BOOK, Important treatise by Beda on chronology, 1507

Bede (Beda / Venerable Bede):

De temporibus sive de sex aetatibus huius seculi liber incipit. (Edit. PM. Alexander).

Paris, Petit, 1507. 4to. 20 x 13,5 cm. 30 leaves. Woodcut printer’s device on title. With full-page woodcut portrait of Bede in his study.

Recent marbled wrappers, worn and edges frayed. First half with almost invisible repair of a marginal wormhole.

First printed at Venice in 1505, this is a scarce early edition of Bede’s important treatise on chronology, which established the custom of counting years from the birth of Jesus Christ.

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