Minerva presents prize books


Detail of stamp on cov­ers of an 18th cen­tury Dutch prize book: an award from the Latin school of the city of Amers­foort.
❧ Pliny, the Younger. Epis­to­larum. Libros decem, cum notis selec­tis; Jo. Mariae Catanaei, Jac. Schegkii [et al], Recen­suerunt suisque ani­mad­ver­sion­ibus illus­trarunt Got­tlieb Cor­tius et Paullus Daniel Lon­golius... Amste­laedami, apud Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1734. Call num­ber: RCPXR 2905.311.234. For fur­ther par­tic­u­lars see J. Spoelder, Pri­js­boeken op de lati­jnse school, (Ams­ter­dam, 2000), espe­cially page p. 479.