Claius, Johannes & Aldus Manitius [Manuzio], the younger

Prosodiae...Libri Tres, De cognoscenda Syllabarum quantiotate & carminum ratione qpud Latinos, Graecos, & Hebraeos.#11;Wittenberg: Ex Officina Cratoniane,1595.#11;[bound with:]#11;Aldo Manitius.#11;Purae, Elegantes, Et Copiosae, Latinae Lingua

      Contemp. 1/2 blind-tooled pigskin over vellum, small piece cut from piskin on front cover, a few wormholes, stains on covers, edges speckled red, marginal wormhole, P1 small tear, some marginal dampstains at end of second work, else very good.. 8vo. 2 vols. in 1.. Printer's device (Baptism) on t.p. of first work and Crucifixion on second. Johannes Claius (1535-1592) was a native of Herzberg in Saxony, Rector at Goldberg, then at Nordhausen, and in 1574 pastor at Bendeleben in Thuringia. He was a Hebrew scholar, and made several translations intio that language, amongst others the Gospels...He is the first also who compiled a complete German grammar..." [Ferguson] He also wrote a work on Alchemy. His grammar was based on Luther's language gave it authority to became the standard. #11;Aldus Manutius II (1547-1597) was the son of Paulo, the youngest son of Aldo the great Italian printer. Aldo, the younger hed a professorship in Venice before succeeding Sigonius in Bologna and Muretus in Rome. At the age of 11 he produced the "Elegancies of the Tusan and Latin languages. Claius: VD16 C4002. Manutius:VD16 M805.