Composed in 1463 / 1464 in classical Greek, the ten books of the Apodeixeis historiōn cover the period from 1298 to 1463. They mainly depict the rise of the Ottomans from the establishment in Asia Minor to the fall of Byzantium. Taking Herodotos as model and avoiding all judgemental stance, Laonikos tries to understand the rationale behind the emergence of the Ottoman Empire.
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Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana | Vaticanus gr. 158
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana | Vaticanus gr. 159
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana | Vaticanus gr. 1408, ff. 154v-155r
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana | Vaticanus gr. 1732
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana | Vaticanus gr. 1890, ff. 131r-134r
There are also several partial translations by Karl Dieterich (German), Hans Ditten (German), Franz Gabler (German), J.R. Melville Jones (English), Agostino Pertusi (Italian), and Nikos Nikoloudis (modern Greek; English); Samos – Library of Alexandros Karatheodori (Βιβλ. Α. Καραθεοδωρῆ) A 120 (the whereabouts of this manuscript are currently unknown; according to Maria Elisabetta Colonna, it dates from the 16th century and contains the 6th book of the Histories; see Maria Elisabetta Colonna, Gli storici bizantini dal IV al XV secolo I. Storici profani, Neaples : Armanni 1956, p. 16); London MS accessible at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_36670