Berosi sacerdotis Chaldaici, antiquitatum libri quinque, Cum commentariis Ioannis Annii Viterbensis sacræ Theologiæ professoris, nunc primùm in antiquitatum studiosorum commoditatem, sub forma Enchiridii excusi & castigati [...]

Full title: Berosi sacerdotis Chaldaici, antiquitatum libri quinque, Cum commentariis Ioannis Annii Viterbensis sacræ Theologiæ professoris, nunc primùm in antiquitatum studiosorum commoditatem, sub forma Enchiridii excusi & castigati. Reliquorum antiquitatum Authorum catalogum, sequens indicabit pagella.

8vo. ff. [8], 300. Signatures: *⁸ A-2O⁸ 2P⁴. Calf-backed cloth. Printer's device on title page. Engraved initials. Printed annotations.

A collection of spurious fragments of the works of Greek and Roman writers (in Latin translation), first published by the forger Joannes Annius in Rome, 1498 (Bib#4102734/Fr#185 in this collection). The work is annotated in manuscript by a contemporary, with variant textual readings.

Contains:

• Berosi de antiquitatibus totius orbis, Lib. V

• Manethonis supplementa ad Berosum, Lib. I

• Xenophontis Æquivoca, Lib. I; Fabij Pictoris de aureo sæculo & origine urbis Romae, Lib. II

• Myrsili de bello Pelasgico, Lib. I

• M. Catonis fragmenta de originibus, Lib. I

• Antionini Pij Cæsaris Augusti Itinerarium, Lib. I

• C. Sempronij de divisione Italiæ, Lib. I

• Archilochi de temporibus, Lib. I

• Metasthenis de iudicio temporum & annalium Persarum, Lib. I

• Philonis historici Hebraei, Breviarium de temporibus, Lib. II

• Ioannis Annij de Etrusca simul & Italica chronographia, Lib. I

• Cl. Marij Aretij viri patricij Syracusani, de situ insulæ Siciliæ, Lib. I

• Eiusdem dialogus, in quo Hispania describitur

• Ioannis Annij de primis temporibus, & quatuor ac viginti regibus Hispaniæ, & eius antiquitate, Lib. I.

See H. M. Adams, Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge Libraries. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1967, B788. On Annius, see 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, “Fashioning Noah: How a Forger Turned an Etruscan God into a Biblical Figure;” and W. Stephens, “Exposing the Archforger: Annius of Viterbo’s First Master Critic.”

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