[285] Συγγραφαὶ αἱ Ἐλάσσονες.
[286] "Μελέτης," Athens, 1908: Κωνσταντίνου Παλαιολόγου θάνατος, τάφος, καὶ σπάθη.
[287] Phrantzes, pp. 290-91, καὶ προστάξει αὐτοῦ οἱ εὑρεθέντες Χριστιανοὶ ἔθαψαν τὸ βασιλικὸν πτῶμα μετὰ βασιλικῆς τιμῆς.
[288] E.g., the column at which Christ was scourged stood in the church of the Holy Apostles before the conquest. It was found by Gerlach after the conquest in the Pammakaristos.—Turcograecia, p. 189.
[289] See the Muscovite's account in Dethier's Collection of Documents relating to the Siege of 1453, vol. ii. p. 1117.
[290] Achmed Mouktar Pasha, a recent Turkish historian of the siege of 1453, maintains that the emperor was buried in the church of the Pegé (Baloukli), outside the walls of the city. There is no persistency in the tradition that associates Constantine's tomb with the church of S. Theodosia.
[291] Letters from the East (in Russian), vol. ii. pp. 342-43, quoted by Mr. Siderides.
[292] Συγγραφαὶ αἱ Ἐλάσσονες.