Bibliography of Classical Authors and Texts before 1600

The Folger holdings are rich in translations and editions of Greek and Roman authors. Below is an alphabetical list of works created or printed before 1600 held in the Folger collection. We also hold many seventeenth-century editions, such as Poetae minores Graeci of 1684 which was based on the edition prepared by Henri Estienne.

Following the compilations and collections listed first, they proceed alphabetically by the commonly accepted form of the author's name.

N.B., this does not include the several thousand vernacular translations or adaptations held in the Folger. These are easily found with a Subject search in the online catalog.

Manuscript Collections

Sardi, Alessandro, 1520-1588, compiler. Miscellanea inedita manoscritta, v. 151, compiled mainly by Alessandro Sardi [manuscript], ca. 1575. Folger call number: V.a.123

Extracts mainly from classical authors [manuscript], compiled ca. 1600. Folger call number: V.a.283

Commonplace book [manuscript], ca. 1600. Folger call number: V.b.199

Compilations and “anthologies”

Tragoediae selectae / Aeschyli, Sophoclis, Euripidis ; cum duplici interpretatione Latina, vna ad verbu[m], altera carmina ; Ennianae interpretationes locoru[m] aliquot Euripidis. [Geneva] : Excudebat Henr. Stephanus, illustris viri Huldrichi Fuggeri typographus, an. 1567. Folger call number: PA3604 .A5 1567 Cage

Pindari Olympia ; Pythia ; Nemes ; Isthmia ; caeterorum octo lyricornm [i.e. lyricorum] carmina / Alcafi, Sapphus, Stesichori, Ibyci, Anacreontis, Bacchylidis, Simonidis, Alcmanis, nonnulla etiam aliorum ; omnia Graecè & Latinè ; Pindari interpretatio noua est, eáque ad verbum ; caeteri partim ad verbum, partim carmine sunt redditi. Antverpiae : Ex officina Christophori Plantini, anno 1567. Folger call number: 215- 391q

Virgilius collatione scriptorum Graecorum illustratus / opera et industria Fuluii Vrsini. Antuerpiae: Ex Officina Christophori Plantini, anno 1568. Folger call number: 237- 381.1q

Carmina nouem illustrium feminarum: Sapphus, Myrtidis, Praxillae, Erinnae, Corinnae, Nossidis, Myrus, Telesillae, Anytae: et lyricorum Alcmanis Ibyci, Stesichori, Anacreontis, Alcaei, Simonisid, Bacchylidis: Elegiae Tyrtae, & Mimnermi : bucolica Bionis & Moschi / Latino versu à Laurentio Gambara expressa; Cleanthis, Moschionis, aliormq́ue fragmenta nunc primum edita; ex bibliotheca Fuluii Ursini Romani. Antuerpiae: Ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1568. Folger call number: PA3447 .O7 1568 Cage

Poiēsis philosophos = Poesis philosophica, vel saltem, Reliquiae poesis philosophicae, Empedoclis, Parmenidis, Xenophanis, Cleanthis, Timonis, Epicharmi : adiuncta sunt Orphei illius carmina qui à suis appellatus fuit ho theologos: item Heracliti et Democriti loci quidam, & eorum epistolae. [Geneva]: Excudebat Henr. Stephanus, anno MDLXXIII [1573] Folger call number: 209- 011q

Libellus scolasticus utilis, et ualde bonus : quo continentur, Theognidis praecepta, Pythagorae uersus aurei, Phocylidae praecepta, Solonis, Tyrtaei, Simonidis, & Callimachi quaedam carmina / collecta & explicata à Ioachimo Camerario Pabepergen. ; accessit rerum & uerborum memorabilium index. Basileae : Per Ioannem Oporinum, [1555] Folger call number: 163- 441q

En lector, librum damus uerè aureum, planeq́[ue] scholasticum, quo continentur haec, [Ta chrysa ka loumena Pythagorou epē ...] = Id est, Pythagorae Carmina aurea. Phocylidae Poema admonitorium. Theognidis Megarensis poet[a]e Siculi gnomologia. Coluthi Lycopolitae Thebaei Helenae raptus. Tryphiodori poetae Aegyptij De Troiae excidio / omnia Graecolatina, conuersa simul & exposita à Michaele Neandro Sorauiense. Basileae : Per Ioannem Oporinum, anno Salutis 1559 mense Augusto. Folger call number: PA3604.A3 N5 1559 Cage

Index eorum, quae hoc in libro habentur ... Venetiis: In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae soceri, mense Nouembri MDXVI [1516] Folger call number: Folio BF1501 .J2 (2 copies)