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OROSIUS, Paulus (fl. 400). Historiae adversus paganos. Edited by Aeneas Vulpes and Laurentius Brixiensis. [Vicenza]: Leonardus Achates de Basilea, [ca 1480-81].
Chancery 2o (295 x 201 mm). Collation: a-i K l m8 n10. 106 leaves. 38 lines. Roman type 7:114. Capital spaces. (Some pale offsetting from an early manuscript on h8, stain on final leaf [n10], a few pale marginal stains, some light worming at end catching a few letters.) Early 20th-century quarter pigskin, vellum over pasteboard (some light wear at extremities). Provenance: Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from Dawson's Bookshop, Los Angeles, 1 August 1941) -- donated to SMS 29 August 1941.
Fourth edition, from the first Vincenzan press. Goff dates the book to ca 1489 while CIBN, IDL and BSB-Ink. all suppose an earlier date. This edition is reprinted from Liechtenstein's edition (Goff O-97), with the title-page and the name of the author on the colophon omitted. Orosius composed his Historia adversus paganos at the request of St. Augustine. In it, he insists on both the providential control of history and the calamities of the past and vehemently attacks the pagan complaint that Rome's troubles were due to its abandonment of the gods. Books 1-2 reach to the foundation of Rome, 3-4 to the birth of Christ and 7 to 417 A.D. Its greatest historical value resides in the years after 378 A.D. BMC VII, 1032 (IB.31720); BSB-Ink. O-83; CIBN O-60; HC *12100; Oates 2670; Pr 7125; Goff O-99.
Chancery 2o (295 x 201 mm). Collation: a-i K l m8 n10. 106 leaves. 38 lines. Roman type 7:114. Capital spaces. (Some pale offsetting from an early manuscript on h8, stain on final leaf [n10], a few pale marginal stains, some light worming at end catching a few letters.) Early 20th-century quarter pigskin, vellum over pasteboard (some light wear at extremities). Provenance: Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from Dawson's Bookshop, Los Angeles, 1 August 1941) -- donated to SMS 29 August 1941.
Fourth edition, from the first Vincenzan press. Goff dates the book to ca 1489 while CIBN, IDL and BSB-Ink. all suppose an earlier date. This edition is reprinted from Liechtenstein's edition (Goff O-97), with the title-page and the name of the author on the colophon omitted. Orosius composed his Historia adversus paganos at the request of St. Augustine. In it, he insists on both the providential control of history and the calamities of the past and vehemently attacks the pagan complaint that Rome's troubles were due to its abandonment of the gods. Books 1-2 reach to the foundation of Rome, 3-4 to the birth of Christ and 7 to 417 A.D. Its greatest historical value resides in the years after 378 A.D. BMC VII, 1032 (IB.31720); BSB-Ink. O-83; CIBN O-60; HC *12100; Oates 2670; Pr 7125; Goff O-99.