Late Antique Historiography

Justel synopsis

Title(s):
  • Justel synopsis
  • Χρὴ γινώσκειν ὅτι ἕξ εἰσιν αἱ ἁγίαι καὶ οἰκουμενικοὶ σύνοδοι
    (Chrē ginōskein hoti hex eisin hai hagiai kai oikoumenikoi sunodoi, One should know that there are six holy and ecumenical councils)
Author:
Period covered:
325-681/682
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Council synopsis
Remarks:
The synopsis is named after its first editor. A fuller list of manuscripts is given by Munitiz 1974.
Edition - Translation:
  • C. Justellus (1615) Nomocanon Photii cum commentariis T. Balsamonis C. Justellus ex Bibliotheca Palatina nunc primum Graece edidit. Accessere eiusdem Photii Nili Metropolitae Rhodi, et Anonymi tractatus de Synodis oecumenicis. Paris: 180-183.
  • G.A. Rhalles, M. Potles (1852) Σύνταγμα τῶν θείων καὶ ἱερῶν κανόνων. Volume One. Athens: 370-374.
  • I.A. Munitiz (1977) 'The manuscript of Justel's Anonymi Tractatus de synodis'. Byzantion 47: 239-257.
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Bibliography:
  • I.A. Munitiz (1974) 'Synoptic Greek accounts of the seventh council'. Revue des études byzantines 32: 147-186.
  • H.J. Sieben (1979) Die Konzilsidee der alten Kirche. Paderborn, 344-387.
  • H.J. Sieben (2005) 'Der Tractatus de septem conciliis generalibus (Ms. Paris, Bibl. Nat. 12264): Eine griechische Konzilsynopse in lateinischer Übersetzung des 12. Jahrhunderts'. in: H.-J. Sieben, Studien zur Gestalt und Uberlieferung der Konzilien. Paderborn: 187-202.