[520] _Life of Michael Syncellus_, p. 31, in supplement to vol. xxiv. of the _Proceedings of the Greek Syllogos of C.P._; cf. Schmitt, p. 251. [521] _Life of Michael Syncellus_, _ut supra_, pp. 30, 31. [522] See supplement to vol. xxiv. of the _Proceedings of the Greek Syllogos of Constantinople_, p. 33; cf. Schmitt, pp. 257-8. [523] Niceph. Greg. iii. p. 459. [524] _Ibid._ i. p. 459. [525] The manuscript was discovered in the Seraglio Library by Professor T. Uspenski, and has been photographically reproduced by the Russian Institute of Constantinople. [526] The inscription has been injured. It now reads:-- [Symbol: cross.][Greek: ho .. os tou psêlo .. tou ... sileôs ... ... xiou ... .. ou ...] See Schmitt, pp. 38-39, who restores the inscription thus: [Greek: ho hyios tou hypsêlotatou basileôs Alexiou tou Komnênou]. [527] See Schmitt, pp. 39-40. [528] Niceph. Greg. i. p. 459. [529] Niceph. Greg. i. p. 459. [Greek: houtos habrotera chrêsamenos dexia, plên tou mesaitatou neô panta kalôs epeskeuase], cf. ii. p. 1045. [530] _Theodori Metochitae carmina_, ed. Treu. A 1004, _et passim_. [531] Niceph. Greg. i. p. 303 [Greek: arti tou neourgein epepauto tên tês Chôras monên, hopsos ho endon etynchane kosmos]. [532] Niceph. Greg. ii. pp. 1045-6. [533] Niceph. Greg. iii. p. 243. [534] Cantacuzene, i. p. 54. [535] Cantacuzene, ii. p. 209. [536] _De top. C.P._ iv. c. 4:--Inter palatium Constantini et portam urbis Adrianopolitanam extat ædes in septimo (?) colle, quæ etsi jam tot secula sit intra urbem tamen etiamnum [Greek: christos chôras] appellatur, ex eo, quod olim esset extra urbem. Ex tribus partibus, ut mos est Græcorum ædium sacrarum, porticu cingitur. Parietes ejus intrinsecus vestiti crustis marmoris varii quadratis, ita inter se conjunctis ut distinguantur ab immo sursum versus modulis astragalorum, aliorum baccatorum, aliorum ter etiam sine baccis. Supra quadratas crustas discurrunt tres fasciæ et tres velut astragali, quorum duo teretes, supremus quadratus velut regula. Supra fasciam, denticuli; supra denticulos, folia Corinthia. Denique marmor sic mensulis distinguitur ut in commissuris eluceat labor Corinthicus. Sed is plenior apparet in æde Sophiæ. [537] Cf. description by Gyllius, _De top. C.P._ iv. c. 4. [538] [Greek: deute pros me pantes hoi kopiôntes kai pephortismenoi kagô]....--Matt. xi. 28. [539] For the description of these vaults see p. 22.