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MODDERMAN,ANTONIUS. Mijn bede aan Apollo. Voorgelezen in de vergadering van het departement Groningen tot Nut van 't Algemeen, den 11 January 1832 door Mr. A. Modderman. Fragment. (Groningen, 1832) Manuscript of a poem, recited on January 11, 1832, at a meeting of the Groningen branch of the 'Maatschappij tot Nut van 't Algemeen' (Society for Public Welfare). It is written on the first 9 pages of a small 16 page notebook. It has a plain paper cover, is pamphlet stitch bound, and measures 16x10 cm. § The poem numbers 29 quatrains, each stanza numbering 4 eight-syllable lines in trochaic metre. In light verse the jurist Modderman, a member of the local elite, describes meetings of the Groningen branch of the 'Maatschappij tot Nut van 't Algemeen', during which people drink coffee and smoke a pipe or a cigar and listen to all kinds of edifying lectures. § Antonius Modderman, born in Groningen in 1793 was a Dutch jurist ...

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CICERO. Manuscript of 36 pages, containing lecture notes on the first 18 capita of the 'Laelius' of Cicero, a dialogue on friendship. No place, no date. Boards. 20 cm (Details: The handwriting, which is of the first half of the 18th century, is hasty but very well legible. The leaves are bound by pamphlet stitch, within plain grey boards. (Condition: Right lower corner somewhat dog-eared; some small damage to the right lower corner of about 12 pages, with the loss of some letters) (Note: The notes are from the hand of a Dutchman. They explain words, verbs, and syntax and offer references to other works of Cicero and other writers, especially Nepos. Regularly Latin expressions and phrases have been translated into Dutch)(Photographs on request)
Book number: 130043 Euro 100.00

Keywords: (Rare Books), Altertumswissenschaft, Altphilologie, Antike, Antiquity, Cicero, Laelius, Lateinisch, Lateinische, Latin, Latin literature, ...

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