Bod-Inc: A-300
Annius, Johannes
Auctores vetustissimi.
Analysis of Content
a1r ‘Auctores vetustissimi nuper in lucem editi.’ [Table of contents.]
a2r Myrsilus Lesbius [pseudo-; Annius, Johannes]: ‘De origine Italiae et Turrenorum liber.’ Incipit: ‘Italiam coluere Graeci, Arcades, Veneti, Lygures, Ardeates, Rutuli, Siculi . . .’ See A‑299.
a3v Cato, Marcus Porcius [pseudo-; Annius, Johannes]: ‘De origine gentium et vrbium Italicarum fragmenta.’ Incipit: ‘Graeci tam impudenti iactantia iam effunduntur . . .’ See A‑299.
c1r Archilocus Graecus [pseudo-; Annius, Johannes]: ‘De temporibus liber.’ Incipit: ‘Maseas(!) Phenix Damascenus libro nonagesimo septimo historiarum asserit ante Nynum ferme ducentis quinquaginta annis fuisse inundationem terrarum . . .’
c2r Metasthenes Persa [pseudo-; Annius, Johannes]: ‘De iudicio temporum et annalium Persarum.’ Incipit: ‘Qui de temporibus scribere parant, necesse est illos non solo auditu et opinione chronographiam scribere . . .’
c3v Philo [pseudo-; Annius, Johannes]: ‘Breuiarium de temporibus.’ Incipit: ‘Ab Adam usque ad diluuium fluxerunt anni mille sexcenti quinquaginta sex . . .’
d2v Xenophon [pseudo-; Annius, Johannes]: ‘De aequiuocis.’ Incipit: ‘[S]aturni dicuntur familiarum nobilium regum qui urbes condiderunt senissimi . . .’
d4r Sempronius, Gaius [pseudo-; Annius, Johannes]: ‘De diuisione Italiae et origine urbis Romae.’ Incipit: ‘Vniuersa Italia a iugis Alpium oritur et in Leucopetram, fretumque Siculum terminatur . . .’
e3r Fabius Pictor, Quintus [pseudo-; Annius, Johannes]: ‘De aureo saeculo et de origine urbis Romae.’ Incipit: ‘Italiae imperium penes duos populos principes extitit . . .’
f2r Antoninus Pius [pseudo-; Annius, Johannes]: ‘Itinerarium.’ Incipit: ‘Diuus Augustus quamuis totum orbem recte diuiserit ubi ait, orbis totus diuiditur in partes tris . . .’
f2v Berosus Babylonicus [pseudo-; Annius, Johannes]: ‘Ad emendandos antiquitatum errores.’ Incipit: ‘Ante aquarum cladem famosam qua uniuersus periit orbis . . .’ See A‑299.
i2r Manetho [pseudo-; Annius, Johannes]: ‘Manethonis Historici, qui post Berosum scripsit, liber.’ Incipit: ‘Berosus inter Chaldaeos historicos probatior, deflorauit breuissimis annotationibus omnia Chaldaica . . .’
i4r Desiderius [pseudo-; Annius, Johannes]: ‘Decretum Desiderii regis Italiae.’ See A‑299.
Imprint
Imprint: [Venice]: Bernardinus Venetus, de Vitalibus, [not before Aug.] 1498. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–i4.
References
ISTC: ia00749000
GW: GW 2016;
Hain: HC 12527 = CR 724;
Goff: Goff A‑749;
BMC: BMC V 548;
Proctor: Pr 5527;
Others: Oates 2149; Rhodes 100; Sheppard 4589-90.
LCN: 14424978
Copies
Copy number: A-300(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf for the Bodleian Library; the gold stamp of the Library on both covers.
Size: 200 × 145 × 11 mm.
Size of leaf: 196 × 135 mm.
Occasional marginal annotations in a sixteenth-century hand.
Provenance: Purchased by the Bodleian Library for £0. 10. 6; see Books Purchased (1819), 1.
SHELFMARK: Auct. L 4.18.
Copy number: A-300(2)
Binding: Nineteenth-century English (London) gold-tooled blue morocco by W. Pratt (fl. 1824-1835). Engravings are pasted inside both covers.
Size: 216 × 160 × 9 mm.
Size of leaf: 211 × 149 mm.
A six-line initial ‘D' is supplied in red on e4v; paragraph marks are supplied in red.
Provenance: John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870). Charles Inglis (nineteenth century); engraved book-plate and coat of arms. Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); perhaps purchased at the Inglis sale (11 June 1900), lot 47; book-plate of crest, with initials ‘I. B.' Elenchus, no. 518. Bequeathed in 1914.
SHELFMARK: Byw. K 5.10.
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