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OROSIUS, Paulus

Adversus Paganos (quos uocant) historiarum libri septem [...]
Cologne
Jasper von Gennep for Gottfried Hittorp
1542, August
€300 - €400

8vo: [32]-516 [= 518]-[2 bl.] pp. Title within elaborate woodcut border. (toned, blank piece of bottom corner ee5 torn off). Contemp. limp overl. vellum, flat spine titled in ink. Nice copy

Very rare ed. of Orosius (375-420), a former student of Augustine. His most important work, 'Seven Books of History Against the Pagans', is written in response to the belief that the decline of the Roman Empire was the result of its adoption of Christianity.
Ref. VD16 O-926. - Adams O-301. Prov. Old name on front flyleaf

Humanism