Byzantine of Louvre

By Byzantine of Louvre or Corpus scripum historiæ Byzantine , one indicates a collection of Byzantine historical sources published under the direction of the father Labbe (who wrote the introduction of it) with which this load was entrusted by Colbert. It was printed of 1648 with 1711 by the Jésuite S, and account 24 volumes.

One names thus the collection of the historians Greek S whose works transmitted the history of the to us Byzantine Empire since Constantin until the Prise of Constantinople (1453).

The principal authors who are included/understood there are:

these the first 4 authors form a complete body of history, of Constantin at the end of the 15th century; then come from many writers who treated only detached parts, and of which most remarkable, while following the chronological order, are:

Their writings are generally only compilations without art and choice; they contain nevertheless the only materials which we had on this part of the history.

The collection of the Byzantine authors was formed under Louis XIV and was printed with the Louvre in 36 folio volumes, 1644 - 1711. It was reprinted with Venice, 1722 and following years, and at the 19th century with Bonn: this last edition, undertaken by Barthold Georg Niebuhr in 1827, was continued after its death by the Académie of Berlin.

One joint with this collection Imperium Eastern of Anselmo Banduri. The President Louis Cousin translated into French the Byzantine principal authors under the name of Histoire of Constantinople , 1672 - 1674, 8 volumes in-4.

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