<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> 8vo. f. [1] (blank), pp. [8], 70, 31, [1], f. [1] (blank). Signatures: *⁴ A-F⁸ G⁴( -G4). Contemporary vellum. Manuscript spine title "Petronii suppelentum 1670." Some pages printed partly in red. Note with no. 69 on front pastedown. Includes printer's device on title page, tailpieces, and some marginalia.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">The first edition of Giovanni Lucio’s ‘Apologia’ for the authenticity of the Trau fragment (‘Trimalchio’s Feast’), a major text by Titus Petronius Arbiter, appearing under the name of its original discoverer, Marino Statileo. See S. Gaselee’s ‘Bibliography of Petronius’ in: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, 10 (1909), pp. 141-233, number 50. </span><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;"><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/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039112519707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>