Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 304

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ZONARAS, IOANNES. Compendium historiarum. Greek text with Latin translation by Hieronymus Wolf. 11, [1], 224, [37]; 248, [24]; 246, [22] pages, including final blank in second part and final leaf with printer's device in third part. 3 parts in one volume. bound with: NICETAS ACOMINATUS CHONIATES. LXXXVI annorum historia. Greek text with Latin translation by Hieronymus Wolf. [8], 317, [47] pages, including final leaf with printer's device. Together, 2 volumes in one. Folio, 358x245 mm, disbound; occasional early underscoring, Zonaras general title soiled, chipped along fore edge, accession number on next leaf, varying browning in second part, Nicetas title soiled, dampstaining in blank outer corners toward end, last several index leaves loose and chipped along edges. Basel: Joannes Oporinus, 1557; 1557

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first editions of works by Byzantine historians of the12th and 13th centuries. The first is a world chronicle from the Creation to 1118, the second a continuation through 1206 including an account of the 1204 sack of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade. Hoffmann III, 620, and II, 632; Potthast, pages 1126 and 848; Sarton II, 251, and III, 680.