The Taktikon Uspensky or Uspenskij is the conventional name of a mid-9th century Greek

Greek language

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 list of the civil, military and ecclesiastical offices of the Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire was the Eastern Roman Empire during the periods of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, centred on the capital of Constantinople. Known simply as the Roman Empire or Romania to its inhabitants and neighbours, the Empire was the direct continuation of the Ancient Roman State...

 and their precedence at the imperial court. Nicolas Oikonomides 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

Fyodor Uspensky

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, who discovered it in the late 19th century in a 12th/13th-century manuscript (codex Hierosolymitanus gr. 39) in the library of the Greek Patriarchate of Jerusalem, which also contained a portion of the Kletorologion

Kletorologion

The Klētorologion of Philotheos , is the longest and most important of the Byzantine lists of offices and court precedence . It was published in September of 899 during the reign of Emperor Leo VI the Wise by the otherwise unknown prōtospatharios and atriklinēs Philotheos...

of Philotheos, a later taktikon.

Editions

• Russian edition, by F. Uspensky:
• French edition, by N. Oikonomides: