CATHOLIC TRADITION. THIRTEENTH CENTURY. YEARS 1205-1270. NICETAS CHONIATES. COLLECTED WORKS. NICETÆ CHONIATÆ OPERA OMNIA (NICETAS CHONIATES' COMPLETE WORKS), AS WELL AS THOSE OF HIS BROTHER, MICHAEL ACOMINATUS CHONIATES, ARCHBISHOP OF ATHENS; THE WRITINGS OR FRAGMENTS OF WRITINGS THAT HAVE SURVIVED TO OUR AGE; INCLUDED BESIDES ARE THE BYZANTINE ANNALS OF GEORGE ACROPOLITA AND THE WORKS, DIPLOMAS, AND EPISTLES OF POPE ALEXANDER IV, THEODORE DUCAS EMPEROR OF NICAEA, GERMANUS II, NICEPHORUS, AND ARSENIUS, PATRIARCHS OF CONSTANTINOPLE, AND OF NICEPHORUS CHUMNUS AND METHODIUS THE MONK. EDITED AND RE-EXAMINED BY J.-P. MIGNE, OF THE UNIVERSAL LIBRARY OF THE CLERGY, OR OF THE COMPLETE COURSES IN EACH BRANCH OF ECCLESIASTICAL SCIENCE. THE LATTER VOLUME OF NICETAS. A SINGLE VOLUME FOR THE OTHERS. PARIS, AT THE GARNIER BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS AND SUCCESSORS TO J.-P. MIGNE, ON THE STREET CALLED AVENUE DU MAINE, 189, FORMERLY CHAUSSÉE DU MAINE, 127. 1887
CATHOLIC TRADITION. CENTURY III. YEARS 1205-1270.
LIST OF AUTHORS AND WORKS CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME CXL
NICETAS CHONIATA (CONTINUATION OF THE WORKS) NICETAS CHONIATA: FROM THE BOOKS OF THE TREASURY OF ORTHODOX FAITH. Ex libro VI. On Macedonius. A Ex libro VIII. On Nestorius. 33 Ex libro IX. On Eutyches. 37 Ex libro X. On the Fifth Synod. 67 Ex libro XII. On the heresy of the Aphthartodocetae. 75 Ex libro XV. On the Sixth Synod. 89 Ex libro XVII. On the heresies of the Armenians. 93 Ex libro XX. On the superstition of the Hagarenes. 105 On the reception of those who come from the Hagarenes to the true faith. 123 Another formula in the notes of Sylburgius. 125 Ex libro XXIII. On the errors of Eustratius, Metropolitan of Nicaea. 135 Ex libro XXIV. Synod of the Greek Church concerning the dogma regarding those words: "You are the one who offers and who is offered and who receives," which was discussed under Emperor Manuel Comnenus against Soterichus, the elect of Antioch. Preceded by Soterichus’s dialogue with Philo concerning his false doctrine. 137 Ex libro XXV. Synod held on account of that statement, "My Father is greater than I." The Roman Editor’s Monitorium is prefixed. 201 From an uncertain book. On the heresy of the Lizicini. 281 Review of the Medicean Codex XXIV, containing the Treasury of Nicetas, digested into XXVII books. 283
CONSTANTINOPOLITANS TO INNOCENT III Epistle of the Greeks to Innocent III, Pope of Rome, written after Constantinople was captured by the Latins, during the reign of Emperor Henry. 293
MICHAEL ACOMINATUS CHONIATA, ARCHBISHOP OF ATHENS, BROTHER OF NICETAS The life and deeds of Michael Acominatus, written from D. Adolph Ellisen’s *Michael Akominatos von Chona, Erzbischof von Athen*. — 1. Various aspects of Athens in the Middle Ages until the end of the 12th century. 2. Youthful acts of Michael and his brother in Chonae and Constantinople. 3. Michael as Archbishop of Athens, the most miserable state of Greece. 4. Michael’s struggle with his brother Nicetas, concerning the matters mentioned in n. 305. 5. What happened in Athens after Michael’s time. 6. Michael’s old age and death. Prefaced by an encomiastic preface by Anonymus on the same works. 299
