Eusebius Caesariensis: Chronicon.
Translated by Hieronymus. Add: Prosper Aquitanus, Matthaeus Palmerius Florentinus and Matthias Palmerius Pisanus. Edited by Johannes Lucilius Santritter.
Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 13 Sept. 1483.
4to. π12 a-v8 x10. [182] leaves (π1, a1, x10 blank).
Woodcut initials.
ISTC ie00117000; GW 9433; Goff E117; BMC V 287 (IA. 20527); Bod-inc E-040; CIBN E-91; BSB-Ink E-109.
Most references attribute the editorship to Johannes Lucilius Santritter (see prefatory verses); however Bod-inc attributes editorship to Erhard Ratdolt (see colophon).
| GIP number: | E7 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BD7-e.3 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | a2r, line 5: “... IN Valentem Cȩſarē ...” not as in BMC “... IN Valentē Cȩsarem ...”. See GW’s note on the same variant reading in the Charleville Bibl. Municipale copy. |
| Provenance: | Vienna, Franciscans: 18th-century inscription on π2r “Ad bibliothecam Viennensem P.P. Franciscanoru[m] IX. D. 392.”. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: Euing’s armorial bookplate on front pastedown; Euing’s date of acquisition in pencil on a2r “7. 1. 54”; an early Euing inventory number "No 72" in pencil on front free endpaper; source unknown. University of Glasgow: presented by Euing in 1872 according to University Library bookplate on front pastedown. |
| Binding: | Scotland, 19th-century blind-stamped calf with binder’s ticket on front pastedown “Bound by Carss & Co.y Glasgow”; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves. Size: 218 x 162 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 210 x 148 mm. |
| Annotations: | Brief marginal annotations in an early hand on a2r, a2v, a6v and interlinear annotations on i8v and k1r in a different hand; “nota bene” mark on v1r. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting v7, x1, and the three blank leaves π1, a1, x10. |
