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Eusebii cesariensis episcopi ecclesiastica hystoria per rufinum viru[m] eloque[n]tissimu[m] de greco in latinu[m] traducta.

Accession number
PML 19269
Creator
Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 260-approximately 340.
Object title

Eusebii cesariensis episcopi ecclesiastica hystoria per rufinum viru[m] eloque[n]tissimu[m] de greco in latinu[m] traducta.

Published

[Utrecht] : [Nicolaus Ketelaer and Gerardus de Leempt], M° cccc°. lxxiiii° [1474].

Description

[206] leaves ; 30.5 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf [1]/2r.
Imprint from ISTC. Date from colophon, leaf [22]/7v: Eusebii cesariensis episcopi eccelastica hystoria per rufinu[m] viru[m] eloque[n]tissimu[m] de greco in latinu[m] traducta. explicit felicit[er]. M° cccc°. lxxiiii°.
Printed in Ketelaer and de Leempt's type 1B:122G.
Collation: [1-7¹⁰ 8-10⁸ 11-14¹⁰ 15-16⁸ 17-20¹⁰ 21-22⁸]: 206 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [22]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Translated by Rufinus Aquileiensis.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.2 x 21.3 cm.
Binding
Modern quarter brown goatskin, with paste paper sides, over paper boards (30.5 x 22.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands.
Variant title
Historia ecclesiastica
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Major initials have red and wash penwork decoration in foliate forms. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Contemporary manuscript title in red chalk (leaf [1]/1r).
Provenance
Unidentified early inscription, abraded (leaf [1]/2r); Giuseppe Martini, bibliographic notes (laid in at rear endleaf 2 recto); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Martini, March 1912.
Classification
Century
Department