Leighton Library, Dunblane

Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library founded in 1687

Leighton Library has 1589 edition of Casaubon’s “Poluainou Strategematon” which has Latin translations by Isaac Casaubon

Added at 07:24 on 18 February 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1589 edition of “Poluainou Strategematon” which has Latin translations (by Swiss philologist and scholar Isaac Casaubon who was born #OnThisDay 18 February 1559) beside the original Greek in parallel columns of 2nd-century Macedonian author Polyaenus best-known work for “Stratagems in War.” Casaubon was regarded by many of his time as the most learned man in Europe. This book is marked “editio princeps” as it was the first printed edition of the work that had previously only existed in manuscripts copied by hand

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