Albius Tibullus eques Romanus; et in Eum Jo. Antonii Vulpii Philologi ac Rhetoris in Gymansio Patavino Novus Commentarius Diligentissimus

Patavani. Excudebat Josphus Cominus Supeirum Permissu, 1749. FIRST EDITION. 4to, 269 x 200 mms., pp. [x] xi - xxxviii [xxxix publisher's note, xl blank], 340, 93 [94 errata, 95 blank, 96 colophon], title-page printed in red and black, contemporary mottled calf, gilt borders on covers, gilt spine; lacks labels, joints very slightly cracked, binding a bit rubbed, but a good copy, with the pencil ownership of V. J. A Flynn/ Oxford/ December, 1963, on the lower ,margin of the recto of the front free end-paper, and on the recto of the following leaf, another Oxford inscription. Bruce M. Goldie/ Ch. Ch./ Oxford/ 1894. The Australian Vincent John Adam Flynn (1936 - 2016) was well-known as a collector of coins, vintage watches and Rover cars, many of which have appeared at auctions in recent years. Bruce M. Goldie bequeathed his collection of artefacts to the Ashmolean Museum. "Albius Tibullus lived in Rome in the first century B. C..... He published two books of Elegies which reveal the heart of a gentle but trouble man and refer to only a few friends.... Although Tibullus enjoyed the praise of his fellow poets, he suffered at the hands of a great Renaissance scholar. Scaliger regarded the poems as structurally disorganized, a flaw that he blame on manuscript tradition, and decided to rearrange them.... Although Scaliger did not discover any evidence to substantiate his theory that the original text experienced significant dislocation, his edition dominated the scene for nearly two centuries, during which some students actually read the elegies in this rearranged form. Thanks to Volpi, these rearrangements suffered a setback in 1749, with the expulsion of Scaliger's numerous transpositions from the text. By restoring the traditional arrangements of the elegies, this scholar provided a service too often overlooked by subsequent editors of Tibullus" (Robert J. Ball, Tibullus the Elegist: A Critical Survey, 1983.