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Books & Other Printed Materials

Classics

Because of its history as a liberal arts college, Bowdoin has gathered many volumes of Greek and Latin literature in sixteenth-, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century editions. Totalling about 475 in all, the titles include works of Aristophanes, Plato, Horace, Ovid, and others.

Some of the earliest works in the collection are listed below.
Description of bookplate

  • Aristophanes
    Plutus (manuscript copy)
  • Aristotle
    Organum, 1623
  • Catullus
    Works, 1534 and 1685
  • Cicero
    Complete works, 1538-39, ex officina Roberti Stephani; 1588; 1642, ex officina Elzeviriana; and 1681. Also his "De Amicitia" (manuscript copy), ca. 1425-1450; "Somnium Scipionis" (manuscript copy), ca. 1450-1500; Orationes, 1545 and 1550; Epistolae ad Familiares, 1545; Epistolae ad Atticum, 1546, 1554, 1564, 1567, and 1632; and De Officiis, 1568, 1683 and 1691
  • Euripides
    Hecuba, 1543; Works, 1602
  • Horace
    Works, 1544, ex officina R. Stephani; 1567; 1597, ex officina Plantiniana, apud F. Raphelengium; 1611; and 1699
  • Livy
    Ab Urbe Condita, 1549, 1612, 1644-45, ex officina Elseviriana; and 1678, apud D. Elsevirium
  • Ovid
    Works, 1661, ex officina Elseviriana; Amores, 1661; Ars Amatoria, 1526; Fasti, 1660 and 1664; Heroides, 1620; Metamorphoses, 1567, 1602, ex officina Plantiniana Raphelengii; and 1677
  • Plato
    • Works, 1556 and 1577
  • Plautus
    Comoediae, 1558, 1619, and 1669
  • Pliny the Elder
    Naturalis Historia, 1548, 1560, 1615, and 1616
  • Pliny the Younger
    Epistolae, 1478, printed by Philippus de Lavagnia at Milan; 1518, in aedibus Aldi et Andreae Asulani soceri; 1600, excudebat Paulus Stephanus; 1625; 1638; and 1686.
  • Sallust
    Works, 1521, in aedibus Aldi, et Andreae soceri; 1634, ex officina Elzeviriana; 1674; and 1699.
  • Virgil
    • Works, 1501 and 1650

See also:

  • Belanger, Janet B.
    Opera quae Extant Omnia (Almost)
    This 1981 paper by classics major Belanger (Bowd. 1982) provides further information on Latin holdings in Special Collections.
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