Eusebius, Opera omnia, Basel, 1542, near-contemporary (Silesian?) calf over wooden boards

Eusebius Caesariensis

Opera omnia. Basel: (Henricpetri, August) 1542

4 parts in one volume, folio (305 x 203mm.), text in Latin, title within woodcut border, woodcut initials and headpieces, with blank leaf s6 at end of first part, final leaf with woodcut device (otherwise blank), a few manuscript annotations with some passages (particularly in the Chronicon lists) crossed through, near-contemporary (Silesian?) blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, early printed binder’s waste (from a canon law text with red and blue initials, probably printed in Venice in the 1470s), occasional wormholes (particularly at beginning and in binding), some light staining, QQ2 torn and repaired, lacking two pairs of clasps, ends of spine repaired, upper joint cracking

LITERATURE

VD16 E 4260

PROVENANCE

Christopho. N[--] Doc. Theo. emit huius lib. anno 1554”, inscription at foot of title-page; Simon Sartor of Wroclaw, inscription on inside front cover dated 1579; “Acceptus est ex Contu Bardubicenii 6 Julii 1559”, inscription on inside front cover (Bardubic/Pardubice in Bohemia, on the Elbe); St Peter, Prague, ink stamp on title-page (the Lusatian seminary?)