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AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius (354-430). De civitate dei , in Italian. De la cita d'dio . [Venice?: Antonio di Bartolommeo da Bologna (Miscomini), c. 1476-1478]. Chancery 2° (288 x 192mm). Collation: \K . \ka . . ; a-i κ L m-z A-G 10 H . . (\K . \ka1 blank, \K . \ka2r table and chapter headings, \K . \ka12v blank; a1 incipit, H11v prayer, H12 blank). 323 leaves (of 324, without first blank). 47 lines, double column. Headlines (book numbers) supplied in manuscript. Type: 4:78R. 3- to 6-line initial spaces. (Some browning at page edges and generally light spotting, stains at margin of E8-10, some lighter stains elsewhere.) Early 18th-century Italian vellum with morocco label, blue edges (spine rubbed and chipped, corners bumped). Provenance : Giaco[mo] Soranzo (ownership inscription, dated 1727, on front free endpaper) -- W.W. Hall, Lincoln's Inn (19th-century inscription on free endpaper and first leaf of text). FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN, printed in small text type by Antonio Miscomini, son of Bartolomeo da Bologna. Although the book was assigned to Miscomini's Florentine press by Proctor, it has subsequently been regarded as printed at Venice for the reasons stated in BMC. The insciption in the Bodelian copy, 'Questo libro e dipoveri Iesuati da venegia. 1483,' has established that publication can be no later than this date. In this copy, the translation has been attributed to Brother Jacopo Passavarti in an inscription on H11v. HC *2071 (var) = H 2072?; GW 2892; BMC VII, 1136 (IB. 20457a) and VI, p. xv; Polain (B) 370A; Pellechet 1564; IDL 500; IGI 982; Goff A-1248.