<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Full title:</b> The Auncient Ecclesiasticall Histories of the First Six Hundred Yeares after Christ, wrytten 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. Vvhereunto is annexed Dorotheus Bishop of Tyrus, of the Liues of the Prophetes, Apostles and 70 Disciples. All which authors are faithfully translated out of the Greeke tongue by Meredith Hanmer, Maister of Arte and student in diuinitie. Last of all herein is contayned a profitable Chronographie collected by the sayd Translator, the title whereof is to be seene in the ende of this volume, with a copious Index of the Principall matters throughout all the histories. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Stout folio in sixes. pp. [12], 538, 56, [16]. Signatures: *6, A-Z6, Aa-Xx6, Yy2, A-D6, E5, F6, G2. Bound in early smooth panelled calf. Bookplates of Graham Pollard and H. R. Kohl of Fox Pointe.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘The Ecclesiasticall Historie of Socrates Scholasticus Comprised in Seven Bookes, Beginning where Eusebius left, &amp; ending a hundreth and forty yeares after: vvritten in the Greeke tongue about a thousande yeares agoe, and translated by M. H.’ and A Chronographie contineuued from the birth of Christ (where Eusebius, Socrates, Euagrius and Dorotheus beginne to write) unto the twelf yeare of the raygne of Mauricius the Emperour beinge the full time of six hundred wanting onely fiue yeares after Christ, and the purest age: containing the Acts of Christ: the yeares of the incarnation: the famous men, with the martyrs and fauorers of the trueth in all those times: the raygne of the Emperours: the kings of Iudæ: the succession of highpriestes in Ierusalem as longe as they lasted: after them, the succession of Bishops, specially in the moste famous Churches, as Ierusalem, Antioch, Rome Alexandria with others: The Councells within this time summoned, and the heretickes condemned. All vvich are faithfully collected chiefly out of Eusebius, Socrates and Euagrius, and vvhere they seeme unperfect out of other auncient vvryters, by M. H.’ are dated 1576.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">First edition in English of one of the most enduring Elizabethan translations. The highly important forgery aspect of Eusebius – Jakob Burckhardt called its eminent author ‘the first thoroughly dishonest historian of antiquity’ – is dealt with in this collection at some length (ad loc., and Bib# 4102635/Fr# 90, Bib# 4102634/Fr# 91, etc.), which also contains the fourth English edition (1636, Bib# 4102636/Fr# 92). See W. A. Jackson, F. S. Ferguson, &amp; K. F. Pantzer (eds.), Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, &amp; Ireland, and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475–1640. 3 vols. London, 1976–91 (2nd ed.), 10572.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_8657923" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>