Le premier volume de Orose.
Orosius, Paulus.
Laurent,de Premierfait,-1418.
Seyssel, Claude de,1450?-1520.
Le Rouge, Pierre,-1493,printer.
Verard, Antoine,-approximately 1513.
Sotheby & Co. (London, England),bookseller.StEdNL
Bernard Quaritch (Firm),bookseller.StEdNL
Imprime a Paris : [Pierre Le Rouge] Pour Anthoine Verard libraire ...
xxje. io[u]r daoust mil quatre ce[nt]s quatrevingts & onze [21 August 1491]
Translation wrongly ascribed to Claude de Seyssel or Laurent de Premierfait.
Volume 2 has title: Le second volume de Orose.
Senecque Des motz dorez des quatre vertus en francoys ([46] leaves at end of volume 2; signatures: 2A⁶ 2B⁴ 2C-2E⁸ 2f⁶ 2G⁶) is a translation of the pseudo-Senecan De quattuor virtutibus cardinalibus. This section may also have been issued separately.
Imprint from colophon in which the date appears before Verard's name.
Verard's device on verso of R5.
Signatures: RR⁸ SS⁴ a-z⁸ &⁸ aa-dd⁶; [*⁴] A-N⁸ O⁶ P⁴ Q-R⁶.
With a final blank leaf.
Double columns, 48 lines to a column.
Variant settings of sheets are known (cf. Polain); in the Houghton Library copies, sheets SS2, a1-4 and c1-2 in v. 1 are in different settings, and sheet RR1 has reading "dOrose" in the title of v. 1, where Polain records "de Orose."
Rubricated. Initials supplied in red. First initial in blue with red pen flourishes extending into gutter margin.
Hain-Copinger
Copinger
Proctor
Goff
BM 15th cent.,
ISTC
GW
Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books,
Murray, C.F. French books,
Beattie, W. Supplement to the hand-list of incunabula in the National Library of Scotland,
Early inscriptions washed out of title page. Catalogue cutting loosely inserted with price in pencil £850. Sold by Sotheby's 24 July 1930, the property of a nobleman resident in South Germany. Quaritch pencil collation note on back free endpaper. Bought from Quaritch with the Lauriston Castle Fund 6 September 1943.
Old French calf, spine has six raised bands forming six gilt tooled compartments with thistles and one with title label, gilt rolled board edges, red edges and marbled pastedowns and endpapers.
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