A collection of spurious fragments purporting to be the work of Myrsilus Lesbius, Cato, Archilochus, Metasthenes, Xenophon (De aequivocis), Berosus, Manetho, and other Greek and Roman writers, but probably fabricated by Annius (Giovanni Nanni)

Title from caption on a1 recto.

Imprint derived from colophon (i4 verso): "Finis. Hos vetustissimos auctores nuper repertos impressit Bernardinus Venetus, anno a Natali Christia[n]o, M.II.D."

Signatures: a-íþ.

Chancery quarto; a4 recto: 29 lines plus headline, 161 (167) x 105 mm; type: 11R; woodcut initials and initial spaces with guide letters.

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, 548

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, A740

Incunabula short title catalogue, ia00749000

cataloged 2019 jm

condition reviewed 20200203 cl