19- ANASTASIO THE BIBLIOTHECARY. Comincia el prologo del venerabile Anastasio armarista, cioè guardiano de libri della Sedia apostolica, al venerabile padre veschovo Sabinense Cardinale della sancta chiesa, sopra la passione delli dieci mila martyri crocifixi di Iesu Christo : delli quali scrive sancto Hieronymo nel suo martylogio: ch[i] furono crocifixi a di xxii di giugno [Then:] Comincia la historia delli dieci mila martyri crocifixi di Iesu Christo benedecto. S.l. [Florence?], s.d. (1510?), in-8, [8] ff. n. ch, sign. ai/aii/aiii/a4 [-a8], printed with 40 lines per page, with a large half-page naive woodcut on the front of the first leaf (the scene of the martyrdom of the soldiers), half morocco with corners, smooth spine, title pushed out in long [Passione de dieci mila martiri. Firenze, 1510], double cold fillet on the boards (19th c. binding). Extremely rare hagiographic pamphlet corresponding to the first Italian translation of an ancient medieval legend, described below, and probably to the first separate edition of this text. The address and date we provide are taken from the title on the spine, but are not confirmed by any element of the text: for example, no colophon ends it.