(2) Text of Philotheos.
As the foundation of these investigations, a critical text of Philotheos is indispensable. The Klêtorologion has come down to us as part of the second book (cc. 52-54) of the De Cerimoniis of Constantine Porphyrogennetos. But it was an independent treatise; it formed no part of Constantine's treatise, but was appended to it, along with other documents, probably by the Emperor's literary executors, shortly after his death, as I have shown in a study which I published on the Ceremonial Book in 1907.[1]
The treatise known as De Cerimoniis was first published by Leich and Reiske at Leipzip, in 1751-4, in two volumes. It was re-edited by Bekker for the Bonn edition of the Byzantine historians in 1829. Bekker consulted but did not make a complete collection of the MS.
The sole MS. in which this work of Constantine has come down to us is preserved in the Stadtbibliothek of Leipzip (Rep. i, 17). It is a fine large quarto parchment; the titles and lists of contents are in red ink, and the initials at the beginnings of chapters are coloured. It seems to have been written about the end of the eleventh century. It contains 265 folia, but ff. 1-212 are occupied by another treatise of Constantine, which in the Bonn edition curiously appears as an appendix to Book I of the De Cerimoniis. I have shown that it is an entirely distinct treatise.[2] It concerns military expeditions conducted by the Emperor in person, and I have designated it as πϵρὶ ἀρχω̑ν βασιλικω̑ν ταξϵιδίων.
Until recently our only source for the text of the work of Philotheos was the Leipzig MS. But some years ago Theodor Uspenski, the Director of the Russian Archaeological Institute at Constantinople. found a portion of the text in a Greek codex in the Patriarchal library at Jerusalem. This MS. is numbered 39 in the Catalogue of Papadopoulos-Kerameus.[3] It was written in the twelth of thirteenth century. The portion of the treatise which it contains (ff. 181-3, 192-4) is unfortunately small, corresponding to less than eleven pages of the Bonn edition. The fragment beings with τόμος βʹ = p. 726,[4] and ends at κατὰ τάξιν τιμάσθωσαν = p. 736. Uspenski collated the fragment with the Bonn text and published his collection in Vol. III of the Izviestiia of the Russian Archaeological
- ↑ English Historical Review, April, 1907.
- ↑ English Historical Review, July, 1907, p. 439.
- ↑ Ἱεροσολυμιτικὴ Βιβλιοθήκη, p. 115.
- ↑ I refer through to the pages of Bekker's ed. which are entered in the margin of my text, and in most cases add the line for the convenience of those who care to refer to that ed.
