Title: Enarrationes allegoricae fabularum fulgentii placiadis [Bound with
Description: <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">Folio.
ff. [48] (lacking blank leaf f<sup>6</sup>, which divides the two texts,
colophon and register appearing on f<sup>5</sup>v, at the end of the <span>Mythologiae). Signatures:</span> <span style="color:#212529;background:#FFFFFF;">a-d⁸, e⁴, f-g⁶ (f</span></span><sup><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:'Cambria Math', serif;color:#212529;background:#FFFFFF;">₃</span></sup><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#212529;background:#FFFFFF;"> wrongly marked f; f</span><sup><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:'Cambria Math', serif;color:#212529;background:#FFFFFF;">₆</span></sup><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#212529;background:#FFFFFF;"> blank</span>).<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Bound by Aquarius
in full plain calf, gilt-lettered and blindstamped. Large and small woodcut
initials. <span style="color:#212529;background:#FFFFFF;">Imprint from colophon, f.
[41]v</span>.</span></p><p></p>

<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">Editio princeps</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of both texts, the first
being the chief work of Fulgentius on ancient myths, and the second, the
notorious ‘Expositio sermonum
antiquorum’ or ‘De prisco
sermone,’ an annotated list of 62 obsolete words whose meaning he
professes to explain, usually with a quotation from now-perished texts of early
Roman writers, most of whom are unnamed, and/or otherwise lost. That some, or
many of these contextual passages are fakes, i.e. inventions by Fulgentius, has
long been realized (in ‘Literary Frauds among the Romans’ (1894) Alfred Gudeman
noted that Fulgentius is ‘the only Roman writer, so far as we know, who
deliberately manufactured his evidence by inventing mythical authors’), but
just which are genuine and which forged remains problematic: a more recent
attempt to sort them out is H. Baldwin, ‘Fulgentius and his Sources’, <i>Traditio</i>,
44 (1988), pp. 17-57. See also the very extensive annotated bibliography in the
online ‘<a href="https://uva.theopenscholar.com/gregory-hays/fulgentius-bibliography" rel="nofollow">Fulgentius</a>’
home page, conducted by Gregory Hays of the University of Virginia; F. R. Goff,
Incunabula in American Libraries: A Third Census. Millwood (N.Y.), 1973, F-326;
British Museum, <span style="background:#FFFFFF;">Catalogue of Books Printed in
the XVth Century Now in the British Museum</span>, vol. vi, p. 773.</span></p>

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