De donatione Constantini quid ueri habeat, eruditorum quorundam iudicium, ut in uersa pagella uidebis
Summary: The Donation of Constantine was a work that told of how the Emperor Constantine I gave secular domination over Italy to the Bishops of Rome. Although purported to have been written in the fourth century, the humanist scholar Lorenzo Valla proved the work, long suspect to be an eighth century forgery. Vall's treatise was one of the first important works of comparative philology, a method invaluable to later biblical scholars and translators. This particular edition was published by Ulri ch von Hutten, an important German humanist and patriot, with an introduction addressed to the Medici pope Leo X.Signatures: A-B4, [β]4, C-K4, L5; [A] unsigned.Additional Details: Text in Latin, includes B. Pincernus' translation from Greek of the Constitutum Constantini. There are two inscriptions of "Sam Mayne" on the title page and the first printed page. There are also manuscript marginalia in the text.
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