Title: Aristeæ Historia LXXII Interpretum. Accessere Veterum Testimonia De Eorum Versione
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pp. [4], 144, plate. Signatures: <span style="background:#FFFFFF;">[</span><span style="color:#404040;background:#FFFFFF;">π</span><span style="background:#FFFFFF;">]³, A-S⁴ ; R unsigned. </span>Calf. Ornamented gilded spine.
Parallel Greek and Latin texts. <span class="marclinepart"><span style="color:#212529;">The frontispiece is signed: MBurg. sculp., i.e. Michael
Burghers.</span></span></span></p><p></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span class="marclinepart"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#212529;">This work is an
anthology of condemnations of the Letter of Aristeas (see Bib# 690536/Fr# 71 in
this collection) by Humphrey </span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hody (see Bib# <span class="marclinepart"><span style="color:#212529;">4102624/Fr# 73) </span></span>and subsequent
interlocutors, among them Henry Aldrich and Edward Bernard. The current volume contains
a presentation inscription from Edward Bernard to the Dutch scholar Nicolas
Witsen, a compatriot of Isaac Vossius, who had attacked Hody’s rebuttal of Aristeas
in 1686 (see Bib# 4102625/Fr# 74 in this collection). Includes, with a separate
title page, ‘Testimonia aliquot scriptorum orientalium de LXXII interpretibus
eorumque versione’. <span class="marclinepart"><span style="color:#212529;">Both
the account and the author are fictitious. </span></span>See D. Wing (ed.),
Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales,
and British America, and of English Books Printed in Other Countries,
1641–1700. 4 vols. New York, 1982-98 (2<sup>nd</sup> ed.), A3683; E. Havens, “Babelic
Confusion. Literary Forgery and the Bibliotheca Fictiva,” in W. Stephens &amp;
E. Havens (eds.), <span class="marclinepart"><span style="color:#212529;">Literary forgery in early modern Europe, 1450-1800, </span><span style="color:#212529;background:#FFFFFF;">Baltimore, </span><span style="color:#212529;">2018, pp. 42-44.</span></span></span></p><p></p>

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