Gisbert CUPER
Harpocrates sive Explicatio imaguncula argentae perantiquae, quae in figuram Har pocratis formata representat solem, ejusdem monumenta antiqua inedita... Accedit Stephani Le Moine Epistola de Melanophoris
Apud Franciscum Halma|Trajecti ad. Rhenum [Utrecht] • (Utrecht) 1687|16 x 21 cm|relié
Second edition, illustrated with 6 folding plates and 43 in-text vignettes; a frontispiece-title signed and dated within the plate: Joh. van der Avele inven et fecit. Title page in red and black. This edition is expanded with a letter by Etienne Le Moyne; this text has a half-title, as does the second text: Monumenta Antiqua. Well-printed edition, on good paper, decorated with head- and tailpieces... Printer's mark on the title page, with the motto, Vivitur Ingenio.
Contemporary rigid full vellum binding. Smooth spine with title in black ink (elegantly handwritten) and library number 5870. Handsome copy.
The first text is a study of Harpocrates, God of silence in Greek mythology, inherited from the God Horus of Egyptian mythology, who appears in Roman mythology as a divinity of a mystery cult. Cuper studies and interprets his iconology. In the second text, the author studies various inscriptions while conducting his reflection on different cults of Hercules, Diana... Gisbert Cuper was a Dutch politician, mayor of Deventer, whose passion for archaeology made him a scholar, and his sure taste as well as his research make him a precursor to art history and Winckelmann. Numerous Greek and Hebrew quotations in the texts.
Contemporary rigid full vellum binding. Smooth spine with title in black ink (elegantly handwritten) and library number 5870. Handsome copy.
The first text is a study of Harpocrates, God of silence in Greek mythology, inherited from the God Horus of Egyptian mythology, who appears in Roman mythology as a divinity of a mystery cult. Cuper studies and interprets his iconology. In the second text, the author studies various inscriptions while conducting his reflection on different cults of Hercules, Diana... Gisbert Cuper was a Dutch politician, mayor of Deventer, whose passion for archaeology made him a scholar, and his sure taste as well as his research make him a precursor to art history and Winckelmann. Numerous Greek and Hebrew quotations in the texts.
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