SATNROSE’S BOOK QUIZ

[lludwig]

SATNROSE’S BOOK QUIZ

2. What is the most valuable printed book?

Answer in invisible ink: 2. Was The Gutenberg Bible; now it is the Caxton Canterbury Tales

Note: I think a complete Gutenberg would beat the Canterbury if offered up to auction. However, the Caxton Canterbury is currently the most expensive printed book ever to change hands. 13 million? I forget.....

[ok-mrs-bee]

Thank you both. That was another bit of enlightenment.

[satnrose]

561. Who was the first great translator of Plato?




By "great" read "comprehensive" or "important".

[professorbooknoodle]

Translator into which language? Latin? English? German?

[satnrose]

No hints

[professorbooknoodle]

Well its a world of difference. 😉 And mostly fueled by philological jealousies. Although there does seem to be a sort of general consensus.


Nobody ever wrote a poem entitled On First Looking into Jowett's Plato.

[jeanpaulbooks]

I hesitate to pose a question that isn't my own, but I came across this delightful question and thought others might like it as well. The question is from John T. Winterich's Collector's Choice.

He also has a nice comment that appears to me to fit many of you who participate often in this quiz: "The questions themselves have little enough to do with book collecting; the only excuse that can be offered for their inclusion in the present treatise is that it seems reasonable to assume that a collector's interest in books extends beyond the shade of binding and the date on the title page, and reaches to the author himself."

So, here is the question:

Who discovered the following countries?

a. Glubbdubdrib b. Erewhon c. Altruria d. Graustark
e. Zenda f. Anchuria g. Xanadu h. Runazar
i. Utopia j. Labassecour.

[oldbookshopnj]

Assuming the last one is 562:

b. Butler
d. McCutcheon
e. Hope
i. More

[fine.books]

"Nobody ever wrote a poem entitled On First Looking into Jowett's Plato."


John - this is one of the funniest lines I've ever read. Thanks!
















Silent, upon a peak in Darien....

[professorbooknoodle]

:^O

Joe, I'm glad that you appreciated it for what it was.

[oldbookshopnj]

561. Ficino

[satnrose]

Yes, that was who I had in mind.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsilio_Ficino

[jeanpaulbooks]

oldbookshopnj

Yes, 562, sorry.

Those four are correct.

[ok-mrs-bee]

562.

a. Jonathan Swift
g. Coleridge?

[jeanpaulbooks]

ok-mrs-bee

562. Yes, those two are correct.

[ok-mrs-bee]

I didn't expect to find this on page 5.

#562 I was assuming that there were posters who knew the unanswered answers.

I will go a googlin' but I think that the thread has probably died.