Byzantine Constantinople, the walls of the city and adjoining historical sites

by Alexander Van Millingen

[687]. Page 728.

[688]. Page 720.

[689]. Clavijo, Constantinople, Ses Sanctuaires et ses Reliques, pp. 14, 15.

[690]. See History of the Council of Florence, by Sgyropoulos, who attended the Council in the suite of the patriarch. The Greek original and a Latin translation are found in Veræ Historia Unionis non Veræ inter Græcos et Latinos, sive Concilii Florentini. The translation, published in 1670, is by Robert Creyghton, and was dedicated to Charles II. For the account of the matters referred to above, see that work, pp. 51, 54, 55, 67, 318. Cf. Scarlatus Byzantius, vol. i. p. 582.

[691]. Historia Politica, p. 19.

[692]. Pages 254, 255.

[693]. On the supposition that there was no Imperial Gate near the eastern extremity of the Harbour Walls, it is impossible to identify the Basilikè Pylè and the Gate of the Kynegos, for these names are sometimes employed in a way which renders it perfectly evident that they referred to different gates. See Phrantzes, ut supra; Pusculus, iv. 179-221; Dolfin, s. 55; Ducas, p. 275.

[694]. Leunclavius, Pand. Hist. Turc., s. 200.

[695]. Page 254.

[696]. Codinus, De Officiis CP., p. 39.