A History of the Holy Eastern Church (Volume 1)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 322. Among these, Symeon of Thessalonica holds the first place: his book on textit{de Templo et Missa, and his treatise textit{On Ordinations, are invaluable. Timothy the Presbyter, in his work textit{concerning them that come to the Holy Church, edited at the end of Combefis's History of the Monothelites. The Homilies of Theophanes Cerameus, Archbishop of Taurome- iiium. which are curious as the production of a Sicilo-Greek Ecclesiastic of the twelfth century. They were edited by Scorsi, in 1644. George Codinus on the Offices of the Church of Constantinople. The Poems of John Mauropius, Archbishop of Euchaita, (London, 1610.) The Festival Sermons of Damascenus of the Studium, which are edited with another useful book, the Exposition of the Divine Offices by John Cartanus. Nilus Doxapatrius, on the Five Patriarchal Sees, (ed. 1685.) The works generally of Theodore Balsamon, but more particularly his replies to Mark of Alexandria. The Exposition of the Divine Offices at the end of Sirletti's edition of S. Mark's Liturgy: and of modern books, I am most indebted to the textit{Novaia Skrejal, put forth at S. Petersburg by the Holy Governing Synod, in 1838. 23. The sources whence I have derived the first and second chapters of the fourth book, which treat of the Dominical arrangements and Calendars of Saints, are fully explained in the proper place. The two next chapters, which are occupied with the office-books and canonical hours of the Church of Constantinople, were one of the most difficult parts of the work, the information therein contained being in great measure traditional, and the various offices, and their sequence, scarcely possible for a stranger to understand without oral instruction at the commencement. It may serve to shew how neglected had been these studies in England, that the Greek textit{Ty...