Collection
Eusebius Pamphilus. Ἐκκλησιαστικῆς Ἱστορίας Εὐσεβίου τοῦ παμφίλου... Τοῦ αὐτοῦ εἰς τὸν βίον τοῦ... κωνσταντίνου βασιλέως... Σωκράτους σχολαστικοῦ... Θεοδωρίτου ἐπισκόπου κύρου... Ἐκλογῶν ἀπὸ τῆς ἐκκλησιαστικῆς ἱστορίας θεοδώρου ἀναγνώστου... Ἑρμείου σωζομ
First edition of the Ecclesiastike Historia, based on a manuscript housed in the library of the king of France François I and which marks the outset of the use of the Grecs du Roi font, cut by Claude Garamont on the basis of the handwriting of Angelos Vergikios – a renowned calligrapher from Crete and counsellor of the king himself in matters of books. The edition, enriched with artistic headings and initial letters became a model of aesthetics for French printing as well as Geneva’s in regard to the transposition of the tradition of writing by hand to printing. This printing-publishing activity, under the royal roof, was also marked by a new printer’s mark: a spear as a sort of tree trunk, flowering, around which a serpent is coiled. At the base of the mark the saying appears: Basile t’agatho kratero t’aichmete.
Format:
32 cm
Page description:
lv. [4]+353+181+5 unn. (lv. 135-142 of the first numbering, missing, complemented by hand
References:
Renouard, Annales, 59 (11) • Schreiber, 78
Entity:
Theology
Item Type:
Book
