Leighton Library has 1554 edition of "Annalium Boiorum" by Johannes Aventinus

#OnThisDay 9 January 1534 Bavarian Renaissance historian and philologist known by the pen name Johannes Aventinus died. The Leighton Library has a 1554 first edition of his "Annalium Boiorum" - Annals of Bavaria, a valuable record of the early history of Germany, the first significant history of a region of Germany. As a result of his nonconformity the Annals were not published until after his dea