EUSEBIUS Caesariensis, Bishop of Caesarea (ca 260-ca 340). Historia ecclesiastica. Translated from Greek into Latin by Tyrannius Rufinus (ca 345-410). Rome: Johannes Phillippus de Lignamine, 15th May 1476.

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EUSEBIUS Caesariensis, Bishop of Caesarea (ca 260-ca 340). Historia ecclesiastica. Translated from Greek into Latin by Tyrannius Rufinus (ca 345-410). Rome: Johannes Phillippus de Lignamine, 15th May 1476.

Super-chancery 2^o (320 x 220 mm). 205 leaves only (of 220). 34 lines. Roman type 1:125. Initial spaces. Initials supplied in black on first two leaves. (Ink-burn through second initial, occasional soiling and pale dampstaining, a few marginal tears.) 18th-century vellum over boards. Provenance: (non-Doheny) given to the Western Province by the Roman Province of the Congregation of the Mission 11 September 1954 -- donated by them to SMS 14 May 1967.

First edition printed in Italy, second issue, with the dedication to Estouteville replacing that to the Pope. De Lignamine, a native of Messina and Italy's third printer, following the German immigrants Sweynheym and Pannartz and the Austrian Ulrich Han, was active from 1470 through 1476 and again, with a different press and types, from 1481 to 1484. Eusebius's text is the principal source for the early history of Christianity. BMC IV, 34 (IB.17419); GW 9436; HC *6710; Pr 3398; Goff E-126.

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