[90] Cantacuzenus, Hist. lib. i., chap. 41, ed. Bonn, p. 196.
[91] A shortened form of κεκράκται.
[92] ἡ μεγάλη εἴσοδος, when the Bread and Wine are brought from the table of the prothesis and placed upon the Holy Table, while the Cherubic Hymn is sung in honour of “the King of all, invisibly attended by the spears of the Angelic Hosts.” See Dr. Freshfield’s article in the Archaeologia, vol. xliv., p. 386; he translates a parallel account from Codinus.
[93] A Russian pilgrim describing the coronation of Manuel in the fourteenth century says, “The imperial procession advanced so slowly that it took three hours to walk from the royal door to the thrones.” Soc. de l’Orient Latin, séries géog. vol. v., p. 143.
[94] De Officiis Palatii, chap. xvii., ed. Bonn, p. 87.
[95] In Nicephori Bryennii ... Pauli Silentiarii comment.
[96] Hist. Byz. duplici commentario illustrata.
[97] Introduction to the History of the Eastern Church.
[98] Du Cange, S. Sophia, § 49.