Ecclesiasticae historiae autores
Publisher: Froben
Published: 1562
Place of publication: Basileae
Language: lat
Translated from: grc
Number of pages: 818
Subjects: Church history
Other titles: Ecclesiasticae historiae avtores
Notes: Colophon (leaf 2B4r): Basileae in officina Frobeniana, per Hier. Frobenium et Nic. Episcopium, mense Martio, anno Domini M.D.LXII.

Signatures: [alpha]⁴ a-z⁶ A-2Z⁶ ²2A⁶ 2B⁴.

Woodcut printer's device on t.p. and verso of last leaf; historiated initials.

Purchase; Maggs; 29 September 2004; 2004-444; $2148 (Henry Saltonstall Howe Fund).

Each work in Latin, translated from the Greek original.

From the library of Joannes Hagius, with "M[agister] I[oannes] H[agius] 1566" stamped on front cover and his ms. inscription inside back cover: "sum Ioh. Hagij". Later ownership inscription on t.p. of Johann Peter Heiss, with his note "ab antiquario Mozler emi".

Ms. marginalia in the hands of Hagius, Heiss, and others.

Bound in contemporary blind roll-tooled pigskin ove reverse-bevelled wooden boards, the rolls consisting of floral tools, medallion heads, and New Testament scenes, that of the Crucifixion signed "V K" (i.e. from the workshop of Urban Koblitz of Leipzig), 2 fore-edge clasps.
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) Eusebij Pamphili Caesariae Palaestinae episcopi historiae ecclesiast. lib. X Vuolfgango Musculo interprete; title: Eiusdem De vita Constantini, eodem interprete lib. V.; title: Ruffini presbyteri Aquileiensis historiae ecclesiast. lib. II.; title: Socratis Scholastici Constantinopolitani, Musculo interprete lib. VII.; title: Theodoriti episcopi Cyri, Ioachimo Camerario interprete lib. V.; title: Hermij Sozomeni Salaminij, Musculo interprete lib. IX.; title: Theodori Lectoris collectanoru[m] historiae ecclesiast. eodem interp. lib. II.; title: Euagrij Scholastici, eodem interprete lib. VI.; title: Dorothei episcopi Tyri Synopsis, Apostolorum ac Prophetarum vitas complectens, eodem interprete; title: Additus est sub finem rerum memorabiliu[m] index copiosiss.