Vera historia unionis non verae inter Graecos et Latinos, sive Concilii florentini exactissima narratio : graecè scripta per Sylvestrum Sguropulum magnum ecclesiarcham, atque unum è quinque crucigeris & intimis consiliariis patriarchae constantinopolitani, qui concilio interfuit / transtulit in sermonem latinum, notasque ad calcem libri, adjecit, serenissimi, sacratissimi, invictissimique Caroli Secundi, Magnae Britanniae ... regis ... sacellanus domesticus seu ordinarius, Robertus Creyghton ... Liber è manuscripto codice nunc primùm in lucem prodiens, multùm expetius, multúmque utilis istorum temporum artificia scire desiderantibus, & veritatem amantium è manibus nunquam deponendus ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Syropoulos, Silvestros, active 15th century.

Contributor:

Creighton, Robert, 1593-1672.

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Greek, Modern (1453-)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church.

Council of Florence (1438-1445 : Florence, Italy).

Council of Florence.

Catholic Church--History--15th century--Sources.

History.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

70, 351 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 40, 8 pages ; 30 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Vera historia unionis non verae inter Graecos et Latinos

Concilii florentini exactissima narratio

Half-title: Historia concilii florentinii

Fingerprint:

taa, umat **** **** (3) 1660 (R)

Place of Publication:

Hagae-Comitis : Ex typographia Adriani Vlacq, MDCLX [1660]

Notes:

Greek and Latin in parallel columns; introductory material and notes in Latin.

Title page in red and black; title ornament.

Woodcut initials; head- and tail pieces.

Signatures: pi² *-4*² [a]-[n]² (-[n]2) A-4T², ²A-M².

Errors in signatures: leaf a1 missigned 4*; leaves [g]1-2 missigned [f]1-2; leaf [h]2 missigned [g]2.

Errata: p. [70] and p. [7-8] at end.

First edition of this contemporary account of the Council of Florence, whose chief object was the union between the Roman and the Greek churches---the latter seeking support from the West against the Turks, who were nearing Constantinople. Syropolulos gives a strongly anti-unionist account.

Local Notes:

Lea Library copy bound in full contemporary mottled calf over boards; red speckled edges.

OCLC:

249804518