| Two books containing written memorials had been discovered in the Library of Chania, which was destroyed during the military operations of 1941. Those which were copied in time and thereby preserved are published here. These are an item on earthquakes and eclipses of the sun and moon noted on Crete in 1805, and one on the ordination of Artemios, Bishop of Cydonia and Kissamos, in 1831. Both notes are contained in an edition of Kata Haereseon (Against Heresies) by Symeon of Salonica, produced at Iasion in 1683. The second of the books now lost was an edition of the Old Testament printed in Athens in 1850. Information on an outbreak of plague in Crete in 1718 had been copied into it from an older, brief chronicle. |