Alexios I Komnenos

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod.graec. 355, fol. 2r — a 15th-century Greek manuscript of Anna Comnena's Alexiad, showing the opening of the text in a single column of Byzantine minuscule with a large decorated initial, and bearing the oval stamp of the Bibliotheca Regia Monacensis.

The Alexiad

Full text of Anna Comnena's Alexiad — the only major historical work authored by a woman in the medieval period, and the indispensable Byzantine account of the reign of Alexios I Komnenos and the First Crusade.