EUDOCIA AUGUSTA,
Violarium. Recensuit et emendabat fontium testimonia subscripsit I. Flach. Accedunt indices quorum alter scriptores ab Eudocia laudatos alter capita violarii continet.
Teubner, Leipzig, 1880. XII,782p. Sewn, Back cover gone. Front cover nearly loose. Spine with reading traces. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. (Rare).
Eudocia Macrembolitissa, wife of the emperor Constantinus X Ducas (1059-1067), was seen as the author of the Violarium (bed of violas), a mythological-antiquarian work of anecdota. After K. Sathas attributed the work to Psellos who died after 1078, Joh. Flach published the Violarium in 1880 in the series Bibliotheca Teubneriana. Though he passionately defended the authenticity of the work by Eudocia Macrembolitissa, his arguments were not convincing. Probably the Violarium is a compilation from several trivial sources by Constantinus Palaeocappa in the year 1543. (Krumbacher in his Geschichte der Byzantinischen Litteratur, München, 1891). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover.
€ 175.00
(Antiquarian)