Le premier[-second] volume de Orose
Publisher: Pierre Le Rouge for Antoine Vérard
Published: 1491
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 46
Subjects: World history; Early works to 1800; Ancient History
Other titles: De quattuor virtutibus cardinalibus. French. 1491.
Work titles: Historiarum adversus paganos libri VII
Notes: Translation wrongly ascribed to Claude de Seyssel or Laurent de Premierfait.

Vol. 2 has title: Le second volume de Orose.

"Senecque Des motz dorez des quatre vertus en francoys" ([46] leaves at end of v. 2) is a translation of the pseudo-Senecan De quattuor virtutibus cardinalibus. This section may also have been issued separately.

Imprint based on colophon.

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".

Hain-Copinger, 12105.

Copinger, 5359.

Proctor, 8095.

Goff, O-102, S-425.

BM 15th cent., VIII, 109 (IC.40024).

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1998 ed.), io00102000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 3644-3645.

Murray, C.F. French books, 415

Gift; William King Richardson; 1949 June 30.

The Fairfax Murray copy.

Imperfect: vol. 2, GG4 wanting, supplied in facsimile; leaf i7 in vol. 1 repaired.

Initials and paragraph marks added in red and blue; a few of the illustrations in vol. 1 are colored.

Bound in 19th-century gilt-stamped red morocco; gilt-stamped green morocco doublures; edges gauffered and gilt; by J. MacKenzie.