The text details the history of Cyprus starting from the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius and his wars against the Sassanids for the recovery of the Holy Cross in the seventh century to the wedding of King John II with Helena Palaiologina on 3 February 1441, closely following the closing date of the 15th century Greek chronicle of Leontios Machairas.
Additionally, it includes a short account of the history of the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem from its foundation onwards.
[2] The codex contains Italian excerpts and translations of a number of narrative histories from the Latin East.
[3] The Chronicle exists in a single mid-16th century manuscript at the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice (It.
[2] It was first published in the original Italian in 1891 by René de Mas Latrie, son of French historian Louis de Mas Latrie and in 2015 it was published in an English translation from the Italian by Nicolas Coureas and Peter Edbury.