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Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae Text (the History of Nikephoros Gregoras) from the CSHB. The Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae (CSHB; English: Corpus of Byzantine history writers), also referred to as the Bonn Corpus, is a monumental fifty-volume series of primary sources for the study of Byzantine history (c. 330 –1453), published in the German city of Bonn between 1828 and 1897.
Hieronymus' Corpus would be used to build upon. The result was the immense Corpus Historiae Byzantinae in 34 volumes, with paralleled Greek text and Latin translation. This edition popularized the term "Byzantine Empire" (never used by that empire itself during the centuries of its existence) and established it in historical studies.
The Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae (English: "Corpus of Byzantine History Sources") or CFHB is an international project that aims to collect, edit, and provide textual criticism on historical sources from the time of the Byzantine Empire (4th–15th centuries AD). Its purpose is to make the works of Byzantine authors, especially those that ...
John Kinnamos, Rerum ab Ioanne et Alexio [sic] Comnenis Gestarum, ed. A. Meineke, Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae (Bonn, 1836). John Kinnamos, The Deeds of John and Manuel Comnenus, trans. C.M. Brand (New York, 1976) ISBN 0-231-04080-6.
Constantini Porphyrogeniti Imperatoris De Cerimoniis Aulae Byzantinae libri duo graece et latine e recensione Io. Iac. Reiskii cum eiusdem commentariis integris. Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae. Vol. 1. Bonn: Weber. Reiske, Johann Jakob; Leich, Johannes Heinrich, eds. (1830).
Gregoras was born at Heraclea Pontica, where he was raised and educated by his uncle, John, who was the Bishop of Heraclea. [2] At an early age he settled at Constantinople, where his uncle introduced him to Andronicus II Palaeologus, by whom he was appointed chartophylax (keeper of the archives).
The History was first published in print by I. Bekker (1835) in the Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae; also by J. P. Migne, in Patrologia Graeca (vol. cxliii, cxliv); for editions of the minor works see Karl Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur (1897). [2]
His best known editions are those of Plato (1816–1823), Oratores Attici (1823–1824), Aristotle (1831–1836), Aristophanes (1829), and twenty-five volumes of the Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae. [3] The only Latin authors edited by him were Livy (1829–1830) and Tacitus (1831). [1]