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each sovereign's reign inserted, by a subsequent appear, it may be hoped these tables will be pubtranscriber. All that can with certainty be concluded lished also. They are: - 1. ZUhvo4ts'Tv Xpo'wv
is, that the printed editions and the known MSS. of d7rd T7s KsC'EWS Kde/Lov, Synopsis annoroum a
the history do not complete the work, according to creatione mundi. It is little else than a list of
the description given in its title; and that the names, with their respective dates, beginning with
author filled the offices ascribed to him by Cedrenus Adam, and ending with the Roman emperors Dioand in the title of his own work. Whether he cletian and Maximian. 2.'"Oaoo ei BuaVYTqI e~alived after A. D. 1 ] 8; whether he held his several oJiAeUvav XpL0or'aVo, Quot Byzantii imperium obtioffices successively or simultaneously, and if suc- nueruzt Christiani, beginning with Constantine the
cessively, in what order, is quite uncertain. The Great, and ending with Nicephorus Botaniotes: the
theory of a double edition of his work, and the length of each emperor's reign is given. 3. Certain
succession of his offices deduced from that theory, historical epochs; beginning Eill o'v crMd'AMdIA
rests, as we have shown, on no sufficient foundation. er foS cKacaKAve-,u4 K. T. A., Ab Adamo igitur
Even the assertion that he was a native of the usque ad Diluvium ftuxerunt anni. 4. A list of
Thracesian Thema is doubtful; for Cedrenus, who the Kings of the Ten Tribes of Israel. 5. A list
calls him d epaKciaos, "' Thracesius," does not of the High Priests of Israel, beginning with
add ro 7s'VOS, "by birth," but s'o eirc'Yvutov, "by Aaron. 6. A list of the Patriarchs of Jerusalem.
surname," as if to guard against the otherwise 7. A list of the Bishops of Rome, ending with
obvious inference as to his birth-place. Possibly, Boniface II., A. D. 530. 8. A list of the Bishops
like Georgius Trapezuntius (George of Trebizond), or Patriarchs of Byzantium, to Stephen, A. D. 886
he derived his surname from the original seat of his -893. 9. A list of the Patriarchs of Alexandria.
family. [GEORGIUS, literary and ecclesiastical, 10. A list of the Patriarchs of Antioch, ending
No. 48.] with the second patriarchate of Anastasius I., A. D.
The work of Scylitzes, one of the most important 593. 11, 12. The Canonical Books of the Old and
of the Byzantine histories, has been singularly neg- New Testaments. 13. Controverted Books of the
lected. The unfounded opinion of Fabrot, the Pa- Old Testament, chiefly the Books of our Apocryrisian editor of Cedrenus, that Scylitzes was merely pha. 14. Controverted Books of the New Testathe " Cedreni simia," led to the publication of only ment, including the Apocalypsis Joannis, and some
that part of Scylitzes which Cedrenus did not others not included in our canon, viz., the Apocatranscribe, viz., the part extending from 1057 to lypsis Petri, Barnabae Epistola, and the Evangelium
1080, and which those who suppose that there were secundunm Hebraeos. 15. Spurious Books of the
two editions of the work regard as having been Old Testament. 16. Spurious Books of the New
added in the second edition. It constitutes about Testament, among which are classed the Writings of
a seventh part of the whole work. The Paris Clement of Rome, Ignatius, Polycarp, and Hermas.
edition of Cedrenus appeared in two vols. fol. 17. The Genealogy of the Roman Emperor Valen1647. The Excerpta ex Breviario Historico Joan- tinian I. Lambecius, and, after him, Fabricius,
nis Scylitzae Cufropalatae, excipientia ubi Cedrenus doubted if all these tables were to be attributed to
desinit are in the second volume, and are illustrated Scylitzes: but Lambecius (according to Kollar)
with a Latin version (slightly altered from Gabius's) subsequently changed his opinion, and thought
and a few notes, by Goar. The Venice edition, they were his. (Kollar, Suppleosent, p. 618.)
fol. 1729, is a mere reprint of the foregoing; though The Jus Graeco-Romanums of Leunclavius (vol. i.
in the interim Montfaucon had published (Biblioth. p. 132, &c.) contains,'Tir4osvres ToO KouporaAhaCoislin. p. 207) the Prboemium, which, in an Tro Kmal jLeyahov 8povyyyapfov r~is ~tyhXAs'Iwca'ovu
abridged or mutilated form, Cedrenus had adopted Toe ~)paKcfoliouv.er' T)iv irepl syv'sOeTaS YeaepdYav eas his own, and prefixed to his own work. In the vo.te's, 7rpos Tdv aUTOV IaGcAEha Ktvppov'AAh'eOY irep&
Bonn edition of Byzantine historians, it might TIvosaL d1coAfas E7rl TavTrp lvafvrVio-s,Seggestio Cuhave been expected that the entire work of Scy- ropalatae, Magnique Drungarii Vigiliaruam, Dosmins
litzes would have appeared, even if the transcript Joannis T1racesii post pronmulgatamn de Sponsalibus
of it in Cedrenus had been suppressed: but Bekker, Novellam oblata eidem Principi, Domino Alexio, de
the editor of Cedrenus, has been content to repeat ambiguitate quadanm super haec esnata. According to
the Excerpta of Fabrot, with the mere addition in Possevino (Apparatus Sacer. Ccatalog. ad fin. toni.
the margin of such supplements, both to Cedrenus, iii. p. 42), there were extant in MS. in the library
ill the part transcribed from Scylitzes, and to of a convent of the monks of St. Basil, in the isle
the Ercerpta, as could be obtained from MSS., of Patmos, some other works of Scylitzes: - Joanincluding the Coislin MS. examined by Monttaucon, nis Scylitzae Varii Sermones Phiilosophici et Theolobut apparently not including the Vienna MS. The gici, of which the first was, Ilepil O'aTaov cayl ris
greater part of the Greek text of one of the most Kae' airTOv cp'ews, De Mundo et ejus Natura: also
valuable of the Byzantine writers is yet, therefore, Ejusdem quaedam Epistolae. The dissertations
unpublished in its original and proper form. would be curious, as Scylitzes appears to have had
A Latin version of the whole work (with the ex- little respect for the property, whatever he may
ception of some lacunae), by'Joannes BaptistaGabius have had for the doctrines of the Church. He vin(Giovanni Battista Gabio), Greek professor at Rome, dicates in his history (p. 808, ed. Paris, p. 642, ed.
was published, fol. Venice, 1570. A part of this Bonn) the conduct of Isaac Comnenus, in seizing
version accompanies the Greek text of the Excesl)ta the superfluous wealth of the monasteries, and
in the above editions. Gabio writes his author's wishes that he had been able to treat the whole
name Scillizza or Scyllizzes. Church in a similar way. (See, however, MontThe tables prefixed to the work of Scylitzes in faucon, Bibl. Coisl. p. 206.) Possibly, however,
the Vienna MS. were conjectured by Kollar to the Patmos MSS. may contain the works of a
have been collected or compiled by Scylitzes as in- younger Joannes Scylitzes, different from the
troductory to his work. This is not unlikely; and historian, who is mentioned by Nic. Comnenus
whenever the whole of the text of Scylitzes shall Papadopoli, but whose writings Fabricius had