Constantine Porphyrogenetta.
COnstantine Porphyrogenneta is reckon'd one of the Authors of this Century. He was in∣genious himself, a Lover of Learned Men, and very well vers'd in the Sciences. We * 1.1 have of his writing an History of the Image of our Saviour sent to Abgarus King of Edessa, and brought from Edessa to Constantinople in the year 944. This piece was publish'd by Father Cambefis, in his Collection of the Authors who wrote the History of Constantinople, and printed at Paris 1664. He likewise wrote the Life of his Grand-Father the Empe∣ror Basil the Macedonian; which is to be met with in the Collection of Allatius. In the year 1617 Meursius set forth several Political Treatises of this Emperors composing, viz. A Treatise concerning the Government of the Empire, directed to his Son Romanus; a Book of Institutions, two Books of the Dignities of the Eastern Empire, and seventeen Novels. He likewise compos'd several Historical and Political Pandects, extracted out of all the Historians, and rang'd under three and fifty Heads, of which we have only two re∣maining, viz. the Seven and Twentieth, which contains the Extracts of Embassies, pub∣lished in Greek by Hoeschetius, printed at Ausbourg in the Year 1603, and in Latin at Paris in the Year 1609: And the Fiftieth on the Virtues and Vices, set forth by Monsieur Henry de Valois, and printed at Paris in the Year 1634.