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Pedagogia - Freigius, Johannes Thomas

Paedagogus. Hoc est, libellus ostendes qua ratione prima artium initia pueris quam facillime tradi possint, 1582

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€ 550 - 650

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€ 1.032

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Basel,  Sebastian Henric Petri, 1582. In 8th. On the title page, a typographical brand and another full-page one at the end of the volume, a drop cap, text  in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, a folded woodcut plate, woodcut illustration on p. 262 representing a bridge, printed music, tears in the folded panel, slight stains on the last leaves, coeval parchment binding, worn, lack of the lower cover and partially detached from the body of the text. Ancient handwritten ex libris on the title page.

Specialist Notes

Rare before  edition of this interesting and popular school book, intended as an introduction to all subjects of humanities education
Freig was inspired by the logical method of Pierre de La Ramée according to which the discourse is based on topics or clichés. The Paedagogue summarizes the ideal curriculum focused on classical learning and religious education in the biblical languages (Greek, Hebrew and Latin), through dichotomous tables and an analysis presented in the form of question and answer. After a classification of the liberal arts, including a reference list of the most important mainly classical authors and a Latin epigram by the French poet Bartelon Pantaleón of Ravières,  the work is divided into 24 chapters each dedicated to a different topic. They cover Latin, Greek and Hebrew grammar, with particular attention to classical and biblical texts. Conversation in French on various cultural topics (wine, food, places in the house); poetic rhetoric; logic; geometry (the axis and its use in astronomy and land surveying; coining); architecture (materials, buildings and their arrangement, with a paragraph on the library); physics, based on Ptolemy's model; then ethics, economy, politics, military activities (armies, armor, camp); history; law and medicine (diseases and their symptoms, with a section on the plague). The chapter on music is the largest and highlights the gap between music theory and practice. It mainly concerns vocal music together with vernacular psalmody and Latin hymns. Recommended books are the Dodecachordon by Boethius and Heinrich Glarean (1547). Adams, F 1013; BM STC Ger., p. 320. Not in Brunet or in Graesse.  .

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