HOLLIS Primo 'Zonaras canons' returns 9 records; none is an English translation of the commentary. The only English item that prints the canons is Codex canonum ecclesiae universae (London 1868), whose title page - read in the archive.org OCR - advertises the canons 'in Greek, with Latin and revised English translations in parallel columns, WITH NOTES SELECTED FROM ZONARAS, BALSAMON, BISHOP BEVERIDGE, &c.', i.e. excerpted notes rather than a translation of the commentary (https://archive.org/details/CodexCanonumEcclesiaeUniversae). The other hits are T. Kampianaki, John Zonaras' Epitome of Histories: A Compendium of Jewish-Roman History and Its Reception (Oxford 2022), on a different work, and studies of the canonists in Italian (Salachas 1991) and French (Messes 2020). HOLLIS 'Zonaras commentary canons English' returns 0 records. NPNF II-14 (Percival) translates the canons and the local synods but not the Byzantine commentaries. Caveat: the 1957 English 'Rudder' (Pedalion, tr. D. Cummings) renders Nicodemus the Hagiorite's early-modern Greek compilation of canons with its own interpretive notes; it is not a translation of this twelfth-century commentary, and it was not counted as coverage here.
The Greek title is the one used by the Holy Synod of Greece's 1852 approval letter printed in Rhalles-Potles, which lists 'τὴν εἰς τοὺς ἱεροὺς κανόνας ἑρμηνείαν Ἰωάννου τοῦ Ζωναρᾶ' alongside Photius' Nomocanon, Balsamon's exegeses and Blastares' Syntagma (vol. 2 front matter, read in the archive.org OCR). In Rhalles-Potles the commentary is printed canon by canon with the canons themselves, in vols. 2-4; Beveridge's Synodicon (Oxford 1672), tomus secundus, gives the Greek with a Latin version. No modern critical edition was located and no machine-readable Greek text exists, so no word count is given.
| Source and licence |
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| archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (Oxford 1672 imprint) |
| archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (Athens 1852-1859) |
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| Linguistic and literary studies in the Epitomē historiōn of John Zonaras | Grigoriadis, Iordanis. "Linguistic and literary studies in the Epitomē historiōn of John Zonaras." Thessalonikē : Kentron Vyzantinōn Ereunōn, 1998. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990090495170203941 |
| John Zonaras' Epitome of Histories : a compendium of Jewish-Roman history and its reception | Kampianaki, Theofili. "John Zonaras' Epitome of Histories : a compendium of Jewish-Roman history and its reception." Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2022. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99156629474203941 |
| John Zonaras' Epitome of histories : a compendium of Jewish-Roman history and its reception | Kampianaki, Theofili. "John Zonaras' Epitome of histories : a compendium of Jewish-Roman history and its reception." Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99156536465603941 |
| Zonaras' account of the Neo-Flavian emperors : a commentary | DiMaio, Michael, 1949-. "Zonaras' account of the Neo-Flavian emperors : a commentary." 1977. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990012837440203941 |
| The History of Zonaras : from Alexander Severus to the death of Theodosius the Great | Zonaras, Joannes, active 12th century. "The History of Zonaras : from Alexander Severus to the death of Theodosius the Great." London ; New York : Routledge, 2009. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990119007140203941 |