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LACTANTIUS, Lucius Coelius Firmianus (ca. 250-ca. 325). Opera. - FORTUNATUS, Venantius Honorius Clementianus (ca. 530-ca. 610). De resurrectione Christi. Venice: Andreas de Paltasichis and Boninus de Boninis, de Ragusia, 13 March 1479.
Chancery 2o (295 x 201 mm). Collation: a10 (a1 blank, a2r rubrication table, a9r errata by Antonius Raudensis, a10v verse invective against Antonius by Adam Genuensis); b-d8 e10 f-m N8 N6 n-r8 s-t6 u-x8 y6 z &8 10 (b1r text [for full contents see BSB-Ink], 9r colophon, partly in verse, 9v register, 10 blank). 212 leaves (of 214, without the blanks). 38 lines. Types: 2:112R, 112 GkB. 2- to 6-line spaces for initials, a few printed and a few manuscript guide letters. Rubricated: larger initials opening each book or work in parti-colored red and blue, 2- and 3-line initials and paragraph alternately in red or blue. Contemporary manuscript foliation and quire signatures (in spite of printed signing and not matching) partly preserved. Bifolia s2.5 and s3.4 reversed in binding. The last quire missigned, and 1 (unsigned) inserted backwards (verso to recto). (First leaf darkened, edges of first and last few leaves gnawed, worming in gutter of quire f catching a few letters, small hole in gutter of a10, occasional light dampstaining in upper margins.) 19th-century red roan gilt, edges sprinkled red (rubbed).
Provenance: contemporary interlinear and marginal notes in a small neat cursive hand - Seminary of St. Sulpice, Paris (19th-century inkstamp on first page) - Walter Goldwater (bookplate, sale Swann Galleries, 5 December 1985, lot 2).
Ninth edition. The only book printed by Andreas de Paltasichis, a Dalmatian, in partnership with Boninus de Boninis of Ragusa. Boninus moved to Verona in 1481 (see lot 149) and settled in Brescia two years later. The colophon of this edition, although dated 1478, acknowledges Doge Mocenigo, who did not enter that office until 1479; presumably a roman I was accidentally omitted from the date.
HC 9813*; BMC V, 251 (IB.20616); BSB-Ink L-8; CIBN L-9; Harvard/Walsh 1745; Polain(B) 2421; Pr 4425; Goff L-8.
Chancery 2
Provenance: contemporary interlinear and marginal notes in a small neat cursive hand - Seminary of St. Sulpice, Paris (19th-century inkstamp on first page) - Walter Goldwater (bookplate, sale Swann Galleries, 5 December 1985, lot 2).
Ninth edition. The only book printed by Andreas de Paltasichis, a Dalmatian, in partnership with Boninus de Boninis of Ragusa. Boninus moved to Verona in 1481 (see lot 149) and settled in Brescia two years later. The colophon of this edition, although dated 1478, acknowledges Doge Mocenigo, who did not enter that office until 1479; presumably a roman I was accidentally omitted from the date.
HC 9813*; BMC V, 251 (IB.20616); BSB-Ink L-8; CIBN L-9; Harvard/Walsh 1745; Polain(B) 2421; Pr 4425; Goff L-8.