The Letters of Marquard Gude and of the Eminent Scholars Who Wrote to Him; with Letters, Augmented from the Same Source, of Claude Sarrau

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Original title: Marquardi Gudii et Doctorum Virorum ad eum Epistolae A folio collection of learned correspondence in the humanist genre of the epistolae clarorum virorum, edited by Pieter Burman the Elder from the surviving papers of the Holstein antiquary Marquard Gude (1635–1689). Printed at Utrecht by François Halma and Willem van de Water, it gathers Gude's own outgoing and incoming letters, an anthology of humanist correspondence drawn from the Bibliotheca Gudiana, and a substantial appendix of the enlarged letters of Claude Sarrau (d. 1651), councillor of the Parlement of Paris, dedicated to Queen Christina of Sweden. The volume treats scholarly correspondence as both the evidence and the instrument of learned labour, documenting manuscript-hunting, textual emendation, epigraphy, confessional and juridical disputes, and the workings of the transnational respublica literaria. Composed predominantly in Latin, with French in the Sarrau circle and Greek in philological quotation, and furnished with prefatory verses, funerary carmina, a tripartite index, and errata. 👉 Read our introductory primer, full report, and finding guide here 📜 View the original source file This text was transcribed and translated as part of the ExLatinis project—an effort by Leo to make English translations of every published text in Latin in early modern Europe (between 1450 and 1750) available to the public for free online.

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