Eusebius Caesariensis

Historia ecclesiastica

c.1479

1479

HC 6711*; BMC VII 933; Goff E127; Kaplan 205; ISTC ie00127000; GW 9437

Shoults (Special Collections) Fc/1530/M

Mantua: Johannes Schallus, [not before 15] July 1479

Vellum over thick paper boards. Spine ripped and reads: Pomp. Mela/ De situ orbis/ 1530/ &/ Eusebii/ Hist. Ecclesia/ Mcccclxix/ 1479.
Bound with: P. Mela, De orbis situ. Paris 1530.

Binding, Explicit page with epigram, colophon.

Johannes Schallus was a printer based at Mantua, who printed seven known books between 1475 and 1479. This was his last work.

Eusebius Pamphili, Bishop of Csarea in Palestine, is known as the 'Father of Church History' (b. c.260; d. before 341). This work, translated by Rufinus Aquileiensis, is the fourth edition, preceded by editions printed in Utrecht, Strassburg and Rome.

Paper. 171 leaves, wanting first leaf (f.1 a/b); 280 x 185 mm (fol.).
Roman letter.
F.2a/b: Part of printer's dedicatory letter ending in 'Mantue apud sanctum Alexandrum die. xv. Iulii. M.cccc. lxxix
F.3a: Table of contents: 'Incipiunt Capitula primi libri hystorie ecclesiastice.'.
Text proper begins: 'patre sempiternus extitisse..'
F.171b: Colophon 'Explicit liber ecclesiastice hystorie' followed by an epigram in which occurs the printer's name 'Schallus Ioannes' and the month and year.
Pencil notes on preliminary page.
Incomplete, and misbound.

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