Rare 1624 vellum covered Ecclesiastical Annals by Cesare Baronio

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Rare 1624 vellum covered Ecclesiastical Annals by Cesare Baronio

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A rare and unusual find is this five volumes from 1624 of Cesare Baronio's masterpiece history of the Catholic Church titled Ecclesiastical Annales from the time of Christ to 1198. The full set of 12 volumes is only to be found in museums, and rare book collections. From what research I have found some people have one or two of the books. Here are 5 volumes, the first which is called Primus, 5,6,7 and 11.

A brief biography of this remarkable man follows from wikipedia;
Cesare Baronio (also known as Caesar Baronius; August 30, 1538 – June 30, 1607) was an Italian Cardinal and ecclesiastical historian. His best known work are his Annales Ecclesiastici ("Ecclesiastical Annals"), which appears in twelve folio volumes (1588–1607).
Cardinal Baronius left a reputation for profound sanctity which led Pope Benedict XIV to proclaim him "Venerable" (January 12, 1745). In 2007, on the 400th anniversary of his death, the cause for his canonization, which had been stalled since 1745, was reopened by the Procurator General of the Oratory of St Philip Neri.[1]
[edit]Life

Baronio was born at Sora, and was educated at Veroli and Naples. At Rome he joined the Congregation of the Oratory in 1557 under St. Philip Neri and succeeded him as superior in 1593. Pope Clement VIII, whose confessor he was, made him cardinal in 1596 and librarian of the Vatican. At subsequent conclaves he was twice nearly elected pope, but on each occasion was opposed by Spain on account of his work on the "Monarchy of Sicily," in which he supported the Papal claims against those of the Spanish government.
Baronius is best known for his Annales Ecclesiastici, undertaken at the request of St Philip Neri as an answer to the anti-Catholic history, the Magdeburg Centuries. He began writing this account of the Church after nearly thirty years of lecturing at Santa Maria in Vallicella. In the Annales he treats history in strict chronological order and keeps theology in the background. Another great historian, Lord Acton, called it "the greatest history of the Church ever written".[2] It was in the Annales that Baronius coined the term "Dark Age" (saeculum obscurum)[3] to refer to the period between the end of the Carolingian Empire in 888 and the first inklings of the Gregorian Reform under Clement II in 1046. In spite of many errors, especially in Greek history, in which he had to depend upon secondhand information, the work of Baronius stands as an honest attempt to write history, marked with a sincere love of truth. Sarpi, in urging Casaubon to write a refutation of the Annales, warned him never to accuse or suspect Baronius of bad faith, for no one who knew him could accuse him of disloyalty to truth. Baronius made his own the words of St Augustine: "I shall love with a special love the man who most rigidly and severely corrects my errors."
He also undertook a new edition of the Roman martyrology (1586), which he purified of many inaccuracies. He is also famous for saying, in the context of the controversies about the work of Copernicus and Galileo, "The Bible teaches us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go."[4] This remark, which Baronius probably made in conversation with Galileo, was cited by the latter in his "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina" (1615).
The restorations which Baronius made to his titular Church of Sts Nereus and Achilleus and in the Church of St Gregory's on the Caelian attest to his zeal for decorous worship. But the Annales constitute the most conspicuous and enduring monument of his genius and devotion to the Church

Dimensions:
Height: 15.25 in (38.74 cm)Width: 10.25 in (26.04 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
Sold As:
Set of 5
Materials and Techniques:
Paper,Parchment Paper
Place of Origin:
Italy
Period:
18th Century and Earlier
Date of Manufacture:
1624
Condition:
As pictured with pages probably missing and lots of wear and tear, with some warping and losses to the bindings.
Seller Location:
Palm Springs, CA
Reference Number:
1stDibs: U11060683501437

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