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|11 x 17 cm|2 volumes reliés
New edition of the French translation (the first having appeared in 1578 in folio and octavo formats) which, according to Barbier, is owed to two Benedictines: Denys Hangart and Jean Gillot. According to recent research, Hangart would be the sole translator and Jean Gillot would be the scholarly editor. Publisher's marks on title page. The Bibliothèque Nationale de France only holds the 1586 reprints by the same publisher and one 1578 copy, in folio, from Lyon.
Contemporary bindings in full speckled brown sheep. Spines with raised bands decorated. Gilt title and volume labels. Set rubbed, gilding faded and surface damage obscuring the gilding on spines. Three corners with slight leather losses. Upper joint of volume I split for 6 cm. Cuts to upper margin of title pages, certainly to remove an owner's name, restored with strips of old paper. Trace of pale yellow dampstain in outer margin of leaves 557 to 578 of the second volume. The mention "tome premier" has been added in pen on the first volume. Yellow stains on title page and on the first two leaves in margin of the first volume. A reasonably good copy.
Nicephore Calliste Xanthopoulos (1236-1335) was a Byzantine monk and historian attached to Hagia Sophia. It was in Greek that he wrote his Ecclesiastical History in eighteen books covering the origins of Christianity until 618. While for the first centuries of his history, one can still find certain sources, for the last two centuries, the documents from which the author drew have entirely disappeared. All editions were made from a single existing manuscript. The work forms a document of primary importance on certain cults, notably that of the Virgin. The tripartite ecclesiastical history was compiled by Cassiodorus (477-560) from Sozomen, Socrates Scholasticus and Theodoret. This history summarizes in a single work the labors of three Greek historians who had drawn from common sources.
Ex bibliotheca C. Van Bavière. Acad. Bruxell.
Contemporary bindings in full speckled brown sheep. Spines with raised bands decorated. Gilt title and volume labels. Set rubbed, gilding faded and surface damage obscuring the gilding on spines. Three corners with slight leather losses. Upper joint of volume I split for 6 cm. Cuts to upper margin of title pages, certainly to remove an owner's name, restored with strips of old paper. Trace of pale yellow dampstain in outer margin of leaves 557 to 578 of the second volume. The mention "tome premier" has been added in pen on the first volume. Yellow stains on title page and on the first two leaves in margin of the first volume. A reasonably good copy.
Nicephore Calliste Xanthopoulos (1236-1335) was a Byzantine monk and historian attached to Hagia Sophia. It was in Greek that he wrote his Ecclesiastical History in eighteen books covering the origins of Christianity until 618. While for the first centuries of his history, one can still find certain sources, for the last two centuries, the documents from which the author drew have entirely disappeared. All editions were made from a single existing manuscript. The work forms a document of primary importance on certain cults, notably that of the Virgin. The tripartite ecclesiastical history was compiled by Cassiodorus (477-560) from Sozomen, Socrates Scholasticus and Theodoret. This history summarizes in a single work the labors of three Greek historians who had drawn from common sources.
Ex bibliotheca C. Van Bavière. Acad. Bruxell.
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