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Petronius' 'Satyricon' including Nodot's spurious supplements

PETRONIUS (& François NODOT).
Petrone Latin, et Francois, traduction entiere, suivant le manuscrit trouvé a Bellegrade en 1688. Avec plusieurs remarques & aditions qui manquent dans l'edition qui paroît depuis peu.

Engraved frontispiece 'Petronii Satyricon' by I Sauvé and facing engraved erotic vignette with Nodot's motto 'Nodi Solvuntur A Nodo' in both vols., woodcut ornament on title-pages, 9 engraved plates of which 2 folding, by I. Sauvé (1 folding and 1 full-page in vol. I; 1 folding and 6 full-page in vol. II), woodcut headpieces and initials.

(No place; = Amsterdam (?), no printer), 1694. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary full polished calf with gilt coat of arms of François Raymond Joseph de Narbonne Pelet, Vicomte de Narbonne and triple gilt-rules borders on sides, richly gilt and decorated spine in compartments with darker brown title labels lettered in gold, gilt inner dentelles, blue endpapers, red edges. Engraved frontispiece 'Petronii Satyricon' by I Sauvé and facing engraved erotic vignette with Nodot's motto 'Nodi Solvuntur A Nodo' in both vols., woodcut ornament on title-pages, 9 engraved plates of which 2 folding, by I. Sauvé (1 folding and 1 full-page in vol. I; 1 folding and 6 full-page in vol. II), woodcut headpieces and initials. (92), 471 [i.e. 473], (1 blank); (6), 551 [i.e. 549], (1 blank) pp.

Rare first edition of Petronius' Satyricon, augmented with the 'spurious' fragments edited by François Nodot, together with the translation into French on the facing pages. The Latin text only had been published one year earlier. In October, 1690, François Nodot (c. 1650-1710) a French writer of works in Latin & French and mercenary soldier, announced a remarkable discovery to the French academies. A certain Du Pin, a French officer, had been present at the sack of Belgrade in 1688, where he came across a manuscript which he had sent to Nodot. It proved to contain supplements to the known text of the Satyricon. Nodot's claims were initially accepted and the supplements were thought to be genuine. They were published as such in 1693, but soon gave rise to suspicion. Already in 1694 G. Pelissier (a pseudonym of Breugière de Barante) published his Observations sur le Petrone trouvé à Belgrade. The additions were conclusively shown to be spurious by Pieter Burmann the Elder (whose Latin edition of Petronius appeared in 1709), yet they were sometimes printed in editions of the real fragments down to the early 20th century. They were translated into English, French and into various other languages; translations incorporating the Nodot supplements continued to appear in print until the early 20th century. This edition, which is to all probability printed in Amsterdam, is not present in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris! A second edition was published in Cologne in 1698.

Fine set with the engraved armorial bookplate of François Raymond Joseph de Narbonne-Pelet, Vicomte de Marbonne pasted to the back of the front cover of vol. 1, and an erotic engraving on the back of the front cover of vol. 2.- (Last blank (Mm4) of vol II. lacking as usual)

Cf. Gay-Lemmonyer III, col. 721; Brunet IV, col. 576; Barbier III col. 864 & IV, col. 425 (ed. Cologne, P. Mateau, 1694) & 733; Stephen Gaselee. The bibliography of Petronius; M.J.E. Petrequin, Nouvelles recherches hist. et crit. sur Pétrone (Paris 1869); Quérard, Gal. des suteurs apocr., p. 446.

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