Augustinus, De la cita d'dio, [Venice, 1476-1478], eighteenth-century calf

Aurelius Augustinus

De civitate dei [Italian] De la cita d'dio. [Venice?: Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini, about 1476-78]

Chancery folio (286 x 198mm.), 322 leaves (of 324, without first and last blank leaves), a¹² a-k L m-z¹⁰ A-G¹⁰ H¹², double column, 47 lines, roman type, initial spaces (the first supplied in red, a few others supplied later in brown ink), book number supplied in manuscript at head of each recto (faded), eighteenth-century cat's-paw calf, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco lettering-pieces, red edges, occasional very light foxing or browning, joints cracked and worn, extremities rubbed

First edition of the only medieval translation into Italian of Augustine's City of God, traditionally ascribed to the fourteenth-century Florentine Dominican Jacopo Passavanti, and which appeared shortly after the editio princeps of the Latin printed by Sweynheym and Pannartz.

LITERATURE:

ISTC ia01248000

PROVENANCE:

armorial printed label (three wavy lines crowned); bibliographical notes in Italian on flyleaf