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Centre for the Study of Renaissance Texts

prblum — 2012-05-14T18:37:06+02:00

http://www.renesancni-texty.upol.cz/
[Google translation of the page:]
Centre for Work with Renaissance texts

registration number CZ.1.07/2.3.00/20.0026
Project description:

With reference to the historical significance of Olomouc as a unique center of humanistic studies and Renaissance culture in the Czech lands in the 15th century in the first decade of the 21st century to the consolidated UP Olomouc scientific team focused on the study of Renaissance phi...

New books in BSB: May 2012

hck — 2012-05-14T12:44:34+02:00

A friendly robot sent me the following list of recent acquisitions by Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (München) focussed on "rinascimental" topics:

[quote]

Boucher, Jean / Sensi, Claudio
Viaggio in Terrasanta : compendio italiano inedito del Bouquet sacré composé des plus belles fleurs de la Terre Saincte / Jean Boucher ; edizione e commento a cura di Claudio Sensi
Alessandria - Ed. dell'Orso - 2009
(Oltramare ; 11)<...

Re: Ficino: De religione christiana (1507)

hck — 2012-05-14T11:32:09+02:00

Quote from hck on 29.07.2008 at 13:59:22:

Ficinus, Marsilius:
De religione christiana & fidei pietate opusculum
Argentine : Ioannes Knoblouch 1507

BSB shelfmark: 4 P.lat. 420 b

VD16 F 939

Contains also "Xenocrates de morte, eodem interprete"

This item has moved, and is now available at/via [url]http://reader.digitale-sammlu...

Ramus: Oratio (1551)

hck — 2012-05-10T12:25:19+02:00

Ramus, Petrus:
Petri Rami regii eloquentiae Philosophiaeque professoris oratio, initio suae professionis habita, anno 1551. octavo Calend. Septemb. Ad Carolum Lotharingum cardinalem
Parisiis 1551

BSB-Signatur A.lat.b. 745#Beibd.2

Alternatve URL: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00019220-3

Zopf: Disputatio physica de homine (1636)

hck — 2012-05-10T12:07:36+02:00

Zopf, Johann Caspar (praes.)
Lindenmuth, Andreas (resp.):
Disputatio physica de homine
Lipsiae : Ritzsch 1636

Gutenberg-Preis 2012 to Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

hck — 2012-05-02T14:12:57+02:00

Press release 2012-05-02

Seen first on exlibris-l

Baerista & Grafton on Greenblatt's "The Swerve"

hck — 2012-05-02T07:26:43+02:00

Two reviews (the first one definitely not friendly):

Baerista: The Swerve is really a full-frontal crash. : Marvelous Distortions: Greenblatt and the Transmission of Lucretius (2012-05-01) : i.a.
[quote]Unsurprisingly, Greenblatt suppresses almost all of this fascinating information, despite the fact that it is very readily available in the standard hand books suc...

LMU Munich F10 approves MA MaRen

hck — 2012-04-30T11:13:31+02:00

Good news: Our Faculty council has approved the establishment of a Masters' in Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

(Lots of other steps to take before the first students can enrol for this course; nevertheless we hope that this will be possible by winter 2012/2013.)

This is a course ideated by LMU's ZMR (Centre for medieval and renaissance studies), and (at least pro tempore) managed by our faculty/institute. Hence - if it really comes into existence - it will contain not exactly ...

Aristotle, Meletius, Hippocrates tr. by Petreius

nogafilologa — 2012-04-29T18:34:51+02:00

Translations by Nicolaus Petreius Corcyraeus (Nikola Petrović from Korčula, 1486 - 1568), via Google Book Search:

Aristotelis Quinque de animalium generatione libri
Venetiis: per Joannem Antonium & Stephanum ac fratres de Sabio
1526.

[url=http://books.google.hr/books?id=poVEAAAAcAAJ]Meletii philosophi De natura structuraque hominis opus. Polemonis Atheniensis insignis philosophi naturae signorum int...

Renaissance Philosophy on Internet Encyclopedia

prblum — 2012-04-29T05:03:38+02:00

http://www.iep.utm.edu/renaissa/
By Lorenzo Casini
Uppsala University
Sweden

Renaissance Philosophy
The Renaissance, that is, the period that extends roughly from the middle of the fourteenth century to the beginning of the seventeen century, was a time of intense, all-encompassing, and, in many ways, distinctive philosophical activity. A fundamental assumption of the Renaissance movement was that the remains of classical antiquity constituted an invaluable source of excellenc...

