NICETAS, Acominatus (Choniates); FABROT, Charles Annibal (ed.); WOLF, Hieronymus (ed.)., Nicetae Acominati Choniatae, magni logothetae secretorum, inspectoris et iudicis veli, Praefecti sacri cubiculi: Historia. Hieronymo Wolfio Oetingensi interprete. Editio glossario Graeco-barbaro auctior, & ope Mss. Reg. emendatior, cura et studio Caroli Annibalis Fabroti IC., Typographia Regia, 1647

Folio, contemporary vellum binding with tan leather gilt-lettered label to spine, pp. [ff. 2 blank, 20], 464, [ff. 16 + 2 blank], with elaborate copper-engraved printer’s colophon and ornamentation throughout the volume. Contents: half title; title page; dedicatory letter from Fabrot to Cardinal Mazarin; encomium to Hadrianus Junius; preface by Hieronymus Wolf dedicated to Anton Fugger; ‘Chronologia Nicetae’; ‘Nomina imperatorum quorum vita a Niceta’; ‘Glossarium’; ‘Nicetae Choniate Annales’; ‘Variae Lectiones et annotationes’ (by Hieronymus Wolf); ‘Gnomologia, in est, index sententiarum, quae ex Nicetae Choniate historia collecta, & ordine Alphabeti digestae sunt’; ‘Axiomatum, et insignium quarundam sententiarum, quae in Notis ad Nicetae Historiam occurrunt, Index’; ‘Rerum et verborum … Index’. Binding rubbed and bumped, rear board chipped, some outer pages crinkled, repair work to pastdowns, otherwise an excellent copy with clean pages. Acominatus Nicetas, usually called Nicetas Choniates (1155-1217) was a Greek Byzantine government official and historian known best for his history of the Eastern Roman Empire from 1118 to 1207. This bilingual Greco-Latin edition is based on the sixteenth-century translation by the German humanist Hieronymus Wolf and edited by the French jurisconsultant Charles Annibal Fabrot. It can be placed alongside the monumental Corpus Byzantinae Historiae, the first volume of which appeared in 1648 and was also issued by the royal press, as part of the endeavor of French intellectuals to collectively redact and publish a corpus of early writings on the Byzantine Empire in Greek with the Latin translation. Text in Medieval Greek and Latin.