Umfang:
Online-Ressource (174 p)
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ill., ports., facsims
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
904201685X
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1417592052
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9789042016859
Serie:
Studies in the history of ideas in the Low Countries
Inhalt:
This book prints for the first time two remarkable interlocking sequences of letters between Paris and the Netherlands: 40 letters from Gilles Ménage in Paris to Johann-Georg Grævius in Utrecht, and 30 from the printer Henrik Wetstein, in Amsterdam, to Ménage. Their principal focus is the publication of a considerable number of Ménage's works outside France, above all his monumental edition of Diogenes Laertius's Lives of the Philosophers. The letters give an engaging picture of mutual help within the community of scholars, Dutch, German, English, and French, including Huguenot exiles like Le
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-165) and index
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CONTENTS; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Description of the manuscripts; Editorial principles; Table of the letters; The Ménage - Grævius - Wetstein correspondence; Plate Section; Bibliography; Index;
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Publishing in the Republic of Letters : The Ménage-Grævius-Wetstein Correspondence 1679-1692
Sprache:
Englisch
