[542] Diehl, Études byzantines: Les mosaïques de Kahrié Djami.
[543] An English translation of the Protoevangelium is found in the Ante-Nicene Christian Library, vol. xvi.
[544] The remarkable head-dress he wears was given him as a special distinction by the Emperor Andronicus II. Palaeologus. The poet Philes (ode 41 in the appendix to vol. ii. of his works, lines 117-19) says φοροῦντα χρυσῆν ἐρυθρὰν τὴν καλύπτραν ἣν δῶρον αὐτῷ συνανέχοντι κράτος Ἄναξ ὁ λαμπρὸς Ἀνδρόνικος παρέσχε.
[545] A work reproducing, under the Pope's authority, the eighty-two miniatures illustrating the Life of the Madonna, which was composed by a monk James in the twelfth century (Cod. Vatic. Gr. 1162), is announced (Danesi, Editore, Roma, 1911), with a preface and descriptions of the miniatures by Cosimo Stornajolo. The miniatures are said to rival those of the Greek Codex 1028 in the National Library in Paris.
[546] Op. cit. pp. 134-41.
[547] i. p. 303.
[548] Carmina (ed. Treu), A. 1004, 1039-1042; B. 322-334.
[549] Diehl, Études byzantines: Les mosaïques de Kahrié Djami.
[550] See on the whole subject, C. Diehl, in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, troisième période, tome 33, and in his Manuel d'art byzantin, pp. 732-41; Schmitt in his monograph on the Chora; Mühlmann, Archiv für christliche Kunst, 1886-87.
[551] Alludes to his marriage with a relative of the imperial family.