Lucius/Mayerus: Quaestiones philosophicae (1632)

hck — 2012-04-25T13:10:28+02:00

Lucius, Ludwig (praes.)
Mayer, Jakob (proponens):
Quaestiones philosophicae
Basileae : Typis Iohan. Iacobi Genathii 1632

Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Diss 444:15

Velcurius: Commentarii in universam Physicam (1575

hck — 2012-04-25T12:59:10+02:00

Velcurio, Johannes:
Commentarii in universam Physicam Aristotelis
Coloniae Agrippinae 1575

VD16 B 2034

BSB-Signatur A.gr.b. 780

Provenance: OESA Munich

Alternative URL: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00015910-2

RES: Ioannes Ravisius Textor: Epistolae (1569)

hck — 2012-04-25T12:45:11+02:00

Tixier, Jean:
Epistolae
Coloniae : Petrus Horst 1560

VD16 T 1413

BSB-Signatur Ph.u. 552#Beibd.2

Alternative URL: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00032762-7

Wildenberg: Totius philosophiae humanae digestio

hck — 2012-04-25T12:39:00+02:00

Wildenberg, Hieronymus:
Totius philosophiae humanae digestio
Basileae : Per Ioannem Oporinum 1558

VD16 G 3953

BSB-Signatur Ph.u. 552

Provenance: Printed ex libris: Domus SS. Adehaidis, et Caietani

Alternative URL: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00032761-2

Melanchthon: Videte ne quis vos decipat (1527)

hck — 2012-04-25T12:23:38+02:00

Melanchthon, Philipp:
In locum ad Collossenses : Videte ne quis vos decipat per philosophiam inanem dissertatio
Basileae : Adamus Petrus 1527

VD16 M 4196

BSB-Signatur Asc. 5106#Beibd.1

Alternative URL: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00019975-0

Quote:

Philosophia caecutit tribus modis

(f. A 3 rm)

Re: Ramus: Scholarum physicarum libri 8 (1583)

hck — 2012-04-24T11:17:39+02:00

[quote author=hck link=1216209352/0#0 date=1216209352]Ramus, Petrus (ed. Johannes Piscator):
Scholarum physicarum libri 8, in totidem acroamaticos libros Aristotelis
Francofurti : Apud haeredes Andreae Wecheli 1583

BSB shelfmark: A.gr.b. 708

Supralibros with what looks like a Pfalz-Neuburg coat of arms (Ottheinrich?)

The Index starts [url=http://mdz10.bib-bvb.de/~db/0001/bsb00015...

Oklahoma: AssProf, 1 year: History of EM Philos.

hck — 2012-04-23T08:02:29+02:00

Job: The University of Oklahoma (OK) : Visiting Asst. Professor, one-year leave replacement, beginning fall semester, 2012 : AOS: History of Early Modern Philosophy

Scherbius: De caloris animalis interitu (1585)

hck — 2012-04-18T11:54:40+02:00

Scherb, Philipp (praes.)
Firling, Caspar (resp.)
Theses de caloris animalis interitu
Basileae : typis Leonhardi Ostenii 1585

Universitätsbibliothek Basel, La I 11:59

Broadsheet

Additional keywords: calidum innatum , De calidio innato , c.i.

GGRENir: Thesaurus: item: SE00027
Zoology
(De animalibus...

Re: Galilei: Dialogo (1632)

hck — 2012-04-17T13:57:07+02:00

Quote from hck on 22.03.2007 at 11:31:01:

Galileo Galilei:

Dialogo ... sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo tolemaico e copernicano
Florence 1632

A far better scan can be found at http://www.e-rara.ch/id/2812440 .

Seen thanks to [url=https://plus.google.com/10864223501...

Owen Gunther: Programma (1601)

hck — 2012-04-17T09:22:54+02:00

Ovenus Guntherus:
Programma M. Oveni Guntheri Professoris Aristotelici in Academia Iulia : cum Repetitione Declarationis, Quae ipsi a ... Dn. Henrico Iulio ... Duce Brunovicense & Lunaeburgense iniuncta fuit ; Additis nonnullis aliis, quae ad hanc rem pertinent
Wolfferbyti : Typographia Principis 1601

Werenberg: Disp. logica de enunciatione non-una

hck — 2012-04-17T09:09:12+02:00

Werenberg, Paul (praes.)
Beernsprungk, Daniel (resp.):
Disputatio logica de enunciatione non-una
<Lipsiae> : Typis Haered. Friderici Lanckisch 1643

Hecht/Wendeler: De constitutione politicae (1641)

hck — 2012-04-17T09:01:00+02:00

Wendelerus, Michael (praes.)
Hechtius, Oswaldus (proponens):
Disputationum politicarum prima de constitutione politicae
Wittebergae : Wendt 1641

Seems to be one of those dissertations where the tehses were not authored by the praeses/professor but by the student.

GGRENir: Thesaurus: item: SE00033
political thought
(Politica)
((Politisches Denken))

Munich 2012-04-19: Ann Blair on "Too much to know"

hck — 2012-04-17T06:47:56+02:00

Thanks to Florilector (at https://twitter.com/#!/florilector/status/192024697490243584 ) for pointing to the information available at http://www.fnz.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/aktuelles/blair/index.html on the 2012-04-19 Munich workshop with Ann Blair on her book Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age!

Pulitzer Price to Greenblatt for "The Swerve"

hck — 2012-04-17T06:33:41+02:00

From http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2012-General-Nonfiction :
[quote]The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners
General Nonfiction

citation

For a distinguished and appropriately documented book of nonfiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in any other category, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000).

Awarded to "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern," by Stephen Greenblatt (W.W. Norton and Company), a provocative book arguing tha...

Helmstedt university: Lectures

hck — 2012-04-16T12:12:30+02:00

Catalogus lectionum et exercitationum quae ... in Academia Iulia

1582 (ms.)
1599
1602/1603
1604/1605
[url=http://diglib.hab.de/per...