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Nicephore Calliste XANTHOPOULOS

L'Histoire ecclesiastique de Nicephore, fils de Calliste Xantouplois, autheur grec, traduicte nouvellement du latin en françois [...] de nouveau corrigée et mise en meilleur françois qu'auparavant par deux docteurs en en la faculté de théologie à Paris

Chez Guillaume Linocier, à Paris 1587, in-8 (11x17cm), (20f.) 516ff. et (1f.) 518-1003ff. (51f.), 2 volumes reliés.

New edition of the French translation (the first being published in 1578 folio and in-8) that must, according to Barbier, two Benedictine Denys Hangart and Jean Gillot, but according to recent research, is the only Hangart translator and Jean Gillot is the scientific editor. Marks of the editor on the title page. It is located in the National Library of France that the reissues of 1586 by the same publisher, a copy of 1578, folio, in Lyon. The second book is the same date of privilege than the first (title page and separate paging), but the 1586 copies of the BNF does not mention it, any more than a few copies of 1578 held in Lyon and Lille. The meeting of this book on the history of Calliste therefore has not always done. Also found at the BNF isolated editions of this title in 1587 and 1586.
Full Calf brown time. spine skillfully restored nineteenth to nerves, decorated with 6 small florets and black nets. Hot boards struck a central medallion renaissance. mentoring net (brodures and restored corners). Various tasks on small boards. A very pale wetting at the right margin in corner on first pages, also end of the book, on the two corners on the sidelines. A slight wetness in low margin environment in the center of the book. Some yellowed sheets. Overall, good copy, with discrete rather restorations.
Byzantine monk and historian (attached to Hagia Sophia) writing in Greek (1236-1335), his Ecclesiastical History in eighteen books hounds the origins of Christianity until 618. If in the first centuries of its history, we can still reconstruct some sources, for the last two centuries, the documents in which the author has drawn entirely disappeared. All editions were made on a single extant manuscript. The work is a document of great importance to certain religions, notably the tripartite ecclesiastical vierge.L'histoire was collected by Cassiodorus (477-560) of Sozomen, Socrates Scholastica and Theodoret. This story sums up in a single work the works of three Greek historians who had drawn with common sources.

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