ΖΩΝΑΡΑΣ Ιωάννης, ΧΩΝΙΑΤΗΣ Νικήτας, ΓΡΗΓΟΡΑΣ Νικηφόρος, ΧΑΛΚΟΚΟΝΔΥΛΗΣ Λαόνικος, Hieronymus Wolfius (ed.), “Corpus universae praesertim Bizantinae. Ioannis Zonarae Annales aucti additionibus Georgij Cedreni. Nicetae Acominati choniatae lib. XIX. Nicophori Gregorae lib. XI. Laonici Chalcocondylae lib. X. historiae Turcicae”, Lutetiae, apud Gul. Chaudiere, 1567. Folio (34x22,6 cm), 6-[28]-172, 77-[7], 120-[18] leaves. Large woodcut mark on title and part-titles. Printed in 2 columns. Engraved title pages, headings, tailpieces and initials. Contemporary velum binding, 6 leaves with expertly repaired lower corners, contemporary manuscript ex-libris on the title page. Not in Brunet, Hoffmann II, p. 625,6,7, Pollard, 88. First collective edition about Byzantine Empire history compiled by Hieronymus Wolf, including the chronicles of the Byzantine historians Nicephorus Gregoras, Nicetas Choniates Akominatos & Joannes Zonaras and that of Laonikos Chalkokondyles trsl. by Conrad Clauser. The current work served as a foundation for all later medieval Greek histories, popularized the term Byzantine Empire and established it in historical studies. Laonikos Chalkokondyles, was a Byzantine Greek historian from Athens. He is known for his Histories in ten books, which record the last 150 years of the Byzantine Empire. He was a relative of Maria Melissene, the wife of the Duke Antonio I Acciaioli, who ruled the dutchy of Athens. The astronomer and historian, Nicephorus Gregoras, became the archivist of the Byzantine Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos and was involved in the fruitless negotiations of 1333 to unite the Greek and Latin Churches. His history begins with the capture of Constantinople by the Franks in 1204 and goes through the 14th century, with the events following the death of Andronikos III, ending in 1351, during the troubled reign of John VI Cantacuzene. Nicetas Choniates Akominatos (Ἀκομινάτος), was a Byzantine Greek government official and historian that wrote a history of the Eastern Roman Empire from 1118 to 1207. Joannes Zonaras was a Byzantine Greek historian, chronicler and theologian of Constantinople that served as head justice and private secretary to the emperor. After the death of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, and his retirement he spent the rest of his life writing books.