‎AIMOIN OF FLEURY ‎
‎De regum procerumque Francorum origine gestisque clarissimis usque ad Philippum Augustum libri quinque‎

‎Paris 1514 In aedibus Ioannis Parvi [et] Ascensianis Full-Leather ‎

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‎Annonij monachi Benedictini diferti & veridici, quoru[m]damq[ue] aliorum venerabilium eiusdem professio[n]is patrum De regum procerumque Francorum origine gestisque clarissimis usque ad Philippum Augustum libri quinque. Paris: Jodocus Badius Ascensianus, (13 August 1514) folio (290 x 204mm.), title within woodcut border, woodcut device of Badius on title-page, woodcut white-on-black initials, early annotations, original calf, spine in compartments, one hinge is broken, original wooden covers with calf, the leather between spine and the covers is gone FIRST EDITION of Aimoin's chronicle of the Franconian kings, written in the late tenth century at the abbey of Fleury at the behest of King Robert. Aimoin began his chronicle with distant origins in Troy with a character called Francio before proceeding up to the year 654, at which point the abbot of Fleury, having lost the king's favour, decided to halt the work. Aimoin wrote the first 4 books, through A.D. 654. After his death, the work was continued anonymously, in two different monastaries, to the birth of Philip II in 1165. ‎