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the Church and Court of Constantinople.' He has also left ' Extracts 

 from the Chronicle of Hesychius on the Origin and History of Constan- 

 tinople.' 9. The Emperor Manuel Palseologus wrote a book 'On the 

 Education of Princes.' He also wrote ' A Dialogue with a Turk held 

 at Ancyra in Galatia,' where Manuel was once stationed in winter- 

 quarters with his auxiliary corps serving under Sultan Bajazet This 

 work, which is yet unpublished, is said to give an interesting view of 

 the tottering condition of the once mighty empire towards the begin- 

 ning of the 15th century. There are also 66 unpublished letters of 

 Manuel in the public library at Paris, which contain interesting 

 allusions to the history of that period. (See Hase, 'Notices et Extraits 

 des Manuscrita de la Bibliotheque du Roi,' vol. ix.) 



Most of the above Byzantine historians, chroniclers, and other 

 writers were collected and published in the great edition made by 

 order and at the expense of Louis XIV., in 36 vols. folio, Paris, 1645- 

 1711. The Jesuits Labbe and Maltrait, Petau and Poussines, the 

 Dominicans Uoar and Combe'fis, Professor Fabrot, Charles du Fresno, 

 Seigneur du Cange ; Allacci, the librarian of the Vatican ; Banduri, 

 librarian at Florence ; Boivin, the king's librarian at Paris ; and 

 Bouilliaud, a mathematician, were each entrusted with parts of this 

 splendid work. The Greek text is accompanied with a Latin transla- 



tion, and notes. The last volume contains the Arabian chronicle of 

 Abu-Ben-Raheb, which serves to illustrate Byzantine history. 



Another edition was published at Venice in 23 vols. folio, 1729, 

 and the following years, which contains several works omitted in the 

 Paris edition, such as Phranza, Qenesius, and Malalat*. Others were 

 published separately afterwards as a supplement to the Venice 

 edition : ' Opera Qeorgii Pisidse, Theodosii Diaconi et Corippi Afri- 

 cani,' Rome, 1777, folio; 'Julii Pollucis Historia Sacra,' Bononise, 

 1779, folio; 'Constantini Porphyrogenneti, libri ii. de Ceremoniis 

 Aulffl ByzantiDse,' 2 vols. folio, Leipzig, 1761 ; ' Leonis Diaconi 

 Caloensis Historia,' by Hase, folio, Paris, 1819. Several of the 

 Byzantine historians however ntill remain inedited, as we have 

 above observed. 



A new edition of the Byzantine historians was projected by the late 

 B. G. Niebuhr : ' Corpus Scriptorum Historise Byzantinaa. Editio 

 emendatior et copiosior,' &c., 8vo, Bonn, 1828, and following. It has 

 been proceeding, since Niebuhr's death, under the care of Bekker, 

 Dindorf, and other philologists. About fifty volumes have appeared. 



(For a full account of the Byzantine writers see Schoell's History of 

 Greek Literature, and Fabricius, Bibliotheca Grteca, editio nova, vols. 

 vii. and viii.) 



END OF VOLUME I. 



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