[19] Goar, Euchologion (1647), pp. 924 ff. The text given is that of the Grotta Ferrata codex, showing the variations between it and the Barberini text.

[20] De caerimoniis, I. 39.

[21] Goar, Euchologion (1647), pp. 924 ff.

[22] J. Th. St., II. p. 383 and n. 2.

[23] De officiis Constantinopolitanis, c. xvii. (Bonn, 1839).

[24] The Thomaite triclinium was a part of the imperial palace adjoining St Sophia.

[25] It is to be noticed that some of the imperial insignia have changed their names. The διάδημα was once equivalent to the στέμμα; it is now synonymous with the ζώνη.

[26] Probably the badge of his office as Deputatus.

[27] See Maltzew ‘Die heilige Krönung’ in Bitt-Dank- und Weihe-Gottesdienste der orthodox-katholischen Kirche des Morgenlandes (Berlin 1897) pp. 1-60; E. Metallinos, Imperial and Royal Coronation (London 1902).

[28] Voyage historique d’Abissinie du R. P. Jerome Lobo, traduite du Portugais, continuée et augmentée de plusieurs dissertations, etc. par M. Le Grand (Paris MDCCXXVIII) p. 252 f.; The travels of the Jesuits in Ethiopia, by F. Balthasar Tellez (London 1710), pp. 49 f., 184. The former of these writers has made use of the latter, and so the two authorities are not independent.