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OROSIUS, Paulus. Historiarum adversus paganos libri vii. Augsburg: Johann Schüssler, 'circiter' 7 June 1471. 2° (310 x 208 mm). Collation as BMC. 120 leaves (of 133, lacking first quire [register, supplied in contemporary manuscript and in photographic facsimile] of 7 leaves and 4/4-6 [supplied in photographic facsimile] and without final 3 blank leaves). 35 lines. Initial spaces, first initial in blue with red Maiblumen decoration. The manuscript register replacing the printed one is written on paper in brown ink, 9 lvs., 31 lines, rubricated, ruled in brown ink. (Yellow edge dye seeped into some fore-edge margins.) Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, panels tooled with Kopfstempel and wavy double fillets, rosettes, 2 fore-edge clasps, yellow edges (rebacked at an early date in pigskin, a few scuff-marks). H 12101; BMC II, 328; Goff O-96.

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OROSIUS, Paulus. Historiarum adversus paganos libri vii. Augsburg: Johann Schüssler, 'circiter' 7 June 1471. 2° (310 x 208 mm). Collation as BMC. 120 leaves (of 133, lacking first quire [register, supplied in contemporary manuscript and in photographic facsimile] of 7 leaves and 4/4-6 [supplied in photographic facsimile] and without final 3 blank leaves). 35 lines. Initial spaces, first initial in blue with red Maiblumen decoration. The manuscript register replacing the printed one is written on paper in brown ink, 9 lvs., 31 lines, rubricated, ruled in brown ink. (Yellow edge dye seeped into some fore-edge margins.) Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, panels tooled with Kopfstempel and wavy double fillets, rosettes, 2 fore-edge clasps, yellow edges (rebacked at an early date in pigskin, a few scuff-marks). H 12101; BMC II, 328; Goff O-96.
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