WORKS OF MICHAEL ACOMINATUS Oratio delivered on Palm Sunday. 323 Epistles to Eustathius, Archbishop of Thessalonica. 329 Monody on the same deceased person. 337 Monody delivered at the funeral of his brother. 861 Hypomnesticon to Emperor Alexius Comnenus. On the exactions of the treasury. 877 Iambi on the ancient dignity of the city of Athens. 383 Appendix: Panegyric of the holy archangels Michael and Gabriel. 1221
THEODORUS ALANUS, BISHOP Alanicus, or on his journey through Alania. 385 From an unpublished work of the same to his younger brother. 413
THEODORUS ANDIDENSIS, BISHOP On the symbols and mysteries of the divine Liturgy. 417
MANUEL MAGNUS RHETOR, CONSTANTINOPOLITAN On the procession of the Holy Spirit. A disputation with Brother Francis, of the Order of Preachers. 467
PANTALEO, DEACON OF CONSTANTINOPLE Against the errors of the Greeks. 483 Narrative of the miracles of Michael the archangel. 573
MANUEL CHARITOPULUS, PATRIARCH OF CONSTANTINOPLE Solutions to certain questions concerning the right of patronage and the translation of bishops. 591
GERMANUS II, PATRIARCH OF CONSTANTINOPLE Double Notitia: 1. From the *Oriens Christianus*. 2. From the library of Fabricius. 593 Epistles to Pope Gregory IX and the cardinals concerning the union of the Churches, with Gregory’s double response; Definition of the Pope’s apocrisiarii that the Holy Spirit proceeds equally from the Father and the Son, with Germanus’s response; also the Acts of the council held at Nymphaeum in Bithynia for the sake of union. 601 First epistle to the Cypriots. 601 Second epistle to the same. 613 Homily. 621 Synodal decrees. 757
MICHAEL CHUMNUS, METROPOLITAN OF THESSALONICA On the degrees of kinship. 759
THEODORUS DUCAS LASCARIS Notitia from Leo Allatius’s *Diatriba De Theodoris*. 761 WORKS OF THEODORUS: On the divine names. The Roman Editor’s Monitorium is prefixed. 761 Canon of exhortation to the Holy Mother of God. 771 On natural communication, six books, in Latin from the Basle edition, in Greek from the Greek manuscript codices of Paris. 1259
METHODIUS MONACHUS On avoiding schism. The Roman Editor’s Monitorium is prefixed. 779
NICEPHORUS, PATRIARCH OF CONSTANTINOPLE Against those who say that the dead are to be anointed with holy oil. 805
CONSTANTINUS ACROPOLITA Sermon on Saint John Damascene. 811 Sermon on Saint Theodosia. 887
ARSENIUS AUTORIANUS, PATRIARCH OF CONSTANTINOPLE Anacreontic poem on the Resurrection of the Lord. 935 Privilege for the monastery of the Holy Mother of God of Macrinitissa. 939 Testament. 941
GEORGIUS ACROPOLITA Annals, from the capture of Constantinople by the Latins in 1201 until its recovery by Michael Palaeologus in 1261. 969
NICEPHORUS CHUMNUS, CANICLEO PREFECT, After assuming the monastic habit: NATHANAEL MONACHUS Notitia from the library of Fabricius, edited by Harles. 1291 Antitheticus against Plotinus on the soul, from the edition of Fred. Creuzer after Plotinus’s *On Beauty*. 1399 Consolatory sermon to his daughter the empress on account of her widowhood, when she was in her sixteenth year. 1437 On the miracle performed at Cana. 1451 On the petition of Elisha to Elijah. 1455 Testament. 1465 On the feast of the Dormition of St. Mary. 1498
(All from our own translation.)
ALEXANDER PAPA IV Constitutio Cypria, by which the history of the ecclesiastical hierarchy prevailing in the East during the Middle Ages is wonderfully illustrated. 1541