The auncient ecclesiasticall histories of the first six hundred yeares after Christ, written in the Greeke tongue by three learned historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius. Eusebius Pamphilus Bishop of Cæsarea in Palæstina vvrote 10. bookes. Socrates Scholasticus of Constantinople vvrote 7. bookes. Euagrius Scholasticus of Antioch vvrote 6. bookes. VVherevnto is annexed Dorotheus Bishop of Tyrus, of the liues and endes of the prophetes, apostles and 70. disciples. All which authors are faithfully translated out of the Greeke tongue and now perused and corrected by Meredith Hanmer, Doctor of Diuinitie. Last of all herein is contained a briefe chronographie collected by the said translator, with a copious index of the principall matters throughout all the histories.
Eusebius,of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea,approximately 260-approximately 340.
Hanmer, Meredith,1543-1604.
Dorotheus,Saint,255-362.
Socrates,Scholasticus,approximately 379-approximately 440.Ecclesiastical history.English.1585
Evagrius,Scholasticus,536?-Ecclesiastical history.English.1585.
Imprinted at London : By Thomas Vautroullier dwelling in the Blackefriers by Ludgate,
1585.
"The ecclesiasticall historie of Socrates Scholasticus", "The ecclesiasticall historie of Eeuagrius [sic] Scholasticus", "The liues, the ends, and the martyrdomes of the prophetes, apostles, and seuentie disciples of our Sauiour, written in Greeke by Dorotheus ..", and "A chronographie" each have separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous.
The attribution of the biographies to Dorotheus is traditional but unsubstantiated.
Includes index.
Signatures: *⁶ A-2X⁶ 2Y⁴ 2Z-3E⁶ 3F⁴.
STC (2nd ed.),
ESTC
Church history