I. EUSEBII PAMPHILI CAESAREAE PALAESTINAE EPISCOPI PRAEPARATIO EVANGELICA. Franciscus Vigerus Rothomagensis, Societ. Jesu Presbyter ex Mmss. Codd. laudatis ab ipsomet Eusebio Scriptoribus recensuit, Latine vertit, Notis illustravit. Edition nova, juxta Parisinam Anni M DC XXVIII adornata. Accesserunt Indices necessarii. Coloniae, Sumptibus Mauritii Georgii Weidmanni, M DC LXXXVIII. / II. EUSEBII PAMPHILI CAESAREAE PALAESTINAE EPISCOPI DE DEMONSTRATIONE EVANGELICA LIBRI DECEM quibus accessere nondum hactenus editi nec visi contra Marcellum Ancyrae Episcopum libri due de Ecclesiastica; Theologia tres. Omnia studio R. M. [Rich. Montacutii]. Latinè facta, Notis illustrata, & Indicibus loco suo necessariis locupletata. Editio Nova, juxta Parisin

EUSEBIUS OF CAESAREA / (Eusebius Pamphilius Caesariensis; greek: 'Eusébios tés Kaisareias; ca. 260/265-339/340, also known as 'Eusebius Pamphili', Historian of Christianity, Exegete and Christian Polemicist; Bishop of Caesarea Maritima):

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1 blank sheet; I. Titlepage in red and black, with larger geographical copper engraving (world-hemisphere with all continents and zodiac-globe ornamentally surrounded, signed 'J. C. Böcklin'); (16) p. dedication and address to the readers; 856 pages, (24) p. of various Indices, 82 p. 'Notae . . .'; 1 blank sheet; II. Titlepage in red and black, with repeated geographical copper engraving, (2) p. of content, 548 pages (libri decem [+ Liber XI, see below]*); 'Eusebii contra Marcellum': 24 p. 'Variantes Scripturae ad Eusebii . . .' and 'Annotationes . . .', (10) p. 'Index', 195 pages '. . . Adversus Marcellum Ancyrae Episcopum . . . [libri tres]'; 1 blank sheet. - Full vellum-over-cardboard binding of the period over 3 stitched-through double-bands with large holograph title at spine 'EUSEBII / Praeparat. / & Demonstr. / evang.' in a brown(ed) ink of the period, all paper-edges black; large-Folio (ca. 35 x 26 x 13! cm; ca. 3,7 kg.). *** COMPLETE SET OF EUSEBIUS' TEACHINGS OF CHRISTIANITY, EXTENSIVELY QUOTING ELSEWHERE-LOST SOURCES and with all Indices and Commentaries; VERY EARLY WEIDMANN-COLOGNE PRINT IN A BINDING OF THE PERIOD: Panels rubbed, spine dusty, the vellum around the foreedge of rearpanel slightly bent-up; endpapers towards the interior spine with slight bookbinder's-glue shadow, front-flyleaf slightly-, very first sheets minimally frayed at bottom-edge; titlepage and first sheet of 'II' old-reinstalled, blank sheets partly spotty; very few short, old and apparently knowledgeable holograph annotations. - A NICE AND SOLID COPY. --- >PRAEPARATIO EVANGELICA (Preparation for the Gospel), commonly known by its Latin title, [. . .] attempts to prove the excellence of Christianity over every pagan religion and philosophy. The 'Praeparatio' consists of fifteen books which have been completely preserved. Eusebius considered it an introduction to Christianity for pagans. But its value for many later readers is more because Eusebius studded this work with so many lively fragments from historians and philosophers which are nowhere else preserved. Here alone is preserved Pyrrho's translation of the Buddhist 'Three marks of existence' upon which Pyrrho based Pyrrhonism. Here alone is a summary of the writings of the Phoenician priest Sanchuniathon of which the accuracy has been shown by the mythological accounts found on the Ugaritic tables. Here alone is the account from Diodorus Siculus's sixth book of Euhemerus' wondrous voyage to the island of Panchaea where Euhemerus purports to have found his true history of the gods. And here almost alone is preserved writings of the neo-Platonist philosopher Atticus along with so much else. / DEMONSTRATIO EVANGELICA (Proof of the Gospel) is closely connected to the Praeparatio and comprised originally twenty books of which ten have been completely preserved as well as a fragment of the fifteenth *[in this edition marked 'Liber XI', see above]. Here Eusebius treats of the person of Jesus Christ. The work was probably finished before 311.''(quote from wikipedia 'Eusebius of Caesarea'). Seller Inventory # 1912240864xqvp

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Title: I. EUSEBII PAMPHILI CAESAREAE PALAESTINAE ...

Publisher: Cologne (Köln-Germany), Weidmann, 1688.

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