[114] Texier, _Arch. Byz._, p. 134. [115] De Fleury, _La Messe_, vol. ii. and plate cii. [116] Du Cange, § 58. [117] Bingham, _Antiq. Christ. Church_, vol. iii., p. 123, note. [118] Ed. Bonn, vol. i., p. 433. [119] Migne, _S. G. Tom._ 147, p. 414. [120] Ed. Bonn., pp. 450 and 697. [121] Figured in Ongania’s _Il Tesoro di San Marco_. [122] Bayet, _L’Art Byzantin_. [123] De Fleury, _La Messe_. [124] Hopf, _Chroniques Gréco-Romanes_. [125] Compare our p. 126. [126] _Archaeologia_, vol. xxxiv. [127] Paulinus, describing the church at Nola, writes: “Cum duabus dextra laevaque conchulis intra spatiosum sui ambitum apsis sinuata laxetur, una earum immolanti hostias jubilationis antistiti patet, altera post sacerdotem capaci sinu receptat orantes.” Migne, _S.L._, vol. 61, p. 337. [128] Suicerus, _Thesaurus Ecclesiasticus verb. Diaconicum_. [129] See p. 96. [130] _Cer._ pp. 636 and 565. [131] Du Cange, § 76. [132] _Cer._ p. 27. A Holy Well is frequently found in the Prothesis. [133] _Quellen für Byzantischer Kunstgeschichte._ [134] _Cer._ pp. 17 and 167. [135] _Cer._ pp. 157 and 160. [136] See account of Coronation in previous chapter and of Adoration of Cross below. [137] On Mount Athos; “the Kanonarches, or master of the choir, prompts the cantors, who sing without books.” A. Riley’s _Mount Athos_. [138] _The Great Palace_, p. 96. [139] Compare S. Germanus; _La Messe_, iii., p. 91. [140] _Theoph. Contin._, ed. Bonn, p. 333. [141] Mr. Conway in _Art Journal_, 1891. [142] _Great Palace_, pp. 120, 129. [143] Vol. iii., p. 321. [144] Fossati: also Paspates’ _Byzantinae Meletai_, p. 343. [145] _Relation d’un Voyage de Constantinople_, p. 160. This idea he may have obtained from Rosweyd’s note to Paulinus (1569), saying fountains in front of churches were succeeded by lustral vases placed at the vestibule of the temple. “The rim of such a one seems to be figured in Gruter, p. 1046, with an inscription which was selected from the Anthology, as is shown by Rigaltius. This line was [also] written on the sepulchre of St. Diomede.” [146] Paciaurdi 1758, _De sacris Balneis_, tab. vi. [147] Ed. Bonn, vol. i., p. 262. [148] E. Muntz, _Tapisserie_. [149] Ed. Bonn, p. 402 and p. 894. [150] _Cer._ I., p. 591. [151] _Soc. Orient. Latin, séries Géographique_, vol. v. 1889, p. 143. [152] See E. Muntz, _Tapisserie_, and M. F. Michel, _Recherches sur ... des étoffes de Soie_. [153] _Jahrbuch des Vereins von alterthumsfreunden in Rheinlande_, 1892, p. 224. [154] _Across the Jordan._ [155] See Paspates and Salz. [156] Ed. Bonn, vol. i., p. 182. [157] Vol. i., p. 801. [158] _Sigillographie de’ l’Empire Byzantin._ The seal of the church itself represents Justinian and the Virgin or Theodora supporting the building. _Cp._ Lenormant, _Revue Numismatique_, 1864, p. 268, pl. xii.