OROSIUS, Paulus (fl. 414-417). Historiae adversos paganos , edited by Aeneas Vulpes and Laurentius Brixiensis. [Vicenza]: Leonardus Achates de Basilea, [c. 1480-81]. Chancery 2° (282 x 195mm). Roman type, initial spaces. (A few small wormholes at beginning, a few minor spots and stains.) 18th-century vellum, morocco label, marbled endpapers (lightly rubbed). Provenance : a few early annotations (washed). Fourth edition, from the first Vicenzan press. Goff dates the book to c. 1489 while CIBN and BSB-Ink suppose an earlier date. 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. HC *12100; BMC VII, 1032; BSB-Ink O-83; CIBN O-60; Goff O-99.
OROSIUS, Paulus (fl. 414-417). Historiae adversos paganos , edited by Aeneas Vulpes and Laurentius Brixiensis. [Vicenza]: Leonardus Achates de Basilea, [c. 1480-81]. Chancery 2° (282 x 195mm). Roman type, initial spaces. (A few small wormholes at beginning, a few minor spots and stains.) 18th-century vellum, morocco label, marbled endpapers (lightly rubbed). Provenance : a few early annotations (washed). Fourth edition, from the first Vicenzan press. Goff dates the book to c. 1489 while CIBN and BSB-Ink suppose an earlier date. 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. HC *12100; BMC VII, 1032; BSB-Ink O-83; CIBN O-60; Goff O-99.
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