1. _Annuntiatio_, Calcasendi adds: _Innuunt per eam annuntiationem consolatoris, qui ipse est juxta eorum disciplinam Gabriel, Mariæ, super quam sit pax, de nativitate Jesu, super quam sit misericordia Dei._ The festival was held on 29th Barchamoth—25th March. 2. _Olivarum s. festum palmarum in die solis postremo jejunii illorum_, _alias_ _festum Alschacaniu_ (a corruption of Hosanna), Palm Sunday. 3. _Pascha celebrant die solutionis jejunii eorum._ 4. _Feria quinta quadraginta_ (_scil._ _dierum_), _i.e._ _festum ascensionis_. 5. _Festum quinque_ (_scil._ _decadum dierum_), _i.e._ _pentecoste_. 6. _Nativitas Domini._ 7. _Immersio_, _i.e._ _baptismus Domini_, Epiphany. The lesser festivals are:— 1. _Circumcisio Domini._ 2. _Quadragesima_ (_scil._ _dies_, reckoned from Christmas), Candlemas Day; the date 8th Mesori is given. 3. _Feria quinta confœderations sive testimonii_, Maundy Thursday. 4. _Sabbatum Luminis_, Holy Saturday. 5. _Festum claudens s. terminans est octiduo post pascha_, Low Sunday. 6. _Festum transfigurationis_ (6th August). 7. _Festum crucis_, on the 14th September. For the Egyptian Christians, Good Friday was not a festival of either the first or second class. In this it stood in marked distinction from the preceding and following days—Maundy Thursday and Holy Saturday, which were regarded as festivals of the second class. The festivals observed in the latter period of the Byzantine Empire under the Paleologi are found in the treatise of an official of the palace, George Codinus, _De Officiis Palatii_, in which detailed information is given of the costume, insignia, etc., with which the Emperor and his courtiers attended divine service in the different churches of the capital. Beside the great festivals—Christmas, Epiphany, Hypapante, Easter, and Pentecost—the following days were distinguished by the attendance of the Court at divine service: the First Sunday in Lent, called by the Greeks Orthodox Sunday, Palm Sunday, Holy Saturday and the Easter Octave, the 1st September being New Year’s Day. To these were added a great number of saints’ days, _i.e._ 1st January, St Basil; 23rd April, St George; 21st May, Constantine; 24th June, Nativity of St John the Baptist; 30th June, the Feast of the Apostles; 8th August, the Transfiguration; 15th August, the Assumption (κοίμησις τῆς ὑπεραγίας θεοτόκου); 29th August, the Beheading of St John the Baptist; 31st August or 2nd July, the Translation of Our Lady’s garment to the Church of the Blachernæ; 8th September, the Nativity of Our Lady; 14th September, the Invention of the Cross (ὕψωσις τοῦ σταυροῦ); 26th October, Feast of the Martyr Demetrius Myroblyta; 13th November, St Chrysostom; 21st November, the Presentation of Our Lady in the Temple; and, finally, the day of the Resurrection of Lazarus, which was kept on the Saturday before Palm Sunday.