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Material for History

Ὕλη Ἱστορίας · Nikephoros Bryennios · c. 1118-1137 (events 1070-1079) · other

Greek · domain: historiography · researched 2026-11-13

no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.

Why this is in the register

HOLLIS author search 'Bryennios' (44 hits) returns exactly one edition of the History: Gautier's CFHB 9 (Brussels, 1975), Greek with facing French translation and French introduction. Searches 'Bryennios history English translation' (0 hits) and 'Bryenne histoire Nicephore' return no English record; the remaining Bryennios hits concern the Didache manuscript of Philotheos Bryennios, a different person.

Four books, 1070-1079, by the husband of Anna Komnene and the intended continuator of her Alexiad; the primary narrative for the aftermath of Manzikert and the Komnenian coup. Gautier's CFHB edition carries a French translation; no English version of any part was located.

Existing translations recorded

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

Electronic text

No open electronic text was verified for this work. The Greek/Coptic/Geʿez may exist only in a print or subscription edition (Migne, CSCO, TLG, CMCL).

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: open scan — 2 candidate(s). Migne reprints the Possinus/Du Cange edition (Greek with Latin version). Gautier's CFHB 9 (Brussels 1975, Greek with facing French) is in copyright and not digitised; the BnF SRU search for 'Bryennios' returned 18 records, none of them a digitised Bryennios text. No manuscript witness was verified.

Scan / witnessFormatPagesRightsOCREvidence
Historiae — digital Greek text of the Migne edition (PG 127)
internet-archive · patrologia (file: pg/Nicephorus Bryennius_PG 127/Historiae.pdf)
pdf55open-licensegoodHTTP 200 (1,105,334 bytes), pdfinfo 55 pp; pdftotext page 4 opens 'Ἐκ τῆς ἑῴας καὶ οὗτος ἀποστατεῖ'; middle page 27 sampled: 958/1000 chars Greek, 84/598 tokens function words; the last text page of the PDF closes with…
Patrologia Graeca tomus 127 — 'ΝΙCEPHORI BRYENNII HISTORIARUM LIBRI IV'
internet-archive · patrologia-volumes (file 127.pdf)
pdf766public-domainpoorHTTP 200; 766 leaves per 127_scandata.xml; heading in 127_hocr_searchtext.txt.gz line 46-47 ('ΙΣΤΟΡΙΩΝ ΒΙΒΛΙΑ Δ. NICEPHORI BRYENNII / HISTORIARUM LIBRI IV'); djvu.txt range sample at 10% = the Greek column OCR'd as acce…

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Nikephoros Bryennios "Material for History" — 3 record(s); match basis author_title.

RecordCitation
Heroes and Romans in twelfth-century Byzantium : the Material for history of Nikephoros Bryennios
Neville, Leonora Alice, 1970- · 2012 · eng
Neville, Leonora Alice, 1970-. "Heroes and Romans in twelfth-century Byzantium : the Material for history of Nikephoros Bryennios." Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990133957530203941
Prokopiou Kaisareōs Tōn kat'auton Historiōn biblia oktō = Procopii Caesariensis Historiarvm svi temporis libri VIII
Procopius · 1661-1663 · grc, lat
Procopius. "Prokopiou Kaisareōs Tōn kat'auton Historiōn biblia oktō = Procopii Caesariensis Historiarvm svi temporis libri VIII." Parisiis : È Typographia regia, 1661-1663. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990039781430203941
Approaches to the Byzantine family
· 2013 · eng, fre
"Approaches to the Byzantine family." Farnham, Surrey, England : Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2013]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990137766810203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Material for History” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-bryennios-hyle-historias