Thresor admirable de la sentence prononcee por Ponce Pilate contre nostre Sauueur Iesus-Christ
Subtitle: Trouuee miraculeusement escritte sur parchemin en lettre Hebraique dans un vase de marbre, enclos de deux autres vases de fer & de pieree, en la ville d'Aquila au Royaume de Naples, sur la fin de l'anne 1580 ; traduict d'Italien en François, ta[n]t pour l'vtilité publique et l'exaltation de nostre saincte foy, que pour louange de la dite ville
Publisher: Par Iean Stratius en rue Merciere
Published: 1581
Place of publication: A Lyon
Language: fre
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Trials, litigation; Fiction; Trial of Jesus Christ
Other titles: Thresor admirable de la sentence prononcee por Ponce Pilate contre nostre Sauveur Jesus-Christ
Description: Apparently the first extant printing of the "Aquila discovery" of a scroll purporting to record the death sentence pronounced by Pilate on Jesus, unearthed in late 1580 and examined by Camillo Borrello, from whose sceptical Italian account--unpublished until 1588--this may be adapted, or from a lost Italian newsbook. A slightly variant and more common 1581 printing, with the imprint of Guillaume Julien[e] of Paris, is probably a (piratical?) close copy of this Lyon octavo, since the Privilege on p. 48, granted to the Lyonnese "marchant libraire" Stratius, is dated 9 January 1581. See Beskow; not in Baudrier.
Notes: Signatures: A-F⁴

Title vignette showing the vases in which the parchment was found; initial and head-piece.

"Privilége"--Page 48.

18th century polished calf. Includes ms. underlining and some annotations.

Bibliotheca Fictiva: The Arthur & Janet Freeman Collection of Literary & Historical Forgery.