Henricus Glareanus's (1488-1563) Chronologia of the Ancient World: A Facsimile Edition of a Heavily Annotated Copy Held in Princeton University Library (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions)

The humanists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries took a passionate interest in Livy s "History of Rome." No one studied the text more intensively than the Swiss scholar Henricus Glareanus, who not only held lectures on different Roman historians at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, but also drew up chronological tables for ancient history, which were printed several times in Basle, sometimes together with Livy s "History." Glareanus annotated his personal copy of the chronological tables and invited his students to copy his marginal notes into their own copies of the book. Three of these copies survived, and give new insight into Glareanus s practices as a scholar and teacher. The notes they contain and the way in which Glareanus used them as a teacher are distinctive, and neither has had much attention in the past from historians of reading. This volume presents facsimile reproductions of the tables from one of the surviving copies, now kept in Princeton University Library. The high-quality reproductions include transcriptions of the handwritten notes, unlocking Glareanus s teachings for a new generation of students and researchers." "The humanists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries took a passionate interest in Livy's History of Rome. No one studied the text more intensively than the Swiss scholar Henricus Glareanus, who not only held lectures on different Roman historians at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, but also drew up chronological tables for ancient history, which were printed several times in Basle, sometimes together with Livy's History. Glareanus annotated his personal copy of the chronological tables and invited his students to copy his marginal notes into their own copies of the book. Three of these copies survived, and give new insight into Glareanus's practices as a scholar and teacher. The notes they contain, and the way in which Glareanus used them as a teacher, are distinctive, and neither has had much attention in the past from historians of reading. This volume presents facsimile reproductions of the tables from one of the surviving copies, now kept in Princeton University Library. The high-quality reproductions include transcriptions of the handwritten notes, unlocking Glareanus's teachings for a new generation of students and researchers."--Back cover "In 2007 the Princeton University Library bought a heavily annotated copy of the Chronologia (1540) of the Swiss humanist Henricus Glareanus. The signature on the title page revealed that Gabriel Hummelberg, later a physician in Voralberg, entered the marginal notes ... As we studied Hummelberg's notes in Princeton in March and April 2010 ... it became clear that Hummelberg copied his notes from a written original ... The presentation of the marginalia is designed to shed light on their origin and promote comparative studies. It seemed appropriate to publish them in 2013, the 525th anniversary of Glareanus's birth and the 450th of his death."--Preface, p. [ix] The Swiss scholar Henricus Glareanus devoted much of his life to studying and teaching Livy's Roman History and devising chronological tables from it. He encouraged his students to copy his handwritten annotations to these tables into their own copies of the History. This volume provides access to a surviving copy from one of Glareanus's students, now kept at Princeton University Library