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Title
Patavini historici ab urbe condita decadis prim[a]e liber primus incipit
Creator
[Wendelin, of Speier, -1477?, Livy]
Summary
This folio leaf shows an example of early Venetian printing by Wendelin da Spira. The characters are old style roman in the classification of serif typefaces.
The book "History of Rome," sometimes referred to as Ab Urbe Condita ([Books] from the Founding of the City), is a monumental history of ancient Rome, written in Latin between 27 and 9 BC by the historian Titus Livius, or "Livy", as he is usually known in English.
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