Henricus Glareanus’s (1488-1563) Chronologia of the Ancient World: A Facsimile Edition of a Heavily Annotated Copy Held in Princeton University Library

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by  Henricus Glareanus

Henricus Glareanus’s (1488–1563)
Chronologia
of the Ancient World
Studies in Medieval and
Reformation Traditions
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Henricus Glareanus’s (1488–1563)
Chronologia
of the Ancient World
A Facsimile Edition of a Heavily Annotated Copy
Held in Princeton University Library
IntroductionandTranscriptionby
AnthonyT.Grafton
UrsB.Leu
LEIDEN•BOSTON
2014
Coverillustration:DesideriusErasmus:Encomiummoriae,Basel,JohannesFroben,1515;pendrawingbyHansHolbeintheYounger,
brownink,4°,Inv.1662,fol.Nverso(KunstmuseumBasel,Kupferstichkabinett;photobyMartinP.Bühler).Detail.
ThebookbelongedtotheBasleReformerOswaldMyconius(1488–1552);thedrawingsweremadebyHansHolbeintheYounger
(1497/98–1543).ThisseemstobethemostauthenticpictureofGlareanus.
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Anthony.II.Leu,UrsB.(UrsBernhard),1961-III.Title.IV.Title:Chronologiaoftheancientworld.V.Series:Studiesinmedievaland
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CONTENTS
ListofIllustrations............................................................ vii
Preface........................................................................ 1
Glareanus’sChronologia ...................................................... 3
OntheUsesofChronology............................................... 6
Glareanus’sLecturesonLivyandSuetonius.............................. 9
AnotherStudentofGlareanus:GabrielHummelbergII(1530–1582?) .... 13
Hummelberg’sCopyofGlareanus’sChronologia ......................... 17
Glareanus:AUniqueCase?............................................... 32
ThePracticeofChronology:Glareanus,HummelbergandOthers ....... 37
FacsimileandTranscriptionofHummelberg’sAnnotations.................. 49

LISTOFILLUSTRATIONS
1 S.C.S.M.(=MatthiasSambucellus),amemberofGlareanus’sBurse,
wrotehandwrittencommentariesinhisowncopyofGlareanus’sDe
situHelvetiae (Basel1514). Hestarted withthe remark:“Explanatio
vocum minus bene cognitarum que in geographia helvecie conti-
nentur,quodcarmenipseHenricusGlareanusBasileaeinstudiorum
contubernio 19 Calendas Janua[rij] palam omnibus gymnasij cul-
toribusdecantavitpauloanteannumChristiservatorisnostri1515et
subindediligentilaboreexposuit.”Itistheonlyknowntestimonyof
aprivatelectureheldbyGlareanusinhisBaselBurse(Universitäts-
bibliothekBasel,callnumber:ANXIV60) ........................... 4
2 Homer, Ilias, Strassburg, Wolfgang Köpfer, 1534 (Zentralbibliothek
Solothurn,callnumber:Rar2196/1) .................................. 8
3 HenricusGlareanus,Chronologia,Basel,Froben,1531,p.33(Kantons-
bibliothekAarau,callnumber:RarF13) ............................. 10
4 Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita, Basel, Johannes Herwagen, 1554
(ZentralbibliothekSolothurn,callnumber:Staal261)................ 12
5 HenricusGlareanus,Chronologia,Basel,MichaelIsengrin,1540,[p.1]
(BibliothèquenationaledeFrance,callnumber:RésF128).......... 15
6 FlyleafofthePariscopyofHenricusGlareanus’sChronologia,Basel,
Michael Isengrin, 1540, which is bound together with Glareanus’s
Dodekachordon,Basel,HeinrichPetri,1547(Bibliothèquenationale
deFrance,callnumber:RésF127–128).ThenotesbyGlareanusonthe
flyleafrefertotheDodekachordon.Glareanuswrotethathecorrected
this imprint with a lot of errata by his own hand, but we know,
that he only corrected a master-copy and wrote this introductory
passage in several copies of his Dodekachordon by his own hand.
