Taktikon Uspensky

The Taktikon Uspensky or Uspenskij is the conventional name of a mid-9th century Greek list of the civil, military and ecclesiastical offices of the Byzantine Empire and their precedence at the imperial court. Nicolas Oikonomides has dated it to 842/843,^[1] making it the first of a series of such documents (taktika) extant from the 9th and 10th centuries.^[2] The document is named after the Russian Byzantinist Fyodor Uspensky, who discovered it in the late 19th century in a 12th/13th-century manuscript (codex Hierosolymitanus gr. 39) in the library of the Eastern Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, which also contained a portion of the Kletorologion of Philotheos, a later taktikon.^[3]

Editions

• Russian edition, by F. Uspensky: "Византийская табель о рангах" [Byzantine table of ranks]. Известия Русского Археологического Института в Константинополе. 3: 98–137. 1898.
• French edition, by N. Oikonomides: Les listes de préséance byzantines des IXe et Xe siècles. Paris. 1972. pp. 47–63.

References

Sources

• Bury, John B. (1911), The Imperial Administrative System of the Ninth Century. With a Revised Text of the Kletorologion of Philotheos, Oxford University Publishing
• Kazhdan, Alexander, ed. (1991). Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6.
• Oikonomidès, Nicolas (1972). Les listes de préséance byzantines des IXe et Xe siècles (in French). Paris.