farfel_n05_108_367

367 Dr Eichenberger
Beilwil Am Sec
May '93
Gift
Eusebius Caesariensis A.D. 270-388
See #54 Chronicon (Tr: Hieronymus)
Venice : Erhard Ratdolt, 13 Sept. 1483. 4o
N.B. - further additions by Matthias Palmerius Pisanus
Johannes Luilius Santritter, ed. (from Heilbronn)
Ref: Goff E-117 HC 6717 Pell 4634 Oates 1755 IGI 3753
Pr 4390 BMC V 287 GW 9433 Haebler Italian plates #68
Cop : HEHL ,NYPL, PML, Stan U L. Mazerine 346 , B.Nat.
(RBC KA 1493 E89.)
[*12] a8 b-v8x10. 182 leaves , 1, 13 & 182 blank. 2 col. in
table & guire b. 15a: 34 lines of type 91R. 154x107 mm.
21a 41 lines of type 76 G. 156x 117 mm. Types ; 91 R text,
on 14a-20b. 76 G remainder of book. Capitals (2,3,4,5)
med. text type. Plain capitals except I
Which is large & scrolled to the left. In use
in 1480 , 1482-5.
91R - med. text type, bold single hyphen. In use
1482 , 1485.
Portions red printed throughout.
Pell 4634 35 ou 38-40 ll. (car . rom.) ou 2 col. 41-42 ll. (car. goth.)
GW 9433 2Sp. 34-42Z.

Calendar begins p.50 / ends p.360.
my leaf { p.281 & 2 - Stanford copy marked 130, also.
r2
-entry for 1457(f.v3v) - thought to be the earliest acknowledgement
in print of Gutenberg as the inventor of the movable type
printing process in the west.
Eusebius - They form a simple grid , - regnal years from different
dynasties arrayed in a way that allows one, by reading down
to follow the events in a single region & by reading across
to relate simultaneous events.