Orosius, Historiae adversus paganos, Venice, 1499, later vellum

OROSIUS, PAULUS

Roma antica (Discorso d'Ottaviano Falconieri...). Rome: Fabio de Falco, for Biagio Diversin and Felice Cesaretti, 1666

Chancery folio (300 x 211mm.), 72 leaves, a-m⁶, 45 lines plus headline, roman type, 3- to 9-line white on black woodcut initials and a few initial spaces, later vellum, e2-5 loose, ink stain on e5, a few small wormholes at end, vellum slightly warped

Aeneas Vulpes (Enea Volpe), the editor, was the prior of the monastery of the Holy Cross in Vicenza, where his version of the text was first printed in about 1475 (Goff O97).

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