),Paris 1959.
[21]Most of the known writiings of Nicephorus Chumnus can be found in Fr.Boissonade,Anecdota Graeca Ⅰ,Ⅱ,Ⅲ,Ⅴ.The doccomntscomntioned are also in Zepos,Jus Ⅰ,558 ff.and 549 ff.Cf.also‘Actes de l’Athos’17 Nr.26.Cf.the full information,including a list of his works in manuscript in J.Verpeaux,op.cit.,17 ff.
[22]Migne,PG 145,447-548.
[23]The report of the embassy is given in Sathas,(1872),154-93.Most of the rhetorical works are still unedited,but there is,however,a eulogy on Nicaea in Sathas Ⅰ,139-53.The Miscellanea,the main work of Metochites,is in the old edition of Chr.G.Müller and Th.Kiessling,Th.Metochitae Miscellanea philosophica et historica,Leipzig 1821.Of the twenty poems so far known,only three have been edited by M.Treu,Dichtungen d.Grosslogotheten Theodoros Metochites,Gymnasial-Progr.Potsdam 1895(the first poem giving detailed information on Metochites’life is particularly important),and by R.Guilland,‘Le palais de Théodore Métochite’,Rev.des Etudes grecques 35(1922),82.On the unedited poems cf.R.Guilland,‘Les Poésies inédites de Théodore Métochite’,B 3(1926),265 ff.;idem,Correspondance de Nicéphore Grégoras 358 ff.;An evaluation of Metochites and his work as a whole is made by H.G.Beck,Theodore Metochites.Die Krise des byzantinischen Weltbildes in 14.Jahrhundert,Munich 1952.Of equal importance both for Metochites and for Chumnus,as well as for the intellectual life of the period,is the penetrating study by Ⅰ.Sevcenko,?tudes sur l