L. Coelii Lacta[n]cii firmiani diuina[rum] institutionu[m] aduersus gentes liber primus de salsa religione ad Constantinum Imperarorem.

[Table of rubrics] -- Lactantii Firmiani errata / Antonius Raudensis -- His carminibus frater Ada[m] genue[n]sis increpat fratrem Antonium -- Divinarum institutionum libri VII -- De ira dei liber -- De opificio dei liber -- De Phoenice carmina -- De resurrectione Domini / [Venantius Fortunatus] -- Nephythomon liber.

Title from text incipit (leaf b1r).

Begins (leaf a2r): Lactantii firmiani de diuinis institutio[n]ibus aduersus gentes. Rubricae primi libri incipiunt.

Colophon (leaf [rum]8r): Hoc opus impresserunt Veneciis Magister Andreas de paltasichis catarensis & Boninus de boninis socii: Regnante inclito ac serenissimo principe domino Ioanne mocenigo dei gratia Venetiarum duce .M.CCCC.LXXVIII. xii. marcii. Arguit hic hominum sectas Lactantius omnes [five elegiac couplets] ... Presserat hunc primo mundi caput inclyta Roma Post regina premit quippe colenda maris. [leaf [rum]8v] Registrum cartarum ... [col.4. End] Finis.

The colophon date of 12 March 1478 is presumably a misprint, as Mocenigo became Doge on 18 May 1478. Cf. ISTC.

Signatures: a¹⁰ b-d⁸ e¹⁰ f-m⁸ M⁸ N⁶ n-r⁸ s-t⁶ u-x⁸ y⁶ z⁸ chi¹(-chi2) &⁸ [rum]⁸ [$1-4 (-N4, s4, t4, y4; +a5, e5) signed].

212 x 125 mm.; 38 lines; roman 112; greek 112; initial spaces occupying 2, 5 and 6 lines. Pages unnumbered.

Text on paper watermarked with bull's head and scales marks.

BM 15th cent., V, 251 (IB.20616)

ISTC (RLIN), il00008000

Hain, 9813

Proctor, 4425

Goff, L-8

Polain, 2421

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1745

illuminated initial on f. 11 rect Digital image. Wellington, N.Z. : National Library of New Zealand.

Digital image available: illuminated initial on f. 11 recto, Alexander Turnbull Library SPC copy. Details available on request from Curator, Special Printed Collections.

The Alexander Turnbull Library SPC copy. Binding: vellum over thin boards; text block sewn on 3 supports laced into the boards, with endband showing on outside of covers; printer's waste used in binding; upper cover has ms number 197; red morocco spine label, gold tooled; blue stained text edges. Spine title: Lactan Firmian. Institv.

The Alexander Turnbull Library SPC copy. Provenance: rubricated initials and paragraph marks in red and blue throughout most of book, with occasional initials in reddish-brown or black ink in a different and later style (f. [186]v has reddish-brown initial Q painted over former red initial I); illuminated initial on f. [11]r extending into inner margin and rubricated in red, blue and green. Foliation in ms on recto head margins in black ink; each liber individually numbered on verso of each folio in head margins in same hand, with liber primus, secundus etc. (usually abbreviated) in red ink in upper margin on each facing page. Capitulum (usually abbreviated) numbering added in black ink to final leaves.Contents listed in black ink on front flyleaf, and inscription on recto of final leaf. Missigning on leaf k4 corrected in ms. Marginalia and marks in red or brown ink. Purchased by the ATL from Francis Edwards in 1948. Some stains and foxing, worming in margins of first 32 and final 14 leaves, and on folios 69-77, 99-132. Acc. R1011.

Digital image available: leaf [11]r with illuminated initial, Alexander Turnbull Library Rare Book copy. Details on request from Curator, Rare Books and Fine Printing.