[471] The Capture of Constantinople, from the Taj-ut-Tavarikh by Khodja Sad-ud-din. Translated by E. J. W. Gibb, p. 29.
[472] Phrantzes, 287. Professor van Millingen (p. 189) believes that these towers were a little to the south of the present Seraglio Lighthouse. One of them had an interesting inscription, stating that it was built by the emperor Basil in 1024.
[473] Another version of Tetaldi’s Informacion calls the galleys in question Venetian (Dethier, p. 905).
[474] Crit. ch. lxiii.
[475] Barbaro, p. 57.
[476] οὗ ἔσωθεν τῶν ἀδύτων καὶ ἄνωθεν τῶν θυσιαστηρίων καὶ τραπέζων ἤσθιον καὶ ἔπινον καὶ τὰς ἀσελγεῖς γνώμας καὶ ὀρέξεις αὐτῶν μετὰ γυναικῶν καὶ παρθένων καὶ παίδων ἐπάνωθεν ἐποίουν καὶ ἔπραττον. Phrantzes, p. 290.
[477] Crit. xlii.
[478] Ducas, xlii.: βιβλία ὑπὲρ ἀριθμόν.
[479] P. 31. Khodja Sad-ud-din, translated by E. J. W. Gibb.
[480] Report of Superior of Franciscans. He was present at the siege and arrived at Bologna July 4, 1453.