[846]. Page 259.
[847]. Page 238.
[848]. XVII., p. 860; cf. Cantacuzene, iv. p. 232.
[849]. Dr. Paspates (see p. 111 of his work on the siege of the city, cited above) understands Phrantzes in the same way. He identifies the tower with one which stood, until 1817, between the Gate of St. Barbara (Top Kapoussi) and the Gate of Eugenius (Yali Kiosk Kapoussi). It was probably the tower to which Nicolo Barbaro refers (see above, p. [228]).
[850]. Pages 254, 255.
[851]. See his Epistle to the Pope on the Capture of Constantinople.
[852]. Pusculus, iv. pp. 179-221.
[853]. Ducas, p. 275.
[854]. Acta Patriarchatus CP., vol. ii. p. 391, year 1400; cf. pp. 297, 487.
[855]. Speaking of the bridge which the Sultan built out into the Golden Horn, and on which he placed cannon to batter the walls in the Kynegon, Leonard of Scio (p. 931) says the bridge was built that the army might advance near the wall, beside the “fanum” of the city: “Decurreret ad murum prope, juxta fanum urbis.” The term is ambiguous. Zorzo Dolfin translates it, “Appresso la giesia” (the church). But more probably the reference is to the Phanar quarter, although the bridge was not exactly opposite to it.