1 The Excerpta Anonymi and the Constantinian Excerpts Panagiotis MANAFIS (Gent) The Constantinian Excerpts and the Excerpta Anonymi should be seen within the context of the culture of Sylloge. The two works share significant similarities in terms of content, format, and methodology. This article centers on the possibility of a textual relation between the Excerpta Anonymi and the Constantinian Excerpts. I advance the hypothesis that the anonymous compiler of the Excerpta Anonymi relied on earlier collections of excerpts and must have drawn on draft copies produced during the redaction of the Constantinian collections. This paper centers on the possibility of a textual relation between the tenth-century Excerpta Anonymi 1 and the Constantinian Excerpts (CE). 2 The two collections of excerpts should be seen within the context of the culture of sylloge. 3 They share significant similarities in terms of content, format, and methodology. The hypothesis is advanced that the anonymous compiler of the Excerpta Anonymi relied on earlier collections of excerpts and must have drawn on draft copies produced during the redaction of the Constantinian collections. Andreas Nemeth has proved in his dissertation that draft copies were, indeed, written before the final copies of the CE. 4 *The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement n. 313153. All uncredited translations are my own. 1 Excerpta Anonymi Byzantini ex Codice Parisino suppl. Gr. 607 A, M. Treu (ed.), Ohlau 1880 (Henceforth Excerpta Anonymi). On the Excerpta Anonymi see also: T. PREGER, Scriptores originum Constantinopolitarum, I, Leipzig 1901, X; idem, Scriptores originum Constantinopolitanarum, II, Leipzig 1907, XXI–XXIV; A. CAMERON – J. HERRIN, Constantinople in the early eight century. The Parastaseis Syntomoi Chronikai, Leiden 1984, 4–8; M. L. AMERIO, Ancora sui nuovi frammenti di Appiano, Invigilata Lucernis 21, 1999, 35–42; P. ODORICO, Dans le dossier des chroniqueurs. Le cas d'Eustathe d'Antioche, in: J. Signes Codoner – I. Pérez Martin (eds.), Textual transmission in Byzantium: Between textual criticism and Quellenforschung, Leuven 2013, 373–389; P. ODORICO, Du recueil à l'invention du texte: le cas des Parastaseis Syntomoi Chronikai, BZ 107/2, 2014, 755–784; P. MANAFIS, Political margins. Geography and history in the Excerpta Anonymi, Byz 87, 2017 (forthcoming). 2 Henceforth CE; Excerpta de virtutibus et vitiis, I, Th. Büttner-Wobst (ed.), Berlin 1906 (henceforth: EV 1); Excerpta de virtutibus et vitiis, II, A. G. Roos (ed.), Berlin 1910 (henceforth: EV 2); Excerpta de insidiis, C. De Boor (ed.), Berlin 1905 (henceforth: EI); Excerpta de legationibus, C. De Boor (ed.), Berlin 1903 (henceforth: EL); Excerpta de sententiis, U. Ph. Boissevain (ed.), Berlin 1906 (henceforth: ES). 3 The term characterizing the phenomenon of selecting, re-copying, synthesizing and presenting textual material was first advanced by P. Odorico; cf. P. ODORICO, La cultura della ΣΥΛΛΟΓΗ: 1) Il cosidedetto enciclopedismo bizantino. 2) Le tavole del sapere di Giovanni Damasceno, BZ 83/1, 1990, 1–21. The idea was further developed in: P. ODORICO, Cadre d'exposition / cadre de pensée – la culture du recueil, in: P. Van Deun – C. Macé (eds.), Encyclopedic Trends in Byzantium? (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 212), Louvain – Paris – Walpole 2011, 89–107. See also the review of the aforementioned volume by A. Kaldellis; cf. A. KALDELLIS, in: The Medieval Review 12.10.30, https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/17693/23811 (retrieved March 6, 2017); on the culture of sylloge as a literary phenomenon rooted in the florilegic tradition see: P. MAGDALINO, Orthodoxy and history in tenth-century Byzantine encyclopedism, in: P. Van Deun – C. Macé (eds.), Encyclopedic Trends in Byzantium?, op. cit., 143 – 160; an overview of the subject is offered by P. Odorico in: P. ODORICO, Du Premier Humanisme à l’encyclopedisme: une construction à revoir (forthcoming). 4 A. NEMETH, Imperial Systematization of the Past: Emperor Constantine VII and his Historical Excerpts (PhD thesis, Central European University 2010), 93–177.