CODINUS, GEORGE (GEORcros KODrNos), the reputed au thor of three extant works in Byzantine literature, two of which are anonymous in the mss. It is supposed that Codinus lived towards the end of the i 5th century. The works referred to are: (I) Patria ( hsrpia rvlc KcovaravTLVovnroXews). It is divided into five sections: (a) the foundation of Constantinople ; (b) its topography; (c) its works of art and sights; (d) its buildings; (e) the construction of the church of St. Sophia. It was written in the reign of Basil II. (976-1025), revised under Alexius I. Comnenus (I o8 1—I I I 8 ), and perhaps copied by Codinus, whose name it bears in some (later) mss. The chief sources are: the Patria of Hesychius Illustrius of Miletus, an anonymous (c. brief chronological record (Hapaaraaeis avvrosoe Xpovercai), and an anonymous account (&i yijats) of St. Sophia (ed. T. Preger in Scriptores originum Constantinopolitanarum, fasc. Igor, to be followed by the Patria of Codinus). (See also Procopius, De Aedificiis and the poem of Paulus Silentiarius on the dedication of St. Sophia.) (2) De Officiis, a sketch of court and higher ecclesiastical dig nities and ceremonies (cf. De Cerimoniis of Constantine Por phyrogenitus).
BIBLIOGRAPHY.—Complete editions are (by I. Bekker) in the Bonn Bibliography.—Complete editions are (by I. Bekker) in the Bonn Corpus scriptorum Hist. Byz. (1839-43, where, however, some sections of the Patria are omitted), and in J. P. Migne, Patrologia graeca, clvii.; see also C. Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Literatur (1897)•