WITH ANNOTATIONS BY THE DUTCH SCHOLAR WILLEM COETIER
SALLUST.
C. Crispi Sallustii opera omnia quae exstant, ex recognitione Iani Gruteri. Accedunt castigg. annotat. notae, ac scholia Glareani, Popmae, Aldi nepotis, Palmerii, Coleri, Rivii, Carrionis, Ursini, Dousae, Putschii.
Frankfurt, Zacharias Palthenius for Jonas Rosa, 1607.
8vo, pp. [xv], [1, blank], 687, [1, blank]; woodcut device to title, woodcut initials and headpieces; first few quires a little loose and consequently worn at edges, occasional creased corners, very slightly toned, nonetheless a very good copy; bound in contemporary Dutch vellum over boards, manuscript title in ink across head of spine; corners a little bumped, a few light stains; title and imprint neatly written in ink to front flyleaf, ink note at head of title ‘Adscriptae notae sunt G. Coeterii professoris Franequerani’ (see below), profuse marginal annotations in dark brown ink in a small early eighteenth-century hand to pp. 1–82, twentieth-century bookplate to front pastedown ‘The Cloisters Ex-Libris Dudrea & Sumner Parker’, with their blind stamp to title-page.
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C. Crispi Sallustii opera omnia quae exstant, ex recognitione Iani Gruteri. Accedunt castigg. annotat. notae, ac scholia Glareani, Popmae, Aldi nepotis, Palmerii, Coleri, Rivii, Carrionis, Ursini, Dousae, Putschii.
The works of Sallust edited by the philologist and librarian Jan Gruter (1560–1627), with profuse annotations at the beginning attributed to the Dutch professor Willem Coetier (1647–1723) of Franeker.
Of Dutch and English parentage, Gruter studied at Cambridge and Leiden, subsequently teaching at Wittenberg, Rostock, and then Heidelberg, where he also served as the university’s librarian. He published numerous editions of the Latin classics but is best known for his work on Roman inscriptions. His edition of Sallust is remarkable for its scholia, which occupy three quarters of the volume.
An eighteenth-century inscription on the title attributes the marginal annotations in this copy to Willem Coetier, who, after studies at Leiden, taught history and eloquence at Harderwijk, Deventer, and then Franeker, where he served as a professor for almost thirty years. He published numerous speeches from the 1680s onwards, and also compiled notes on Suetonius. Coetier’s critical annotations, written in a small, neat hand, cover the margins of both Sallust’s Bellum Catilinae and Bellum Iugurthinum, forming an unpublished commentary in their own right. Coetier begins with a short note on Sallust himself, writing that ‘merito suo inter nobilissimos scriptores semper numeratus fuit’. His marginalia refer to a host of classical writers, including Cicero, Plautus, Seneca, Ovid, Terence, Aristotle, Livy, Caesar, Statius, Tacitus, Phaedrus, Suetonius, Pomponius Mela, and Strabo, as well as providing variant readings from manuscript sources.
Provenance: from the library of The Cloisters, a Gothic manor house in the Maryland countryside built by Sumner A. Parker (1881–1946) and his wife G. Dudrea Parker (1883–1972).
USTC 2118733; VD17 23:247680Q.
