Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Catalogue of the Best Classical Editions, [ca. 8 April 1821]
Enclosure
Catalogue of the Best Classical Editions
[ca. 8 Apr. 1821]
Herodotus. Gr. Lat. Schweighauseri. 6. v. 8vo Argentorati et Parisiis 1816.
Thucydides Wasse et Dukeri. 6. v. 8vo Biponti 1788.
Xenophontis op. omn. Gr. Lat. Wells. 4. v. 8vo Lipsiae. 1763.
Diodorus Siculus Wesselingii Etc Gr. Lat. not. var. Biponti 1793. 11. vol. 8vo
Dionysius Halicarnasseus. not. var. Gr. Lat. Reiske 6. v. 8vo Lipsiae 1774.
Livy. Lat. Fr. La Malle. 15. v. 8vo Paris 1810.
Plutarchi vitae. Gr. Koraÿ. 6 v. 8vo Paris 1809.
Tacitus Oberlini. not. var. 4. v. 8vo
Tacitus Lat. Fr. La Malle 6. v. 8vo Paris 1818.
Dion Cassius. Gr. Lat. Sturtz. 8vo Lipsiae.
Homeri Ilias. Gr. Lat. scholiis Heyne. 8. v. 8vo Lipsiae 1802.
Virgil Heynii 4. v. 8vo Lipsiae. 1803.
Aeschylus Gr. Lat. Bothe. Lips. 1805. 8vo
Sophocles Gr. Lat. cum scholiis. Johnson. 2. v. 8vo Etoniae 1788.
Euripides. Barnes. Gr. Lat. schol. 3. v. 4to Lipsiae 1778.
Aristophanes. Gr. Lat. Brunckii. Argentorati. 1783. 6. v. 8vo
Juvenal Ruperti. 2. v. 8vo Lips. 1801.
Luciani opera. Gr. Lat. Hempsterhusii et Rheitzii. 10. v. 8vo Biponti. 1789.
Dictionnaire Gr. Fr. par Planche 8vo a most excellent one.
MS (PPAmP: Thomas Jefferson Papers); entirely in TJ’s hand; undated; on verso of RC of covering letter. PoC (MHi); on verso of PoC of covering letter, and on right half of address cover of Joseph C. Cabell to TJ, 20 Dec. 1820.
With only a few exceptions, the editions named here were also recommended by TJ in a longer list printed above at 7 July 1819. For unfamiliar words and phrases, see note to that document.
Index Entries
- Aeschyli Dramata Quae Supersunt et Deperditorum Fragmenta Graece et Latine (Aeschylus; ed. F. H. Bothe) search
- Aeschylus; Aeschyli Dramata Quae Supersunt et Deperditorum Fragmenta Graece et Latine (ed. F. H. Bothe) search
- Aristophanes; Comœdiæ (ed. R. F. P. Brunck) search
- Barnes, Joshua; editsEuripidis Tragoediae Fragmenta Epistolae (Euripides) search
- books; classical search
- books; dictionaries search
- books; TJ recommends to L. H. Girardin search
- Bothe, Friedrich Heinrich; editsAeschyli Dramata Quae Supersunt et Deperditorum Fragmenta Graece et Latine (Aeschylus) search
- Brunck, Richard François Philippe; editsAristophanis Comœdiæ (Aristophanes) search
- C. Cornelii Taciti opera (Tacitus; eds. J. A. Ernesti and J. J. Oberlin) search
- Cassius Dio; edition of by F. W. Sturz search
- classics; TJ on best editions of search
- Comœdiæ (Aristophanes; ed. R. F. P. Brunck) search
- Coray, Adamantios; editsΠλουτάρχου Βίοι Παράλληλοι (Plutarch) search
- D. Iunii Iuvenalis Aquinatis Satirae XVI (Juvenal; ed. G. A. Ruperti) search
- De Bello Peloponnesiaco Libri Octo Graece et Latine (Thucydides; eds. J. Wasse and K. A. Duker) search
- Dictionnaire Grec-Français, composé sur l’ouvrage intitulé Thesaurus Linguæ Græcæ, de Henri Étienne (J. Planche) search
- Diodorus Siculus; Διόδωρος. Bibliothecae Historicae Libri qui Supersunt (eds. P. Wesseling, C. G. Heyne, and J. N. Eyring) search
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus; Opera Omnia Graece et Latine (eds. H. Estienne, J. J. Reiske, and others) search
- Duker, Karl Andreas; editsDe Bello Peloponnesiaco Libri Octo Graece et Latine (Thucydides) search
- Dureau de la Malle, Jean Baptiste; translatesTacite (Tacitus) search
- Ernesti, Johann August; editsC. Cornelii Taciti opera (Tacitus) search
- Estienne, Henri (Stepani; Stephani); editsOpera Omnia Graece et Latine (Dionysius of Halicarnassus) search
- Euripides; Euripidis Tragoediae Fragmenta Epistolae (ed. J. Barnes) search
- Euripidis Tragoediae Fragmenta Epistolae (Euripides; ed. J. Barnes) search
- Eyring, Jeremias Nicolaus; editsΔιόδωρος. Bibliothecae Historicae Libri qui Supersunt (Diodorus Siculus) search
