In-folio (29,2 x 21 cm), [170] ff, double column, 39 lines, gothic type, the 2 last lvs substituted by photocopies on old paper. Capital spaces left blank. Contemporary calf binding with blind tooling, on wooden boards, spine renewed, new end lvs and one (of two) clasps
"Ref. Goff C238 ; BMC I 245 ; GW 6165 ; Polain I, 1017. Provenance: bookplate from Marbury Hall. Cassiodorus's sixth-century history of the early Church draws on the main (Greek) sources of Socrates, Sozomen and Theodoret. It was first printed in Augsburg in 1472. Cassiodorus was historian, statesman and monk. He was chief of civil service of Theodoric. He founded two monasteries and amused himself by making scientific toys such as sun-dials and water-clocks. He died after 580 at the age of 93"