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Croniche che tractano de la origine de Veneti e del principio de la cita e de tutte le guere da mare e terra facte in Italia, Dalmacia, Grecia, e contra tuti li infideli / composte per lo excelentisimo mesere Marco Antonio Sabellico e volgarizate per Matheo Vesconte de Sancto Canciano ; con gratia et previlegio.

Accession number
PML 28450
Creator
Sabellico, 1436?-1506.
Published
[Milan : Gottardo da Ponte, ca. 1510]
Credit line
Michael Wodhull, inscriptions, partially abraded; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Goldschmidt, Aug. 1931.
Notes
290 ff=8 ff + a[superscript]8b, c[superscript]1d[superscript]4e-z,&,[symbol],[symbol][superscript]6A-C[superscript]6D[superscript]8T[superscript]6V[superscript]10; a' (f9) a blank; ff9-289 numb'd II-CCXXXIII; 40 lines; spaces for capitals with guide letter; Title & colophon printed in red enclodes in a black border. Printer's device on f289[superscript]a.
Colophon (leaf CCLXXXII recto): Finiscono le Deche del Facondissimo. M. A. Sabellico. E traducte de Latino in Volgare per Matheo Vesconte de. s. Canciano. Ad Instancia e Impensa de Oldrato Lampugnano. Stampate co[n] Gratia e Priuilegii. Che altri non le posa stampare ne far stampare in terre ne luochi de la Illustrissima Signoria de Venetia ...
Errors in foliation: XXIIII-XXV, CCXXXVIII omitted; CCXXXVII repeated; XXXI misprinted XXIX.
fl[superscript]a-in red -- Chronche che tractano de la origine de Veneti ... fl[superscript]b-8[superscript]b Table; f9 blank; ff 10-12, Epistola & Preface; Text ffa[superscript]11-V[superscript]8 recto (fII-CCXXXIII,); V[superscript]9 recto Oratio funebris, with printer's device; V[superscript]9 verso, Registro; V[superscript]10 recto blank, verso in red, De che De lorigine de Veneti e del principio de la cita ... line 10 -- vulgarizate per Mathe viscote de san casian.
Latin original printed 1487; this translation lacks the last three books, ending with Decha tertia, Libro decimo, Cap. III.
Leaf [I] blank.
The British Museum assigns 1510 as possible publication date; the Library of Congress assigns 1507?.
The colophon is followed by "Oratio Fvnebris. Mathei Vicecomitis. In funere. M. A. S. ..." which is followed by the printer's mark. Identified by P. Kristeller as that of Gottardo da Ponte, printing at Milan 1503-35 (cf. Die ital. buchdrucker- und verlegerzeichen, 1893, p. 30-31).
Title in red within woodcut border; another title in large gothic type within the same border at end: Deche de l'origine de Veneti ...
Description
[8], CCLXXXIII, [1] leaves ; 33 cm
Binding
Vellum.
Classification
Department