Shelfmark
Ff.2.05
Author
Eusebius, ca. 260 - ca. 340 of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea,
Uniform title
[Ecclesiastical history. 1544]
Title
Ekklēsiastikēs historias Eusebiou tou Pamphilou Episkopou Kaisareias tēs Palaistinēs biblia 10. Tou autou eis ton bion tou makariou Kōnstantinou Basileōs logoi 5. Sōkratis Scholastikou biblia 7. Theodōritou Episkopou Kyrou biblia 5. Eklogōn apo tēs ekklēsiastikēs historias Theodōrou biblia 2. Hermeiou Sōzomenou Salameniou biblia 9. Euagriou Scholastikou ekklēsiastikēs historias biblia 6. Ecclesiasticae historiae Eusebii Pamphili lib. X. Eiusdem de vita Constantini lib. V. Socratis lib. VII. Theodoriti episcopi Cyrensis lib. V. Collectaneorum ex historia eccles. Theodori lectoris lib. II. Hermii Sozomeni lib. IX. Euagrii lib. VI..
Varying form of title
Parallel title: Ecclesiasticae historiae Eusebii Pamphili Lib. X.
Varying form of title
Ekklesiastikes historias Eusebio tou Pamphiloi Episkopou Kaisareias
Publication, distribution, etc.
Lutetiae Parisiorum. : Ex officina Roberti Stephani typographi regii, regiis typis., M.D.XLIIII. [1544]
Physical description
[4], 116, [1], 117-353 [i.e. 360], 181, [5] leaves ; 35 cm. (fol.)
Language
Parallel title, imprint and colophon in Latin; text in Greek only.
Note
First part of the title has been transliterated from the Greek.
Note
Numerous errors in foliation.
Note
"Pinas tōn ennea logōn tēs ekklēsiastikēs historias, Hermeiou Sōzomenou tou Salaminiou, synthesis para Nikēphorou Kallistou tou Xanthopoulou" (caption title, transliterated from Greek) begins new pagination and register.
Note
Signatures: 2*⁴ A-X⁸ (P5 blank) Y-3E⁶ 3F⁸ 3G⁶, ²2A-3H⁶.
Note
Printed in Claude Garamond's "Grec du roi" type (second size) with decorations and initials designed by Geoffroy Tory.
Note
Colophon (verso of penultimate leaf) reads: 'Excudebat Robertus Stephanus typographus regius Lutetiae Parisiorum anno M.D.XLIIII. pridie cal. Iul.'
Note
Woodcut printer's device, Grecs du roi device (snake on vine) on title-page; woodcut printer's device (variant) on verso of final leaf (olive tree with motto "Noli altum sapere").
Note
Recto of final leaf contains errata.
Note
Woodcut head-piece, initials.
Citation/references note
Schreiber, F. The Estiennes, 77
Citation/references note
Renouard, A.A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne, 59, no.11
Citation/references note
Adams, E1093
Provenance
Purchased 1596/7 for 40s. with Estienne's editions of Eusebius, Euangelikēs proparaskeuēs bib. pentekaideka, 1544 and Euangelikēs apodeixeōs biblia deka, 1545 [i.e. 1546] bound in one volume (Audit accounts; see also Birley, Notes on bindings in College Library I, 18).
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College on title-page verso.
Binding
Late 16th-century brown calf binding; outer and inner borders formed of blind triple fillets joined at corners; inner frame composed of a single roll with compartments containing medallions with profile heads and renaissance ornaments; silver-tooled armorial stamp of Eton College on both covers; brass clasps on front cover; chain holes; six raised bands; ms. parchment guards; spine decoration formed of blind fillets with diapering at head and tail. See Oldham "English blind-stamped bindings", HMa. 14, no. 783, for roll.
Copy-specific note
Previously Al.4.10.
Subject
Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 Sources.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Estienne, Robert, 1503? - 1559 printer.
Added entry--name
Theodore Lector, Ecclesiastical history.
Added entry--name
Theodoret Bishop of Cyrrhus. Philotheos historia.
Added entry--name
Sozomen, ca. 400 - ca. 450 Ekklesiastike historia.
Added entry--name
Socrates Scholasticus, Ecclesiastical history.
Added entry--name
Evagrius, Ponticus, 345? - 399 Scholasticus, Ecclesiastical history.
Added entry--place
France Paris.
Language code
grclat
Identifier
B32316