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Canons and Stichera

Κανόνες καὶ στιχηρά · Theophanes Graptos (Theophanes the Hymnographer) · c. 778/779-845 (9th c.) · liturgy

Greek · domain: hymnography · 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 Primo 'Theophanes Graptos' returns seven records, all German or Italian scholarship (Claudia Sode's edition of the Lives of Michael the Synkellos and the Graptoi brothers; 'In Paradisum: Totenhymnen der byzantinischen Kirche'; an Italian Theotokarion study) and no English translation; 'Theophanes the Hymnographer canon' and 'Theophanes Graptos canon' return 0 records (checked 2026-11-13). The only English renderings located are two items in Neale (1862): 'Idiomela on Friday of Tyrophagus' and stichera for the first vespers of Cheese Sunday ('Adam's Complaint'), pp. 90-100: https://archive.org/details/hymnseasternchu01nealgoog.

Weakest entry in this set on the e-text side: no open Greek text was located, because Theophanes' hymns are transmitted in the Greek Menaia and Triodion rather than in Migne. Neale's dates for him ('A.D. 759-818') are wrong; the identification with Theophanes Graptos rests on the genre and the Lenten pieces. Treat the 'partial' status as 'two Victorian items exist, no corpus translation'.

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
Hymns of the Eastern Church (section 'S. Theophanes') · John Mason Neale · 1862

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). This is a real 19th-c. printed Triodion whose OCR is good, and it contains canons whose rubric attributes them to 'Theophanes'. The attribution is the weak link: the rubric gives only the name, and the identification with Theophanes Graptos (rather than another hymnographer named Theophanes) is not established by anything in the volume itself, so relevance is recorded as 'uncertain'. His hymns are transmitted in the Menaia and Triodion rather than in Migne, so there is no PG volume to point at. No manuscript witness was verified. Confirm the canon's akrostichis against a Menaion edition before ingesting, and index it as a source for the hymn corpus rather than as an edition of a named work.

Scan / witnessFormatPagesRightsOCREvidence
Triōdion katanyktikon, periechon hapasan tēn anēkousan autō akolouthian tēs Hag…
internet-archive · triodion-katanyktikon-periechon-hapasan
pdf469public-domaingoodItem metadata: date 1876, ocr_parameters '-l eng+ell+Greek+Fraktur', ocr_detected_lang 'el' (HTTP 200); IIIF manifest HTTP 200, 469 canvases, Greek title 'Triōdion katanyktikon ... Apo tēs Kyriakēs tou telōnou kai tou P…

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Theophanes Graptos — 7 record(s); match basis author_only.

RecordCitation
In Paradisum : Totenhymnen der Byzantinischen Kirche
· 1940? · ger
"In Paradisum : Totenhymnen der Byzantinischen Kirche." Münster (Westf.) : Regensbergsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, [1940?]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990065128710203941
Un Theotocarion Marciano del sec. XIV. (cod. Marciano cl.I,6)
· 1961 · ita, grc
"Un Theotocarion Marciano del sec. XIV. (cod. Marciano cl.I,6)." Roma : Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1961. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990065128740203941
Jerusalem, Konstantinopel, Rom : die Viten des Michael Synkellos und der Brüder Theodoros und Theophanes Graptoi
Sode, Claudia · 2001 · ger
Sode, Claudia. "Jerusalem, Konstantinopel, Rom : die Viten des Michael Synkellos und der Brüder Theodoros und Theophanes Graptoi." Stuttgart : Steiner, 2001. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990095782220203941
"Hymnus und Verehrung im Wort" : Dichter und Dichtung in der Byzantinischen Kunst
Limberger, Anastasia, 1990- · 2025 · ger
Limberger, Anastasia, 1990-. ""Hymnus und Verehrung im Wort" : Dichter und Dichtung in der Byzantinischen Kunst." Wiesbaden : Reichert Verlag, 2025. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99161586665103941
Epistolary poetry in Byzantium and beyond : an anthology with critical essays
· 2021 · eng, grc
"Epistolary poetry in Byzantium and beyond : an anthology with critical essays." New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99155750248603941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Canons and Stichera” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-theophanes-graptos-kanones-stichera