<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> Full title:</b> Joannis Antiocheni cognomento Malalæ Historia chronica. E MS. Cod. Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ nunc primum edita. Cum Interpret. &amp; Notis Edm. Chilmeadi. &amp; triplice Indice Rerum, Autorum, &amp; Vocum Barbararum. Præmittitur dissertatio de autore, per Humfredum Hodium S.T.B. Coll. Wadhami Socium. Accedit Epistola Richardi Bentleii ad Cl. V. Jo. Millium S.T.P. Cum Indice Scriptorum, qui ibi emendantur.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 8vo. pp. [72], 418, [2], 243, [33], 98, [2]. Signatures: [pi]4, *-8*4, a-3f4, 3g1, A-3A4. Contemporary calf, rebacked. Gilt and tooled boards. Old Strassburg University Library stamp on verso of title, bookstamps of William Harris, and bookplate of G. P. Goold, the 20th-century editor of Bentley’s Epistola ad Joannem Millium. Manuscript notes on added title page (“J. Snoyd (?)” “circa AD 800”). Some marginalia. Added title page with engraved vignette of the Sheldon Theatre: Ιωάννου του Αντιοχέως του επικλήν Μάλαλα Χρονική Ιστορία Joannis Antiocheni cognomento Malalæ Historia chronica. Imprimatur signed "Jonath. Edwards, Vice-Can. Oxon." Includes bibliographical references (printed footnotes) and indexes. Parallel Greek text and Latin translation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the editio princeps of the world chronicle by Malalas, from the Creation to A. D. 560. It was seen through the press by John Mill, Principal of St. Edmund's Hall and celebrated editor of the New Testament, who included the Latin translation by Edmund Chilmead and a long introduction by Humphrey Hody.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">The major importance of the volume, however, resides in its 100-page appendix by Richard Bentley (1662-1742). This was Bentley's first publication and it made him an instant reputation. Before the book was published, Mill showed proofs to young Bentley, who addressed his remarks to Mill in the form of a long Latin letter. When the edition appeared, it contained Bentley's Letter to Mill as an appendix: "Taken as a whole, Bentley's Letter to Mill is an extraordinary performance for a scholar of twenty-eight in the year 1690. It ranges from one topic to another over almost the whole field of ancient literature. Upwards of sixty Greek and Latin writers [...] are incidentally explained or corrected" (R. C. Jebb, Bentley. London, 1882, pp. 15-16). It includes reflections on the early Jewish/Greek forgeries of pseudo-Sophocles, pseudo-Orpheus, the Oracula Sibyllina, etc., prefiguring his later exposure of the Phalaris letters. In this path-breaking and scarce work, Bentley exposed fragments of early Jewish forgeries of classical texts (by Aristobulus of Paneas and ps-Hecataeus of Abdera, travesties of Homer, Hesiod, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Menander), intended to demonstrate the Greeks’ debt to Hebrew monotheistic writings, and found in Eusebius (Evangelicae preparationis lib. XV, see Bib# 4102635/Fr# 90 in this collection), Clement of Alexandria (Opera, Greek and Latin, 1544 and 1550-51 (Bib# 4102632/Fr# 82, Bib# 4102633/Fr# 83), and Justin Martyr (1551, Bib# 392917/Fr# 102).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">See D. Wing (ed.), Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641–1700. 4 vols. New York, 1982-98 (2nd ed.), J 745; English Short Title Catalogue Online, R025557; A. T. Bartholomew, Richard Bentley, D.D.: A Bibliography of his Works and of All the Literature Called Forth by his Acts or his Writings. Cambridge, 1908, no. 137; see also A. Grafton, Forgers and critics: creativity and duplicity in Western scholarship. London, 1990, p. 73, elaborated in A. Grafton, Defenders of the Text. The Traditions of Scholarship in an Age of Science, 1450-1800, Cambridge, M.A., 1991, pp. 12–21, 177; A.-M. Denis, Introduction aux pseudépigraphes grecs d’Ancien Testament. Leiden, 1970. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4102637" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>