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tie00127000

Text-inc Id:
tie00127000
Bod-inc Id:
E-044
Headings:
Eusebius Caesariensis Historia ecclesiastica.
Analysis of content:
  1. [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
  2. [a3r] [Table of contents.]
  3. [b1r] Rufinus, [Tyrannius]: ‘Prologus'. See E‑041.
  4. [b1v] ‘Capitula'. ed. Schwartz and Mommsen, I 3-5, but with the last two chapters listed as one. ‘Capitula' listed before each chapter.
  5. [b2r] Eusebius Caesariensis: Historia ecclesiastica (books 1-9). Translated by Tyrannius Rufinus. ed. Schwartz and Mommsen, I 7-507, II 511-903.
  6. [s5v] [Rufinus, Tyrannius: Prologue.] ed. Schwartz and Mommsen, II 957.
  7. [s5v] ‘Capitula'. ed. Schwartz and Mommsen, II 957-9.
  8. [s6r] Eusebius Caesariensis [pseudo-; Rufinus, Tyrannius]: Historia ecclesiastica (books 10-11). ed. Schwartz and Mommsen, II 960-1040.
  9. [y7v] [Verse.] Incipit: ‘[T]ranstulit Ausonias istud Rufinus ad aures | Eusebii clarum Caesariensis opus'; 5 elegiac distichs.
Imprint:
Mantua: Johannes Schallus, [not before 15] July 1479. Folio.
Collation:
[a–s8 t–y6.8].
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: ie00127000 GW 9437; HC *6711; Goff E‑127; BMC VII 933; Pr 6908; BSB‑Ink E‑112; Hillard 784; Oates 2590-1; Rhodes 748; Sack, Freiburg, 1377; Sheppard 5632. LCN: 14386755
Copies:
  1. E-044(1) First copy 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.
  2. E-044(2) Second copy 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.