Titi Petronii Arbitri equitis Romani Satyricon, Cum Fragmento nuper Tragurii reperto. Accedunt diversorum Poëtarum Lusus in Priapum, Pervigilium Veneris, Ausonii cento nuptialis, Cupido crucifixus, Epistolæ de Cleopatra, & alia nonnulla [...]

Full title: Titi Petronii Arbitri equitis Romani Satyricon, Cum Fragmento nuper Tragurii reperto. Accedunt diversorum Poëtarum Lusus in Priapum, Pervigilium Veneris, Ausonii cento nuptialis, Cupido crucifixus, Epistolæ de Cleopatra, & alia nonnulla. Omnia Commentariis, & Notis Doctorum Virorum illustrate. Concinnante Michaele Hadrianide.

First of 2 volumes in 8vo. f. [1] (blank), pp. [36], 468, f. [1] (blank). Signatures: *-2*⁸ 3*² A-20⁸ 2P⁴ 3A-3L⁸. Early calf. Gilt filets, gilded spine raised on 5 bars, marbled edges and pastedowns. Owner's signature. ["Henffane"?] on title page. Frontispiece by Romeyn de Hooghe. Printer's device on title pages. Engraved initials, tailpieces.

First edition to combine the main text of Petronius (edited by the otherwise unknown ‘Michael Hadrianides’) with the Trau fragment, as re-edited by Giovanni Lucio of Trau from the original manuscript, with a nine-page list of variants from the Padua text (1664, see Bib# 4102885/Fr# 363 in this collection), and Lucio’s definitive Apologia for its authenticity, appearing under the name of the original discoverer, Marino Statileo. Blaeu had published the supplementary material separately a year earlier (1670, see Bib# 4102887/Fr# 365; S. Gaselee’s ‘Bibliography of Petronius’ in: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, 10 (1909), pp. 141-233, number 50), but in this ‘editio secunda’ the Apologia – which is ‘to any unprejudiced mind absolutely final’ (see Gaselee, p. 172) – is ‘auctior & curatorior’. See Gaselee, numbers 49 and 51 (a reprint): ‘after [1670] the voice of scepticism is no more raised’ (p. 168). The ‘Apologia’ has been erroneously attributed to Pierre Petit, being confused with Petit's Responsio ad Wagenseilii et Valesii Dissertationes which was published under the same pseudonym in 1666 (see Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, London, 1910, v. 10, p. 171). See also F.A. Ebert, Allgemeines bibliographisches Lexikon. Leipzig, 1830, vol. 2, 16508; F.L.A. Schweiger, Handbuch der classischen Bibliographie. Leipzig, 1834, vol. 2, ch. II, line 723.

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