Eusebius Caesariensis.

Chancery folio (301 x 195mm.), 171 leaves (of 172, without final blank), 34 lines, Roman letter, 3- to 6-line initial spaces with printed guides, other 2-line initial spaces, seventeenth-century vellum, spine lettered in gilt with imprint added in gilt in nineteenth century, a few early manuscript annotations, manuscript title on initial blank recto, a few small wormholes in the text, binding slightly soiled

from San Lorenzo in Padula, for the use of Michael, a professor of that house, i.e. the Charterhouse of Padula, near Salerno, early inscription on first recto; Ampleforth Abbey Library, armorial bookplate, library stamp on first flyleaf and blind embossed stamp on first leaf of text

The Certosa di Padula, the largest Charterhouse in Italy, possessed a splendid library, now mostly divided between the Biblioteca Nazionale in Naples (to which books were taken in the 1810s when it was the Biblioteca Reale) and other local religious houses.

HC 6711; GW 9437; BMC vii 933; Goff E127

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Schallus, from Hersfeld, worked in Mantua between 1475 and 1479; ISTC lists only seven works published by him, of which this was the last. It is the fourth edition of Eusebius's history of the early church, written in the 320s and the most important surviving source for that period, with the continuation by Rufinus of Aquileia down to the year 403, written between then and his death in 410. Rufinus translated many works of the Greek Church Fathers into Latin, some of which only now survive through his translations. The Greek text of Eusebius was first published in 1544 by Robert Estienne.