Antiquitatu[m] variaru[m] volumina XVII / a venera[n]do & sacrae theologiae, & Praedicatorii ordi[ni]s pfeffore Io. Annio hac ferie declarata.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nanni, Giovanni, 1432?-1502.

Contributor:

Petit, Jean, active 1492-1530, bookseller.

Badius, Josse, 1462-1535, bookseller.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Commentaria super opera diversorum auctorum de antiquitatibus loquentium

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

History, Ancient--Early works to 1800.

History, Ancient.

History--Errors, inventions, etc.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Hallus, Edouardus (autograph) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered leaves, CLXXI leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf ; 28 cm (folio)

Fingerprint:

i.i. tice m-o- enes (3) 1515 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Parisiis] : Venunda[n]tur ab Joanne Paruo & Jodoco Badio, [anno salutis humane MDXV]

Summary:

"Spurious fragments of various lost Greek and Roman historical writers, first published by J. Annius, with a commentary of his own. It is commonly believed that he forged them. The volume contains also some original pieces by him."--British Museum Catalogue.

Contents:

Liber primus. Contentorum in altis voluminibus

Liber II. Institutionum Annianarum de aequiuocis

Liber III. Vertumniana Propertii

Liber IIII. Xenophontis Aequiuoca

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.

Notes:

Place and date of publication from colophon: Impressae rursus opera Ascensiana ad X. kalendas Octob. anno salutis humane MDXV Deo sit laus & gloria [22 sept. 1515].

Signatures: a⁶, ²a-y⁸ x-y⁶ z⁸(z* blank).

Device of publisher J. Badius Ascensius. on title page; woodcut intials; marginal notes.

Leaf XLVI erroneously numbered XLVII.

Originally published as: Commentaria super opera diversorum auctorum de antiquitatibus loquentium. Rome : E. Silber, 1498, cf. Hain I, 125, no. 1130.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. inscription "Edouardus Hallus" on title page.

Cited in:

Adams A1164

BM STC French, 1470-1600, p. 19

Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire, I, 300

Grässe, J.G.T. Trésor de livres rares et précieux, I, 137

Renouard, P. Bibliographie des impressions et des oeuvres de Josse Badius Ascensius, II, p. 36-37

Moreau, B. Inventaire chronologique des éditions parisiennes du XVIe siècle, II, 1181

OCLC:

47943193