Initia Carminum Byzantinorum - 8 (1st edition.)

This reference work provides an alphabetical listing of the opening lines of some 20,000 Byzantine poems – profane and religious, edited and unprinted, in the literary and the colloquial language – from the beginning of the 4^th to the 15^th century. Each opening line is accompanied by all the necessary information on the author, subject, place of issue and length of the poem