[159] Explicatio Officiorum sanctae ac magnae Ecclesiae, Auctore incerto a Bernardo Medonio edita, 1655. A Tupikon or Ritual Book of S. Sophia has been recently found at Patmos: Byz. Zeit., 1893.
[160] Cantacuzenus, Bonn, ii., p. 15.
[161] Cedrenus, vol ii., p. 609.
[162] Pal. Pil. Text. Soc.
[163] In the Ceremonies, book ii., we read that the three crosses kept in the palace were anointed by the protopapas with balsam, before being shown. Ed. Bonn, p. 549.
[164] Ed. Bonn, p. 125.
[165] κατηχούμενα, a “place for instruction,” used both of upper and lower aisles.
[166] The college with a provost (didaskalos) and twelve fellows was between S. Sophia and the Chalkoprateia (see Bury, ii., p. 433), and therefore according to Mordtmann north of S. Sophia. Descending steps are only found in the north porch, and this is conclusive against Labarte and Paspates, who saw in the Didaskalion a mere passage attached to the south side of the church. Paschalia are the tables of Easter.
[167] At this time more than one “life-giving cross” was kept at the palace and occasionally taken to S. Sophia. Cerem. 549.
[168] Ed. Bonn, p. 14.