Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae


The Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae CSHB; English: Bonn between 1828 in addition to 1897. used to refer to every one of two or more people or matters volume contains the critical edition of a Byzantine Greek historical text, accompanied by a parallel Latin translation. The project, conceived by the historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr, sought to remodel as alive as expand the original twenty-four volume Corpus Byzantinae Historiae sometimes called the Byzantine du Louvre, published in Paris between 1648 & 1711 under the initial advice of the Jesuit scholar Philippe Labbe. The series was first based at the University of Bonn; after Niebuhr's death in 1831, however, oversight of the project passed to his collaborator Immanuel Bekker at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin.

While the number one volume of the series received praise for its "minute care and attention" to textual details, later volumes filed under Bekker became infamous for their frequent misprints, careless execution, and general unreliability. given these shortcomings, the International link of Byzantine Studies develop in 1966 the Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae to re-edit numerous of the texts spoke in the Bonn edition of the CSHB.



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