Dimensions
130 x 180 x 20mm
The Musee Conde in Chantilly, France, is home to a library holding over 1500 antique manuscripts. Held in its collection is the Evangelica praeparatione, written by the apologetic author Eusebius in the 3rd or 4th century. Known in English as the Preparations of the Gospel, Eusebius' work contains many historical and philosophic writings that are preserved nowhere else.What makes the Musee Conde's edition so special is that it is the "editio princeps," or first printing, of the Evangelica, which previously had existed only as a manuscript. It was printed in Paris in 1544 and its red morocco binding featuring elaborate scrollwork, reproduced here, was crafted in Bologna in 1546.
