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Alphabetical Syntagma of the Divine Canons

Σύνταγμα κατὰ στοιχεῖον · Matthew Blastares · 1335 · canon law

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

partial / older only. An English translation exists but is partial or older than the critical edition. The gap is a modern, complete translation from the original. A rendering of a daughter version does not count here: it is recorded on the dossier of the text it actually translates.

Why this is in the register

Only selections have been translated. HOLLIS Primo 'Blastares syntagma' returns 9 records: P. Viscuso, Sexuality, Marriage, and Celibacy in Byzantine Law: Selections from ... the Alphabetical Collection of Matthew Blastares (Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2008) - explicitly 'selections'; Viscuso's 1988 dissertation 'A Byzantine theology of marriage: the Syntagma kata stoicheion of Matthew Blastares'; and a 2012 Lowenklau-Gesellschaft study, The Syntagma of Matthew Blastares: the destiny of a Byzantine legal code among the Orthodox Slavs and Romanians (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Blastares%20syntagma&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 A narrower query returns only the 2008 selections volume (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Blastares%20English%20translation&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 No complete English translation was located; the Greek text is printed in Rhalles-Potles vol. 6, which the OCR shows carrying 187 occurrences of the name.

The Syntagma arranges canon and civil law alphabetically by topic (1335, under Andronikos III); it circulated in Slavonic translation and shaped Serbian and Romanian law. Rhalles-Potles vol. 6 is the Greek text used here; the volume's table of chapters ('ΠΙΝΑΞ ΤΩΝ ΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΩΝ') is visible in the OCR. Viscuso's 2008 volume covers marriage, sexuality and celibacy topics only, so the work remains substantially untranslated.

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
Sexuality, Marriage, and Celibacy in Byzantine Law: Selections from a Fourteenth-Century Encyclopedia of Canon Law and Theology (the Alphabetical Collection of Matthew Blastares) · Patrick Viscuso · 2008

Electronic text

Source and licence
archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (Athens 1852-1859)
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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: Matthew Blastares — 16 record(s); match basis author_only.

RecordCitation
The Syntagma of Matthew Blastares : the destiny of a Byzantine legal code among the Orthodox Slavs and Romanians, 14-17 centuries
Alexandrov, Victor · 2012 · eng
Alexandrov, Victor. "The Syntagma of Matthew Blastares : the destiny of a Byzantine legal code among the Orthodox Slavs and Romanians, 14-17 centuries." Frankfurt am Main : Löwenklau-Gesellschaft, 2012. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990136257670203941
A Byzantine theology of marriage : the Syntagma kata stoicheion of Matthew Blastares
Viscuso, Patrick · 1988 · eng
Viscuso, Patrick. "A Byzantine theology of marriage : the Syntagma kata stoicheion of Matthew Blastares." 1988. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990019694910203941
Sexuality, marriage, and celibacy in Byzantine law : selections from a fourteenth-century encyclopedia of canon law and theology : the Alphabetical Collection of Matthew Blastares
Blastares, Matthew, active 14th century · 2008 · eng
Blastares, Matthew, active 14th century. "Sexuality, marriage, and celibacy in Byzantine law : selections from a fourteenth-century encyclopedia of canon law and theology : the Alphabetical Collection of Matthew Blastares." Brookline, Mass. : Holy Cross Orthodox Press, c2008. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5…
Vlastareva sintagma i Dušanov zakonik u Studeničkom "Otečniku" : povodom šestogodišnjice Dušanova zakonika ; Studenički palimpsest
Mošin, Vladimir A · 1949 · srp
Mošin, Vladimir A. "Vlastareva sintagma i Dušanov zakonik u Studeničkom "Otečniku" : povodom šestogodišnjice Dušanova zakonika ; Studenički palimpsest." Zagreb : Jugoslavenska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, 1949. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990038558630203941
Vlastareva sintagma i Dušanov zakonik u Studeničkom "Otečniku" : povodom šestogodišnjice Dušanova zakonika ; Studenički palimpsest
Mošin, Vladimir A · 1949 · hrv
Mošin, Vladimir A. "Vlastareva sintagma i Dušanov zakonik u Studeničkom "Otečniku" : povodom šestogodišnjice Dušanova zakonika ; Studenički palimpsest." Zagreb : Jugoslavenska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, 1949. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99160376261203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Alphabetical Syntagma of the Divine Canons” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-blastares-syntagma