Ducae Michaelis Ducae Nepotis Historia Byzantina
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Ducae Michaelis Ducae Nepotis Historia Byzantina
（Cambridge library collection, . History）
Cambridge University Press, 2012
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Note
Reprint. Originally published: Bonnae : Impensis Ed. Weberi, 1834. (Corpus scriptorum historiae Byzantinae)
Errata on p. [660]
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The author of this history was a member of the Byzantine Doukas family, a grandson of Michael Doukas, who had come to prominence in the civil wars of the fourteenth century, and possibly a remote descendant of the eleventh-century emperor Michael VII. His own first name and dates of birth and death are not known, but he seemed to have worked for a Genoese family or business, and after the fall of Constantinople took refuge on the island of Lesbos, then controlled by the Genoese Gattilusi dynasty. His history of the period 1341-1462, including the Ottoman conquest, survived in one manuscript: this 1834 edition by Immanuel Bekker provides, as well as a Latin translation of the original Greek text, a near-contemporary Italian version of unknown authorship discovered in a Venetian library by the historian Leopold Ranke, who supplied it to Bekker.
Table of Contents
- Praefatio
- Historiae Byzantinae I-XLV
- Ducae historia Italice interprete incerto
- Chronicon breve
- Notae
- Index.
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