Ecclesiastica historia diui Eusebii: et Ecclesiastica historia gentis Anglorum venerabilis Bede : cum utraru[s]que historiaru[m] per singulos libros recollecta capitulorum annotatione
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Type of record: Book
Title: Ecclesiastica historia diui Eusebii: et Ecclesiastica historia gentis Anglorum venerabilis Bede : cum utraru[s]que historiaru[m] per singulos libros recollecta capitulorum annotatione
Other titles: Ecclesiastical history; Ecclesiastica hystoria; Ecclesiastica historia divi Eusebii
Classmark: BC Incunabula/EUS
Creator(s): Eusebius of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea (260-340)
Additional creator(s): Rufinus of Aquileia (345-410) (Other); Bede the Venerable, Saint (673-735) (Other); Husner, Georg (1505) (Printer); Vignal (Binder); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Rufinus; Bede; Husner, Georg; Vignal; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: [Georg Husner]; [Georg Husner]
Publication city: imp[re]ssi i[n] inclyta ciuitate Argentinen[se] [Strassburg]
Date(s): Anno salutis n[ostre] Millesimoq[ui]ngentesimo xiiij.die Marcij. [14 March 1500]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [160] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/48106
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007748149705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: [*]⁶ a⁸ b-n⁶ o⁸ p-z⁶ A-B⁶.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on leaf B6r reads: Libri eccl[es]iastice historie ge[n]t[is] Anglo[rum] imp[re]ssi i[n] inclyta ciuitate Argentinen[se]. dilige[n]ter reuisi ac eme[n]dati finiu[n]t feliciter. Anno salutis n[ost]re Millesimoq[ui]ngentesimo xiiij.die Marcij.
Printer from ISTC.
Contents: Tabula (leaves [*]2r-[*]6r); Ecclesiastica historia diui Eusebii (leaves a1r-o8r); Ecclesiastica historia gentis Anglorum venerabilis Bede (leaves p1r-B6r).
Books 1-9 of Eusebius translated, and Books 10-11 written, by Rufinus of Aquileia.
Added title page title: Ecclesiastica hystoria.
Printed in two columns with 50 lines to a full column.
Printed headlines throughout.
Initial spaces with guide-letters.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ie00129000.
Indexed in: Goff E121; Hain-Copinger 6714; BMC I 162; Polain 1430.
Features
Beneath the title on the title page a date has been added in red ink manuscript: Anno.m.ccccc. die Martii xiiij.
Ink manuscript inscription on the title page, probably late sixteenth-century, now indistinct due to water damage.
Ink manuscript inscription at the head of the added title page, now indistinct due to water damage.
Notes in black ink manuscript and pencil manuscript in French on the recto of the second front flyleaf signed by J. Cordier, who attributes the printing of the book to Martin Flach.
Major initials supplied alternately in red and blue.
Paragraph markers supplied in red and blue
The major initial on a1r has been decorated in red and pink against a background of gold, with foliage of green and blue.
Some water damage and staining.
Bindings
Early twentieth-century binding of full dark olive goatskin by Vignal, whose name is printed at the upper left of the front pastedown together with the date 1904. The upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with quadruple fillets forming a border and frame inside which is a repeating pattern of flowers enclosed within circles. In a central panel are four blind-tooled rows of stylised foliage. The spine, which has faded to brown, has five raised bands. Gold-tooled in the second panel are the words: Eusebii - Historia. Gold-tooled at the base of the spine is the date: 1500. The other spine panels are blind-tooled alternately with two flowers enclosed within circles and stylised foliage. The turn-ins are blind-tooled with a repeating design of stylised foliage and the board edges are blind-tooled with a herringbone pattern. According to the note by J. Cordier on the second front flyleaf, the binding is an exact copy of the sixteenth-century original. Watermark on the title page of a pot
with one handle. Size: 280 x 204mm. Leaf size: 274 x 198mm.
Provenance
Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
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