Excerpt from the Cadaster of Thebes

Ὑδρόμυλος Κορυφάλτη κείμενος πλησίον εἰς τὸν Ἅγιον Λουκὰν. Διὰ Νικολάου τοῦ λεγομένου Πετζημέντου. Ὑπὲρ μέρους ἡμίσεως στάσεως τῶν κληρονόμων Ἰωάννου δρουγγαρίου. Ὑπὲρ γονικῆς αὐτοῦ· ἤτοι Πέτρου δρουγγαρίου Χαβάρωνος, Δημιτρίου κληρονόμου αὐτοῦ. Ὑπὲρ στάσεως ἰδίας αὐτοῦ.

Διὰ Εἰρηνέου σπαθαροκανδιδάτου· ἤτοι τῶν κληρονόμων· Εἰρηνέου σπαθαροκανδιδάτου, τελούμενον (νομ.) γ΄΄ ιβ΄΄ μη΄΄, Λέοντος Καθαριομανδύλη, Λέοντος γαμβροῦ τοῦ Φιλάγρη, τελούμενον (νομ.) ς΄΄ κδ΄΄. (νομ.) δ΄΄ κδ΄΄ μη΄΄.

N. Svoronos, "Recherches sur le cadastre byzantin et la fiscalité aux 11e et 12e s: le cadastre de Thèbes" Bulletin de Correspondance Hellenique 83 (1959), 15.

Excerpt from the Praktikon of Athens

Ἀναγραφὴ παροίκων τῶν ἐν διαφόροις προαστείοις δηλωθεῖσι ἄνωθεν προσκαθημένων, ἤγουν ἐν τῶ χωρίω Καργητῶ. Νικόλαος ὁ Μειζώτερος, ἔχει γυναῖκα, υἱὸν Κωνσταντῖνον, ζευγαρᾶτος. …. Ἰωάννης ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ Τζυκαλᾶ, ἔχει γυναῖκα Μαρίαν, ζευγαρᾶτος. Νικόλαος ὁ Ἀτζυκάλης, ὁ ἀδελφὸς τοῦ Μειζοτέρου ἀκτήμων. Ἐν τῶ χωρίω τὸ Ἴσον του Περσέως· Κωνσταντίνος ὁ Ανδριότης, βοϊδᾶτος. Ἰωάννης ὁ Ψευδολόγος, ἀκτήμων. Δημήτριος ὁ Τζάπελας, ἔχει γυναῖκα Σοφίαν, βοϊδᾶτος.

E. Granstrem – I. Medvedev – D. Papachryssanthou, "Fragment d’un Praktikon de la région d’Athènes (avant 1204)" REB 34 (1976), 38-39.

Review of various views on the Cadaster of Thebes as a source

«Svoronos asserted that the Cadaster of Thebes depicted a traditional Byz. rural community no different from that presented in the Treatise on Taxation (ed. Dolger). Lemerle (infra 198) acknowledges that in the cadaster one can see "a reflection of social change," but he also insists on the continuity of the rural community composed of independent peasants, basing his argument in part on the omission of any reference to PROASTEION and PRONOIA»

Kazhdan Al., s.v. Thebes, cadastre of, The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, τόμ. 3. (London-New York 1991), σελ. 2033

Evaluation of the Cadaster of Thebes as a source related to the continuity and the changes in the Byzantine administration and economy.

Chapter IV.
CONTINUITY OR CHANGE? THE LAND-REGISTER OF THEBES
"A special place must here be given to an exceptional document, which was known to exist, but which nobody had dared tackle until N. Svoronos undertook an edition and commentary of it: these constitute the most notable enrichment of these last twenty years of studies of the agrarian and tax system in Byzantium.1 It consists of fragments of an ισοκώδικον an official copy of a cadastral and fiscal register or κώδιξ. Unlike the now well-known praktika, which consider men as taxpayers with reference to a certain quantity of land and means of production, the Κώδιξ starts from the land and forms, as Svoronos puts it, a detailed survey of the region, that is, of a certain fiscal district, since the tax remains its primary object. The region dealt with by the 'land-register of Thebes', henceforth the accepted designation, is roughly bounded by Thebes and the valley of the Ismenos to the west, a line going from Lake Hylike to Chalkis to the north, the sea to the east, to the south a line running obliquely from Thebes to the sea, lying somewhat to the north of the valley of the Asopos. It seems, then, that we have fragments of three 'chapters' (κεφάλαια) of the general kodix of the district (ενορία) of Thebes.
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How far back do they bring us? N. Svoronos' intensive study of it shows that the last census return of which the results are recorded must be of the last quarter of the 11th century. But as a result of exchanges, transfers and changes of owner, usually noted by the civil servants to explain or justify the total of the tax, it is possible in certain cases to go back several census-returns-three or four, if it be accepted that they were brought up to date every thirty years – as far as the end of the 10th century. However, it will be prudent to regard the document as reflecting the state of the region in the 11th century, more particularly in the second half of the century. N. Svoronos has fully elucidated the cadastral and fiscal terminology, the technique of assessment, of calculation and payment of the tax, making use in particular of the Fiscal Treatise, of which he has shown that the land-register of Thebes is in some sort, from this point of view, the application. Beyond this technical aspect, what kind of picture emerges on reading the document?"

Lemerle P., The Agrarian History of Byzantium from the origins to the twelfth century (Galway, 1979) σελ. 193-195