Title: Gerardi Ioannis Vossii De historicis Græcis libri quatuor
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">4to. pp. [8], 467, [13], f. [1] (blank). Signatures: ):(⁴ A-Ooo⁴ (K2 signed H2). Contemporary vellum. Manuscript note on last blank and on p. 215. P. 431 torn and repaired. Corner of p. 451 torn. First edition, second issue: a very scarce earlier title page, published in Leiden by J. Maire, is dated 1623, cf. C.S.M. Rademaker, G.J. Vossius, no. 13; the 1602 edition in T. Besterman, World bibliography of bibliographies (4th ed.), II, 2884, is an error. Printer's device on title page, variant of Van der Haeghen, Marques typographiques, J. Maire, no. 2. Engraved initials. Printed in Roman and Italic characters. Printed annotations. In Latin, with some Greek.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Bound with Vossius’s Ars historica, sive De Historiæ, &amp; Historices naturâ, Historiæque scribendæ præceptis, commentatio, Ad Illustrißimum Virum, Ioannem Berckium. Leiden, Apud Ioannem Maire, 1623.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First edition, second issue (a very scarce earlier title page is dated 1623). D. C. Allen, The legend of Noah: Renaissance Rationalism in Art, Science, and Letters. Urbana, 1963, p. 115, erroneously regards this work by the Dutch classical scholar Gerardus Vossius (Gerard/Gerrit Vos, 1577-1649) as the decisive exposure of Annius (Book i, Chapters 13–14, pp. 70ff.), while Gaspar Barreiros (see, e.g., Bib# 4102739/Fr# 192 in this collection) and Beatus Rhenanus (Bib# 4102743/Fr# 197) had questioned Annius’s veracity long before then. See W. Stephens, “Exposing the Archforger: Annius of Viterbo’s First Master Critic,” in W. Stephens &amp; E. Havens (eds.), Literary forgery in early modern Europe, 1450-1800, Baltimore, 2018, p. 190 n. 59.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4425224" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>