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MANASSES, CONSTANTINE. Annales. Greek text with Latin translation by Joannes Meursius. 4to, 237x174 mm, 17th-century mottled calf gilt, spine ends chipped, front joint cracked at top and bottom, covers slightly warped; occasional browning or foxing, dampstain in outer margins at beginning and end, old stamp on title, catalogue cutting mounted on rear free endpaper. Leiden: Joannes Patius, 1616
first edition in the original greek of a world chronicle in verse from the Creation to the beginning of the 11th century, by a 12th-century Byzantine author. A Latin translation appeared in 1573. Sarton II, 450.
