Estienne.- Estienne (Henri) Parodiæ morales H. Stephani, In poetarum vet. sententias celebriores, totidem versibus Gr. ab eo redditas, collation: *⁸ a-i⁸ k⁴, A-M⁸, italic and Roman type, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut decorative initials and head-pieces, most rectos of part 1 blank, k⁴ and M^7&8 blank, 17^th century vellum, yapp edges, 8vo (160 x 98mm.), [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1575.

⁂ The Chatsworth copy of the first edition of this collection of parodies of classical poets, profusely annotated by the Dutch scholar Heinrich Christian Henning (Henninius). Henning has filled 46 of the pages left blank by Estienne and a few other ff. with his own selections of proverbs, maxims, and quotations in Latin, Greek, Dutch, German, French, Italian, and Spanish. To acknowledge his additions he has added in on the title 'Cum Sententiarum et Cogitarum Henr. Chr. Henninii'. On this same page he has also included chains of words in various patterns, with the explanation 'Adjiciuntur etiam quaedam Emblemata ingeniosa'. Finally at the foot of the title he has inscribed 'Hic liber odit, amat, nescit, fovet, arcet, honorat, turpia, pulcra, nefas, sacra, profana, bonos'. Henning is best-known for his 1685 edition of Juvenal and for his introduction of the Latin rule of accentuation to Greek (see Pfeiffer, History of Classical Scholarship 1300-1850, p.89). As well as Catullus, other authors parodied include Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Lucan, Juvenal and Martial.

Provenance: Thomas William Carr, C.C.C., Oxon (bookplate); Spencer Compton, 8^th Duke of Devonshire (Chatsworth armorial bookplate); Heinrich Christian Henning (ink signature to title and annotations).

Literature: Adams S1784; Renouard, Estienne, 142:6; Schreiber 194.