Ἀνέκδoτoν ex Petronii Arbitri satyrico, fragmentum. Præfixo judicio de styli ratione ipsius

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8vo. f. [1] (blank), pp. [16], 91, [1] (blank). Signatures: ã⁴ ẽ² A-D⁸ E⁶ F⁸. Contemporary vellum. Manuscript spine title, remnants of label. Plate: "Iohn Marques of Tueeddale Earle of grifford Viscount Walden [...]." Includes title page ornament, ornamental initials, head- and tailpieces. Second edition of the recently discovered Trau Fragment (‘Trimalchio’s Feast’), a major text by Titus Petronius Arbiter, based only on the Padua edition (see Bib# 4102885/Fr# 363 in this collection), with commentary. Edited by ‘Jo. Caius Tilebomenus,’ a pseudonym of Jacques Mentel (himself a forger: see Bib# 4102881-4102882/Fr# 359-360), with an apparatus of conjectural emendations. The genuineness of the Trau fragment was hotly disputed in its time, and still questioned, unrealistically, by J.A. Farrer (Literary Forgeries. London & New York, 1907 pp. 12-21). See S. Gaselee’s ‘Bibliography of Petronius’ in: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, 10 (1909), pp. 141-233, number 43. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record. Bound with a copy of Adrien de Valois and Johann Christoph Wagenseil, Hadriani Valesii Histor. Regii et Ioh. Christophori Wagenseilii De cena Trimalcionis nuper sub Petronii nomini vulgata dissertationes. Paris, E Typographia Edmundi Martini, 1666. 8vo. f. [1] (blank), pp. 36, 30, ff. [2] (blank). Printer's device on title page. Head- and tailpieces, engraved initials. The first edition of two dissertations attacking the genuineness of the ‘Cena Trimalchionis’ portion of the Satyricon of Petronius, recently discovered in the ‘Trau Manuscript’ (‘Trimalchio’s Feast’), and today universally accepted as genuine. There are two copies in this collection. The present one is the second state, with A4-A8 heavily revised, perhaps in response to criticism, reducing the length from four leaves to three, but preserving the original pagination by doubling up numbers on leaf A7r (‘13’ and ‘14’) and A7v (‘15’ and ‘16’). The second copy is in contemporary vellum and has blind stamps of the theological Institute of Connecticut. It is the first state of the text of sigs. A4-A8, in Wagenseil’s dissertation. This textual and collational distinction appears not to have been noticed by bibliographers and cataloguers. See S. Gaselee, ‘Bibliography of Petronius’ in: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, 10 (1909), pp. 141-233, number 162. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.