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in-4, ff. (6), CCLXXXII, law. ancient with antiphonary sheet ms. from the 15th century with square music notation on tetragrammaton in red ink and two watermarked initials in red and blue ink. Roman font on 42 lines; engraved frontispiece with large historiated border, within which the initials ''DO'' can be read on the left, those N.Z. on the right and below ''G'' and ''M''; small portrait of the author on f. 4v, 22 beautiful woodcut figures (mm 110x55) in the text at the beginning of each chapter. Most of the woods bear the monograms ''TMPF'', ''mf'' or ''mpf'', attributable according to Essling to Matteo Pagano from Treviso.
First translation into Italian of the Roman History of the Greek Cassio Dio Cocceiano (155 - 235 AD ca.)
Good copy (some underlining and annotations in brown ink by a seventeenth-century hand).
MISSING IN ADAMS. STC 217. GRAESSE, II, 394. ESSLING, II, P. 660.
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