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History (Relations of History)

Συγγραφικῶν Ἱστοριῶν (Relations historiques) · George Pachymeres (Georgios Pachymeres) · c. 1300-1310 (events 1261-1308) · other

Greek · domain: historiography · 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

HOLLIS author search 'Pachymeres' (71 hits) and 'Pachymeres English translation history Byzantium' show the standard edition is Failler's CFHB 24 (1984; reprint 1999-2000), Greek with facing French, plus Failler's French 'version breve' (2001-2004) and English translations only of his philosophical commentaries. The sole English rendering of the history is Nathan J. Cassidy's PhD thesis (University of Western Australia, 2004), which covers Books 1-2 only; a copy is on archive.org. No English translation of Books 3-13 was found.

13 books, the fullest Greek narrative of 1261-1308 (Michael VIII and Andronikos II): the loss of Anatolia, the Union of Lyons, the Arsenite schism. A classicizing history, not a chronicle. Only the first two books (1261-1266) exist in English, and only as an unpublished thesis.

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
A Translation and Historical Commentary of Book One and Book Two of the Historia of Georgios Pachymeres (PhD thesis) · University of Western Australia · Nathan John Cassidy · 2004

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). Together the two volumes carry the whole 13-book history with Possinus' Latin version; both need column-crop re-OCR (tesseract -l grc) for the Greek. Duplicate scans with smaller page images: patrologiaecursu0143mign (810 pp) and patrologiaecursu0144mign (544 pp), page images 2299x3615 - their text layers are the same Latinised OCR. Failler's CFHB 24 edition (1984) is in copyright and not on IA.

Scan / witnessFormatPagesRightsOCREvidence
Patrologiae Cursus Completus, ... 1865: Vol 143 (= PG 143: Pachymeres, Michael…
internet-archive · bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_patrologiae-cursus-completus-_1865_143
pdf685public-domainnone_djvu.txt HTTP 200 (3.3 MB), 407 'pachymer' hits; contents line 209 'Ephremii Chronographus ... ad Michaelem 822', line 238 'Petri Possini ad Historiam rerum Michaelis Paleologi Observationes'. IIIF manifest HTTP 200; /…
Patrologiae Cursus Completus, ... 1865: Vol 144 (= PG 144: Pachymeres, Andronic…
internet-archive · bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_patrologiae-cursus-completus-_1865_144
pdf723public-domainnone_djvu.txt HTTP 200 (3.9 MB), 424 'pachymer' hits; IIIF manifest HTTP 200; /page/n100.jpg HTTP 200 at 5043x7938. Greek unusable in the text layer; Latin translation legible.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: George Pachymeres History — 27 record(s); match basis author_title.

RecordCitation
Commentary on Aristotle, ›Nicomachean Ethics‹ : Critical Edition with Introduction and Translation
Pachymeres, Georgios · 2022 · eng
Pachymeres, Georgios. "Commentary on Aristotle, ›Nicomachean Ethics‹ : Critical Edition with Introduction and Translation." Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99156426063903941
Relations historiques
Pachymeres, George, 1242-approximately 1310 · 1999-2000 · fre, grc
Pachymeres, George, 1242-approximately 1310. "Relations historiques." Paris : Les Belles Lettres, 1984, 1999-2000. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990012666170203941
La version brève des relations historiques de Georges Pachymérès
Pachymeres, George, 1242-approximately 1310 · 2001-2004 · gre, fre
Pachymeres, George, 1242-approximately 1310. "La version brève des relations historiques de Georges Pachymérès." Paris : Institut français d'études byzantines, 2001-2004. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990094550000203941
[Compilation of writings]
· between 1401 and 1600 · grc
"[Compilation of writings]." between 1401 and 1600. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990109139500203941
Notice sur divers manuscrits grecs relatifs à la musique, comprenant une traduction française et des commentaires
Vincent, A. J. H. (Alexandre Joseph Hidulphe), 1797-1868 · 1847 · fre
Vincent, A. J. H. (Alexandre Joseph Hidulphe), 1797-1868. "Notice sur divers manuscrits grecs relatifs à la musique, comprenant une traduction française et des commentaires." [Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1847]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990059810590203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “History (Relations of History)” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-pachymeres-historia