Details

Subject(s)

• Church history—Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 [Browse]
• Great Britain—Church history—449-1066 [Browse]
• Church history—Middle Ages, 600-1500—Sources [Browse]
• Civilization, Ancient—Sources [Browse]

Related name

• Rufinus, of Aquileia, 345-410 [Browse]

Printer

• Husner, Georg, -1505 [Browse]

Former owner

• Bruff, Peter John [Browse]
• Wilson, Richard [Browse]
• Benediktinerkloster St. Stephan (Würzburg, Germany) [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Annotations [Browse]
• Armorial bindings [Browse]

Contains

Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735. Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. [Browse]

Notes

• Books 1-9 of Eusebius translated by Rufinus Tyrannius; books 10-11 by Rufinus.
• Imprint from ISTC.
• On fol. o8r: Expliciu[n]t libri eccl[es]iastice historie.
• Colophon (fol. B6r): Libri eccl[es]iastice historie ge[n]t[is] Anglo[rum] imp[re]ssi inclyta ciuitate Argentinen[si] dilige[n]ter reuisi ac eme[n]dati finiu[n]t feliciter. Anno salutis n[ost]re Millesimo[qui]ngentesimo xiiij die Marcij.
• Signatures: pi⁶ a⁸ b-n⁶ o⁸ p-z⁶ A-B⁶
• First gathering numbered 2-4 but not signed.
• Printed in double columns. 50 lines and head-lines. Types: 156, title and head-lines; 80, text. Capital spaces with guide-letters. Head-lines identify titles and book numbers.
• Initials supplied in red.
• ExI copy: This copy was extensively annotated by at least one early reader -- the hand varies, but judging by the trimming of the notes by the binder's knife, almost all must predate 1615 -- but although they appear on nearly every page of the Eusebius, the margins of the Bede are entirely blank after the first three leaves.

Binding note

ExI copy: Early seventeenth-century blind-tooled pigskin, stamped on front with the arms of Benediktinerkloster St. Stephan at Würzburg and the motto: En tria distinctis clypeis insignia aspectas Quae gestant abbas regula cenobium. Arms are blocked in black with the date 1615 below. In blind, surrounding the arms, are borders of portrait and vine rolls. Back cover has central panel containing a saint's portrait surrounded by the same rolls, two fore-edge clasps (initialled 'WS'), edges blue, top compartment of spine titled in ink, a label removed from second-from-bottom compartment.

Provenance

ExI copy: Ownership inscription of the library of the Benediktinerkloster St. Stephan at Würzburg, bookplate of Peter John Bruff and another armorial bookplate (signed 'Austin'), plus ownership inscription of the Revd Richard Wilson of Otley (1857) and a bibliographical note to front endpapers.

References

• Goff E-129
• ISTC ie00129000
• Hain-Copinger 6714
• BM 15th cent. I, p. 162 (IB. 2377)
• GW 9439
• Pellechet 4640
• Polain 1430
• Bodleian Lib. 15th cent. E-046
• BSB-Ink E-113
• IGI 3764

Other title(s)

Ecclesiastica historia gentis Anglorum.

LCCN

74227804

OCLC

51228134

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