The correspondence of Ignatios, a collection of sixty-four letters, is preserved anonymously in a single MS, Vatopedi 588, which is described below. Its existence was first made public in January 1903 by Daniel Serruys, who presented a paper on this topic before the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.1 A number of indications led Serruys to the conclusion that the author of the correspondence was named Ignatios, whom he incorrectly identified with the patriarch of that name (847-858; 867-877). He offered a brief analysis of the document he had discovered, drawing attention to the author's complete subordination to the imperial government, his conventional and mediocre mentality, and his frequent recourse to citations from classical literature.

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