The ''Taktikon Uspensky'' or ''Uspenskij'' is the conventional name of a mid-9th century
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list of the civil, military and ecclesiastical offices of the
Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...
and their precedence at the imperial court.
Nicolas Oikonomides
Nikolaos or Nikos Oikonomides ( el, Νικόλαος Οικονομίδης, 14 February 1934 – 31 May 2000) was a Greek Byzantinist, and one of the leading experts in the field of Byzantine administration.
Biography
Oikonomides was born in ...
has dated it to 842/843, making it the first of a series of such documents (''
taktika'') extant from the 9th and 10th centuries. 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
The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, el, Πατριαρχεῖον Ἱεροσολύμων, ''Patriarcheîon Hierosolýmōn;'' he, הפטריארכיה היוונית-אורתודוקסית של ירושלים; ar, كنيسة الرو� ...
, which also contained a portion of the ''
Kletorologion'' of Philotheos, a later ''taktikon''.
[Bury (1911), pp. 10, 12]
Editions
* Russian edition, by F. Uspensky:
* French edition, by N. Oikonomides:
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9th-century books
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