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Historiarum libri sex. Seu de rebus gestis a Joanne et Manuele Comnenis Impp. CP

Cinnamus, Joannes, active 12th century · 1670 · Parisiis : Typographia Regia [curante Sebastiano Mabre-Cramoisy] · 17 pictures

A Latin history in six books by the twelfth-century Byzantine chronicler Joannes Cinnamus, printed in Paris in 1670 by the royal press for the study of the Comnenian emperors John II and Manuel I. Its pictures are engraved decorative headpieces and cartouches built from armour, crowns, fruit swags, scrolls, and heraldic beasts, with a classical baroque framing vocabulary a designer could borrow for ornamental borders and crests.

John II Comnenus, Emperor of the East, 1087 or 1088-1143 · Manuel I Comnenus, Emperor of the East, 1118-1180

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