An early edition of Orosius's Historiarum adversus paganos (1561)
Paulus Orosius, Adversus paganos historiarum libri septem. Vetustorum librorum auxilio à mendis vindicati, et annotationibus ex utriusq. linguae historicis illustrabi, opera et studio Franc. Fabricii Marcodurani (Cologne: Maternus Cholinus, 1561).
This is an early edition of Orosius's Historiarum adversus paganos edited by Franciscus Fabricius Marcoduranus (1527-73) published in 1561. It seems to be the first Fabricius edition, and is a nice copy in contemporary limp vellum with a paper label on the spine. It includes the editor's annotations at the end of the volume.
It has seventeenth-century inscriptions by someone called Vincentius Contarenus, whereas it has a bookplate of Prince Alberto Giovanelli (1876-1937), collector and benefactor of arts in Venice.
