Medeltidshandskrift 40

Russian Chronograph, redaction of 1671, Paper., ii + 474 (- ff. 1-5; 291; + ff. 56b; 191b) + i.; 200 x 153 mm., Russia, 17th century, later part, Russian; The Russian Chronograph is a cosmographic encyclopaedia in the form of a compilation of fragments from different works. It covers the period from the creation of the world, to the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the fall of Constantinople, Kievan and Moscow Rus and ends with the coronation of the first Romanov tsar, Mikhail Fedorovich in 1613..