The ancient ecclesiastical histories of the first six hundred years after Christ, written in the Greek tongue by three learned historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Evagrius... Whereunto is annexed Dorotheus Bishop of Tyrus, of the lives and ends of the prophets, apostles, and LXX disciples. All which authors are faithfully translated out of the Greek tongue by Meredith Hanmer ... Last of all, herein is comprized a brief chronography collected by the said translator, with a copious index of the principal matters throughout all the histories
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Type of record: Book
Title: The ancient ecclesiastical histories of the first six hundred years after Christ, written in the Greek tongue by three learned historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Evagrius... Whereunto is annexed Dorotheus Bishop of Tyrus, of the lives and ends of the prophets, apostles, and LXX disciples. All which authors are faithfully translated out of the Greek tongue by Meredith Hanmer ... Last of all, herein is comprized a brief chronography collected by the said translator, with a copious index of the principal matters throughout all the histories
Other titles: Ecclesiastical history
Classmark: Large Greek N-2.2/EUS
Creator(s): Eusebius of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea (260-340)
Additional creator(s): Hanmer, Meredith (1543-1604) (Other); Socrates Scholasticus (379-440) (Other); Evagrius Scholasticus (536-) (Other); Dorotheus, Saint (255-362) (Other)
Related people: Hanmer, Meredith; Socrates; Evagrius; Dorotheus
Publisher: Printed by Abraham Miller, and to be sold by Francis Tyton
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1663
Language: English
Size and medium: 6, 598 (i.e. 588), [22], 73 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/198526
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991009657189705181
Description
Pages 182, 207, 380, 506, 508-509, 547, 579 incorrectly numbered 192, 270, 308, 560, 518-519, 447, 599, respectively; no. 191-200 omitted in the paging.
"The eccelesiastical history of Socrates Scholasticus", "The ecclesiastical history of Evagrius Scholasticus", "The lives, the ends, and the martyrdomes, of the prophets, apostles, and seventy disciples, of Our Saviour", written in Greek by Dorotheus bishop of Tyrus, "A chronographie", and "Eusebius his life of Constantine" each have special title-pages; the life of Constantine has separate pagination.
Additional description
Wanting: all after p.74 of the Life of Constantine, which is pasted down to a blank leaf. On p.75 of this section begins Constantine's Oration to the clergy; a blank slip has been pasted over the words 'with Constantine's Orations to the Clergy' at the end of the title on the title-page
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