VIDA, Marco Girolamo (1470-1566). Christiados libri sex. (Cremona: Lodovico Britannico, October 1535). 4° (209 x 146mm). With the final blank (a little very light spotting and staining). Modern limp vellum. Provenance: a near contemporary manuscript index on a blank endpaper at the front of all the proper nouns used in the book and marginalia in the same hand repeating names in the text - slightly more informative marginalia in a later 16th-century hand - Jo. Bonifaccius Gabinius (late 16th/early 17th-century signature on title - Joannes Pasulus Barnus of Lodi (early 17th-century ownership inscription on title and last page and 2 disticha and a tetrastichon in his hand on penultimate page). FIRST EDITION of the Bishop of Alba's Christiados, an epic in hexameters on the life of Christ, written at the instigation of Leo X. Edit-on line 23264; Adams V703.