Orosius (Paulus) Historiarum initium ad Aurelium Augustinum, edited by Aeneas Vulpes, collation: a⁸ b-m⁶ n⁴, 77 ff. (of 78, lacking initial blank), 42 lines and headline, Roman type, initial spaces, early ink marginalia throughout, repair to head of 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 and scratched, [BMC V, 278; Goff O-98; Hain 12102], folio (290 x 207mm.), Venice, Octavianus Scotus, 30 July, 1483.

⁂ Profusely annotated in an early hand. Paulus Orosius (c.375-418AD) was a Christian historian, theologian and disciple of St. Augustine. Here he argues that the world has improved since the introduction of Christianity rather than declined as argued by others.