Officinae epitome
Officinae epitome ("Brief epitome of a literary workshop") is an encyclopedia by the humanist Johannes Ravisius ( 1480 - 1524 ).
structure
Ravisius initially structured the Officinae associatively, in later editions (JJ Grasser) the material was systematized more strongly.
- Book: gods, religion, cult (35 chapters)
- Book: man (104 chapters)
- Book: State, Law, War (Chapter 39)
- Book: Sciences and Arts (107 chapters)
- Book: Social Life, Virtues and Vices (70 Chapters)
- Book: Time Calculation (8 chapters)
- Book: elements, plants, animals, foreign peoples (103 chapters)
- Book: Fables of the Poets (disordered collection)
Structure of the edition of 1663 (Basel):
- Mythology and Cult of the Greeks and Romans
- Body and soul of man
- Origin, family and good fortune
- Women; Domestic staff
- Special body shape and strength
- Diseases and disabilities
- Causes and types of death
- Various things about life and death
- State rule, laws
- Punish
- Ambassadors and chargées; Measure and weight
- War, weapons, badges of victory and badges of honor
- The muses
- Learn; spiritual gifts and achievements
- Magic, weather, celestial and geography
- Greek and Latin sophists, orators and poets
- Poetic paraphrases and descriptions
- music
- History; Medicine; Linguistics and literacy
- Theater, games and sports
- Fine arts
- Some crafts
- Shipping, hunting, horse-rider
- Housekeeping and some trades
- Diet, clothing, utensils and inventions
- God, fatherland and family
- Virtues and vices
- Sexual behavior; Leisure and sleep
- Time of day and seasons
- Winds, mountains and waters
- plants
- Land animals
- fishes
- Birds
- Ethnology; Natural wonders; sign
expenditure
- 1520 or 1522 : first print
- 1545 : Ed. By Conrad Lycosthenes
- 1617 : Ed. By JJ Grasser (new edition 1663 )
- 1560 : Johannes Ravisius: Officinae epitome , Lyon: Seb. Gryphius
- 1665 : Ioh. Ravisii Textoris Nivernensis, ..., Officina, Sive Theatrum Histor. Et Poeticum, Ex Nat. Comite, Linocerio Et Gyraldo: Cum Indice, ad perfectionem illustratum, ... Nova hac editione A J. Jac. Grassero ... cum augmento exornatum, Basileae, Sumptibus Ludovici Regis, ...
literature
- Walter J. Ong: Commonplace, Rhapsody: Ravisius Textor, Zwinger and Shakespeare. In: Classical Influences on European Culture 1500-1700. ed. JJ Bolgar. Cambridge, London 1976, pp. 107-159.
Web links
- Facsimiles of the Lyon 1560 edition as image files and in full text, with a brief introduction.
- Spending on Google Books.