Title
Corpus vniversæ historiae praesertim Bizantinæ : Ioannis Zonaræ Annales aucti additionibus Georgii Cedreni. Nicetæ Acominati Choniatæ lib. XIX. Nicephori Gregoræ lib. XI : Leonici Chalcocondylæ lib. X. Historiæ Turcicæ. In fine etiam additus est locupletissimus rerum index..
Varying form of title
Corpus vniversae historiae praesertim Bizantinae
Varying form of title
Corpus universae historiae praesertim Bizantinae
Varying form of title
Corpvs vniversae historiae praesertim Bizantinae
Imprint
Lutetiæ, : apud Gulielmum Chaudiere, via Iacobæa, sub insigni Temporis., 1567..
Physical description
6, [28] 162, 164-172; 77, [7]; 120, [18] leaves ; 33 cm (folio)
Note
Signatures: ã6 A[dagger]-D[dagger]6 E[dagger]4 a-z6 aa-ee6 ff4; A-O6; 2A-Z6.
Note
In three parts, each with separate title page, foliation, and register. Part 1 consists of the preliminaries and Joannes Zonaras, Annales. Part 2 consists of Nicetas Choniates, Historia. Part 3 consists of Nicephorus Gregoras, Historia Romana, and Laonikos Chalkokondylēs, Historia de origine ac rebus gestis Turcorum.
Note
Printer's device on title pages; head- and tail-pieces; initials.
Note
Printed in double columns.
Note
Edited by Jean Aymin: "Les histoires de Zonare, Nicetes, & Nicephore Gregore [sont] reueuës sur les copies grecques, & augmentees ... par Iean Aymin" -- Extraict du privilege du roy.
Note
The works by Choniates and Gregoras were translated by Hieronymus Wolf. The text by Chalcocondylas was translated by Konrad Clauser.
Note
On the title pages of parts 2 and 3, the imprint has "Apud Guillielmum Chaudiere" (with an extra "l").
Citation/references note
Adams, B3370
Citation/references note
CLC, C1747
Citation/references note
David G. Selwyn, Edmund Geste and his books (London, 2017), B138
Provenance
Identified by David Selwyn as having belonged to Edmund Guest (1514?-1577), with faded pressmark, possibly L11. Guest's instruction to the binder at foot of title page: "In bord[e?]s".
Provenance
Salisbury Cathedral Library bookplate (19th century) with 13th-century Dean and Chapter seal and inscription “Sarum Cathedral Library.”
Binding
16th-century dark brown calf over paper boards; repaired December 1936 (note on upper endleaf); boards decorated with blind fillets and rolls forming rectangular frame, identified by Selwyn as apparently Oldham HM.h(10). The roll has initials "R.B."; Oldham assigns this binder to London. Spine (repaired) has four raised bands, later gilt fillets, later spine label with title: "Zonar: Annal:"; date 1567 at tail of spine; remains of two pairs of clasps at fore-edge; evidence of chain-plate on lower board at fore-edge; printed waste used as pastedowns (pages have running title "P. Mosellani Dialogi").
Subject
History, ancient Early works to 1800.
Subject
Byzantine Empire (Place) History Early works to 1800.
Subject
Rome (Place) History Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Aymin, Jean editor.
Added entry--name
Wolf, Hieronymus, 1516-1580 translator.
Added entry--name
Clauser, Konrad, -1611 translator.
Added entry--name
Choniates, Nicetas, approximately 1140-1213 Historia. Latin. 1567.
Added entry--name
Zonaras, Joannes, active 12th century Annales. Latin. 1567.
Added entry--name
Georgius, Cedrenus, active 11th century
Added entry--name
Gregoras, Nicephorus, 1295-1359 or 1360
Added entry--name
Chalkokondylēs, Laonikos, approximately 1430-approximately 1490
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Chaudière, Guillaume, -1601 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Guest, Edmund, 1514?-1577 former owner.
Added entry--place
France Paris.
B17360
UKSbSC
20240805144215.7