TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS OF WHAT IS CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME
MANUEL CHRYSOLORAS. Notice from Fabricius' Library. 9 Life of Manuel Chrysoloras, from Hankius, *On the Byzantine Writers*. 13
EPISTLES OF MANUEL CHRYSOLORAS. I. — To the Emperor John Palæologus, in which a comparison is contained of Old and New Rome. 25 II. — To John Chrysoloras. 53 III. — To Demetrius Chrysoloras. 57
JOANNES CANANUS. Notice from H. Warton’s Supplement to Cave’s *Script. Eccles.* 59 On the failed attempt on Constantinople by Amurath II, in the year 1422. 61
MANUEL PALÆOLOGUS EMPEROR. Historical notice from H. Warton. 81 Bibliographical notice from Fabricius’ *Biblioth. Gr.* 85
WORKS OF MANUEL PALÆOLOGUS. Oration on the Dormition of the Most Holy Virgin Theotokos. 91 Deprecatory Canon to the same for present dangers. 107 Two dialogues which he held with a Mahometan while functioning as a representative in the city of Ancyra in Galatia. C. B. Hasius’ preface to the editor, written in the vernacular, is prefixed. 125 Manuel’s prologue to his brother Theodore Palæologus. 125 First Dialogue. — Concerning angels and men. 135 Dialogue II. — Concerning heaven, earth, and those things that are contained therein; also concerning the fall of Adam and the judgment of Christ and Mahomet's paradise. 149
FUNERAL ORATION for Theodore Palæologus, brother. Prefixed are 1º. The note of Francis Combefis, and 2º. George Plethon’s Pro-theory to the oration. 181 Wise maxims excerpted from this oration. 307
PRECEPTS of royal education to prince John, comprised in one hundred chapters. 315
SEVEN ETHICO-POLITICAL ORATIONS. 395 I. — Exhortatory oration on the study of eloquence, and concerning virtue and the good prince. 396 II. — That the good is naturally loved by all. That an evil man is hateful even to himself. But sometimes we love even that which is evil, because we think it to be good. Likewise concerning happiness and concerning virtue. 409 III. — Concerning choosing, and concerning the voluntary, then that a bad man is not bad by nature nor from external causes, but by his own fault. 419 IV. — Concerning pleasure; that it should be entirely absent from this life. 441 V. — Concerning pleasure; by which the preceding oration is refuted. 461 VI. — That sin is something by far the worst. That no one ought to despair neither of himself nor of another, but to judge himself and not another; and not to hate those who have done wrong, but to have pity; and concerning repentance and the providence of God, and love, and clemency toward men. 485 VII. — Concerning humility and also, in part, concerning love. 488 Epilogus epistolaris. 557 Propitatory oration of the prince to his benevolent subjects who are in the flower of their age. 561 MORNING PRAYERS. 565
ORDER OF THE CONTENTS OF THIS VOLUME
ALLE, 573 Metrical chapters of compunction, 575 DESCRIPTION of spring, 577 ADDRESS to the captive Bajazet in the person of Tamerlane, 579 On the Agarene thunderbolt (Bajazet) in the form of a psalm, 581. EPISTLE to Manuel Chrysoloras, written by the Emperor while he was at the court of King Henry IV of England, begging for aid for his afflicted affairs, 581
JOANNES ANAGNOSTA Notice from Hankius, *De scriptoribus rerum byzantinarum*, 585 NARRATION ON THE DESTRUCTION OF THESSALONICA, taken by Amurath in the year 1430, 787
GEORGIUS PHRANTZA Notice from the *Bibliotheca Graeca* of Johann Albert Fabricius, 651 GEORGIUS PHRANTZA'S CHRONICON MAJUS Proemium, 637 Book I, from Michael Palaeologus to Manuel, 641 Book II, beginning after the death of the Emperor Manuel Palaeologus and from the beginning of the reign of John, his son, 737 Book III. Concerning the reign of Constantine Palaeologus, the capture of Constantinople, and certain other matters, 807 Book IV, which begins from the capture of the queen of cities, containing the riots and battles excited in the Peloponnese between the brothers and despots, and narrating how he subjected these and the island of Ameras to himself, and what befell the author, and certain other matters, distributed into chapters. Roman editor's note on the subsequent abridged Chronicle, 1025 CHRONICON MINUS OR ABBREVIATUM Indices to Georgius Phrantza, 1079
THE END OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SIXTH VOLUME.
Paris. From the Presses of J.-P. Migne.