[Historia ecclesiastica]
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: [Historia ecclesiastica]
Other titles: Ecclesistical history; Illustrissimo & inuictissimo Mantuanorum Principi Frederico Gonzage Iohannes Schallus Herosfeldensis physicus obsequentissimus
Classmark: BC Incunabula/EUS
Creator(s): Eusebius of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea (260-340)
Additional creator(s): Rufinus of Aquileia (345-410) (Other); Schall, Johann (1475-1479) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Rufinus; Schall, Johann; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: Schallus Ioannes celebri Germanicus arte Aere premit. Mantus principe Foederico; Johannes Schallus
Publication city: [Mantua]
Date(s): Quom datus est finis. referebat Iulius annos Mille quater centum septuaginta nouem. [not before 15 July 1479]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [172] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/48105
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007742719705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon in verse on leaf [171v] reads: Explicit liber ecclesiastic hystorie. Transtulit Ausonias istud Rufinus ad aures Eusebii clarum Caesariensis opus. Schallus Ioannes celebri Germanicus arte Aere premit. Mantus principe Foederico. Quom datus est finis. referebat Iulius annos Mille quater centum septuaginta nouem. Hunc eme qui docti nomen. qui limen Olimpi Quaeris. habet praesens munus utru[m]q[ue] liber. Hinc coeleste bonum: sanctosq[ue] docebere mores Et prodesse magis lectio nulla potest.
Printed with 34 lines and a catchword to a full page.
No signatures.
Initial spaces with guide-letters.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ie00127000.
Indexed in: Goff E127; BMC VII, p. 933; Hain 6711; Polain 1428.
Features
Several major initials have been decorated variously in red, blue and green ink with ornamentation extending down the margins.
Other major initials supplied alternately in blue and red.
Capital strokes and paragraph markers supplied in red.
Book numbers supplied in red as headlines.
This copy is missing leaves 23, 37, 54, 89, 107, 120, 132 and 158.
Eleven initials have been cut out of the book from leaves 32, 50, 70[2], 85, 94[2], 101, 102, 112 and 156.
Soem worm damage.
Bindings
Late fifteenth-century monastic binding of full dark brown goatskin over wooden boards, rebacked. Both the upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with a border and frame of double fillets. The frame is stamped with roses, animals, and the names Jesus and Maria. Inside the frame is a design of blind-tooled diagonal double fillets stamped with flowers, eagles, fleurs-de-lys and the Lamb of God. The book is fastened with two decorated metal clasps with leather straps, not contemporary with the original binding, catching on the upper cover. The spine has four raised bands. Gold-tooled in the second panel are the words: Eusebius Cæsariensis. In the fourth panel is the Brotherton Collection stamp in gold. Gold-tooled at the base of the spine is the date: 1479. There are four tabs on the fore-edge marking sections of the text, one with a knot, the others coloured red. Size: 309 x 215mm. Leaf size: 300 x 204mm.
Provenance
Inscription in black ink manuscript on the recto of the first leaf: Liber sororu[m] ord: Aug: in Coesdfeldia. The book was in the possession of the Augustinian nuns at Coesfeld, Westphalia, Germany.
Cutting from a French sale catalogue on the front pastedown.
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.
Access and usage
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