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Orosius (Paulus) Historiae, 1483

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edited by Aeneas Vulpes, 77 ff. (of 78, lacking initial blank), 41 lines and headline, Roman type, early ink marginalia throughout, professional repair to e1, within text, but with no loss, some water-staining, mostly marginal, washing out some of the ink marginalia and occasionally causing small loss to margins, these repaired, new endpapers, later blind-stamped sheep, sympathetically rebacked and repaired, rubbed, [BMC V, 278; Goff O-98; Hain 12102], folio, Venice, Octavianus Scotus, 1483.

***Paulus Orosius (b. circa 375, d. 418?), Christian historian, theologian and disciple of St. Augustine. In the present work he argues that the world has improved since the introduction of Christianity rather than declined as others had argued..

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