PATROLOGIAE CURSUS COMPLETUS, OR UNIVERSAL, INTEGRAL, UNIFORM, CONVENIENT, AND ECONOMICAL LIBRARY OF ALL THE HOLY FATHERS, DOCTORS, AND ECCLESIASTICAL WRITERS
Of the Latins, or of the Greeks, who flourished from the Apostolic age to the times of the Council of Trent (the year 1545) for the Latins, and the Council of Florence (the year 1439) for the Greeks: A chronological reediting of all the monuments of Catholic tradition that have existed throughout the first fifteen centuries of the Church and beyond, according to the most accurate editions, collated with one another and with some manuscripts, and extremely diligently corrected; continuously illustrated with dissertations, commentaries, and various readings; augmented by all the works discovered after the most ample editions which are owed to the last three centuries, having been completed; gifted with particular analytical indexes following each volume, or each author of any importance; adorned with chapters duly arranged within the text itself, as well as with titles distinguishing the upper margin of each page and signifying the subject matter beneath; amplified by works that are both dubious and apocryphal, yet possessing some authority in relation to ecclesiastical tradition; enriched with more than two hundred indexes of authors as well as works, whether alphabetical, chronological, statistical, synthetic, analytical, or analogical, for every point of religious dogma, morals, liturgy, canon law, discipline, history, and all other things without any exception; but especially with two immense and general indexes, namely: the one of subjects, by consulting which, whatever has been written on any theme—not only by such and such a Father, but by each and every one of the Fathers, without even one being omitted—may be seen at a single glance; the other of Holy Scripture, from which it may be easy for the reader to discover which Fathers, and in what places in their works, have commented on each individual verse of the individual books of Scripture, from the first of Genesis to the last of the Apocalypse.
A most accurate edition, and one easily preferable to all others, if one considers the clarity of the characters, the quality of the paper, the integrity of the text, the perfection of the correction, the variety and number of the reprinted works, the format of the volumes which is most convenient and constant for the entire run of the Patrologia, the low price, and especially this unique, methodical, and chronological collection of six hundred fragments and minor works hitherto scattered here and there, but gathered for the first time in our library from works and manuscripts pertaining to all ages, places, languages, and forms.
LATER GREEK SERIES
In which the Fathers, Doctors, and Writers of the Greek Church appear from the Photian age up to the times of the Council of Florence: Edited by J.-P. Migne, of the Universal Library of the Clergy, or the editor of the complete courses on every branch of ecclesiastical science.
The Patrologia, like the Church itself, is divided into two parts, the one indeed Latin, the other Graeco-Latin. The Latin, now thoroughly written out, stands in its own bulk at two hundred and twenty-five volumes for the first series, or will stand soon after the indexes are completed, and sells for 1,225 francs. The Greek has been committed to print in a double edition. The former embraces the Greek text together with a Latin version alongside, and has reached one hundred and nine volumes, but without indexes; the latter, however, exhibits only this version, and therefore is kept within fifty-five volumes. Each had appeared in its entirety on the twenty-fourth day of December, 1860. Each Graeco-Latin volume is sold for eight francs, and each merely Latin volume for only five francs: but in both cases, in order for the buyer to enjoy the benefit of this price, it is necessary to purchase the entire collection, whether Greek or Latin, consisting of 326 volumes for the larger edition and 272 for the smaller without indexes; for otherwise the disparate size and difficulties of each volume will require varying prices. However, if anyone should buy the Graeco-Latin collection in its entirety and separately, or the same translated from Greek into Latin, he will obtain each volume for nine or six francs respectively. These conditions apply to the series of the Patrologia not yet printed.
PATROLOGIA GRAECA VOLUME CIX.
HISTORIANS OF BYZANTIUM AFTER THEOPHANES.
Printed and sold by J.-P. Migne, editor, on the street called d'Amboise, formerly near the gate of the Parisians commonly called d'Enfer, or Petit-Montrouge, but now within the walls of Paris. 1863
WRITERS OF BYZANTINE HISTORY AFTER THEOPHANES, FROM THE EDITION OF FRANÇOIS COMBEFIS; CONTAINING: THE CONTINUATION OF THEOPHANES; JOHN CAMENIATA ON THE CAPTURE OF THESSALONICA; SYMEON THE MAGISTER; GEORGE THE MONK'S CONTINUATION; LEO THE GRAMMARIAN; THEODOSIUS THE DEACON'S ON THE CAPTURE OF CRETE; THE INCERTUS ON THE SAME SUBJECT; AND THE LETTERS OF VARIOUS EMPERORS AND OTHERS.
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PARIS, 1863
AT THE PRINTING HOUSE OF J.-P. MIGNE
CENTURIES IX-X. YEARS 813-948.
BYZANTINE HISTORIANS WRITING AFTER THEOPHANES, FROM THE EDITION OF FRANÇOIS COMBEFIS; TO WHICH IS ADDED JOSEPH GENESIUS’ HISTORY OF CONSTANTINOPOLITAN AFFAIRS; EDITED AND NEWLY REVISED BY J.-P. MIGNE, PUBLISHER OF THE UNIVERSAL LIBRARY OF THE CLERGY, OR OF THE COMPLETE COURSES ON EACH INDIVIDUAL BRANCH OF ECCLESIASTICAL KNOWLEDGE. SINGLE VOLUME. PRICE 9 FRENCH FRANCS. PRINTED AND SOLD BY J.-P. MIGNE, PUBLISHER, IN THE STREET CALLED D'AMBOISE, ONCE NEAR THE GATE OF PARIS COMMONLY CALLED THE D'ENFER GATE, OR PETIT-MONTROUGE, BUT NOW WITHIN THE WALLS OF PARIS. 1863