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 [...]
Publisher: In ædibus Ioannis Steelsii Joannes Steelsius
Published: 1545
Place of publication: Antwerp
Language: lat
Number of pages: 626
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14.4pt;"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">Full title: </span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">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.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14.4pt;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">8vo. ff. [8], 300. Signatures: *⁸ A-2O⁸ 2P⁴. Calf-backed cloth.
Printer's device on title page. Engraved initials. Printed annotations.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">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.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14.4pt;"><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;" xml:lang="fr">Contains:</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></p><p></p><ul type="disc">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;" xml:lang="fr">Berosi de antiquitatibus totius orbis, Lib. </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">V</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><p></p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">Manethonis supplementa ad
     Berosum, Lib. I</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><p></p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;" xml:lang="fr">Xenophontis Æquivoca, Lib. I; Fabij Pictoris de
     aureo sæculo & origine urbis Romae, Lib. II</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><p></p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;" xml:lang="fr">Myrsili de bello Pelasgico, Lib. I</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><p></p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;" xml:lang="fr">M. Catonis fragmenta de originibus, Lib. </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">I</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><p></p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">Antionini Pij Cæsaris Augusti
     Itinerarium, Lib. </span><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;" xml:lang="fr">I</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><p></p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;" xml:lang="fr">C. Sempronij de divisione Italiæ, Lib. I</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><p></p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;" xml:lang="fr">Archilochi de temporibus, Lib. I</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><p></p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;" xml:lang="fr">Metasthenis de iudicio temporum & annalium
     Persarum, Lib. I</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><p></p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;" xml:lang="fr">Philonis historici Hebraei, Breviarium de
     temporibus, Lib. II</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><p></p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;" xml:lang="fr">Ioannis Annij de Etrusca simul & Italica
     chronographia, Lib. I</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><p></p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;" xml:lang="fr">Cl. Marij Aretij viri patricij Syracusani, de situ
     insulæ Siciliæ, Lib. I</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><p></p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;" xml:lang="fr">Eiusdem dialogus, in quo Hispania describitur</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><p></p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;" xml:lang="fr">Ioannis Annij de primis temporibus, & quatuor ac
     viginti regibus Hispaniæ, & eius antiquitate, Lib. I.</span><span lang="fr" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;" xml:lang="fr"></span><p></p></li>
</ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14.4pt;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">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.”</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14.4pt;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:120%;">











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