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EUSEBIUS CESARIENSIS. Chronicon. Venice, Erhard Ratdolt, 1483 4to. 218 x 158mm. 16th-century full vellum binding, later guard sheets. Papers 182 unnumbered. Incipit at paper a2r. Papers [1], [13] and [182] blank. Mark: [pi]12 a-v8 x10. Initial papers [2-11] contain "Tabula operis huius ... "Colophon on verso of paper 181 "Erhardus Ratdolt Augustensis ... non paruo studio impensisque emendatissime impressit Uenetijs ... 1483. Idibus Septembris" [13. IX]. Printed in red and black, Woodcut initials, Gothic and Roman typeface. Early hand marginalia. Unreadable inscription on upper margin of a2r paper with date "(15)27 die 23 Iulii". Skillful restoration to binding and blank papers a1 and x10, and paper 08. A few slight flaws, good copy. Second edition, the first to include the continuation to 1481 by the humanist Matteo Palmieri. Gutenberg and the invention of printing is mentioned (v3 verso): "Quantum litterarum studiosi Germanis debeant nullo satis dicendi genere posset. Namque a loanne Gutenberg Zuningen equiti Maguntie rheni solerti ingenio librorum Imprimendorum ratio 1440 inuenta: hoc tempore in omnes fere orbis partes propagatur: qua omnis antiquitas paruo ere comparata: posterioribus infinitis voluminibus legitur." This is the third quotation given, following the 1474 quotation in Riccobaldo da Ferrara's "Chronica" and the 1483 quotation in Jacopo Filippo Foresti's Supplementum chronicarum.Eusebius' Chronicles, in two books, were composed in the early fourth century: the original Greek text was lost along with the first book. The second book, in tabular form, contains the history of the world from Abraham to the vicennalia of Constantine I in 325 AD. St. Jerome, who translated it into Latin, continued the chronology, which was then continued by Tyrus Prosperus until 455. In this edition the chronological work is completed up to the end of 1481. IGI 3753; HC 6717; Ageno 26; GW 9433; BMC V 287; Goff; E-117; Hain-Copinger; 6717*; Pellechet 4634; ISTC ie00117000; Thacher; 287. Redgrave, Ratdolt 36. 4to, 218 x 158 mm. Full vellum binding of 16th century, later endpapers. 182 not numbered leaves. Incipit on leaf a2r. The first leaves containing: Tabula operis huius ... "Colophon on verso of leaf 181 "Erhardus Ratdolt Augustensis ... non paruo studio impensisque emendatissime impressit Uenetijs ... 1483. Idibus Septembris" [13. IX]. Woodcut initials, printed in red and black, numerous contemporary marginal annotations, Illegible ownership inscription to title-page dated July 23, 1527. Skillful restorations on binding and on blank leaves a1, x10 and 08. Some slight defects, good copy. Second edition, the first including the continuation up to 1481 by the humanist Matteo Palmieri. Gutenberg and the invention of printing are mentioned (v3 verso): "Quantum litterarum scholars Germanis debeant nullo satis dicendi genere posset. Namque a loanne Gutenberg Zuningen equiti Maguntie rheni solerti ingenio librorum Imprimendorum ratio 1440 inuenta: hoc tempore in omnes fere orbis partes propagatur: qua omnis antiquitas paruo ere comparata: posterioribus infinitis voluminibus legitur." This is the third citation reported, after that of 1474 in the "Chronica" by Riccobaldo from Ferrara and that of 1483 in the Supplementum chronicarum by Jacopo Filippo Foresti.The Chronicles of Eusebius, in two books, were composed at the beginning of the fourth century: the original Greek text was lost together with the first book. The second book, in tabular form, contains the history of the world from Abraham to the vicennalia of Constantine I in AD 325. St. Jerome, who translated it into Latin, continued the chronology which was then continued by Tiro Prospero up to 455. In this edition the chronological work is completed up to the end of 1481.

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