Fl. Lucii Dextri Barcinonensis, Viri Clarissimi, Orientalis Imperij Præfecti Prætorio, & D. Hieronymo amicissimi, Chronicon omnimodæ historiæ. Primùm quidem eidem Hieronymo dicatum, sed eo ad Superos translato, multis locis locupletatum [...]

Full title: Fl. Lucii Dextri Barcinonensis, Viri Clarissimi, Orientalis Imperij Præfecti Prætorio, & D. Hieronymo amicissimi, Chronicon omnimodæ historiæ. Primùm quidem eidem Hieronymo dicatum, sed eo ad Superos translato, multis locis locupletatum, Paulo Orosio Tarraconensi iterum nuncupatum. Nunc demum opera et studio Fr. Francisci Bivarii Mantuæ-Carpetani, ex Observantia S. Bernardi Cisterciensis Monachi, eiúsque in Romana Curia Procuratoris Generalis, ac S. Theologiæ & Philosophæ Magistri, Commentariis Apodicticis Illustratum, Quibus Universa Ecclesiastica Historia, à Christo nato, per annos 430. rerum tam ad Italiam, Galliam, Germaniam, aliásve Orbis Christiani provincias spectantium, quàm ad Hispaniam, de qua bona ex parte disserit author, ad amussim expenditur. Ubi vulgare nihil, innumera vero quæ scriptorum penè omnium notitiam aufugerant, seu aliter quàm fuerint à Recentioribus referantur, eáque admiratione dignissima, reperire licet.

Folio. f. [1] (blank), pp. [12], xxxij, 494, [42], f. [1] (blank). Contemporary suede. Head- and tailpieces, engraved initials. A bishop’s gilt arms on covers, large circular bookplate of Christian Cortes I Llado, and signature “Mgr. de Beauvais Archevêque de Narbonne” and manuscript ownership entry of a convent of Carthusians at Mallorca on (red and black) title.

A perpetuation of the forged chronicle of Dexter, bishop of Barcelona (fl. 400), first published in 1619 (see Bib# 9075525/Fr#378.1 in this collection). 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 Dexter's report in the Abbey of Fulda, a text he probably composed himself. The work was credulously reprinted at Seville in 1627, and at Lyon in the same year.

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