Fragmenta vetustissimorum autoru[m], summo studio ac diligentia nunc recognita
Publisher: Apud Io. Bebelium Johann Bebel Col.
Published: 1530
Place of publication: Basel
Language: lat
Number of pages: 122
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">4to. pp. [2] (blank), [8], 102,
[4] (last 3 blank). Signatures: a-o4. Half vellum over marbled boards. Engraved
initials, headpieces. Printed annotations. Early ownership note of Joannes
Pylius.</span></p><p></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Nanni is considered to be the
actual author of the texts here presented as fragments of antique authors.</span></p><p></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;" xml:lang="fr">Contains
(from title page):</span></p><p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"></p><ul><li><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;" xml:lang="fr">Myrsili
Lesbii de origine Italiae et Tyrrhenorum Lib. </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">I</span><p></p></li><li><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">M. Porcij Catonis Originum Lib.
</span><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;" xml:lang="fr">I</span><p></p></li><li><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;" xml:lang="fr">Archilochi
de Temporibus Lib. I</span></li><li><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;" xml:lang="fr">Berosi
Babylonij Antiquitatum Lib. V</span></li><li><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;" xml:lang="fr">Manethonis
sacerdotis Aegyptiorum de Regibus Aegyptiorum Lib. </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">I</span><p></p></li><li><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Metasthenis Persae annalium
Persicoru[m] Lib. I</span></li><li><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;" xml:lang="fr">Xenophontis
de Aequiuocis Lib. I</span></li><li><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;" xml:lang="fr">Q.
Fabii Pictoris de aureo seculo, & origine urbis Romae Lib. II</span></li><li><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;" xml:lang="fr">C.
Sempronij de divisione Italiae Lib. I</span></li><li><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;" xml:lang="fr">Sex.
Iulij Frontini V.C. de aquaeductibus urbis Romae Lib. II</span></li></ul>



















<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;" xml:lang="fr"></span></p><p> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">See H. M. Adams, Catalogue of
Books Printed on the Continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge Libraries. 2
vols. Cambridge, 1967, F830. 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.”</span></p><p></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4102736" rel="ugc nofollow"><span style="color:#4B64FF;background:#FFFFFF;">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins
University catalog record.</span> </a></span></p><p></p>