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| 1693 BARONIUS Classic FOLIO Church History BLINDSTAMPED Covers years 1417 to 1458. Baronius, Caesar, Cardinal.; Odorico Raynaldo; Annales ecclesiastici Ab Anno ... Card. Cæs. Baronius MCXCVIII... MDXXXIV. continuati ex regestis pontificum et literis auctoritate...Tomus XVIII. Ab Anno MCCCCXVII... MCCCCLVIII. Coloniae Agrippinae, Friessem, 1693. FOLIO. 15 x 9.3 inches. 38 x 24 cms. 1 leaf, 521 pages, 19 leaves (index). With fine woodcut ornamental devices and initials. Original blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, gilt spine label. Clasps perished. Inner boards papers replaced to some time. Later cloth covers to clasps attachments& foot to spine. Worm traces, mostly to the wodden binding, some through pages. In no way do they affect the text or viability of the binding. Pages on fine rag, no water stains or mold. Self contained 18th volume (with its own index) covering the years 1417 to 1458. The venerable Cesare Baronius was a Cardinal and ecclesiastical historian, born at Sora in the Kingdom of Naples, 30 August, 1538; died at Rome, 30 June, 1607. The "Annales Ecclesiatici" is work which marked an epoch in historiography and merited for its author, after Eusebius, the title of a Father of Ecclesiastical History. The difficulties which beset Baronius in the publication of the "Annals" were many and annoying. He prepared his manuscript unaided, writing every page with his own hand. His brother Oratorians at Rome could lend him no assistance. Those at Naples, who helped him in revising his copy, were scarcely competent and almost exasperating in their dilatoriness and uncritical judgment. The proofs he read himself. His printers, in the infancy of their art, were neither prompt nor painstaking. In the Spring of 1588 the first volume appeared and was universally acclaimed for its surprising wealth of inforomation, its splendid erudition, and its timely vindication of papal claims. It was Baronius' intention to produce a volume every year; but the second was not ready until early in 1590. The next four appeared yearly, the seventh late in 1596, the other five at still-longer intervals, up to 1607, when, just before his death, he completed the twelfth volume, which he had foreseen in a vision would be the term of his work. It brought the history down to 1198, the year of the accession of Innocent III. Single volumes of this great work retail for US$ 2000-5000. | |||||||||||||||
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