Georg Spirer then transferred his corrections, at least to this Paris
volume,containingtheDodekachordonandtheChronologia........ 16
7 HenricusGlareanus,Chronologia,Basel,MichaelIsengrin,1540,from
theprivatelibraryofGabrielHummelbergII.(PrincetonUniversity
Library,callnumber:2010-0227Q).................................... 18
8 HenricusGlareanus,Deasseetpartibuseius,Basel,MichaelIsengrin,
1551,f.1r(ZentralbibliothekSolothurn,callnumber:StaalI54)...... 20
9 HenricusGlareanus,Deasseetpartibuseius,Basel,MichaelIsengrin,
1551(ZentralbibliothekSolothurn,callnumber:StaalI54)........... 21
10 Baptista Mantuanus, Opera, vol. 1, Paris, Jehan Petit, 1513, f. 25v
(Zentralbibliothek Zürich, call number: Rq 1). Glareanus’s working
copy, with notes of three kinds: subject headings, substantive
comments, and definitions. His student Johann Jakob Halbmeier
transcribed many of these notes in his own copy of Baptista
Mantuanus(Venedig1499),nowintheBayerischeStaatsbibliothek
München(callnumber:4Inc.c.a.1652a/1)........................... 22
11 MarcusTulliusCicero,Deofficiis,Lyon,SebastianusGryphius,1541,
(ZentralbibliothekSolothurn,callnumber:Rar1963)................ 24
12 Marcus Tullius Cicero, De officiis, Paris, Franciscus Gryphius, 1541
(ZentralbibliothekSolothurn,callnumber:Rar1972)................ 25
viii listofillustrations
13 MarcusTulliusCicero,Deofficiis,Lyon,SebastianusGryphius,1541,
p.9(ZentralbibliothekSolothurn,callnumber:Rar1963)............ 26
14 MarcusTulliusCicero,Deofficiis,Paris,FranciscusGryphius,1541,p.9
(ZentralbibliothekSolothurn,callnumber:Rar1972)................ 27
15 GaiusJuliusSolinus,Dememoralibus[i.e.Dememorabilibusmundi],
Venedig1498(Zentral-undHochschulbibliothekLuzern,callnum-
ber:Ink.975.8.).Thepreviousownerdatedonthetitlepagethebegin-
ningofVadianus’slecture:“IncoeptusestSolinusAIoachimoVadi-
anoHelvecioDoctorePoetaetOratoreLaureatoAnno1517dievero
15Decembris” ........................................................ 28
16 Gaius Julius Solinus, Polyhistor sive de mirabilibus mundi [i.e. De
memorabilibus mundi], Bologna, Benedictus Hector Faellus, 1500,
f. []v/f. Ar (Zentralbibliothek Zürich, call number: 4.197). The
4 1 2
previousownerdatedonthetitlepagethebeginningofVadianus’s
lecture: “Legebat eundem poeta et orator Laureatus medicineque
doctorJoachimusVadianusHelvetiusDr.S.Gallo.VienneDiscipulis
suisquemet14dieDecembrisincip[i]ebatannoincarnationis1517” 29
17 GaiusJuliusSolinus,Dememoralibus[i.e.Dememorabilibusmundi],
Venice 1498, f. b r (Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek Luzern, call
iii
number:Ink.975.8.) .................................................. 30
18 Gaius Julius Solinus, Polyhistor sive de mirabilibus mundi [i.e. De
memorabilibus mundi], Bologna, Benedictus Hector Faellus, 1500,
f.C v(ZentralbibliothekZürich,callnumber:4.197)................ 31
iii 2
19 NewTestament(latin),Basel,AdamPetri,1522,p.8(UBBasel,call
number: F G IX2 86a). Notes by the librarian Georg Carpentarius,
designed to make reading of the Bible easier: chapter titles and
subject headings, parallel passages, interlinear definitions and
synonyms ............................................................ 33
20 Augustinus,Opera,Basel,OfficinaFrobeniana,1528,p.337(Zentral-
bibliothek Zürich, call number: AW 57: 8). Commentary on Ps. 50
withbiblicalparallels,Latinmarginalglossesontherightandalong
Germancommentaryonthetextonthefootofthepage ............ 35
21 Konrad Gessner, Nomenclator aquatilium animantium. Icones ani-
malium aquatilium … Zürich, Christoph Froschauer, 1560, p. 257
(ZentralbibliothekZürich,callnumber:NNN44).Threeimagesof
3
aseaurchinwithGessner’snote:“Pinxi”(“Idrewthis”).............. 36
22 Konrad Gessner, Bibliotheca universalis, Zürich, Christoph Frosch-
auer,1545,f.17r(ZentralbibliothekZürich,callnumber:DrM3) .... 38
23 Caius Plinius Secundus, Historiarum naturae libri XXXVII, Paris,
AntoineAugereaupourGaliotduPré,1532,p.46(Zentralbibliothek
Zürich,callnumber:AW59) ......................................... 39
24 TitusLivius,Aburbecondita,Basel,Froben,1531,p.73(Bibliothèque
Humaniste de Sélestat, call number: K 1224). With marginal notes,
wavylinesandothersignsaddedbyBeatusRhenanus............... 40
PREFACE
In 2007 the Princeton University Library bought a a professor’s copy of a book into their own copies.
