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My apologies for not replying and thanking Jim sooner for his references. My
library does have Mango, but unfortunately he omits the passage I need. I
have requested the other two volumes through ILL.
Thanks again,
Steve Cartwright
Western Michigan University
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> > I am trying to track down the precise text of the story of the Emperor
> > Justinian entering Hagia Sophia for the first time and declaring,
> > "Solomon, I have surpassed you!" A recent book on Justinian attributes
> > this to a work by an anonymous author known as the "Anonymous of
> > Banduri," and only gives a citation of Anonymi Narratio, ed. Preger, c.
> > 27.
>
> > Does anyone know of an English translation of this particular story, or
> > have access to the particular volume of the CSHB (vol. 32?)?
>
> The full reference to Preger is: _Narratio de structura templi S.
> Sophiae_, in T. Preger, _Scriptores originum Constantinopolitanarum_
> (Leipzig, 1901), vol. 1, pp. 74-108. A partial translation into
> English is available in Cyril Mango, _The Art of the Byzantine Empire
> 312-1453_ (Englewood Cliffs, 1972), pp. 96-102. According to Rowland
> J. Mainstone, _Hagia Sophia: Architecture, Structure and Liturgy of
> Justinian's Great Church_ (London, 1988), p. 10, the "so-called"
> Narratio is a "late and largely legendary account". It is highly
> unlikely that Justinian actually uttered these words, but the
> contemporary description - or ekphrasis - by Procopius is pretty darn
> laudatory.
> Cheers,
> Jim Bugslag
>
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