- Freinsheim, Johann; editsTiti Livii Historiarum quod exstat (Livy) search
- French language; dictionaries search
- Girardin, Louis Hue; TJ recommends books to search
- Hemsterhuis, Tiberius; editsΛουκιανός Luciani Samosatensis Opera (Lucian) search
- Herodoti Musae sive Historiarum Libri IX (Herodotus; ed. J. Schweighaeuser) search
- Herodotus; Herodoti Musae sive Historiarum Libri IX (ed. J. Schweighaeuser) search
- Heyne, Christian Gottlob; editsThe Iliad (Homer) search
- Heyne, Christian Gottlob; edits Virgil search
- Heyne, Christian Gottlob; editsΔιόδωρος. Bibliothecae Historicae Libri qui Supersunt (Diodorus Siculus) search
- Homer; Iliad (ed. C. G. Heyne) search
- Iliad (Homer); C. G. Heyne’s edition of search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; recommends books search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Opinions on; classics search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Writings; Catalogue of the Best Classical Editions search
- Johnson, Thomas (d.1746); editsΑἱ τοῦ Σοφοκλέους τραγῳδίαι ἑπτά. Sophoclis Tragoediæ Septem (Sophocles) search
- Juvenal; D. Iunii Iuvenalis Aquinatis Satirae XVI (ed. G. A. Ruperti) search
- Leclerc, Jean (Johannes Clericus); editsTiti Livii Historiarum quod exstat (Livy) search
- Livy; Titi Livii Historiarum quod exstat (eds. J. Leclerc and J. Freinsheim) search
- Lucian; Λουκιανός Luciani Samosatensis Opera (eds. T. Hemsterhuis and F. W. Reiz) search
- Oberlin, Jeremias Jakob; editsC. Cornelii Taciti opera (Tacitus) search
- Opera Omnia Graece et Latine (Dionysius of Halicarnassus; eds. H. Estienne, J. J. Reiske, and others) search
- Planche, Joseph; Dictionnaire Grec-Français, composé sur l’ouvrage intitulé Thesaurus Linguæ Græcæ, de Henri Étienne search
- Plutarch; Πλουτάρχου Βίοι Παράλληλοι (ed. A. Coray) search
- Reiske, Johann Jacob; editsOpera Omnia Graece et Latine (Dionysius of Halicarnassus) search
- Reiz, Friedrich Wolfgang; editsΛουκιανός Luciani Samosatensis Opera (Lucian) search
- Ruperti, Georg Alexander; editsD. Iunii Iuvenalis Aquinatis Satirae XVI (Juvenal) search
- Schweighaeuser, Johannes; editsHerodoti Musae sive Historiarum Libri IX (Herodotus) search
- Sophocles; Αἱ τοῦ Σοφοκλέους τραγῳδίαι ἑπτά. Sophoclis Tragoediæ Septem (ed. T. Johnson) search
- Sturz, Friedrich Wilhelm; edits works of Cassius Dio search
- Tacite (Tacitus; trans. J. B. Dureau de la Malle) search
- Tacitus, Cornelius; C. Cornelii Taciti opera (eds. J. A. Ernesti and J. J. Oberlin) search
- Tacitus, Cornelius; Tacite (trans. J. B. Dureau de la Malle) search
- Thieme, Carl August; editsΞενοφῶντος τὰ σωζόμενα Xenophontis Opera Graece et Latine (Xenophon) search
- Thucydides; De Bello Peloponnesiaco Libri Octo Graece et Latine (eds. J. Wasse and K. A. Duker) search
- Titi Livii Historiarum quod exstat (Livy; eds. J. Leclerc and J. Freinsheim) search
- Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro); C. G. Heyne edition of search
- Wasse, Joseph; editsDe Bello Peloponnesiaco Libri Octo Graece et Latine (Thucydides) search
- Wells, Edward; editsΞενοφῶντος τὰ σωζόμενα Xenophontis Opera Graece et Latine (Xenophon) search
- Wesseling, Pieter (Peter); editsΔιόδωρος. Bibliothecae Historicae Libri qui Supersunt (Diodorus Siculus) search
- Xenophon; Ξενοφῶντος τὰ σωζόμενα Xenophontis Opera Graece et Latine (eds. E. Wells and C. A. Thieme) search
- Αἱ τοῦ Σοφοκλέους τραγῳδίαι ἑπτά. Sophoclis Tragoediæ Septem (Sophocles; ed. T. Johnson) search
- Διόδωρος. Bibliothecae Historicae Libri qui Supersunt (Diodorus Siculus; eds. P. Wesseling, C. G. Heyne, and J. N. Eyring) search
- Λουκιανός Luciani Samosatensis Opera (Lucian; eds. T. Hemsterhuis and F. W. Reiz) search
- Ξενοφῶντος τὰ σωζόμενα Xenophontis Opera Graece et Latine (Xenophon; eds. E. Wells and C. A. Thieme) search
- Πλουτάρχου Βίοι Παράλληλοι (Plutarch; ed. A. Coray) search