[179] Alluded to on a single page of MS. in the British Museum (Cott. Claud. iv.)
[180] In the reign of Constantine Porphyrogenitus, see Ceremonies, vol. ii., ch. xv.
[181] The French translation has Diakonikon: Riant, in Exuv. Sacrae, C.P. says “smaller sanctuary:” the Anon. says skeuophylakium.
[182] This must be the same as Robert de Clari’s “buhotiaous” fastened to the ring of the great door of S. Sophia.
[183] I.e., the iconoclasts, of whom a number of stories are told by the Russian pilgrims.
[184] See this story in Golden Legend, “Exaltation of the Cross.”
[185] Lazarus was a martyr in the cause of image-worship. See Bayet, L’art Byzantin.
[186] Cedrenus, ii., p. 609. Irene gave a cross “distinguished for its pearls”: Theo. Cont., p. 703.
[187] Ongania, Il Tesoro di San Marco, pp. 57, 59. Rohault de Fleury, La Messe.
[188] Exuviae Sacrae Constantinopolitanae.