Manuel Bryennios or Bryennius ( el, Μανουήλ Βρυέννιος; c. 1275 – c. 1340). was a Byzantine scholar who flourished in Constantinople about 1300 teaching astronomy,

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and musical theory.. His only surviving work is the ''Harmonika'' (Greek: Ἁρμονικά), which is a three-volume codification of Byzantine musical scholarship based on the classical Greek works of Ptolemy,

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, and the Neopythagorean authors on the numerological theory of music. One of Bryennios's students was Theodore Metochites, the grand logothete during the reign of Emperor

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(r. 1272–1328). Metochites studied astronomy under Bryennios.

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