[a2r] [Rufinus, Tyrannius]: ‘Prologus'. Eusebius, Werke, ed. Eduard Schwartz and Theodor Mommsen, Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten drei Jahrhunderte, 2/I–III (Leipzig, 1903-9), here II 951-2. See CPG 3495, CPL 198k.
[a2v] Hieronymus: ‘De duodecim preclaris scriptoribus et doctoribus', [addressed to] Desiderius. Incipit: ‘[E]usebius Cesariensis clauis scripurarum(!) custosque . . .’ Explicit: numquam repperimus
[a3r] Gennadius Massiliensis: De viris illustribus [ch. 17]. Hieronymus, De viris illustribus. Gennadius, De viris illustribus, ed. Ernest Cushing Richardson, Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur, 14/1 (Leipzig, 1896), 67-8.
[a3r] [Note about the author and translator.] Incipit: ‘Quod ecclesiasticam hystoriam Eusebius Cesariensis scripserit . . .’ Explicit: incitatum ad obloquium stilum vertisse
[a3v] [Table of contents.]
[b1r] Eusebius Caesariensis: Historia ecclesiastica (books 1-9). Translated by Tyrannius Rufinus. ed. Schwartz and Mommsen, I 7-507, II 519-903.
[t1v] [Rufinus, Tyrannius]: [Prologue.] ed. Schwartz and Mommsen, II 957.
[t1v] Eusebius Caesariensis [pseudo-; Rufinus, Tyrannius]: Historia ecclesiastica (books 10-11). ed. Schwartz and Mommsen, II 960-1040.
Imprint:
[Utrecht: Nicolaus Ketelaer and Gerardus de Leempt], 1474. Folio.
Collation:
[a–g10 h–k8 l–o10 p q8 r–v10 x y8].
References:
Source: Bodleian
ISTC: ie00124000
GW 9434;
HC 6709;
Goff E‑124;
BMC IX 6;
Pr 8841;
Campbell 711; HPT II 446; ILC 968; Oates 3302; Rhodes 747; Sheppard 6854.
LCN: 14386690
Copies:
E-041(1)
First copy
Wanting the blank leaves [a1] and [y8].
Leaf [y7] mounted.
Two canon leaves from a missal inserted, one before [a2], the other between [c7] and [c8]; the leaves are Parisian, date from c.1370-80, and are the work of the ‘Master of the Breviary of Charles V': see Pächt and Alexander I, 47 no. 608, and pl. XLVI.
Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century half red morocco with paper boards, the spine decorated with two gilt ornamental tools, endpapers watermarked ‘P. R.’
Size: 287 × 212 × 48 mm.
Size of leaf: 280 × 199 mm.
Principal initials are supplied in interlocked red and blue, with red pen-work infill and foliate decoration, and extensions into the margins in red and blue, touched with green and yellow wash; other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. Underlining in red. Capitals touched with yellow wash.
Provenance: Richard Heber (1773-1833); see Catalogue, 2 (1834), lot 2248.
Purchased in 1834 for £5. 0. 0: see Books Purchased (1834), 9.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 2.13.
E-041(2)
Second copy
Fragment.
Bound in a nineteenth-century(?) guard-book of fragments.
Half of [x7] only, containing bk 11, ch. 15, and beginning of ch. 16 (`[E]t Valentinianus in Ytalia degens . . . pacem a maximo').
Binding: Nineteenth-century tan morocco; marbled endleaves.
Size of fragment: 143 × 184 mm.
Three early annotations.
Provenance: Thomas Hearne (1678-1735); a modern pencil note on front endleaf of guard-book suggests that all the fragments in this volume belonged to Hearne.
Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725); inscription on the recto of S‑183(2) (which is bound with this item) in Hearne's hand: ‘Given me by Tho. Rawlinson Esq.'
Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); assumed from shelfmark.
Presumably bequeathed in 1755.
SHELFMARK: 4° Rawl. 598a.
