5CATHOLIC TRADITION. ELEVENTH CENTURY. YEAR 1058.
GEORGE CEDRENUS. COMPENDIUM OF HISTORIES.
GEORGE CEDRENUS’S COMPENDIUM OF HISTORIES,
TO WHICH ARE SUBJOINED EXCERPTS FROM THE BREVIARY OF JOHN SCYLITZES, CUROPALATES.
THERE ARE ADDED
ALL THE WORKS OF MICHAEL PSELLUS THAT COULD BE FOUND,
NOW COLLECTED INTO ONE FOR THE FIRST TIME.
PREPARED AND REVISED BY J.-P. MIGNE,
PUBLISHER OF THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSAL CLERGY,
OR OF THE COMPLETE COURSES ON THE VARIOUS BRANCHES OF ECCLESIASTICAL SCIENCE.
SECOND VOLUME.
PARIS,
AT THE BROTHERS GARNIER, PUBLISHERS AND SUCCESSORS TO J.-P. MIGNE,
ON THE STREET CALLED AVENUE DU MAINE, 189, FORMERLY CHAUSSÉE DU MAINE, 127.
1889
7CATHOLIC TRADITION. 11TH CENTURY. YEAR 1058.
LIST OF AUTHORS AND WORKS CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME CXXII
GEORGIUS CEDRENUS. Compendium of Histories. (Continuation.) 9
JOANNES SCYLITZES. Historical Breviary. 367
MICHAEL PSELLUS. Diatribe of Leo Allatius on Psellus and his writings. 478
PART ONE – THEOLOGICAL WORKS.
Exposition on the Song of Songs. 538
One hundred and fifty-seven chapters on manifold doctrine. 687
Solutions to natural questions. 783
Political verses on dogma for Emperor Michael Ducas, from the *Thesaurus Juris* of Meerman, with our translation added. 811
Dialogue on the energy or operation of demons, against Manes and the Euchites, from the edition of Gaulmin (Paris, 1613), collated with that which Boissonade published at Nuremberg in 1838. 849
What are the opinions of the Greeks concerning demons, in Greek by Boissonade, with our interpretation. 875
On the virtues of stones, from the edition of Jac. Maussac (Leiden, 1745). 883
Epigram on St. Gregory of Nazianzus (mentioned only). 899
Characters of the Holy Fathers Gregory the Theologian, Basil the Great, John Chrysostom, and Gregory of Nyssa, in Greek by Boissonade. 901
Verses on the three holy hierarchs, among the works of Theodore Prodromus. 907
Encomium and Office of Symeon Metaphrastes (Patrologia, Volume CXIV). 909
Monody on the collapse of the Church of St. Sophia, from Leo Allatius in the notes to Georgius Acropolita. 911
To a certain monk on the determination of death, in Greek by Boissonade. 915PART TWO – LEGAL AND CANONICAL WORKS.
Offering of the Nomocanon to Emperor Michael Ducas, from the *Thesaurus Juris* of Meerman, with our translation. 919
Compendium of laws in political verses for Emperor Michael Ducas, from the same, ibid. 925
To the students on the names of actions, in Greek by Boissonade. 1007
On the definitions of recent laws and legal terms by Latin names, from the same. 1023PART THREE – PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS.
Celebrated opinions on the soul, from the edition of Joannes Tarinus after Origen’s *Philocalia*. 1029
On Platonic Psychogony, from the edition of Car. Linder. 1077
Exposition on the magical oracles that proceeded from Zoroaster, in the *Sibylline Oracles* of Galæus. 1115
Exposition on the Chaldean Oracles, from the same, ibid. 1123
Summary and brief exposition of Chaldean dogmas, from the same. 1149
On the *Pimander* of Hermes Trismegistus, by Boissonade. 1153PART FOUR – HISTORICAL WORKS.
On Attican places and names, from Boissonade. 1155
Epigram on the bronze horse in the Hippodrome which was lifting its foot, from Banduri’s *Imperium Orientale*. 1161
Letters, from Frid. Tafel regarding Thessalonica and its countryside, and by Boissonade, with our translation. 1161
Fragment from an oration to Emperor Constantine Monomachus, from Leo Allatius, *On the newer temples of the Greeks*. 1185
Other fragments. 1185APPENDIX TO THE WORKS OF MICH. PSELLUS.
Anonymous work on the antiquities of Constantinople, from Banduri’s *Imperium Orientale*. 1187
Testament of Solomon, of which Psellus often makes mention in his book *On the operations of demons*, with our translation added. 1315
Fabrot’s Glossary, or interpretation of obscure words in Cedrenus. 1361
Index to Cedrenus. 1405
Index to Michael Psellus and the Appendix. 1443