CATHOLIC TRADITION. FIFTEENTH CENTURY. YEARS 1415-1453. OF THE MOST PIOUS AND MOST LEARNED KING, LORD MANUEL PALAIOLOGOS. THE COMPLETE EXTANT WORKS. OF THE MOST PIOUS AND MOST LEARNED EMPEROR MANUEL PALAIOLOGOS. COMPLETE WORKS, THEOLOGICAL, POLEMICAL, PANEGYRICAL, PEDAGOGICAL. ADJOINED ARE THE CHRONICLE OF GEORGE PHRANTZES WITH ITS VATICAN ABBREVIATION; AND ALSO THE HISTORICAL WRITINGS AND LETTERS OF JOHN ANAIGNOSTES, JOHN CANANUS, AND MANUEL CHRYSOLORAS. EDITED AND REVISED ANEW BY J.-P. MIGNE, PUBLISHER OF THE UNIVERSAL LIBRARY OF THE CLERGY, OR OF THE COMPLETE COURSES IN EACH BRANCH OF ECCLESIASTICAL SCIENCE. SINGLE VOLUME. PRICE 10 FRENCH FRANCS. PRINTED AND SOLD BY J.-P. MIGNE, PUBLISHER, ON THE STREET CALLED THIBAUD, FORMERLY D’AMBOISE, NEAR THE GATE OF PARIS COMMONLY CALLED D'ENFER, OR PETIT-MONTROUGE, NOW ACTUALLY WITHIN THE WALLS OF PARIS. 1866
CATHOLIC TRADITION. FIFTEENTH CENTURY, YEARS 1415–1453.
LIST OF AUTHORS AND WORKS CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME CLVI.
MANUEL CHRYSOLORAS. Life and Writings of Manuel Chrysoloras, from Fabricius in his *Bibliotheca Graeca* and Hankius, *De Script. rer. Byzant.* Included are various eulogies of Chrysoloras and funeral inscriptions. 9 Epistles of Manuel Chrysoloras. 23
JOANNES CANANUS. History of the siege of the city of Constantinople by Amurath II, begun on June 10, 1422, and broken off on August 24. 61
MANUEL II PALAEOLOGUS. Biographical notice from Henry Wharton’s Supplement to Cave’s *De script. eccles.* 81 Bibliographical notice from Johann Albert Fabricius’ *Bibliotheca Graeca*. 83
WORKS OF MANUEL PALAEOLOGUS. Dialogue with his mother, or On Marriage (title and beginning, with the epistle inscribed to Demetrius Cydones which precedes the Dialogue). 83 Epistle to Andreas Asanes concerning dreams. 87 Panegyrical Oration On the Health of the Emperor. 91 Oration on the Dormition of the Most Holy Virgin Mother of God. 91 Supplicatory Canon to the Lady Mother of God for present dangers. 107 Dialogues which he held with a certain Persian, who was serving in the office of interpreter in the Galatian town of Ancyra. Preceded by the Prolegomena of the editor C. B. Hase, written in the vernacular. 125 Preface to his brother Theodore. 125 First Dialogue: On Angels and Souls. 133 Dialogue II: On Heaven and Earth; likewise on the Fall of Adam, the Judgment of Christ, and the Paradise of Mahomet. 149 Funeral Oration for his brother, the Despot Theodore Palaeologus. Preceded by the Preface of François Combefis and the *Protheoria* of George Plethon. 181 Precepts of Royal Education, to his son John, from the 1578 Basle edition of Johann Leunclavius, inscribed to Francesco de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. 309 Seven Ethico-Political Orations, to his son John, from the same edition. 385 Morning Prayers. 563 Metrical Chapters of Compunction. 575 Anacreontic poem addressed to a certain ignorant and talkative man. 575 Image of Spring, in Phrygian-work embroidery. 577 Speech in the person of Tamerlane, addressed to Bajazet, when he had been defeated in battle. 579 On the Agarenian (Bajazet) Thunderbolt, in the form of a psalm. 581 Epistle to Manuel Chrysoloras, written by the Emperor while he was staying in the court of the English King Henry IV, asking for aid. 581
JOANNES ANAGNOSTA. Life and Writings of Joannes Anagnosta, from Hankius, *De Script. rer. Byzant.* 583 Narrative of the final destruction of Thessalonica, captured by Amurath II in the year 430. 788
GEORGIUS PHRANTZA. On the Life and Writings of Georgius Phrantza, from Johann Albert Fabricius’ *Bibliotheca Graeca*. 633 Larger Chronicle, from the edition of Jacobus Pontanus and Franciscus Carolus Alter. 637 Smaller or abridged Chronicle, from the edition of Cardinal Angelo Mai. 1025