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EUSEBIUS Caesariensis (ca 260-ca 340). Chronicon. Translated from Greek into Latin by St. Jerome, with continuations by Prosper Aquitanus (to 448), Matthaeus Palmerius Florentinus (to 1448), and Matthaeus Palmerius Pisanus (to 1481). Edited by Johannes Lucilius Santritter. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt 13th September 1483.
EUSEBIUS Caesariensis (ca 260-ca 340). Chronicon. Translated from Greek into Latin by St. Jerome, with continuations by Prosper Aquitanus (to 448), Matthaeus Palmerius Florentinus (to 1448), and Matthaeus Palmerius Pisanus (to 1481). Edited by Johannes Lucilius Santritter. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt 13th September 1483. Median 4 o (212 x 163 mm). Collation : \Kp\k 1 2 a-v 8 x 1 0 (\Kp\k1 blank, \Kp\k2r table, \Kp\k12r 6-line address to the reader, \Kp\k12v-a1 blank, a2r text, x9v verses to the reader, colophon, x10 blank). 182 leaves. 34 and 42 lines, those pages with 42 lines in double column. Printed in red and black. White-on-black initials in four sizes. Roman type 8:91 (text on a2-8) and 4:76 (remainder of book). (Tiny filled wormhole to \Kp\k 1 2 .) Green niger, gilt lettered by Katherine Adams, stamp signed and dated 1903 (spine faded, joints rubbed, splitting to upper joint.) Provenance : acquired from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1966. Second Edition (after the undated first edition printed in Milan ca 1475), the first with the continuation to 1481 by Matteo Palmieri of Pisa. Among the recent notable events included in Palmieri's continuation of Eusebius's chronological history are the invention of printing by Gutenberg (1457) and the life of Regiomontanus, many of whose works were printed by Ratdolt. On the verso of v3 under the year 1457 is a reference to GUTENBERG AND THE INVENTION OF PRINTING in 1440. The account goes on to say that printing has spread nearly over the entire globe, and that the whole of antiquity could be bought with little money, to be read by future generations in numerous volumes. BMC V, 287 (IA. 20527); Goff E-117; GW 9433; HC 6717.