This is an anonymous text describing the history of Epirus in the fourteenth century. It focuses on the rule of Thomas Preljubovi ć (1366/ 1367– 1384), his widow Maria Angelina, and her second husband Esau Buondelmonti in Ioannina. The text is relatively brief, covering roughly thirty years in nearly thirty pages in the Bonn edition. In one manuscript the story ends in 1399. An Oxford manuscript continues to 1417/ 1418. The text depicts Thomas Preljubović as an evil tyrant and Maria Angelina as a pious and virtuous wife.

An 1845 edition by Andre Moustoxidis identified the monks Komnenos and Proclus as the authors of the history. These names only appear in the title of one of the manuscripts, and upon closer inspection it is clear that they in fact indicate the surnames of Thomas Preljubović. The text is published in the Bonn Corpus as the second item in a miscellany of notices on the history of Epirus. A vernacular summary survives in a late nineteenth- century manuscript.

Publication History and Manuscripts

We lack a critical edition and thorough description of the manuscripts for this text. Leandros Vranousēs published a preliminary volume which surveyed the previous publications of the text, and announced a second volume which would contain descriptions of the manuscripts and a critical edition. This was never published. He did publish a version of the medieval text, with the parallel text of the vernacular version, but the edition of the medieval text was not based on examination of the surviving manuscripts. The history was first published in 1821 as part of a collection of historical texts dealing with the history of Epirus, found by the French consul in Ioannina, François Charles Hugues Laurent Pouqueville. Pouqueville's collection was reprinted in the Bonn Corpus in 1849. In the Bonn edition, the chronicle of Ioannina is text number two of the collection. Another edition of the text, based on a different manuscript, was published in Nauplion in 1831. In 1845, Moustoxidis published an edition based on the Nauplion publication and that of Pouqueville, but without consulting the manuscripts in person. In 1896, Uspenskii published an edition, based on yet another manuscript found in Meteora. The Moustoxidis edition, however, formed the basis of later editions by Gabriel Destounis in 1858, Šafarik and Avramović in 1862, and that of Sebastian Cirac Estopan a n in 1943.