Thesavrvs ervditionis scholasticæ: sive supellex instructissima vocum, verborum, ac locutionum: tum rerum, sententiarum, adagiorum & exemplorum: quæ docentibus juxta atque discentibus ad intelligendos solutæ ac ligatæ orationis Latinos Auctores, ... Cum adjuncta in locis plerisque interpretatione Germanica; additis item dictionibus Græcis; syllabarum præterea indicata quantitate; iam olim post aliorvm operas per Avgvstvm Bvchnervm Recensitus ... Novam hanc editionem post binas suas priores Christophorus Cellarius

Lipsiae [i.e. Leipsig]: Thomam Fritsch, 1696. Folio, pp. [8], 2606 columes, [147]; title page printed in red and black, woodcut device on title page, historiated woodcut initials, text in double column; some toning of the pages, else a very good, sound copy in full contemporary unadorned calf, neatly rebacked with old spine laid down. Engraved bookplate of Beilby Thompson, plus another of the 20th century of Eugene G. Sandersley. Basil Faber (1520-1576), Lutheran schoolmaster and theologian, was born at Zary in 1520. In 1538 he entered the University of Wittenberg, studying as pauper gratis under Philipp Melanchthon. Choosing the schoolmaster's profession, he became successively rector of the schools at Nordhausen, Tennstadt (1555), Magdeburg (1557) and Quedlinburg (1560). From this last post he was removed in December 1570 as a crypto-Calvinist. In 1571 he was appointed to the Rathsgymnasium at Erfurt, not as rector, but as director. In this situation he remained till his death in 1575 or 1576. His translation of the first twenty-five chapters of Luther's commentary on Genesis was published in 1557; in other ways he promoted the spread of Lutheran views. He was a contributor to the first four of the Magdeburg Centuries. He is best known by his Thesaurus eruditionis scholasticae (1571; last edition, improved by J. H. Leich, 1749, folio, 2 vols.); this was followed by his Libellus de disciplina scholastica (1572). (Inventory #: 42934)