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Bipont Editions (also known as the Bipontine Editions),[1] the name of a famous series of editions, in 50 volumes, of Greek and Latin classical authors, so called from Bipontium, the modern Latin name of Zweibrücken (also referred to as "Deux Ponts"; English, "two bridges") in the Rhineland-Palatinate where they were first issued by the Societas Bipontina (under the supervision of Friedrich Christian Exter and Georg Christian Crollius) in 1779. Their place of publication was afterwards transferred to Strasbourg (referred to on the title pages by the Latin name of "Argentoratum").
References
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. VII (9th ed.). 1878. pp. 134–135. .
Further reading
- Friedrich Butters, Ueber die Bipontiner und die Editiones Bipontinae. Zweibrücken 1877.
- Georg Burkard: Bibliographie der Editiones Bipontinae. Zweibrücken 1990, ISBN 3-924171-06-8.
- Johannes Schöndorf: Zweibrücker Buchdruck zur Fürstenzeit 1488–1794. Zweibrücken 1995, ISBN 3-924171-21-1, S. 161–179.
- Attribution
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bipont Editions". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 957. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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