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VOLUME CXLVII OF THE GREEK PATROLOGIA. NICEPHORUS CALLISTUS. MAXIMUS PLANUDES. THE TWO CALLISTI. NICEPHORUS THE MONK.
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CATHOLIC TRADITION. FOURTEENTH CENTURY. YEARS 1332-1335.
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF NICEPHORUS CALLISTUS XANTHOPULUS, IN EIGHTEEN BOOKS.
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CATHOLIC TRADITION. FOURTEENTH CENTURY. YEARS 1332-1335.
TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THE AUTHORS AND WORKS CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME CXLVII.
NICEPHORUS CALLISTUS XANTHOPULUS. Ecclesiastical History (Continuation and conclusion). MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS. Narrative concerning the bishops of Byzantium and all the patriarchs of Constantinople. col. 449 449 Anselm Banduri’s observations and notes on the Catalogue of Nicephorus Callistus. 469 Sermon on the holy and apostolic-equal ointment-bearer Mary Magdalene, from the Banduri Catalogue. 539 Prayer in time of public calamity. 575 Other prayers in public affliction. 577 Prayer for the Christian people. 581 Prayer for the emperor and his army. 583 Prayer for the elevation of the precious and life-giving Cross. 585 Prayer at the dedication of a sacred temple. 587 Another prayer at the dedication of a temple. 589 Confessional prayer to our creator and fashioner, in which all evil human affections are noted, 591, where see our annotation. Iambic trimeter poem on the destruction of Jerusalem. 601 Synopsis of Divine Scripture. 605 Notice on the following ascetic works, from the *Philokalia* of the holy watchers. Venice, 1782 folio. 633
CALLISTUS AND IGNATIUS XANTHOPULI THE MONKS. Method and most accurate Rule for those who have chosen to live peacefully and monastically; regarding their direction, life, and governance. 633
CALLISTUS PATRIARCH OF CONSTANTINOPLE. Chapters on prayer. 813
CALLISTUS TELICOUDES. Chapters on quiet conversation. 817 Selections from the holy Fathers on Prayer and Attention. 827
CALLISTUS CATAPHYGIOTA. Notice from the *Philokalia*. 833 On union with God and the contemplative life. 833
NICEPHORUS THE MONK. Treatise on sobriety and guarding the heart. 943
MAXIMUS PLANUDES THE MONK OF CONSTANTINOPLE. Notice from Fabricius’ *Bibliotheca Graeca*, ed. Harles. 967 Oration on the burial of the body of our Lord God Jesus Christ and the lamentation of the most holy Theotokos and our Lady. 985 Encomium on the holy and praiseworthy coryphaei of the apostles, Peter and Paul. — Gretserus edited this very long homily, half-truncated due to a defect in the codex, under the name of Gregory of Nyssa, at Ingolstadt in the year 1602. It is now published complete from the Coislinian codex 1187, with our translation up to the point where Gretser’s edition begins. 1017 Translation of some chapters of St. Augustine from the fifteenth book of *De Trinitate*, which prove that the Holy Spirit also proceeds from the Son. 1111 Syllogisms on the procession of the Holy Spirit against the Latins. — See volume CLXI, col. 309, where they are published with the refutations of Bessarion and Demetrius Cydones. 1129 Appendix. — Some points from Augustine’s work on John regarding the procession of the Holy Spirit. 1131 Fragment of a book ascribed to St. Augustine, on the knowledge of true life, translated into Greek. 1157 Maximus Planudes’ letter to Manuel Philes. A Catalogue of Planudes’ Letters is subjoined from a Vatican codex. 1165 Maximus Planudes’ Comparison of Winter and Spring, from the Greek Parisian codex no. 1187, published here for the first time. 1169 Maximus Planudes’ iambic verses on the holy martyrs Marcian and Martyrius, and on the church of St. Andrew. 1175 Indices to the Ecclesiastical History of Nicephorus Callistus. 1177