TIXIER, Jean.

Basel, Ludovici Regis, 1617. 8vo. (96),+ 942,+ (70) pp. Minor stains. Old ink underlinings and comments in margin. Contemporary blindstamped half pig-skin binding, spine with raised bands and traces of ink title, boards with green papers, the rear blindstamped. Minor repair on top of front hinge. The front board with ”ISM” and ”162” stamped on the pig skin and the top edge with ”76” in ink.Owner’s signatures of Carolus Johan (Gestrinius?) on front paste down, Laurentius Hydrén dated 1730 on the title page and another dated Uppsala 1790 on front fly leaf. VD17 23:285202L. USTC 2135562 (3 copies). A later edition of the large mythological dictionary ”Officina” by the French humanist Jean Tixier or Johannes Ravisius Textor. It was first published in 1520 and later expanded and revised several times, from 1545 by Conrad Lycosthenes. This is the first edition edited by Johann Jakob Grasser (1579-1627) who was to publish the last five editions of it, the last in 1665. ”Officina” is a dictionary of ”classified excerpts from classical and contemporary authors”, among other from Lilius Gregorius Gyraldus (1479-1552), and is intended as a source book for students. Not much is known about the life of Jean Tixier (1480-1524). He was educated at the Collège de Navarre in Paris, where he also taught rhetoric all his life, and he published many textbooks for the use of his students and also staged several school dramas, of which some were partly printed under the title ”Dialogi” at Paris in 1530. Included from page 869 is also his ”Cornucopiae Joannis Ravisii Textoris epitome”, which is a encyclopedia from A to VAn old Swedish owner have been particulary interested in Liber VIII, ”quod omnia philosophorum dogmata sub fabulis continuentur” (pp. 837-868), with a lot of underlinings and comments. These together with a comment on rear paste down that the entry Fama is missing, ”Fama ej Registreradt”, are probably by Lars Hydrén (1694-1789) professor in poetry in Uppsala and from 1752 doctor in theology.