Collection (Synagoge) of Canons in Fifty Titles

Συναγωγὴ κανόνων ἐν πεντήκοντα τίτλοις (editorial title: Synagoga L titulorum) · John III Scholasticus, Patriarch of Constantinople · c. 550-577 (collection made before and during his patriarchate) · canon law

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

Why this is in the register

HOLLIS Primo 'John Scholasticus canon' returns 7 records; none is a translation of the Synagoge. The editions are E. Schwartz, Die Kanonessammlung des Johannes Scholastikos (Munich 1933, Greek text with German prolegomena), V. Beneshevich, Ioannis Scholastici Synagoga L titulorum ceteraque eiusdem opera iuridica (Munich 1937-, Greek and Latin, Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie, n.F. Heft 14), and Justel's 1661 Bibliotheca iuris canonici veteris; the remaining hits are unrelated (a 2025 volume on John Climacus, a patristic handbook). The narrower query 'John Scholasticus Synagoga' returns only the Beneshevich volume. No English translation was located, and none of ANF, NPNF, FOTC, ACW or Popular Patristics carries this collection.

This is the earliest Greek systematic canon collection (50 titles), the basis on which the Nomocanon tradition was built; John III was patriarch 565-577. No open-access Greek text was located: the standard editions (Schwartz 1933, Beneshevich 1937) are print only, hence the empty e-text list. The Greek title is the editorial one used by Beneshevich, not a title read off the manuscripts.

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 — 1 candidate(s). Verified by search that Migne does NOT print this collection: PG 119 (the canon-law volume of the Graeca run) was downloaded from 'patrologia-volumes' and grepped for 'scholastici'/'quinquaginta'/'synagoga' - only unrelated hits in Balsamon's commentary. Beneshevich 1937 (Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie, n.F. 14) and Schwartz 1933 are not on IA (identifier/title/creator searches all negative), so Justel 1661 is the only open scan of the work's editio princeps. The 1633 item 'bub_gb_F6KS1my4f3cC' that surfaces under 'Ioannis Scholastici' is John Climacus, not John III - rejected. For ingestion this requires re-OCR of the right-hand Greek column with -l grc; the Latin column is already clean.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: John III Scholasticus Patriarch of Constantinople — 6 record(s); match basis author_only.

Sources checked

• HOLLIS search — Ioannis Scholastici Synagoga
• HOLLIS search — John Scholasticus Synagoga
• HOLLIS search — John Scholasticus canon

Cite: Tergwame, “Collection (Synagoge) of Canons in Fifty Titles” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-john-scholasticus-synagoge