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ANNIUS, Johannes. Auctores vetustissimi. Commentary by Johannes Annius. Rome: Eucharius Silber, 10 July 1498, 3 August 1498.
Chancery 2° (292 x 205 mm). Collation: a8 b4 A-D6 E8 F-G6 H-I8 K-L6 M-N8 O-Y6 Z8 &4 c8 d-k6 (a1 blank, a2r author's dedicatory letter to Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, a3r preface, table, b4 blank, A1r Myrsilus Lesbius, De origine Italiae et Tyrrhenorum; Cato, De origine gentium et urbium Italicarum; Archilochus, De temporibus; Metasthenes, De judicio temporum et annalium Persarum; Annius, Commentaria super Vertunnianam Propertii in quarto libro Elegiarum, G1r Philo Judaeus, Breviarium de temporibus; Xenophon, De aequivocis, K1r Sempronius, De chorographia sive descriptione Italiae et eius origine; Quintus Fabius Pictor, De aureo saeculo et de origine urbis Romae; Antoninus Pius, Itinerarium; Berosius Babylonius, Antiquitates;Manetho, Supplementum ad Berosum; Annius, Chronographia, &4r register, first colophon dated 10 July 1498, &4v blank, c1r Annius, Institutiones, Questiones Anniae, De primis temporibus, k6r register, second colophon dated 3 August 1498, k6v blank). 215 leaves (of 216, without first blank). 42-43 lines of commentary, text with commentary surround or double column. Types 4:109R, 7:73G, 11:146G. 2- to 4-line initial spaces with guide letters, woodcut of Rome on M1v, two woodcut ornamental initials. (Some light staining, short tear at lower hinge of a2.) 19th-century sheep-backed pastepaper boards (spine ends repaired); slipcase. Provenance: a few early annotations (some lightly erased); London Library, blind and rubber stamps, cancellation stamps on front pastedown.
FIRST EDITION. This collection of largely spurious classical texts, which Nanni claimed to have discovered, unleashed great controversy, with many accusing Nanni of forging the texts. More gentle critics believed Nanni to have been naive rather than duplicitous, and this view was substantiated in part with the discovery among the Colbert manuscripts of a 13th-century manuscript which contained some of the same texts as Nanni. Since the texts deal with the early history of Italy and were purportedly by very ancient writers, they were seized upon with pride by Italians claiming ever earlier, and therefore more prestigious, beginnings for their history.
The woodcut, illustrating Fabius Pictor's treatise on the Golden Age, represents the first effort to provide a systematic map of the earliest settlement in Rome (A. Grafton, in Rome Reborn, Washington, 1993, p. 105). It is probably the third printed map of Rome, following that in Foresti's Supplementum Chronicarum, 1486, and the view in Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493. The present copy does not have the papal privilege printed on b4v. HC *1130; BMC IV, 118 (IB. 19034); GW 2015; IGI 584; Pellechet 795; Polain(B) 225; Sander 407; Goff A-748.
Chancery 2° (292 x 205 mm). Collation: a
FIRST EDITION. This collection of largely spurious classical texts, which Nanni claimed to have discovered, unleashed great controversy, with many accusing Nanni of forging the texts. More gentle critics believed Nanni to have been naive rather than duplicitous, and this view was substantiated in part with the discovery among the Colbert manuscripts of a 13th-century manuscript which contained some of the same texts as Nanni. Since the texts deal with the early history of Italy and were purportedly by very ancient writers, they were seized upon with pride by Italians claiming ever earlier, and therefore more prestigious, beginnings for their history.
The woodcut, illustrating Fabius Pictor's treatise on the Golden Age, represents the first effort to provide a systematic map of the earliest settlement in Rome (A. Grafton, in Rome Reborn, Washington, 1993, p. 105). It is probably the third printed map of Rome, following that in Foresti's Supplementum Chronicarum, 1486, and the view in Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493. The present copy does not have the papal privilege printed on b4v. HC *1130; BMC IV, 118 (IB. 19034); GW 2015; IGI 584; Pellechet 795; Polain(B) 225; Sander 407; Goff A-748.