Croniche che tractano de la origine de Veneti
Subtitle: e del principio de la cita. e de tvtte le gvere da mare e terra facte in Italia: Dalmacia: Grecia: e contra tvti li infideli
By: Composte per lo excelentisimo mesere Marco Antonio Sabellico. e volgarizate per Matheo Vesconte de Sancto Canciano. Con gratia et previlegio
Publisher: Gottardo da Ponte
Published: 1507
Place of publication: Milan
Language: ita
Translated from: lat
Number of pages: 281
Subjects: History
Other titles: Deche de l'origine de Veneti; Deche de l'origne de Veneti
Description: Translation of Sabellico's Rerum Venetarum ab urbe condita libri XXXIII, a mythologizing account of Venetian history beginning in 421 A.D.
Notes: Colophon ( on ℓ. cclxxxii): Finiscono le Deche del Facondissimo. M. A. Sabellico. E traducte de Latino in Volgare per Matheo Vesconte de. s. Canciano. Ad Instancia e Impensa de Oldrato Lampugnano. Sampate [sic] con Gratia e Priuilegii. Che altri non le posa stampare ne far stampare in terre ne luochi de la Illustrissima Signoria de Venetia ...

The colophon is followed by "Oratio Fvnebris. Mathei Vicecomitis. In funere. M. A. S. ... " which is followed ny the printer's mark. Identified by P. Kristeller as that of Gotardus de Ponte, printing at Milan 1503-35 (cf. Die ital. buchdrucker- und verlegerzeichen, 1893, p. 30-31)

Signatures: pi⁸ a⁸ b-c⁶ d⁴ e-z⁶ [et]⁶ [con]⁶ [rum]⁶ A-C⁶ D⁸ E-T⁶ V¹⁰ (a1 blank).

Errors in foliation: xxiiii-xxv, ccxxxviii omitted, ccxxxvii repeated; xxxi, cclxxviii misprinted xxix and cclxxviiii.

Title in red within woodcut border; another xylographic title within the same border at end: Deche De lorigine de Veneti [etc.]

Spaces for initials, with indicators.

Latin original printed 1487; this translation lacks the last 3 books, ending with Decha tertia, Libro decimo, Cap. III.

Short-title catalogue of books printed in Italy and of Italian books printed in other countries from 1465 to 1600 now in the British Museum, page 188

Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, S-17

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, S-5a

Sander, M. Livre à figures italien depuis 1467 jusqu'à  1530, 6650

EDIT 16, CNCE 38709