[593] I have walked in one day from Riva to a point on the Bosphorus not many miles above Constantinople. When one reads the history of the Osmanlis in the country of their origin, the fact that from the very beginning of their history they were practically within sight of the imperial city is vividly impressed upon one. [594] The Byzantine historians give little attention to Boucicaut, and are in contradiction with his chronicler on this point. Phr., 15, p. 61, says that John, who had been in the court of Bayezid, fled to his uncle because he had been slandered to Bayezid, and was afraid for his life; and Chalc., II, p. 84, that it was John who commanded the 10,000 Osmanlis against the city, and that Manuel shared the throne with him in order to save the city. Muralt, ii. 762, is a year in advance of the actual date. [595] _Chron. de Saint-Denis_ and Juvenal d’Ursins. But these are really the same source, according to Lacabane, _Bibl. de l’École des Chartes_, ii. 62. [596] Foglieta and Stella, in Muralt, ii. 778, No. 61. [597] Sanudo, in Muratori, xxii. pp. 794-8. [598] Chalc., II, pp. 83-4; Ducas, 14, pp. 54-6. For Rhodes and the Pope in the Morea, Phr., I. 16, p. 63; Bosio, ii. 154. [599] September 10, 1400, in _Misti_, xlv. 33. [600] _Livre des faicts_, fol. 53 r°-55 r°, and Wylie, pp. 159-65. Wylie has collated admirably the sources on Manuel’s visit. [601] Text is published in Theiner, ii. 170-2. [602] _Epp._, v. 300-2; vi. 92. [603] ‘Cum Dom. summus Pontifex advertens quod perfidus ille Baysetus Princeps Turchorum, manu potenti et brachio extento in Christianum Populum maxima feritate extitit debachatus ad Exterminium Civitatis Constantinopolitanae et universitatis Populi Christiani _nisi eius nephanda propositio resistatur_, omnes et singulos qui, pro Liberatione et Subsidione Manuelis Imp. Cpni et dictae Civitatis suae, Manus adiutrices porrexerint ...’ etc.: Rymer, vol. iii, part 4, pp. 195-6. [604] Clavijo, who visited Constantinople the following year, reports this, fol. 7 v°. [605] Miklositch-Müller, _Acta_, DCXXVI. [606] Strikingly shown in letter of April 20, 1402: _Canc. Secr._, i. 58. [607] _Misti_, xlv. 19-23, 25-6, 29-30, 35, 87; xlvi. 37. Several of these are published in Ljubić, iv. 579, 590. [608] Knoelle, in _Journal R. A. S._ (1822), xiv. 125; Nöldeke, in _ZDMG._ (1859), xiii. 185, _n._ 6. [609] ‘Toutesfoiz il a la main senestre et pié senestre comme impotent et ne s’en puet aidier, car il a les nerfs coppez’: Dominican Friar, p. 463. ‘Infirmus, ut dicitur, a cingulo infra’: Stella, in Muratori, vol. xvii. col. 1194. Cf. Sherefeddin, i. 55, 381. The English corruption Tamerlane is from Timurlenk, the latter syllable signifying lameness. [610] Sherefeddin, ii. 222. [611] There is an excellent account of the dynasties of the Black and White Sheep, with list, following Mirkhand, in Teixera, ii. 24-39, 69-70. For the later activities of Kara-Yussuf, Teixera, ii. 355; de Guignes, iii. 302.