Collection
Nektarios, Patriarch of Jerusalem. Ἐπιτομὴ τῆς Ἱεροκοσμικῆς Ἱστορίας... διορθωθεῖσα παρὰ... Ἀμβροσίου Γραδενίγου..., Venice, Nikolaos Glykys, 1677.
First edition of the Hierocosmike Historia known by the popular name “Arab chronicler”, divided into five parts of which the first three treat the history of Mt Sinai and the Monastery, the fourth from the period of the kings of Egypt until Sultan Selim and the fifth relating to Selim and his wars against the Persians. The Patriarch of Jerusalem Nectarios (1605-1680), a pupil of Th. Korydalleas, had optimum command of Latin, Turkish and Arabic and therefore used descriptions and records of events from foreign-language sources.
Format:
αντ. 1: 21,5 αντ. 2: 22 cm.
Page description:
pp. [18]+448 and a map (Arabian Desert) outside the text (pp. 68/69) (Legrand erroneously considers the page numbering wrong) n p. [18] full page engraving (Moses and Aaron
References:
ΒΗ ΙΙ/2 (537) • PAP Ι, 4362
Item Type:
Book
