Bod-Inc: E-044
Eusebius Caesariensis
Historia ecclesiastica.
Analysis of Content
[a1v] Schallus, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Fredericus I Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua. Incipit: ‘[F]uerunt multi, cristianissime princeps, priscis nouisque temporibus . . .’ Explicit: nec habitura est te clariorem
[a3r] [Table of contents.]
[b1r] Rufinus, [Tyrannius]: ‘Prologus'. See E‑041.
[b1v] ‘Capitula'. ed. Schwartz and Mommsen, I 3-5, but with the last two chapters listed as one. ‘Capitula' listed before each chapter.
[b2r] Eusebius Caesariensis: Historia ecclesiastica (books 1-9). Translated by Tyrannius Rufinus. ed. Schwartz and Mommsen, I 7-507, II 511-903.
[s5v] [Rufinus, Tyrannius: Prologue.] ed. Schwartz and Mommsen, II 957.
[s5v] ‘Capitula'. ed. Schwartz and Mommsen, II 957-9.
[s6r] Eusebius Caesariensis [pseudo-; Rufinus, Tyrannius]: Historia ecclesiastica (books 10-11). ed. Schwartz and Mommsen, II 960-1040.
[y7v] [Verse.] Incipit: ‘[T]ranstulit Ausonias istud Rufinus ad aures | Eusebii clarum Caesariensis opus'; 5 elegiac distichs.
Imprint
Imprint: Mantua: Johannes Schallus, [not before 15] July 1479. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [a–s8 t–y6.8].
References
ISTC: ie00127000
GW: GW 9437;
Hain: HC *6711;
Goff: Goff E‑127;
BMC: BMC VII 933;
Proctor: Pr 6908;
Others: BSB‑Ink E‑112; Hillard 784; Oates 2590-1; Rhodes 748; Sack, Freiburg, 1377; Sheppard 5632.
LCN: 14386755
Copies
Copy number: E-044(1)
Wanting [a1.8], [a2], and the blank leaf [y8].
Binding: Parchment over paper boards; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 270 × 196 × 35 mm.
Size of leaf: 265 × 185 mm.
Early marginal notes, pointing hands, and ‘nota' marks.
Early manuscript running headlines (book numbers) and foliation supplied in black ink.
Provenance: Marcial Moydicho. Kotor (Cattaro), Dalmatia, Dominicans; inscription on [b1r]: ‘Conuentus sancti Nicolai de Catharo ex libris fratris Marcialis Moydicho'. Martin Joseph Routh (1755-1854). Presented in 1820: inscription on front pastedown: ‘Presented by Dr. Routh, Pres. Magd. Coll. 1820'.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. P 3.16.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 2.11.
Copy number: E-044(2)
Binding: Eighteenth-century dark blue morocco, with onlay of red, green, and brown leather, all gold-tooled, and with gold-tooled spine and turn-ins, over pasteboard; gilt-edged leaves, yellow silk pastedowns and endleaves; bound in Paris by Pierre-Joseph Bisiaux before 1798: binder's label on verso of front yellow silk endleaf. See Nixon, Broxbourne, no. 97.
Size: 306 × 210 × 32 mm.
Size of leaf: 299 × 195 mm.
Early marginal notes, some washed out. Faded manuscript title on [a1r].
Provenance: Erased ownership inscription on [a1r], partly legible under ultraviolet light: ‘Zum Johannis [ ] ex Bischoffs[ ]ge [ ] anno domini 1624'. Circular stamp on [a1r]. Laurence Currie (1867-1934); armorial book-plate. Albert Ehrman (1890-1969); armorial book-plate; purchased from Maggs Brothers Ltd in 1954, for £67. 10. 0, with receipt dated 31 Dec. 1953; accession no. ‘R 1210'. Presented in 1978 by John Ehrman.
SHELFMARK: Broxb. 8.11.
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