The auncient ecclesiasticall histories of the first six hundred yeares after Christ, wrytten in the Greeke tongue by three learned historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius. Eusebius Pamphilus Bishop of Cæsarea in Palæstina vvrote 10 bookes. Socrates Scholasticus of Constantinople vvrote 7 bookes. Euagrius Scholasticus of Antioch vvrote 6 bookes. VVhereunto is annexed Dorotheus Bishop of Tyrus, of the liues of the prophetes, apostles and 70 disciples. All which authors are faithfully translated out of the Greeke tongue by Meredith Hanmer, Maister of Arte and student in diuinitie. Last of all herein is contayned a profitable chronographie collected by the sayd translator, the title whereof is to be seene in the ende of this volume, with a copious index of the principall matters throughout all the histories
A 1577 London edition of early church histories by Eusebius, Socrates and Euagrius, translated from Greek into English by Meredith Hanmer and printed by Thomas Vautroullier. The pictures are repeated woodcut decorative initial letters, mostly a large T in a foliate frame, with one tall E beside spiral scrollwork and small flowers, giving a designer a clear model of Elizabethan printers' ornament built from acanthus-like leaves, curling tendrils and hatched shading.
