Database: Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (CHAP)

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On the construction of Hagia Sophia
Διήγησις περὶ τῆς οἰκοδομῆς τοῦ ναοῦ τῆς μεγάλης τοῦ θεοῦ ἐκκλησίας τῆς ἐπονομαζομένης ἁγίας Σοφίας
(Diēgēsis peri tēs oikodomēs tou naou tēs megalēs tou Theou ekklēsias tēs eponomazomenēs hagias Sophias, Narrative about the Construction of the Temple of the Great Church of God which is called Hagia Sophia)

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The construction of Hagia Sophia under the reign of Justinian I (532-565)

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Greek

State of Preservation:

Full

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The text has been transmitted as part of an anthology of four different texts known as the Patria of Constantinople, put together in 989/990.

Edition - Translation:

A. Berger (2013) (tr.) Accounts of medieval Constantinople: The Patria (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval library). Cambridge (MA): 230-279.
T. Preger (1901) Scriptores originum Constantinopolitanarum. Volume One. Leipzig: 74-108.
T. Preger (1907) Scriptores originum Constantinopolitanarum. Volume Two. Leipzig: 284-289.
E. Vitti (1986) (ed.) Die Erzählung über den Bau der Hagia Sophia in Konstantinopel: Kritische Edition mehrerer Versionen (Bochumer Studien zur neugriechischen und byzantinischen Philologie, 8). Amsterdam.

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G. Dagron (1984) Constantinople imaginaire: Études sur le recueil des Patria (Bibliothèque byzantine: Études, 8). Paris: 265-269.
C. Mango (1992) 'Byzantine writers on the fabric of Hagia Sophia'. In: Hagia Sophia from the age of Justinian to the present, ed. R. Mark - A.S. Çakmak. Cambridge: 41-56.