(Auteur de l'antiquité) — Nanni, Giovanni.- Berosi sacerdotis Chaldaici, antiquitatum Italiae ac totius orbis libri quinque, commentarijs Joannis Annij Viterbensis [...], adiecto nunc primum indice locupletissimo, et reliquis eius argumenti...
Estimation :
750 / 900
Adjudication :
700 €
Description
authoribus, quorum nomina sequenti pagella videre licet. Antverpiae, in aedibus Joan. Steelsii (typis Joan. Graphei), 1552. In-8° : [48]-748-[43] pp. (handwritten provenance on title-page, silghtly browned, handwritten notes and underlinings, modern handwritten numerotation on 1 p. of the contents, rare foxing, some marginal dampstains, rare marginal tears or perforations, defects in some margins). German contemporary binding : pigskin on wooden boards, blind decorated boards with acentral panel figuring the baptism of Jesus (with below the verse of Mark), upper board with the initials "C K" and the date "1579", all encircled by fillets and afloral roll-stamp with portraits of Erasmus, Martin Luther, Philipp Melanchton and Jan Hus, ribbed spine with blind fillets, blue edges (brass clasps lacking, some stains, slightly trimmed, stains and small dampstains on the flyleaves, handwritten provenance on the upper one). Collection of ancient texts (1, ed. : 1509) gathered together and commented by the itaiian Dominican friar and historian Nanni (c. 1432-1502). This work, which hasn’t to be attributed to the Chaldean priest Berosus (III. Cent. b.c.), would apparently contain writings and fragments of Xenophon ("De aequivocis"), Megasthenes ("De iudicio temporum et annalibus Persarum"), Johannes Annius -i.e. Nanni- ("De primus temporibus et quatuor ac viginti regibus Hispaniae et eius antiquitate", "De antiquitate et rebus Etruriae"), Claudio Arezzo ("De situ insulae Siciliae", "Dialogus, in quo Hispania describitur"), etc. In fact it seems likely that those fragments have been written by Nanni and other unknown counterfeiters. Steelius’ mark on title-page. # Adams B-789; # Machiels B-341; # Soltész B-319; # BT I-307; # USTC 400861. Provenance : monogram "C K" undentified. • Nice binding richely blind decorated (not in Haebler). fl Collection de textes d’auteurs anciens (Xénophon, Cl. Arezzo, Mégasthène...) rassemblée par l’historien Nanni et non pas par Bérose. Il s’agirait en fait de textes écrits par Nanni et d’autres auteurs inconnus. Pleine peau de truie de l’ép. richement décorée à froid (lég. bruni, notes mss et soulignements, fermoirs manquants).
