Commentary on the Synopsis Canonum

Commentarius in Synopsis canonum (Latin title; Greek incipit not verified) · Alexios Aristenos · 12th century (fl. pre-1100 - post-1166, per the HOLLIS record) · canon law

Greek · domain: canon-law · researched 2026-11-13

Why this is in the register

HOLLIS Primo 'Aristenos canons' returns 4 records and no English translation: E. Papagianni's editio princeps Kommentar zur Synopsis canonum (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019; Forschungen zur byzantinischen Rechtsgeschichte, n.F. 1), described by the publisher as 'the first critical edition' and itself in Greek with German prolegomena; Salachas 1991 (Italian) and Messes 2020 (French) on the twelfth-century commentators; and W. Hartmann, The History of Byzantine and Eastern Canon Law to 1500 (CUA Press, 2012), an English survey without translations (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Aristenos%20canons&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The commentary is also printed with the canons in Rhalles-Potles and Beveridge, whose vol. 2 title page names Zonaras, Balsamon and Aristenos together. Caveat: the 1957 English 'Rudder' (Pedalion, tr. D. Cummings) renders Nicodemus the Hagiorite's early-modern Greek compilation of canons with its own interpretive notes; it is not a translation of this twelfth-century commentary, and it was not counted as coverage here.

Aristenos was chartophylax and a contemporary of Zonaras; his commentary is keyed to the Synopsis Canonum rather than to the full canonical corpus. The Greek heading was not verified: the editions and the HOLLIS record use the Latin 'Commentarius in Synopsis canonum'. Papagianni's edition supersedes the older text but contains no translation.

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Alexios Aristenos Commentary on the Synopsis Canonum — 1 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.

Sources checked

• https://archive.org/details/SyntagmaTonTheionKaiHieronKanononTonTeHagionKaiPaneuphemonApostolon
• https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_kLxRj7K_B7QC
• https://archive.org/details/rudderpedalionof0000agap
• HOLLIS search — Aristenos canons
• HOLLIS search — Kommentar zur Synopsis canonum

Cite: Tergwame, “Commentary on the Synopsis Canonum” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-aristenos-synopsis-commentary