The auncient ecclesiasticall histories of the first six hundred yeares after Christ
By: written in the Greeke tongue by three learned historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius ... ; vvherevnto is annexed Dorothevs 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 ... ; 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.
Contributors: Dorotheus, Saint, 255-362.; Hanmer, Meredith, 1543-1604.; Vautrollier, Thomas, d. 1587, printer.; Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, ca. 260-ca. 340.; Socrates, Scholasticus, ca. 379-ca. 440.; Evagrius, Scholasticus, b. 536?; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: By Thomas Vautrollier ...
Published: 1585
Place of publication: Imprinted at London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 600
Subjects: Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Notes: STC (2nd ed.) 10573
"The ecclesiasticall historie of Socrates Scholasticus", "The ecclesiasticall historie of Evagrius Scholasticus", "The lives, the ends, and the martyrdomes of the prophetes, apostles, and seventie disciples of our Saviour", and "A chronographie" each have special t.p.'s.
"The lives, the ends, and the martyrdomes ...", attributed to Dorotheus, Bishop of Tyrus, is considered a spurious work. Cf. Smith, Dict. Christian biog.
Signatures: *⁶ A-2X⁶ 2Y⁴ 2Z-3E⁶ 3F⁴. 3D6 blank.
Includes index.
LC copy imperfect: preliminary p. [4]-[10] wanting.