Flavio Lucio Dextro caballero español de Barcelona Prefecto-Pretorio de Oriente Governador de Toledo Por los Años del S[eñ]or de C̄C̄C̄C̄. Defendido Por Don Thomas Tamaio de Vargas al l[a]do Don Francisco Fernandez Bertran Abbad [...]

Full title: Flavio Lucio Dextro caballero español de Barcelona Prefecto-Pretorio de Oriente Governador de Toledo Por los Años del S[eñ]or de C̄C̄C̄C̄. Defendido Por Don Thomas Tamaio de Vargas al l[a]do Don Francisco Fernandez Bertran Abbad. Maior de la S[an]ta Igl[esi]a Coll[egi]al de Olivares Protonotario Apostolico &c.

3 parts in one 4to. f. [1] (blank), [12], 108, [4], 146, [8], [1 blank] (first f. 22 called 24, second and third parts have continuous paging). Signatures: [par.]⁴ 2par.-3par⁴ A-2D⁴ 2E-2F² a-2l⁴ *-2*⁴. Calf-backed marbled boards. Gilded spine, red panel, edges spread in blue. Engraved title page in architectural, historiated border. Engraved initials. Tailpieces. Manuscript inscription "De el D. 1ra Joannis Bentura" on half-title.

A defense of the work of the antiquarian and Jesuit philosophy professor Jéronimo Román de la Higuera on the early ecclesiastical history of Spain, which purports to be published from a manuscript of Flavius Lucius Dexter found in the Abbey of Fulda (see Bib# 9075525/Fr# 378.1 in this collection for its first publication in 1619). See E.K. Chambers, The history and motives of literary forgeries, being the chancellor's English essay for 1891. New York, [1970], p. 25; Nouvelle biographie générale. Paris, 1857-1866, 46 vols., s.v. ‘Dexter.’

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