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Rh bii2 PHOTIUS. how much the value of his notices is enhanced by the soundness of his judgment. The first edition of the Biblioiheca was published by David Hoesche- lius, under the title of BiSKioQ-Ziki] tov Ttou, Lihrorum quos legit Photius Patriarclm Eoccerpta et Censurae^ fol. Augsburg, 1601. Some of the Epis- tolae of Photius were subjoined. The text of the BilMotheca was formed on a collation of four MSS., and Was accompanied with notes by the editor ; but there was no Latin version. A Latin version and scholia, by Andreas Schottus of Antwerp, were published, fol. Augsburg, 1606 ; but the version is inaccurate, and has been severely criticised. It was however reprinted, with the Greek text, under the title of *cotiou MupLoSiSAov fj BiSAiodTJKrj, Photii Myriohihlon sive Bibliotlieca, fol. Geneva, 1612, and fol. Rouen, 1653. This last edition is a very splendid one, but inconvenient from its size. An edition, with a revised text, formed on a collation of four MSS. (whether any of them were the same as those employed by Hoeschelius is not men- tioned) was published by Immanuel Bekker, 2 thin vols. 4to. Berlin, 1824 — 1825: it is convenient from its size and the copiousness of its index, but has neither version nor notes. 2. 'EiriTO/jLTj 6K Twi/ iKKhTjaiaffriKwv Itxropiwv ^iKoaropylov and ^w^^rjs ^wriov iraTpidpxov, Compendium Historii.ie Ecclesiasticae Philostorgii quod dictavit Photius patriarcha. Cave regards this as a fragment of another work similar to the Biblioiheca ; but his conjecture rests on no solid foundation. The Compendium is of great import- ance as preserving to us, though very imperfectly, an Arian statement of the ecclesiastical transactions of the busy period of the Arian controversy in the fourth century. It was first published, with a Latin version and copious notes, by Jacobus Gotho- fredus (Godefroi), 4to, Geneva, 1643 ; and was re- printed with the other ancient Greek ecclesiastical historians by Henricus Valesius (Henri Valois), folio, Paris, 1673, and by Reading, fol. Cambridge, 1720. 3. "SofioKavuv or 'NofioKavoi/ov, Nomocanon^ s. Nomocanonon^ s. Nomocanonus^ s. Canonum Eccle- siasticorum et Legum Imperialium de Ecclesiasiica Disciplina Condliatio s. Harm^rda. This work, which bears ample testimony to the extraordinary legal attainltaents of its author, is arranged under fourteen t^tAoj, Tituli, and was prefixed to a 'S.vv- ray/jLa twu Kavovwv^ Canonum Syntagma,^ or col- lection of the Canone^ of the Apostles and of the ecclesiastical councils recognised by the Greek Church, compiled by Photius ; from which circum- Btjince it is sometimes called Upnicdywv, Procanon. It has been repeatedly published, with the com- mentaries of Theodore Balsamon, who strongly recommended it, in preference to similar works of an earlier date : it appeared in the Latin version of Gentianus Hervetus, fol. Paris, 1 561, and in another Latin version of Henricus Agylaeus, fol. Basel. 1561, and in the original Greek text with the version of Agylaeus, edited by Christophorus Justellus, 4to. Paris, 1615. It was reprinted, with the version of Agylaeus, in the Bibliotlwca Juris Canonici, pub- lished by Guillelmus Voellus and Henricus Jus- tellus, vol. ii. p. 785, &c. fol. Paris, 1661. The Nomocanan of Photius was epitomised in the kind of verses called politici [see Philippus, No. 27, note] by Michael Psellus, whose work was pub- lished, with one or two other of his pieces, by Fnuiciscus Bosquetus, 8vo. Paris, 1632. PHOTIUS. 4. Ilepl rwv ^ olKov/u-eviKoSu (tvvoScov, De Stip- tern Cojiciliis Otcumenicis. This piece subjoined, with a Latin version, to the Nomocanon in the Paris editions of 1615 and 1661, and often pub- lished elsewhere, is really part of one of the Epis- tolae of Photius, and is noticed in our account of them. 5. 'ETTKTToAaf, Epistolae. There are extant a considerable number of the letters of Photius. The MSS. containing them are enumerated by Fabri- cius, Bild. Graec. vol. xi. p. 11 . It is much to be regretted that no complete collection of them has been published. David Hoeschelius subjoined to his edition of the BiUiotheca (fol. Augsburg, 1601) mentioned above, thirty-five letters selected from a MS. collection which had belonged to Maximus Margunius, bishop of Cerigo, who lived about the end of the sixteenth century. One consolatory letter to the nun Eusebia on her sister's death, was published by Conrad Rittershausius, with a Latin version, with some other pieces, 8vo. Niirn- berg, 1601. But the largest collection is that prepared with a Latin version and notes by Richard Mountagu (Latinized Montacutius), bishop of Norwich, and published after his death, fol. London, 1651. The Greek text was from a MS. in the Bodleian library. The collection com- prehends two hundred and forty-eight letters trans- lated by the bishop, and a supplement of five letters brought from the East by Christianus Ra- vius, of which also a Latin version by another person is given. The first letter in Mountagu's collection is addressed to Michael, prince of the Bulgarians, on the question Tt eVrtj/ ^pyov dp- XovTos, De Officio Principis : it is very long, and contains the account of the seven general councils already mentioned (No. 4), as subjoined to the printed editions of the Nomocanon. This letter to Prince Michael was translated into French verse by Bernard, a Theatin monk, dedicated to Louis XV. and published, 4to. Paris, 1718. The second let- ter, also of considerable length, is an encyclical letter on various disputed topics, especially on that of the procession of the Holy Spirit, the leading theological question in dispute between the Eastern and Western Churches. Mountagu's version has been severely criticized by Combefis. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. i. p. 701 note f f f.) Several im- portant letters are not included in the collection, especially two to Pope Nicolaus I., and one to the archbishop or patriarch of Aquileia, on the proces- sion of the Holy Spirit, of all which Baronius had given a Latin version in his Annates Ecclesiaslici (ad ann. 859, Ixi. &c., 861, xxxiv. &c., and 883, V. &c.). Fragments of the Greek text of the let- ters to Pope Nicolaus were cited by AUatius in different parts of his works ; the original of the letter to the archbishop of Aquileia was published in the Auctarium Novissimum of Combefis, pars L p. 527, &c. (fol. Paris, 1672), with a new Latin version and notes by the editor ; and the original of all the three letters, together with a previously unpublished letter. Ad Oeconomum Ecclcsiae Ati- iiocldae, and the encyclical letter on the procession of the Holy Spiiit (included in Mountagu's collec- tion), the Acta of the eighth oecumenical council (that held in 879,at which the second appointment of Photius to the patriarchate was ratified), and some other pieces, with notes by Dositheus, patriarch of Jerusalem, were published by Anthimus "Episcopus Reuinicus," L e. bishop of Rimnik, in Walachia, in