Bipont Editions

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Bipont Editions (also known as the Bipontine Editions),{{Cite EB9 |wstitle = Deux Ponts |volume= VII | pages = 134-135 |short=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").

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Further reading

  • Friedrich Butters, [https://archive.org/details/ueberdiebiponti00buttgoog/page/n5/mode/2up 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.

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  • {{EB1911|wstitle=Bipont Editions |volume=3 |page=957}}

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