Title: Σιβυλλιακοὶ Χρησμοὶ hoc est, Sibyllina oracula ex uett. codd. aucta, renovata, et notis illustrata a D. Iohanne Opsopœo Brettano. Cum interpretatione Latina Sebastiani Castalionis et Indice
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;background:#FFFFFF;">8vo. pp. [16], 524, 71, [6], 7-144, [2],
VII-XXIIII, 114, [6] (last blank). Signatures: ã8, A-Z8, Aa-Oo8, Pp4;
aa-ij8; ẽ8, a-g8, h4. Early suede or deerskin, with ties. Title page engraved,
with signature "C. de Mallery sculpsit." Engraved illustrations. Head
pieces, engraved initials. Printed annotations. Three parts in one, second and
third parts have separate fly-title pages, with device of a ship and the word
"Lutetia" [Paris] on each. Parallel Greek text and Latin translation;
preliminaries, notes and commentary chiefly in Latin. The name of the printer
appears in "Extraict du privilege du Roy" p. [72]. Adams identifies
the printer as Abel L'Angelier.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;"> </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first Opsopaeus (or Opsopäus) edition, the
earliest definitive exposure of the Greek Sibylline prophecies as
post-classical inventions by the careful philological researches of two scholars,
Johannes Opsopaeus and Sébastien Châteillon. It includes the commentaries of
Xystus Betuleius or Sixt Birck (Greek).</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;"> </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">Content:</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></p><p></p><ul style="margin-top:0in;" type="disc">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#2C2C2C;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">v. 1. Onuphrii Panvinii Veronensis De sibyllis et carminibus
     sibyllinus liber; Sibyllarum elogia et testimonia ex veteribus auctoribus;
     Sibyllina oracula; Fragmenta sibyllinorum oraculorum; De sibyllinis
     libris, et eorundem inspectione [...]; D. Ioannis Opsopoei Notae in
     Sibyllina oracula, intersertis Xisti Betuleÿ & Joann. Castalionis annotationibus</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><p></p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#2C2C2C;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">v. 2. Oraula magica Zoroastris cum scholiis Plethonis et
     Pselli nunc primum editi / studio Johannis Opsopoei</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><p></p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#2C2C2C;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">v. 3 Oracula metric Iovis, Apollinis, Hecates, Serapidis, et
     aliorum deorum ac vatum tam virorum quam feminarum / a Iohanne Opsopoeo
     collecta; Astrampsychi oneirocriticon / a Ios. Scaligero.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><p></p></li>
</ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;"> </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">This handsomely printed and illustrated critical
edition was reprinted in 1607 (See Bib# 4102649/Fr# 59 in this collection).</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;"> </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cf. A. Grafton, Joseph Scaliger. A Study in the
History of Classical Scholarship, Oxford & New York, 1993, ii: p. 599,
703-05; R. Mortimer, Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts. Pt. 1 French 16th
Century Books, Cambridge, 1964, no. 392 (her ‘Amsterdam 1589’ edition is a
ghost, based on Bibliothèque Nationale miscataloguing); H. M. Adams, Catalogue
of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge Libraries.
2 vols. Cambridge, 1967, O208; E. Havens, “Babelic Confusion. Literary Forgery
and the Bibliotheca Fictiva,” in W. Stephens & E. Havens (eds.), Literary
forgery in early modern Europe, 1450-1800, Baltimore, 2018, pp. 54-55, 71n43.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;"> </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:120%;">





















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