Annae Comnenae Porphyrogenitae Caesarissae Alexias, sive de rebus ab Alexio Imperatore vel eius tempore gestis, libri quindecim. E Bibliotheca Barberina nunc primùm editi, et à Petro Possino Soc. Iesu Presbytero Latinâ Interpretatione, Glossario, & Notis illustrati. è quibus Glossarium nunc datur: Notæ mox opportunius edentur, vnà cum Sinnamo Continuatore Annae, & aliis quibusdam ad Alexiadem spectantibus. Accesserunt Præfationes ac Notæ Dauidis Hoeschelii Augustani, ex Editione anni MDCX. [Bound with another contemporary title by the same publisher. See below.]
Paris: E. Typographia Regia [Colophon: Curante Sebastiano Cramoisy], 1651. The first printed edition of the complete text. The first work of history written by a Western woman, Anna Comnena (1083-1153), the 12th century Byzantine princess. She wrote The Alexiad to chronicle the achievements of the reign of her father, emperor.....