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A Short Biography of Franciscus Junius

Author Name:

Franciscus Junius

Born As:

François du Jon

Other Names:

Franciscus Junius the Younger

Born:

29 Jan 1591

Died:

1677




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Selected Works:

1637 - De pictura veterum translated as On the Painting of the Ancients in 1638 - and as De Schilder-konst der Oude begrepen in drie boecken in 1641 - reprinted 1659.
A second edition of De pictura - enlarged and improved by himself and augmented with an index - was published posthumously by J. G. Graevius in 1694 - with a life of Junius included as a preface.

1655 - Observationes in Willerami Abbatis Francicam paraphrasin Cantici Canticorum
"Notes on Abbot Williram's Frankish - Old High German paraphrase of the Song of Songs"

1655 - Annotationes in harmoniam Latino-Francicam quatuor evangelistarum - latine a Tatiano confectam
"Annotations on the Latin-Frankish [Old High German] harmony of the four Gospels - with the Latin of Tatian" (i.e. the Diatessaron)

1655 - Caedmonis monachi paraphrasis poetica Genesios ac praecipuarum sacrae paginae historiarum - abhinc annos M.LXX. Anglo-Saxonice conscripta - et nunc primum edita
"The poetical paraphrase by the monk Caedmon of Genesis and the other principal pages of sacred history - composed in Anglo-Saxon 1070 years ago - and now edited for the first time".
The first edition of the important poetical codex now designated Bodleian Library MS Junius 11. While it is no longer believed that Caedmon wrote the poems it contains - it is still commonly known as the Caedmon manuscript.

1664 - Gothicum Glossarium - quo Argentii Codicis Vocabula explicantur
"A glossary of words of the Gothic language as found in the Codex Argenteus"

1665 - Quatuor Domini Nostri Iesu Christi Evangeliorum Versiones perantiquae duae - Gothica scilicet et Anglo-Saxonica
"The Four Gospels of Our Lord Jesus Christ in two ancient versions - namely the Gothic and the Anglo-Saxon"
The Gothic version is Ulfilas' translation - and was edited by Junius from the Codex Argenteus. The Anglo-Saxon version was edited by Thomas Marshall. Junius' Gothic glossary (above) was included - along with Marshall's notes.

1743 - Etymologicum anglicanum
"English Etymology"
Published posthumously in an edition by Edward Lye - who included a life of Junius and George Hickes's Anglo-Saxon grammar.                          
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Father  Franciscus Junius                          
Published the first modern editions of a number of important texts.                          
Philology is the study of language in written historical sources.
As such it is a combination of literary studies, history and linguistics.

Junius' date of birth has been variously estimated as 1589, 1590, and 1591. The precise date given here was established by Johan Kerling, cited by Rademaker - 1998:3. 

For the original article, see Johan Kerling, 'Franciscus Junius, 17th-century Lexicography and Middle English' in: Lexeter '83 Proceedings, ed. R.R.K. Hartmann, Max Niemeyer Verlag Tübingen 1984.