heavilyannotatedcopyoftheChronologia(1540)of Thepurposeofthisfacsimileisabovealltoraisethe
theSwisshumanistHenricusGlareanus.Thesigna- questionwhetherGlareanusandhisstudentsrepre-
ture on the title page revealed that Gabriel Hum- sented a special case, or if similar documents exist
melberg,lateraphysicianinVoralberg,enteredthe forothersaswell.Thepresentationofthemargina-
marginal notes. Originally it was not clear whether liaisdesignedtoshedlightontheiroriginandpro-
thenotesrecordedalecturecoursebyGlareanusat motecomparativestudies.Itseemedappropriateto
theUniversityofFreiburgimBreisgau,adictatedles- publishthemin2013,the525thanniversaryofGlare-
son that he had provided for students in the hos- anus’sbirthandthe450thofhisdeath.
tel that he supervised or an earlier written original We owe warm thanks to Princeton University
thathasdisappeared.AswestudiedHummelberg’s Library,andespeciallytotheCuratorofRareBooks,
notesinPrincetoninMarchandApril2010,however, Stephen Ferguson. He discovered the book in an
it became clear that Hummelberg copied his notes antiquarian catalogue, bought it, supported our
fromawrittenoriginal.Unknowntousatthetime, study and arranged to have it digitized for our use
themusicologistCristleCollinaJuddhadshownin andthatofothers.ArjanvanDijkoftheLeidenpub-
2000howcarefullyGlareanusannotatedandperson- lishinghouseBrillwasimmediatelyinterestedinour
alizedcopiesofhisworks.Shealsopointedoutthat projectandagreedtopublishit.Furtherthanksare
hehadallowedstudentstocopysomeofhismusical owedtoIanHoltoftheZentralbibliothekSolothurn,
partbooks.1Whilewewereatwork,anumberofGer- Dr. Ueli Dill of the Universitätsbibliothek Basel,
manscholars,whosestudiesarecitedbelow,arrived Dr.SvenKuttneroftheUniversitätsbibliothekMün-
atthesameconclusionbystudyingotherannotated chenandProfessorAnnBlairofHarvardUniversity,
books that came from Glareanus’s library and cir- allofwhomprovidedinvaluablehelpandinforma-
cle.Previousscholarshiponhumanisteducationhas tion.
paidlittleattentiontothestyleofannotationprac-
ticedhere,inwhichstudentstranscribenotesfrom PrincetonandZürich,May2013
1 Cristle Collina Judd, ReadingRenaissanceMusicTheory: Fenlon,towhichwearedeeplyindebted:“HeinrichGlarean’s
HearingwiththeEyes(Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress, Books,” in: Music in the German Renaissance, ed. J. Kmetz
2000),pp.117–176.LikeallstudentsofGlareanus’spracticesasa (Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,1994),pp.74–102.
readerandannotator,shebuiltonthepioneeringworkofIain