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George Kodinos (Greek:Γεώργιος Κωδινός), alsoPseudo-Kodinos orCodinus, is the conventional name of an anonymous late 15th-century author of lateByzantine literature.

Their attribution to him is only traditional, and is based on the fact that all three works come in the same manuscript. The works referred to are the following:

1. Patria (Πάτρια Κωνσταντινουπόλεως), treating of the history, topography, and monuments ofConstantinople. It is divided into five sections: (a) the foundation of the city; (b) its situation, limits and topography; (c) its statues, works of art, and other notable sights; (d) its buildings; (e) and the construction of theHagia Sophia. It was written in the reign ofBasil II (976-1025), revised and rearranged underAlexios I Komnenos (1081–1118), and perhaps copied by Codinus, whose name it bears in some (later) manuscripts. The chief sources are: thePatria ofHesychius Illustrius of Miletus, the anonymousParastaseis syntomoi chronikai, and an anonymous account (ἔκφρασις) of St Sophia (ed.Theodor Preger inScriptores originum Constantinopolitanarum, fasc. i, 1901, followed by thePatria of Codinus).Procopius,De Aedificiis and the poem ofPaulus Silentiarius on the dedication of St. Sophia should be read in connexion with this subject.
2. De Officiis (Τακτικόν περί των οφφικίων του Παλατίου Kωνσταντινουπόλεως και των οφφικίων της Μεγάλης Εκκλησίας), a treatise, written between 1347 and 1368, of the court and higherecclesiastical dignities and of the ceremonies proper to different occasions, as they had evolved by the middlePalaiologan period. It should be compared with the earlierDe Ceremoniis ofConstantine Porphyrogenitus and otherTaktika of the 9th and 10th centuries[1].
3. A chronological outline of events from the beginning of the world to theFall of Constantinople to theOttomans.

Complete editions are (byImmanuel Bekker) in theCorpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae vol. 14–15, where, however, some sections of thePatria are omitted), and inJP Migne,Patrologia Graeca (vol. 157).; see alsoKarl Krumbacher,Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur (1897).

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Codinus, George".Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 635.
• Macrides, Ruth J.; Munitiz, Joseph A.; Angelov, Dimiter (2013).Pseudo-Kodinos and the Constantinopolitan Court: Offices and Ceremonies. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate.ISBN 978-0-7546-6752-0.
• Kazhdan, Alexander, ed. (1991)."Pseudo-Kodinos".The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium.Oxford University Press. p. 1135.

• De officiis in the CSHB 13
• Chronograhia in the CSHB 14

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