In November 2010, the Library of the Peace Palace in The Hague acquired a copy of Hugo Grotius’s seminal study on the law of war, De iure belli ac pacis (Paris: Nicolas Buon, 1625). The purchase represents the very rare first state (issue or printing) of the first edition, item no. 565-I in the well-known bibliography of Grotius’s works by Jacob Ter Meulen and P.J.J. Diermanse. This article is an adapted version of a speech held in the Peace Palace on 21 February 2011, when the copy of De iure belli ac pacis was presented to the public. After a short survey of the genesis, printing history and early reception, the article goes into the differences between the three states of the first edition and their significance for the interpretation of Grotius’s work. A provisional checklist of copies in public libraries is added in an appendix.
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J. Solís de Los Santos, ‘Dos cartas desconocidas de Justo Lipsio y otras seis que le ataquen en la correspondencia de Lorenzo Ramírez de Prado (1583-1658)’, Humanistica Lovaniensia, 47 (1998), pp. 288-289. For his biography, see Wikipedia, s.v. Lorenzo Ramírez de Prado, http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_Ram%C3%ADrez_de_Prado, and J. de Entrambasaguas, Una familia de ingenios, los Ramírez de Prado (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Revista de Filología Espagñola, anejo 26, 1943), pp. 40-126.
Cf. Molhuysen, ‘Over de editio princeps’, pp. 5-6. The translation is taken from H. Grotius, De jure belli ac pacis, II: The translation, by Fr.W. Kelsey, 3 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon etc., 1925), p. 574.
Cf. R. Tuck, The rights of war and peace. Political thought and the international order from Grotius to Kant (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 96-108, especially p. 99. See also, for a rebuttal of Tuck’s thesis, Chr.A. Stumpf, The Grotian theology of international law. Hugo Grotius and the moral foundations of international relations (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2006), pp. 52-53. Grotius might be reproached for his submissiveness at the time of his trial (1618-1619), when he showed another side of his character, more in line with the Pharsalia issue.
P. Haggenmacher, ‘Sur un passage obscur de Grotius. Essai de réponse à Cornelis van Vollenhoven’, Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis 51-3/4 (1983), pp. 295-315, a reply to a short notice by Van Vollenhoven in Grotiana 5 (1932), pp. 23-25.
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In November 2010, the Library of the Peace Palace in The Hague acquired a copy of Hugo Grotius’s seminal study on the law of war, De iure belli ac pacis (Paris: Nicolas Buon, 1625). The purchase represents the very rare first state (issue or printing) of the first edition, item no. 565-I in the well-known bibliography of Grotius’s works by Jacob Ter Meulen and P.J.J. Diermanse. This article is an adapted version of a speech held in the Peace Palace on 21 February 2011, when the copy of De iure belli ac pacis was presented to the public. After a short survey of the genesis, printing history and early reception, the article goes into the differences between the three states of the first edition and their significance for the interpretation of Grotius’s work. A provisional checklist of copies in public libraries is added in an appendix.
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Abstract Views | 440 | 62 | 10 |
Full Text Views | 88 | 5 | 0 |
PDF Views & Downloads | 94 | 18 | 0 |