Incipiunt capitula primi libri hystorie ecclesiastice.

Accession number: 
PML 79127
Author: 
Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 260-approximately 340..
Published: 
[Mantua] : Schallus Ioannes celebri Germanicus arte aere premit. Mantus principe Foederico., Quom datus est finis. referebat Iulius annos mille quater centum septuaginta nouem. [[not before 15] July 1479]
Description: 
[172] leaves ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler; 1985.
Notes: 

Title from incipit of table of contents at head of [1]/3r.
Imprint details from verse colophon on [22]/7v. The printer's dedictory letter is dated "Mantue apud sanctum Alexandrum die. xv. Iulii. M.cccc.lxxix." ([1]/2v.
Printed in Schallus's type 3:111R.
Signatures: [1-18⁸ 19-22⁶/⁸]: 172 leaves, leaf [22]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Translated by Rufinus of Aquileia.
With table of contents: [1]/3r-[1]/8v.
1 column, 34 lines. Initial spaces, some with guide letters. Printed catchwords.
"The inmost openings of quires [7] and [9] have scarcely any contractions and the pages of the inmost opening of quire [u] are several lines short"--BM 15th Cent.
Dedicatory letter to Gonzaga (leaf [1]/1v) begins: "Illustrissimo & Invictissimo Mantuanorum Principi Frederico Gonzage Iohannes Schallus Herosfeldensis physicus obsequentissimus."
PML copy listed under Second Press in Checklist.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.2 x 19.5 cm.

Binding: 
18th-century English gilt-tooled red morocco over paper boards (30.5 x 21 cm.), sewn on 6 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

Hystorie ecclesiastice

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Curt F. Bühler (1905-1985), Inc. 65, purchased from B.H. Blackwell of Oxford (catalogue description and ticket, front pastedown) for £7.10.0, Oct. 1935; Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Morocco bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books