[472] Poem cited by Muralt, ii. 738, No. 1. [473] MS. Bibl. Nat., Paris, fonds grec, No. 1253, fol. 198 vº. [474] John V Palaeologos was of those who, in the words of Bernino (p. 9), ‘consumavasi vanamente il tempo più in dolersi delle calamità che in repararle’. [475] Ducas, 13, pp. 25-49 _passim_; Chalc., II, pp. 66, 81-2. [476] Evliya effendi, i. 29-30; ii. 21, who repeats the persistent Ottoman tradition of his day, that is also found in Hadji Khalfa and Nazmi Zadé. Cf. the Genoese accounts of Pera in Jorga’s scholarly _Notes à servir_, &c. i. 42. According to Schéfer, in his edition of Bertrandon de la Broquière, p. 165, there was a provision that slaves escaping to Constantinople should be given back, but we cannot be sure that this stipulation was made under Bayezid I. The date of the installation of the cadi, &c., is open to question. Some authorities place it after Nicopolis. [477] Shehabeddin, fol. 72 rº, writes _Istanbul_; Sherefeddin, iv. 37, is transcribed by Petits de la Croix _Istanbol_; Arabshah, p. 124, transcribed by Vattier _Estanbol_. Wylie, i. 156, _n._ 2, gives the time-worn popular derivation from εἰς τὴν πόλιν; also Telfer, in his edition of Schiltberger, p. 119. Why go so far afield? _Istambul_ is a natural contraction of Constantinople. As the Greeks pronounced this long word, the syllables _stan_ and _pol_ bore the stress, and were naturally put together for a shortened form. As for the initial _I_, which has troubled the philologists, its explanation is easy to one who knows the Osmanlis. They cannot to this day pronounce an initial _St_ without putting _I_ before it. [478] Neshri, trans. Nöldeke, _ZDMG._, xv. 345; Seadeddin, i. 189; Saguntinus, p. 187; Drechsler, p. 228, says: ‘octo annos vexatur et obsidetur.’ [479] Duc., 13, p. 50. [480] Muralt, ii. 753, No. 29. [481] _Secr. Cons. Rog._, III, E 84. [482] Chalc., II, pp. 80-1; Phr., I. 13, pp. 57-8; 26, p. 82. [483] Miklositch, _Acta Serbica_, CCIV. Hammer, i. 341, calls this Constantine ‘fils de Twarko’, meaning Stephen Tvrtko, I suppose. But I cannot find that the Bosnian king had such a son, or any reason, if he had, why this son should have been at Serres. [484] Ibid., CCXXIII. For the later kings of the dynasty which Vuk founded, see Picot’s careful article in _Columna lui Traianu_, new ser., Jan.-Feb. 1883, p. 64 f. [485] _Epp. cur._, ii. 64. [486] _Epp. cur._, ii. 103-4. Urban VI in 1387 had written a letter from Lucca inciting the Frankish princes to a war against ‘schismatics’ in Achaia. [487] _Secr. Cons. Rog._, iii, E 74. [488] Miklositch-Müller, _Acta Graeca_, CCCCXXXV. [489] Chalc., II, p. 75; Duc., 13, p. 73. [490] Chalc., loc. cit.; _Epp. cur._, ii. 300-1, 311; iii. 261. [491] Cf. Jorga, in _Bibl. de l’École des Chartes_, 2e série, 110e fascic.; Molinier, MSS. de P. de Mézières, in _Arch. de l’Orient Latin_, i. 335-64; Del. Leroulx, i. 201-8.