Fragmentum chronici, sive omnimodæ historiæ Flavii Lucii Dextri Barcinonensis, Cum Chronico Marci Maximi, & Additionibus Sancti Bravlionis, & etiam Helecæ Episcoporum Cæsaraugustanorum, Ad Perillustrem D. D. Petrum de Molina Priorem [...]

Full title: Fragmentum chronici, sive omnimodæ historiæ Flavii Lucii Dextri Barcinonensis, Cum Chronico Marci Maximi, & Additionibus Sancti Bravlionis, & etiam Helecæ Episcoporum Cæsaraugustanorum, Ad Perillustrem D. D. Petrum de Molina Priorem, & Canonicum Granatensis Ecclesiæ, Vicarium Generalem Archiepiscopatus Imperialis Cæsaraugustæ; per Illustrissimum D. D. Fratrem Petrum Gonçalez a Mendoça III. Philippi Regis Consiliarium, In lucem editum, & vivicatum zelo, & labore P. Fr. Ioannis Calderon, Franciscanæ Familiæ, ad Laudem Omnipotentis Dei, Beatæ Mariæ de Columna, sine originali peccato conceptæ, totiusq[ue] Hispaniæ, præsertim invictissimi Aragoniæ Regni, & Civitatis Cæsaraugustæ Augustissimæ.

4to. pp. [24], 112, 16. Signatures: ã4, ẽ4, ĩ4, A-Q4. Modern (pastiche) vellum.

First edition of the forged chronicle of Flavius Lucius Dexter, bishop of Barcelona (fl. 400). In his ‘De Viris Illustribus,’ St. Jerome cited his friend Dexter as the author of a work about early Christianity in Iberia, a text that got lost. In the seventeenth century, the Jesuit philosophy professor Jerónimo Román de la Higuera claimed to have discovered Dexters report in the Abbey of Fulda and soon after, a text he probably composed himself. The work was credulously reprinted at Seville in 1627, and at Lyon in the same year (see Bib# 6239880/Fr# 378.2 in this collection).

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