EUSÉBIO DE CESAREIA.- Hystoria dela Igle | sia que llaman Eccle | siastica y Tripartita. | Abreuiada y ...

EUSÉBIO DE CESAREIA.- Hystoria dela Igle | sia que llaman Eccle | siastica y Tripartita. | Abreuiada y trasladada de Latin en Ca- | stellano, pr vn Religioso dela or- | den de sancto Domingo. | Y aora nueuamente reuista y corregida | por el mesmo | interprete. | Año de M.D.LIIII. | Con priuilegio real.- Coimbra: por Juan Alvarez, 1554.- [4], 171, [3] f.; 27 cm.- E. .
Second Portuguese edition of a work based on the «Ecclesiastical History» by Eusebius of Caesarea (ca. 260/265- ca. 339/340) and his successors (especially Rufino and Cassiodorus), divided into nine books, the translation being the responsibility of the Dominican Fr. Juan de la Cruz. Unlike the first edition, printed in Lisbon by Luís Rodrigues in 1541, the present one includes a detailed colophon at the end of the text (f. y3r, fol. 171): ¶ A lo[v]or de Dios y dela gloriosa Virgen Maria se acabo de empremir la presente historia dela yglesia de Dios trasladada d[e] latin e[n] romance por el padre frey Juan de la cruz d[e]la orde[n] de predicadores de la prouincia de Portugal y agora de nueuo corregida por el mismo interprete. Fue impressa en la muy noble ciudad de Coimbra, por Juan Aluarez, impressor delRey nuestro señor a veinte & siete del mes de Agosto De .M.D.Liiij. The title page (blank verso) presents a Renaissance architectural framework; followed by the dedication to King D. João III (front and back); the «Prologo del interprete al Lector» occupies the third folio and the front of the following one (on the back the «Auisos»). On the front of the fifth folio (A1) we find the «Prologo de Eusebio Obispo de Cesarea», the text itself beginning on the verso of the same folio, which extends to the front of page 171 (f. y3r); the «Tabla delos Libros y Capitulos» fills the last seven pages (f. y3v to y6v). With the exception of the current titles, the text of the nine books is composed entirely in Gothic characters; the remaining texts (preliminary and final pages) are also printed in round characters. Copy very slightly cropped (carmine edge) and with slight browning, but generally clean; minor restoration on the lower margin of the third sheet. Recent and simple binding, complete with flexible parchment. Anselmo, 61. Palau, 115185. BN (16th century), 245. King D. Manuel II Library, 150.