Georgios Boustronios (

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: Τζώρτζης Μπουστρούς, hellenised as Γεώργιος Βουστρώνιος; c. 1435/40 - after 1501) was a 15th century

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royal official and

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r. His chronicle Διήγησις Kρόνικας Kύπρου (''Diegesis Kronikas Kyprou,'' Narrative of the Chronicle of Cyprus) was written in prose in the Cypriot dialect. He was a close friend and serviceman of James II, the

King of Cyprus The Kingdom of Cyprus (french: Royaume de Chypre, la, Regnum Cypri) was a state that existed between 1192 and 1489. It was ruled by the French House of Lusignan. It comprised not only the island of Cyprus, but it also had a foothold on the Anat ...

. His chronicle documents events contemporary to his life, especially the transition from the

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to the Venetian rule in

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. His narrative starts where the chronicle of

Leontios Machairas Leontios Machairas or Makhairas (Greek: Λεόντιος Μαχαιράς, French: Léonce Machéras; about 1380 - after 1432) was a historian in medieval Cyprus. The main source of information on him is his chronicle, written in the medieval ...

ends, at 1456, and concludes at 1489, the year when

Catherine Cornaro Catherine Cornaro ( el, Αικατερίνη Κορνάρο, vec, Catarina Corner) (25 November 1454 – 10 July 1510) was the last monarch of the Kingdom of Cyprus, also holding the titles of the Queen of Jerusalem and Armenia. She was queen ...

, the last queen of Cyprus, ceded the island to the

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. He documented the civil war between

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and her half brother James II, between 1440 and 1444, and the interventions by

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and

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in the politics of the island. He was a relative of

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, a notary and the author of another chronicle on Cypriot history, titled ''Chronique de l'île de Chypre'', that begins with antiquity and also ends in 1489. The chronicle survives in three manuscripts; two are located in the

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and the other one is part of the

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, with the Arundel Manuscript considered to be the oldest. The chronicle was first published, based on the two Marcian manuscripts, by

Konstantinos Sathas Constantine Sathas ( el, Κωνσταντίνος Σάθας; Athens, 1842 – Paris, 25 May 1914) was a Greek historian and researcher. Sathas spent his life unearthing hitherto unknown material pertaining to the history of late medieval and ear ...

as part of his ''Medieval Library II'' (pages 413-543) in Venice in 1873. The chronicle was published again, this time based on all three manuscripts, by Richard M. Dawkins with an English translation as ''The Chronicle of George Boustronios, 1456-1489'' in Melbourne in 1964. In 1997 published another critical edition in the original Greek, titled ''Τζώρτζης (Μ)πουστρούς (Γεώργιος Βο(σ)τρ(υ)ηνός ή Βουστρώνιος, Διήγησις Κρόνικας Κύπρου.'' Α more recent publication and English translation was done by Nicholas Coureas in 2006, titled ''A Narrative of the Chronicle of Cyprus, 1456–1489''.

Publications

Arundel MS 518
16th century manuscript in the British Library.
Διήγησις Kρονίκας Kύπρου
Publication by

in his ''Medieval Library II'', Vienna, 1873.

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