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LACTANTIUS, Lucius Coelius Firmianus (ca. 250-ca. 325). Opera. Edited by Johannes Andreas de Buxiis (1417-1475), bishop of Aleria. - FORTUNATUS, Venantius Honorius Clementianus (ca. 530-ca. 610). De resurrectione Christi. Venice: Theodorus de Ragazonibus, 21 April 1490.
Chancery 2o (303 x 213 mm). Collation: a8 (a1 blank, a2r table, a7r errata by Antonius Raudensis, a8v verse invective against Antonius by Adam Genuensis); b-f8 g6 h-k8 l6 m-o8 p14 q-r8 s6 t4 (b1r text [for full contents see BSB-Ink], t4v colophon, quire register). 148 leaves. 45 lines and head-line. Type: 3:105R, 105 Gk. 2-, 3-, and 7-line capital spaces, with printed guide letters. (First 3 leaves with inner margins renewed, staining to first text leaf, a few scattered wormholes at beginning and end occasionally affecting letters, some minor marginal dampstaining.) Contemporary wooden boards, rebacked in modern morocco antique, two brass and leather fore-edge clasps, author's name lettered on front cover and on fore-edge (leather of clasps probably renewed, worming). Provenance: a few early marginalia.
Tenth edition, the second edited by Bussi. Theodorus de Ragazonibus printed 21 books from 1488 to 1497, most during the years 1490 and 1491, all signed and dated. In the intervals between producing his own editions he probably worked for his kinsmen Bartholomaeus at Venice and Franciscus at Bologna. Two further editions, of Eyb's Margarita poetica, 1487, and Marcus Antonius Maurus' Ecloga [ca. 1495], are tentatively assigned to his press.
HC 9815; BMC V, 477 (IB. 23546); BSB-Ink. L-9; CIBN L-10; Harvard/Walsh 2410-2411; Pr 5262; Goff L-10.
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Tenth edition, the second edited by Bussi. Theodorus de Ragazonibus printed 21 books from 1488 to 1497, most during the years 1490 and 1491, all signed and dated. In the intervals between producing his own editions he probably worked for his kinsmen Bartholomaeus at Venice and Franciscus at Bologna. Two further editions, of Eyb's Margarita poetica, 1487, and Marcus Antonius Maurus' Ecloga [ca. 1495], are tentatively assigned to his press.
HC 9815; BMC V, 477 (IB. 23546); BSB-Ink. L-9; CIBN L-10; Harvard/Walsh 2410-2411; Pr 5262; Goff L-10.