Ioannis Zonarae monachi
Subtitle: qui olim Byzantij Magnus Drungarius excubiaru[m] seu Biglae, & protosecretarius fuit, Compendium historiarum, in tres Tomos distinctum: quorum Primus agit de rebus Iudaicis, ab exordio Mundi usq[ue] ad Hierosolymitanum excidium. Secundus, Historiam Romanam, ab Urbe condita usq[ue] ad Constantinum Magnum, breuiter complectitur. Tertius, Imperatorum res gestas, à Constantino Magno usq[ue] ad obitum Alexij Comneni, tractat. Opus praeclarum, ac diu desideratum: nunc uerò demum liberalitate magnifici & generosi uiri D. Antonii Fvggeri &c & labore Hieronymi VVolfii, Graecè ac Latinè, quinq[ue] codicibus inter se collatis, quàm emendatissimè fieri potuit, in lucem editum. Singulis Tomis sui additi sunt Indices, & uariarum lectionum Annotationes
Series: Dumbarton Oaks Digitization Project
Publisher: per Ioannem Oporinum
Published: 1557
Place of publication: Basileae
Language: gre; grc; lat
Translated from: grc
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Ancient History; Early works to 1800; Jews; History
Other titles: Ioannis Zonarae annalium ...; Annalium; Ioannis Zonarae magni Drungarij Biglae, & primarij à secretis, Tomus secundus, quo Romana historia ab urbe condita usque ad Constantinum magnum, breuiter perstringitur.; Tomus secundus, quo Romana historia ab urbe condita usque ad Constantinum magnum, breuiter perstringitur.; Ioannes Zonarae monachi Tomus historiorium tertius, quo Christianorum imperatorum res gestae, à Constantino Magno usque ad Alexii Comneni obitum describuntur.; Tomus historiorium tertius, quo Christianorum imperatorum res gestae, à Constantino Magno usque ad Alexii Comneni obitum describuntur.
Work titles: Epitomē historiōn
Notes: Colophon: Basileae, ex officina Ioannis Oporini, anno Salutis humanae M.D. LVII. mense Martio.

Each volume includes its own index.

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Printer's device (Arion riding a dolphin while playing the violin) on each title page and repeated in a different form with motto "In via virtuti nulla est via" on verso of final leaf.

Signatures: [alpha]⁶ a-s⁶ t⁴ u⁶x-y⁶ 2a-2u⁶ 2x⁴ 2y-2z⁶ (2z6 blank) 3a-3t⁶ 3u⁸ 3x-3y⁶.

Volume 2 has title: Ioannis Zonarae magni Drungarij Biglae, & primarij à secretis, Tomus secundus, quo Romana historia ab urbe condita usque ad Constantinum magnum, breuiter perstringitur: Hieronymo VVolfio interprete. Cum rerum & uerborum memorabilium indice copiosa.

Volume 3 has title: Ioannes Zonarae monachi Tomus historiorium tertius, quo Christianorum imperatorum res gestae, à Constantino Magno usque ad Alexii Comneni obitum describuntur: Hieronymo VVolfio interprete. Cum rerum & uerborum memoravilium indice copioso.

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Greek text and Latin translation in parallel columns.

Bound with: Acominatus, Nicetas, Choniates ... LXXXVI annorum historia. Basileae, 1557.

Lib. copy bound in white tawed leather with decorative rolled binding over wooden boards; remains of metal clasps. Covers are decorated with a center panel of thistle framed by small panels depicting the Virtues (Justicia--Lucrecia--Spes--Fides), within a frame of roses and leaves, framed by rectangular panels of scenes and verses from the New Testament, within an ornamental frame; all decoration appears to be roll-stamped.

Lib. copy is 3 v. in 1 (11, [1], 224, [36]; 248, [24]; 246, [22] p.).

Lib. copy has unidentfied bookplate (4 x 4 cm.) of former owner on front pastedown: monogram "TJA" printed in red and enclosed within a black garter carrying the motto "Usque fidelis."

Lib. copy inscribed "T. Jeffn. Hogg" on p.[2] of cover.

Lib. copy inscribed "W.H.D. Rouse, Christ's Coll. Camb., 1890" in red ink on recto of leaf preceding t.p.

Lib. copy p. 31 (1st set) misnumbered as 19; p. 180 (1st set) misnumbered as 182; p. 186 (2nd set) misnumbered as 187, p. 213 (2nd set) misnumbered as 215; p. 21 (3rd set) misnumbered as 17, p. 94 (3rd set) misnumbered as 88, p. 169 (3rd set) misnumbered as 136, p. 231 (3rd set) misnumbered as 221.