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Charles W. Traylen
Sept. '76 $5.00

Eusebius Caesaiunsis (Bp. of Caesarea ca. 260-340)
"Chronological Tables" - Chronicon (translated by: Hieronymus) [Milan:] Latin
Phillippus de Lavagnia annotated [about 1474-76[inserted] undated [end inserted]] 40 folio 35 [inserted] 3540 or = 1600 BC [end inserted]

Goff E 116 BMC VI p703 GW 9432
Cop HEHL, Yale Univ. Lib. Hain 6716
with the continuations of Prosper + Matthseus Palmerius
Florentinus (1st edition)
209 leaves, the last blank. 3a: 35 lines, 189x109mm
Type 108R. Capital spaces as far as 20a
(15 point)

19b, the Chronicon arranged in the form of synoptical tables.

Editio Princeps
Eusebius of Caesarea - Bishop of Caesarea [inserted] Greek historian [end inserted] in Palestine (314-40)
apologist, Biblical exegets + the earliest Church historian
The Chronicle - an epitome of world history* down to 303.
-based partly on the work of Julius Africanus of Jerusalem, is extant
only in Armenian + in Jerome's Latin adaptation.
- Eusebius prefaced to the actual chronological tables
accounts of various nations, in which he made cross
references to events in Jewish history. Chronological works
of this kind had long been used by Christians to demonstrate
the antiquity fo Jewish achievements on which Christianity
was based.

-adopted the name of his teacher Pamphilus priest of Ceseree (a martyr) - commonly
designed by this name - Eusebius Pamphili.

- Historia Ecclesiastica
De evangelica Proparatione
Chronicon

* exhibiting in parallel colums the
royal successions in different nations

1391 = 1590 (anni mundi) - begins - 3184
1431 = 6630 repromissionis (counter - promise)
1462 = 6660
(Anni Saluti)

this edition ends at 1449.