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13 Bll., 150, 29 S., 2 Bll. mit 5 ganzseitigen Holzschnitten (darunter 1 Plan bzw. Ansicht von Konstantinopel). 1 Kupfertitel. Fol. Mod. Lwd.

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Erste Ausgabe der ersten Edition des Chronicon von Georgios Sprantzes besorgt vom Kustos der Universitätsbibliothek Wien Franz Karl Alter (1749 - 1804) und gedruckt bei den Marchides Pouliou (oder Buglio), selten (fehlt auf der ÖNB). - Brunet I, 1435. VD18, 14524309. NDB I, 218. - "George Sphrantzes, also Phrantzes or Phrantza (1401 ? c. 1478), was a late Byzantine Greek historian and Imperial courtier. He was an attendant to Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos, protovestiarites (Lord of the Imperial Wardrobe) under John VIII Palaiologos, and a close confidant to Constantine XI Palaiologos, the last Byzantine emperor. He was an eyewitness of the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, made a slave by the victorious Ottomans, but ransomed shortly afterwards. Sphrantzes served the surviving members of the Palaiologian family for the next several years until taking monastic vows in 1472. It was while a monk he wrote his history, which ends with the notice of Sultan Mehmed II`s attempt to capture Naupaktos, which he dates to the summer of 1477; Sphrantzes is assumed to have died not long after that event. ... At the monastery he wrote his Chronicle, which details the history of the House of the Palaiologoi from 1401 to 1476. It is a very valuable authority for the events of his own times. The distinctive traits of his work are loyalty to the Palaiologoi -- Sphrantzes often exaggerated their merits and suppressed their defects -- hatred of the Turks, and devotion to Eastern Orthodoxy. Steven Runciman described his work as `honest, vivid and convincing` and that Sphrantzes `wrote good Greek in an easy unpretentious style.` ... For centuries it was believed that Sphrantzes wrote two works, one the Minor Chronicle and the other the Major Chronicle. The Major Chronicle, which also includes the origins of the Palaiologoi, is more detailed particularly about the siege of Constantinople. But, beginning in 1934, the research of such scholars as J.B. Falier-Papadopoulos, Franz Dölger, and Raymond-Joseph Loenertz demonstrated that the Major Chronicle was written decades later by Makarios Melissenos ("Pseudo-Sphrantzes"), a priest who fled to Naples from a Greek-Venetian island conquered by the Ottomans. Why Melissenos selected Sphrantzes to elaborate and expand upon is not clear" (Wikipedia Abruf vom 23.05.2024). - Enthält einen Plan (Ansicht) von Konstantinopel. Unbeschnitten. Etw. gebräunt und durchgehend fleckig. Anfangs einige Anstreichungen in Buntstift. Einige kl. hinterlegte Läsuren (minimalster Textverlust). Kupfertitel mit mehreren hinterlegten Läsuren (gerunger Bildverlust) und wie der Titel mit hs. Nummer und Name.