Berosi sacerdotis Chaldaici, antiquitatum libri quinque, Cum commentariis Ioannis Annii Viterbensis sacræ Theologiæ professoris, nunc primùm in antiquitatum studiosorum commoditatem, sub forma Enchiridii excusi & castigati [...]

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Full title: Berosi sacerdotis Chaldaici, antiquitatum libri quinque, Cum commentariis Ioannis Annii Viterbensis sacræ Theologiæ professoris, nunc primùm in antiquitatum studiosorum commoditatem, sub forma Enchiridii excusi & castigati. Reliquorum antiquitatum Authorum catalogum, sequens indicabit pagella. 8vo. ff. [8], 300. Signatures: *⁸ A-2O⁸ 2P⁴. Calf-backed cloth. Printer's device on title page. Engraved initials. Printed annotations.A collection of spurious fragments of the works of Greek and Roman writers (in Latin translation), first published by the forger Joannes Annius in Rome, 1498 (Bib#4102734/Fr#185 in this collection). The work is annotated in manuscript by a contemporary, with variant textual readings.Contains:<ul type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;">Berosi de antiquitatibus totius orbis, Lib. V</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;">Manethonis supplementa ad Berosum, Lib. I</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;">Xenophontis Æquivoca, Lib. I; Fabij Pictoris de aureo sæculo & origine urbis Romae, Lib. II</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;">Myrsili de bello Pelasgico, Lib. I</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;">M. Catonis fragmenta de originibus, Lib. I</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;">Antionini Pij Cæsaris Augusti Itinerarium, Lib. I</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;">C. Sempronij de divisione Italiæ, Lib. I</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;">Archilochi de temporibus, Lib. I</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;">Metasthenis de iudicio temporum & annalium Persarum, Lib. I</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;">Philonis historici Hebraei, Breviarium de temporibus, Lib. II</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;">Ioannis Annij de Etrusca simul & Italica chronographia, Lib. I</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;">Cl. Marij Aretij viri patricij Syracusani, de situ insulæ Siciliæ, Lib. I</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;">Eiusdem dialogus, in quo Hispania describitur</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;">Ioannis Annij de primis temporibus, & quatuor ac viginti regibus Hispaniæ, & eius antiquitate, Lib. I.</li> </ul>See H. M. Adams, Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge Libraries. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1967, B788. On Annius, see several contributions in W. Stephens & E. Havens (eds.), Literary forgery in early modern Europe, 1450-1800, Baltimore, 2018, esp. A. Grafton, “Annius of Viterbo as a Student of the Jews: The Sources of His Information;” S. O’Connell, “Fashioning Noah: How a Forger Turned an Etruscan God into a Biblical Figure;” and W. Stephens, “Exposing the Archforger: Annius of Viterbo’s First Master Critic.” <a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4102737" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a>

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Berosi sacerdotis Chaldaici, antiquitatum libri quinque, Cum commentariis Ioannis Annii Viterbensis sacræ Theologiæ professoris, nunc primùm in antiquitatum studiosorum commoditatem, sub forma Enchiridii excusi & castigati [...]
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