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how inuch the value of his notices is enhanced by 4. rleFpl -&cv' olIKolEvlttic&v eu-vo'Ov, De &,p.
the soundness of his judgment. The first edition tern Conciliis Oeccumenicis. This piece subjoined,
of the Bibliothleca was published by David Hoesche- with a Latin version, to the Nomocanon in the
lius, under the title of BXtloGOeKt71 roO 4W'rTou, Paris editions of 1615 and 1661, and often pubLibrorum quos legit Photius Patriarcha Excerpta et lished elsewhere, is really part of one of the Ep)isCensulae, fol. Augsburg, 1601. Some of the Epis- tolae of Photius, and is noticed in our account of
tolae of Photius were subjoined. The text of the them.
Bibliotheca was formed on a collation of four MSS., 5.'ErtrroXAaf, Epistolae. There are extant a
and was accompanied with notes by the editor; considerable number of the letters of Photius. The
but there was no Latin version. A Latin version MSS. containing them are enumerated by Fabriand scholia, by Andreas Schottus of Antwerp, were cius, Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. p. 1. It is much to be
published, fol. Augsburg, 1606; but the version is regretted that no complete collection of them has
inaccurate, and has been severely criticised. It been published. David Hoeschelius subjoined to
was however reprinted, with the Greek text, under his edition of the Bibliotheca (fol. Augsburg, 1601)
the title of 4oDroev MupLo'GAov o BLMMAoO'jrq, Photii mentioned above, thirty-five letters selected from a
Myriobiblon sive Bibliotheca, fol. Geneva, 1612, and MS. collection which had belonged to Maximus
fol. Rouen, 1653. This last edition is a very Margunius, bishop of Cerigo, who lived about the
splendid one, but inconvenient from its size. An end of the sixteenth century. One consolatory
edition, with a revised text, formed on a collation letter to the nun Eusebia on her sister's death,
of four MSS. (whether any of them were the same was published by Conrad Rittershausius, with a
as those employed by Hoeschelius is not men- Latin version, with some other pieces, 8vo. Niirntioned) was published by Immanuel Bekker, 2 thin berg, 1601. But the largest collection is that
vols. 4to. Berlin, 1824-1825: it is convenient prepared with a Latin version and notes by
from its size and the copiousness of its index, but Richard Mountagu (Latinized Montacutius),
has neither version nor notes. bishop of Norwich, and published after his death,
2.'ErTOA4,) K hT(Y r tcAv h7,oaWTLcKY rIcvOP LYTo v fol. London, 1651. The Greek text was from a
Xthoar'opyiou d7rOd qPvys TIo'ou 7arpTpdpXOv, MS. in the Bodleian library. The collection comCompendium Historiae Ecclesiasticae Philostorqii prehends two hundred and forty-eight letters trans-'quod dictavit Photius patr-iarcha. Cave regards lated by the bishop, and a supplement of five
this as a fragment of another work similar to the letters brought from the East by Christianus RaBibliotheca; but his conjecture rests on no solid vius, of which also a Latin version by another
foundation. The Compendium is of great import- person is given. The first letter in Mountagu's
ance as preserving to us, though very imperfectly, collection is addressed to Michael, prince of the
an Arian statement of the ecclesiastical transactions Bulgarians, on the question TI iorlv e'pyov aipof the busy period of the Arian controversy in the XorToE, De Ofcio Principis: it is very long, and
fourth century. It was first published, with a contains the account of the seven general councils
Latin version and copious notes, by Jacobus Gotho- already mentioned (No. 4), as subjoined to the
fredus (Godefroi), 4to, Geneva, 1643; and was re- printed editions of the Nomocanon. This letter to
printed with the other ancient Greek ecclesiastical Prince Michael was translated into French verse by
historians by Henricus Valesius (Henri Valois), Bernard, a Theatin monk, dedicated to Louis XV.
folio, Paris, 1673, and by Reading, fol. Cambridge, and published, 4to. Paris, 1718. The second let1720. ter, also of considerable length, is an encyclical
3. NotzoKavctv or Nopocd'ovoYo, Nomlocanon, s. letter on various disputed topics, especially on that
Nomocanonon, s. Nonzocanonus, s. Canonum Eccle- of the procession of the Holy Spirit, the leading
siasticorum et Legum Impesialium de Ecclesiastica theological question in dispute between the Eastern
Disciplina Conciliatio s. Harmonia. This work, and Western Churches. Mountagu's version has
which bears ample testimony to the extraordinary been severely criticized by Combefis. (Fabric.
legal attainments of its author, is arranged under Bibl. Graec. vol. i. p. 701 note f f f.) Several imfourteen T-rAot, Tituli, and was prefixed to a Uv'v- portant letters are not included in the collection,'ralyya Trc;' Kavd'owv, Canonumn Syntagma, or col- especially two to Pope Nicolaus I., and one to the
lection of the Canones of the Apostles and of the archbishop or patriarch of Aquileia, on the procesecclesiastical councils recognised by the Greek sion of the Holy Spirit, of all'which Baronius had
Church, compiled by Photius; from which circum- given a Latin version in his Annales Ecclesiastici
stance it is sometimes called rlpoKca'ov, Procanon. (ad ann. 859, lxi. &c., 861, xxxiv. &c., and 883,
It has been repeatedly published, with the com- v. &c.). Fragments of the Greek text of the letmentaries of Theodore Balsamon, who strongly ters to Pope Nicolaus were cited by Allatius in
recommended it, in preference to similar works of different parts of his works; the original of the
an earlier date: it appeared in the Latin version of letter to the archbishop of Aquileia was published
Gentianus Hervetus, fol. Paris, i 561,and in another in the Auctarium Novissimnum of Combetis, pars i.
Latin version of HenricusAgylaeus, fol. Basel. 1561, p. 527, &c. (fol. Paris, 1672), with a new Latin
and in the original Greek text with the version of version and notes by the editor; and the original
Agylaeus, edited by Christophorus Justellus, 4to. of all the three letters, together with a previously
Paris, 1615. It was reprinted, with the version of unpublished letter, Ad Oeconomlum Ecclesiae AnAgylaeus, in the Bibliotheca Juris Canonici, pub- tiocekae, and the encyclical letter on the procession
lished by Guillelmus Voellus and Ilenricus Jus. of the Holy Spirit (included in Mountagu's collectellus, vol. ii. p. 785, &c. fol. Paris, 1661. The tion), the Acta of the eighth oecumenical council
Nomocanon of Photius was epitomised in the kind (that held in 879,at which the second appointment
of verses called politici [see PHILIPPus, No. 27, of Photius to the patriarchate was ratified), and some
note] by Michael Psellus, whose work was pub- other pieces, with notes by Dositheus, patriarch of
lished, with one or two other of his pieces, by Jerusalem, were published by Anthimus "Episcopus
Franciscus Bosquetus, 8vo. Paris, 1632. Remnicus," i. e. bishop of Rimnik, in Walachia, in