[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. [169] Drapeyron, _L’Empereur Heraclius_, 279. [170] Fortunatus celebrated its acceptance by a hymn. [171] _J. of Ephesus_, ed. R. P. Smith, 140. [172] Figured in Molinier’s _L’Emaillerie_, Paris, 1891. [173] Figured in Schlumberger’s _Nicephorus Phocas_. [174] See Ongania, _Il Tesoro_, Fig. 33 and p. 102. [175] Riant, _Ex. Sac. C.P._, vol. ii., p. 213. [176] Paspates, _Byzantinae Meletae_, p. 285. [177] _Des Dépouilles Religieuses enlevées à Constantinople au xiii siècle par les Latins_, 1875, and the fuller work, _Exuviae Sacrae Constantinopolitanae_, 1877. [178] _Soc. Orient Latin. Séries Géog._, vol. v. [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._ [189] See our p. 49. [190] Theoph. Contin., ed. Bonn, p. 211. [191] _Ibid._, _Life of Basil_, ch. 79. [192] _La Messe_, vol. vi., p. 78. [193] See fig. in _Byz. Zeitschrift_, 1893, p. 142.