The Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae includes texts written by Byzantine historiographers and chroniclers as well as other documents of historical relevance from the 4th to the 15th centuries. The main objective of each volume is the presentation of a critical text based on all extant manuscripts; a detailed introduction informing about the author and the work as well as the manuscripts and their relation to each other is included in addition to several apparatus and indices.
The current status of the publications in the series, which appear in various publishing houses, is recorded annually in the Journal of Byzantine Studies (JOEB) / Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik.