Title: Antiquitatu[m] variaru[m] volumina .XVII. A venera[n]do & sacræ theologiæ, & prædicatorii ordi[ni]s p[ro]fessore Io. Annio hac ferie declarata
Description: Folio. ff. [6], CLXXI, [1]. Ff. XLVI erroneously numbered XLVII. Signatures: a6, ²a-u8 x-y8 z8 (z* blank). Modern calf. Printer's mark of Jehan Petit on title page. Engraved initials. Printed annotations. Ownership inscription of Jo. Williams.   In this work, often known as The Antiquities of Annius, Annius of Viterbo (c.1432–1502), an Italian Dominican friar, published alleged writings and fragments of several pre-Christian Greek and Latin profane authors, destined to throw an entirely new light on ancient history. The editio princeps of Annius's forgeries was printed by Eucharius Silber in Rome in 1498 (Bib# 4102734/Fr# 185 in this collection). The most usable editions were edited by Josse Bade (Jodocus Badius) and published by the press of Jean Petit at Paris, in 1512 and again in 1515; they are identical to the smallest detail.   Contains: Liber primus. Contentorum in altis voluminibus Liber II. Institutionum Annianarum de aequivocis Liber III. Vertumniana Propertii Liber IIII. Xenophontis Aequivoca Liber V. Fabii Pictoris De aureo saeculo Liber VI. Myrfili Liber VII. Catonis fragmentum Liber VIII. Itinerarii Antonini Fragmentum Liber IX. Sempronii De Italia Liber X. Archilochi De temporibus Liber XI. Metasthenis Liber XII. De Hispanis Liber XIII. De chronographia Etrusca Liber XIIII. Philonis Liber XV. Berosi Liber XVI. Manethonis Liber XVII. Anniaruim XL quaestionum   See H. M. Adams, Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge Libraries. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1967, A1166; several contributions in W. Stephens & E. Havens (eds.), Literary forgery in early modern Europe, 1450-1800, Baltimore, 2018, esp. A. Grafton, Annius of Viterbo as a Student of the Jews: The Sources of His Information;" S. O'Connell