Berosus Babilonicus De his Quae præcesseru[n]t inundatione[m] terraru[m]. Item. Myrsilus de origine Turrhenorum. Cato in fragmentis. Archilocus in Epitheto de temporibus. Metasthenes de iudicio temporu[m]. Philo in breviario temporum [...]

Berosus Babilonicus De his Quae præcesseru[n]t inundatione[m] terraru[m]. Item. Myrsilus de origine Turrhenorum. Cato in fragmentis. Archilocus in Epitheto de temporibus. Metasthenes de iudicio temporu[m]. Philo in breviario temporum [...]

by Godofredus [Geoffroy Tory] (ed.) Torinus, Annio da Viterbo], Annius

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Full title: Berosus Babilonicus De his Quae præcesseru[n]t inundatione[m] terraru[m]. Item. Myrsilus de origine Turrhenorum. Cato in fragmentis. Archilocus in Epitheto de temporibus. Metasthenes de iudicio temporu[m]. Philo in breviario temporum. Xenophon de equivocis temporu[m]. Sempronius de divisione Italiæ Q. Fab. Pictor de aureo sæculo & origine urbis Rhomæ. Fragmentu[m] Itinerarij Antonini Pij. Altercatio Adriani Augusti & Epictici. Cornelij Taciti de origine & situ Germanorum opusculum. C. C. de situ & moribus Germanoru[m].

 

4to. ff. [1] (blank), [6], LI, [1] (blank). F. III called II, l. XXXII called XXIIII, marginalia on f. XXVIIIr, XXXIv. Signatures: [a]6, b-c4, d8, e-f4, g8, h4, I-k8. Modern cartonnage, leather ties. Manuscript inscription visible through front pastedown. Plate, bookplate of Giannalisa Feltrinelli. Full-page engraving of map of Rome on verso of f. XXVIII. Marnef's device on title page. Engraved initials. Imprint from dedication on leaf following title page (sig. ij recto).

 

This collection of fragments by classical authors is generally considered spurious & the work of Nanni himself. Edited by Godofredus Torinus (Geoffroy Tory), cf. dedication, dated Paris, 1510. Apparently a German counterfeit or reprint of the Paris Marchand/ Geoffroy de Marnef editions of 1510-11, preserving an adaptation of the Marnef device, with the addition of two items of German interest; a variant of the more common dated Grüninger edition of 1511. Brunet ascribes this reprint to a German press but the Bibliothèque nationale catalogue lists it as a de Marnef edition. See J.-C. Brunet, Manuel du libraire et de l’amateur de livres. 5th ed., 6 vols. Paris, I, 1860, entry 810. Another version exists with date "Anno 1511" and a shorter title (without the German interest chapters).

 

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