Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae
The Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae (CSHB; English:
While the first volume of the series received praise for its "minute care and attention" to textual details,[4] later volumes produced under Bekker became infamous for their frequent misprints, careless execution, and general unreliability.[5] Given these shortcomings, the International Association of Byzantine Studies established in 1966 the Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae to re-edit many of the texts included in the Bonn edition of the CSHB.
Volumes
- 1: Agathias, ed. Niebuhr (Bonn, 1828)
- 2: Anna Comnena, ed. Schopen, vol. 1 (Bonn, 1839)
- 3: Anna Comnena, ed. Reifferscheid, vol. 2 (Bonn, 1878)
- 4: Michael Attaliota, ed. Bekker (Bonn, 1853)
- 5: Ioannes Cantacuzenus, ed. Schopen, vol. 1 (Bonn, 1828)
- 6: Ioannes Cantacuzenus, ed. Schopen, vol. 2 (Bonn, 1831)
- 7: Ioannes Cantacuzenus, ed. Schopen, vol. 3 (Bonn, 1832)
- 8: Georgius Cedrenus, ed. Bekker, vol. 1 (Bonn, 1838)
- 9: Georgius Cedrenus, ed. Bekker, vol. 2 (Bonn, 1839)
- 10: Laonicus Chalcondyles, ed. Bekker (Bonn, 1843)
- 11: L. Dindorf, vol. 1 (Bonn, 1832)
- 12: Chronicon Paschale, ed. L. Dindorf, vol. 2 (Bonn, 1832)
- 13: Meineke(Bonn, 1836)
- 14: Codinus Curopalates, ed. Bekker (Bonn, 1839)
- 15: Georgius Codinus, ed. Bekker (Bonn, 1843)
- 16: Reiske, vol. 1 (Bonn, 1829)
- 17: Constantine Porphyrogenitus, ed. Reiske, vol. 2 (Bonn, 1830)
- 18: Constantine Porphyrogenitus; Hierocles, ed. Bekker, vol. 3 (Bonn, 1840)
- 19: Petrus Patricius, etc., ed. Bekker and Niebuhr (Bonn, 1829)
- 20: Ducas, ed. Bekker (Bonn, 1834)
- 21: Ephraemius, ed. Bekker (Bonn, 1840)
- 22: Georgius Syncellus, Nicephorus Cp, ed. L. Dindorf, vol. 1 (Bonn, 1829)
- 23: Georgius Syncellus, Nicephorus Cp, ed. L. Dindorf, vol. 2 (Bonn, 1829)
- 24: Michael Glycas, ed. Bekker (Bonn, 1836)
- 25: Nicephorus Gregoras, ed. Schopen, vol. 1 (Bonn, 1829)
- 26: Nicephorus Gregoras, ed. Schopen, vol. 2 (Bonn, 1830)
- 27: Nicephorus Gregoras, ed. Bekker, vol. 3 (Bonn, 1855)
- 28: Historia Politica et Patriarchica Constantinopoleos; Epirotica, ed. Bekker (Bonn, 1849)
- 29: Ioannes Lydus, ed. Bekker (Bonn, 1837)
- 30: Leo Diaconus, etc., ed. Hase (Bonn, 1828)
- 31: Leo Grammaticus, Eustathius, ed. Bekker (Bonn, 1842)
- 32: Ioannes Malalas, ed. L. Dindorf (Bonn, 1831)
- 33: Constantinus Manasses, Ioel, Georgius Acropolita, ed. Bekker (Bonn, 1837)
- 34: Merobaudes, Corippus, ed. Bekker (Bonn, 1836)
- 35: Nicetas Choniates, ed. Bekker (Bonn, 1835)
- 36: Georgius Pachymeres, ed. Bekker, vol. 1 (Bonn, 1835)
- 37: Georgius Pachymeres, ed. Bekker, vol. 2 (Bonn, 1835)
- 38: Paulus Silentiarius, George Pisida, Nicephorus Cpolitanus, ed. Bekker (Bonn, 1837)
- 39: Georgius Phrantzes, Ioannes Cananus, Ioannes Anagnostes, ed. Bekker (Bonn, 1828)
- 40: Procopius, ed. K. Dindorf, vol. 1 (Bonn, 1833)
- 41: Procopius, ed. K. Dindorf, vol. 2 (Bonn, 1833)
- 42: Procopius, ed. K. Dindorf, vol. 3 (Bonn, 1838)
- 43: Theophanes Confessor, ed. Classen, vol. 1 (Bonn, 1839)
- 44: Theophanes Confessor, ed. Classen, vol. 2; Anastasius, ed. Bekker (Bonn, 1841)
- 45: Theophanes Continuatus, Ioannes Cameniata, Symeon Magister, Georgius Monachus, ed. Bekker (Bonn, 1838)
- 46: Theophylactus Simocatta, ed. Bekker (Bonn, 1834)
- 47: Ioannes Zonaras, ed. Pinder, vol. 1 (Bonn, 1841)
- 48: Ioannes Zonaras, ed. Pinder, vol. 2 (Bonn, 1844)
- 49: Ioannes Zonaras, ed. Büttner-Wobst, vol. 3 (Bonn, 1897)
- 50: Zosimus, ed. Bekker (Bonn, 1837)
See also
- Byzantine Literature
- Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae
References
- ^ The Life and Letters of Barthold George Niebuhr, ed. K. J. Bunsen, with J. Brandis and J. W. Lorbell (New York: Harper, 1854) p. 483, and letter 364 (pp. 501-502), addressed to Savigny, dated 29 April 1827: "You will have heard of the edition of the Byzantine historians, which I am superintending. It is a great delight to me to be able thus to infuse some life into our literary doings; to give employment to young philologists; to give extension, activity, and perfection to typography; to contribute my mite [sic] to the increase of general prosperity...."
- ^ H. Omont, "La collection byzantine de Labbe et le projet de J. M. Suarès", Revue des études grecques 17 (1904), p. 18
- ^ D. R. Reinsch "The History of Editing Byzantine Historiographical Texts", in The Byzantine World, ed. P. Stephenson (New York: Routledge, 2010), p. 441
- ^ "Niebuhr's Edition of the Byzantine Historians" The Foreign Review 1 (1828), p. 575. The anonymous reviewer criticizes Niebuhr, however, for standardizing Byzantine orthography along Classical lines
- ^ Reinsch, op. cit., reports that August Heisenberg, professor of Byzantine literature at Munich, once said of Bekker that he "must have revised the texts 'lying on the sofa with the cigar in his mouth.'" J. B. Bury was even harsher in his assessment, calling the CSHB "the most lamentably feeble production ever given to the world by German scholars of great reputation." See: idem "Introduction", to Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. 1, ed. Bury (London: Methuen, 1897), p. xlix.
Further reading
- Irmscher, Johannes (1953). "Das Bonner Corpus und die Berliner Akademie" (PDF). hdl:11615/10833. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2015-01-03.
- Reinsch, Dietrich R. (2010). "The History of Editing Byzantine Historiographical Texts". In Stephenson, Paul (ed.). The Byzantine World. New York: Routledge. pp. 435–445. ISBN 9781136727870.
External links
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