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BEDE, THE VENERABLE, Saint. De temporibus sive de sex aetatibus huius seculi liber incipit. Printer's woodcut device on title, large woodcut of the author on verso. [30] leaves. Small 4to, modern calf-backed marbled boards; light marginal soiling on title and a few other leaves. (Paris: Jean Petit, 5 April 1507)
Treatise on divisions of time first published in 1505, controversially recalculating the chronology of the ages of the world and hence the year of Christ's birth. DSB I, 564-66; Sarton I, 510-11; Shaaber B404.
