A catalogue of the library of the late John Duke of Roxburghe / arranged by G. and W. Nicol ... which will be sold by auction on Monday, 18th May, 1812, etc. by Robert H. Evans.

  • John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe
Date:
1812
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Credit: A catalogue of the library of the late John Duke of Roxburghe / arranged by G. and W. Nicol ... which will be sold by auction on Monday, 18th May, 1812, etc. by Robert H. Evans. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 13] opinions; Paulas Jovius and Paulas Manutius roundly assert it; but Menage attributes the theft to Philelphus, who, he says, disfigured the offspring of Cicero, and gave it to the world as his own, in his treatise De Contemptu Mundi,^ But the investigation of this fact is not the pre¬ sent object; it is mentioned only to introduce another less known instance of literary fraud, in the second article mentioned, viz. Bihlioth, Co7istant. 8^c. wherein it will appear, that while Antoine da Verdier, in his Biblioth. Frangoisey was reprobating the plagiarism of Alcyonius, he was with great composure, taking to himself, without the slightest acknowledgment, the la¬ bours of Hartangus. This tract, Biblioth, Constant., &c. pillaged by Du Verdier, is exceedingly rare: it was pub¬ lished by John Hartangus, at Strasburgh, in 1578, and consists chiefly, with the exception of a few notices of antiquities, of a Catalogue of MSS. in several private libraries at Constan¬ tinople ; it has no other introduction than . some flattering verses addressed by Geo, Cala- minius, to the Editor. It therefore leaves the reader in ignorance by what means Hartangus came to the knowledge of these MSS. many of which have come down to the present times, while others are only known to us by scat- * For a farther account of these heavy charges against Alcyo- nius and Philelphus, vide Bayle, sub art. Alcyonius, Bayte, how¬ ever, could not find a copy of Alcyonius s book, till after the pub* lication of the first edition of his Dictionary, and then speaks of a copy being only lent to him by Bourdelotius,