Title: L. Fenestellae, De Magistratibus, Sacerdotijsq[ue] Romanoru[m] libellus, iamprimum nitori restitutus. Pomponii Laeti itidem de Magistratibus & Sacerdotijs & præterea de diversis legibus Rom. Item Valerii Probi Grammatia de literis antiquis opusculum
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;">8vo. ff. [2] (blank), [80], [1] (blank). Signatures A-K</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:'Cambria Math', serif;">₈</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> L</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:'Cambria Math', serif;">₄</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (L</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:'Cambria Math', serif;">₄</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> blank).
Calf. Tooled front board. Rebacked? Spine elevated on 5 bars. Manuscript note
on title page: "Epitome chronicorum etc.” Marginalia. Stamp
"AJF." Title with historiated border. Woodcut initials. </span></p><p></p><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;"> </span></p><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;">Bound with Heinrich Sellarius, Epitome chronicorum, ac magis
insignium Historiarum Mundi velut Index: Ab orbe condito as haec usque
tempora. </span><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;" xml:lang="fr">Ex probatissimis quibusque Autoribus.
Frankfurt, Franc. Chri. Egenolphus, 1533.</span></p><p></p><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;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;" xml:lang="fr">Includes De magistratibus sacerdotiisque
Romanorum libellus. Giulio Pomponio Leto’s De magistratibus & sacersdotijs
et præterea de diversis legibus Romanorum and Marcus Valerius Probus’s De
literis antiquis opusculum. </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">Does not match any description in H. M. Adams,
Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge
Libraries. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1967 or Universal Short Title Catalogue, but
probably c.1530.</span></p><p></p><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;"> </span></p><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;">The present work, a standard account of Roman jurisprudence,
attributed by the first-century antiquary Lucius Fenestella, was widely admired
but was in fact the work of a modern humanist, Andrea Domenico Fiocchi.
Although his authorship was an open secret at the time, the formal dismissal of
the ‘Fenestella’ attribution awaited the critical edition of Gilles Wyts
(Antwerp, 1561, Bib#4102771/Fr#229 in this collection). See A. Freeman, “Hoax
and Forgery, Whimsy and Fraud: Taxonomic Reflections on the Bibliotheca
Fictiva,” in W. Stephens & E. Havens (eds.), Literary forgery in early
modern Europe, 1450-1800, Baltimore, 2018, pp. 10-11.</span></p><p></p><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;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">















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