precies 400 jaren geleden dat de humanist en filoloog Justus Lipsius overleed. Justus Lipius had heel sterke banden met de Leuvense Alma Mater en heeft een grote rol gespeeld om de Leuvense universiteit, die zwaar te lijden had gehad onder de politiek-religieuze troebelen van de eerste decennia van de Tachtigjarige oorlog, weer aantrekkelijk te maken voor studenten uit het buitenland. Dit boek, dat verschijnt naar aanleiding van de gelijknamige tentoonstelling, legt de nadruk op het wereldwijde netwerk van Lipsius’ correspondenten. De intense briefwisseling van Lipsius met geleerden en hooggeplaatste personen in Europa biedt een boeiende getuigenis van de reputatie die de geleerde bij zijn tijdgenoten verworven had.

22. Emilio Bandiera (ed.), Joseph Tusiani. In nobis caelum: carmina Latina
[2007 - 428 p. - 978-90-5867-599-6 (paperback) - € 39,50]
Raccolta, edizione e traduzione in lingua italiana con aggiunta di Prefazione e di Indici di Emilio Bandiera.

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