Nomocanon in Fourteen Titles

Νομοκάνων εἰς ιδʹ τίτλους · Photius of Constantinople · 883 (revised edition of a 7th-century collection) · canon law

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

Why this is in the register

HOLLIS Primo 'Nomocanon Photius' returns 6 records; the textual editions are all Greek/Latin: Justel (Paris 1615), Hervet's 1561 canon collection, and Migne's 1865 reprint of Balsamon's Opera containing the Nomocanon with commentary. No English version appears (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Nomocanon%20Photius&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 'Nomocanon English translation' returns no relevant record (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Nomocanon%20English%20translation&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The collection is cited in English scholarship (e.g. Hartmann, The History of Byzantine and Eastern Canon Law to 1500, 2012) but has not been translated.

The Nomocanon sets 14 titles of ecclesiastical law beside the corresponding imperial legislation; it is the backbone of the Byzantine canonical corpus and the text Balsamon later commented on. Rhalles-Potles vol. 1 prints it with prolegomena (OCR shows a 'ΝΟΜΟΚΑΝΩΝ' section). 'Εἰς ιδʹ τίτλους' is the conventional designation used in the modern literature, not a title read off a title page.

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: "Nomocanon in Fourteen Titles" — 1 record(s); match basis title_only.

Sources checked

• https://archive.org/details/SyntagmaTonTheionKaiHieronKanononTonTeHagionKaiPaneuphemonApostolon
• https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_pRIvVQJCK1oC
• HOLLIS search — Nomocanon English translation
• HOLLIS search — Nomocanon Photius

Cite: Tergwame, “Nomocanon in Fourteen Titles” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-photius-nomocanon