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335 - [16th-century book]. [Byzantium].
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[16th-century book]. [Byzantium]. CORPUS UNIVERSAE HISTORIAE praesertim Bizantinae. The Annals of John Zonaras, supplemented with additions by George Cedrenus, Nicetas Acominatus of Chonia, Book XIX by Nicephorus Gregoras, book XI by Leon Chalcocondylas, book X. Historiae Turcica... Paris, published by G. Chaudière, 1567. Three parts in one folio volume, multiple pagination, 17th-century sheepskin, spine with 6 raised bands, gilt scrolls bordering the covers, gilt coats of arms at the centres, gilt scrolls on the edges, marbled edges (defects including exposed head caps, blunt corners; light streaks and pale halos in the top margins; flyleaves f. e3 and e4 loose, several folios missing, a few rare light stains). An important collective edition of Latin translations of significant Byzantine historical writings. Works by Joannes Zonaras (12th century), Niketas Acominatus Choniates (1155–1217) and Nicéphore Gregoras (1295–1360), translated by the German scholar Jerome Wolf (1516–1580), and by Laonikos Chalkokondyles (1430–1470) on the rise of the Ottoman Empire, translated by Conrad Clauser (1515–1611). This copy is missing half of the final section, two pages of intermediate titles and a few introductory folios. Collation: [1] f. (title), [1] f. (paginated 2), [28] f. (index), 172 (incorrectly numbered 171) f., f. 4–77, [7] f. (index), [1] f. (title page), 63 f., [1] f. numbered 120, [18] f. - Signatures: a 1 (title page), a 2 (dedication) [a 3–6 missing]; A (cross) – D (cross) 6, E (cross) 4, a–z 6, aa–ee 6, ff 4, A 4–6 [marked A 1, A2, A3], B–O 6, A1 (title page), [marked A 2–3], A–4–6, B–K 6, L 4 [missing], X–Z 6. Provenance: Jesuit Colleges of Rouen (old handwritten inscription on the title page); Parliament of Normandy (coat of arms on the covers).
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