Chroniques, ou Annales de Iean Zonare […] esquelles sont discourues toutes histoires remarquables aduenues en ce monde, en la reuolition de six mille six cens ans […]. Traduit par I. Millet de S. Amour, au Conte de Bourgongne […].

Lyon, M. Bonhomme for B. Molin, 1560 (I-II) - 1561 (III)

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Folio: [4]-122-[5-1 bl.] ff., 247-[1 bl.-8] pp., 115-[5] ff. (toned, some spotting, worming in blank bottom margin, title sl. wrinkled, tear in blank top margin f. III:36).

Old gilt calf, gilt arms on covers within rectangular central frame and corner pieces (helmet of arms scratched), spine with 6 raised bands, sp. edges (rubbed, head and tail clumsily repaired, joints splitting, corners bumped, ). Good copy.

1st ed. of the 1st French translation, by the Burgundian author Jean Millet (1513-1576), of the extensive Byzantine chronicle by Joannes Zonaras (1070-1140). It deals with the period from the creation of the world to the death of Alexios I Komnenos (1057-1118). Woodcut marks of Molin (I-II) and Bonhomme (III).
Ref. Baudrier II:183 & X:261. - Pettegree (FB) 51732. - Not in Adams.
Prov. Different possible French families from Poitou, Brittany, Maine or Ile-de-France (gilt arms on covers "à trois massacres de cerf", sm. arms in spine compartments; ref. Olivier 1277). - Old reader’s note at bottom f. III:115.