Convergence and Divergence between the Patriarchal Register of Constantinople and the Ponemata Diaphora of Archbishop Demetrios Chomatenos of Achrida/Ohrid
Convergence and Divergence between the Patriarchal Register of Constantinople and the Ponemata Diaphora of Archbishop Demetrios Chomatenos of Achrida/Ohrid

Author(s): Günter Prinzing
Subject(s): 13th to 14th Centuries, 15th Century
Published by: Vizantološki institut SANU
Keywords: Patriarchal Register; Ponemata Diaphora; Ohrid original copy
Summary/Abstract: My paper is concerned with special points regarding the form and content of the “Ohrid Corpus of Acts”, i.e. the Ponemata diaphora of Chomatenos, in comparison with the Patriarchal Register of Constantinople (= PRC) that has come down to us in two original manuscripts of the register for the years 1315–1372 and 1379–1402, the Vienna Codices Historici Graeci 47 and 48. The critical new edition of the PRC is a current major project of Vienna Byzantine Studies. Since 1981, three volumes of the PRC and several accompanying publications have appeared within the framework of the Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae. However, the main focus of my paper is on the Ohrid corpus of acts that owes its origin to the fact that Archbishop Chomatenos, a competent jurist, conducted his official business, as it were, like a patriarch when, in the years 1216–1236, he headed the autocephalous Archbishopric of Bulgaria with its see in Ohrid. (See fig. 1: Map)

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