Das Buch von den drei Betrügern und das Berner Manuskript
Subtitle: eine Untersuchung
By: von Heinrich Dübi.
Contributors: Lucas, Jean Maximilien, d. 1697, supposed author.
Series: Neujahrsblatt der Literarischen Gesellschaft Bern ; n.F., 14. Hft.
Publisher: Verlag A. Francke
Published: 1936
Place of publication: Bern
Language: ger
Number of pages: 71
Subjects: Traité des trois imposteurs.
Notes: Description of a manuscript copy of Traité des trois imposteurs, edition of 1721 or of 1735 (ms. B 382 of the Berner Stadtbibliothek) with reprint of chapters 1-11, 18-20.  No printed copy of either edition is known to exist today.  The parts here reprinted correspond to the edition first published 1719 under title: La vie et l'esprit de m. Benoit Spinosa, of which pt. 1 is attributed by the present writer to "ein Hofrat Vroes im Haag," and pt. 2 to "ein Arzt Lucas."  The 1719 edition did not contain the introduction, Life of Spinoza, list of his writings, or table of contents, which were included in the two later editions.
The manuscript, a copy of one sold by Samuel Engel, the librarian of the Stadtbibliothek in Bern, about 1738, has title: Le fameux livre des trois imposteurs, traduit du latin en françois.  It is not a translation of the treatise De tribus impostoribus, first printed 1598.