English to Italian Art/Literary History primi codici medievali

The Chronicle is a work in two parts, a RATIONALE and tables. The
tables harmonize the histories Eusebius had collected from Roman,
Greek, Jewish, Egyptian and Assyrian sources, arranged by dates that
include the reigns of kings and Olympiads, each column marked off by
decades. The work itself required not only visual imagination but also
a large number of helpers to excerpt or track down references, and a
skilful team of scribes to compile the complex page layouts. The layouts
involved dividing up texts, numbering and cross-referencing the parts
using coloured inks, and devising columnar layouts along with notes
and running headings. Eusebius was re-imagining the kinds of literature