Incipiunt capitula primi libri hystorie ecclesiastice.

Accession number:

PML 469

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:

Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.

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: 29.7 x 19.4 cm.

Binding:

19th-century gilt-tooled brown goatskin over paper boards (30.5 x 20.5 cm.), sewn on 6 supports by Charles Lewis for Acheson. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

Hystorie ecclesiastice

Inscriptions/Markings:

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

Provenance:

Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), armorial binding; James Toovey (1814-1893), purchased Gosford's library en bloc in 1878, Burnham Abbey booklabel (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Armorial bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books