PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Program in Hellenic Studies
Exhibits
May 8 - 13, 2003
Martin Crusius at Firestone Library and Leo
Von Klenze at The Art Museum
The following items are exhibited on the occasion of the colloquium on "The Limits of German Hellenism” (May 10, 2003).
FIRESTONE LIBRARY
Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
On view in the Main Gallery, 18th-century library window
Homer. Poi¯eseis Hom¯erou.
A printed edition of Homer's works (Basel, 1541), edited by Jacob Micyllus and Joachim Camerarius and heavily annotated by Martin Crusius.
The volume, which also includes Porphyry, Homericarum quaestionum liber and De nympharum antro in Idyssea opusculum, is in a contemporary sixteenth-century blind-tooled pigskin binding.
Crusius was professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Tübingen for 47 years and annotated this book both for his public lectures there and for his important German-language commentary on Homer (1585). Crusius acquired this volume as a student in 1547 and continued to annotate it until 1606, just months before his death. Virtually every page in this volume of more than 700 pages is heavily annotated in Greek and Latin, providing insight into the mind of Crusius as well as valuable documentation for the history of the Homeric tradition and of classical philology in Renaissance Europe. It is a remarkable complement to Guillaume Budé's annotated copy of Homer, one of the treasures of the Rare Books Division.
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Athanassiades, Princeton Class of 1961, in honor of the 20th anniversary of the university's Program in Hellenic Studies, with additional funding from the Friends of the Princeton University Library
Martin Crusius (1526-1607). Germanogræciæ.
A printed edition of Crusius’s work on Greek philology. (Basel, ca. 1585). Contains a woodcut portrait of Crusius on a preliminary leaf.
Acquired with matching funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund
“Music Anthology”. [between 1831 and 1835].
Manuscript anthology, written in Greece, partly on the island Aigina (scribe A), and the other parts possibly in Athens; includes hymns for the official ceremonies of King Otho I of Greece.
Purchased with funds from the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund, 1998.
THE ART MUSEUM
http://www.princetonartmuseum.org/
On view in the Nineteenth-Century Galleries
Leo von Klenze
"
West End of the Parthenon" (1834)
Leo Von Klenze, architect and landscape painter, was, under Ludwig I of Bavaria, one of the leaders of the classic revival in Bavaria. In 1834 he went to Athens for the purpose of making plans for the restoration of the Acropolis and for the royal palace.
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