tailieunhanh - BYZANTINE CHURCHES IN CONSTANTINOPLE

This volume is a sequel to the work I published, several years ago, under the title, _Byzantine Constantinople: the Walls of the City, and adjoining Historical Sites_. In that work the city was viewed, mainly, as the citadel of the Roman Empire in the East, and the bulwark of civilization for more than a thousand years. But the city of Constantine was not only a mighty fortress. It was, moreover, the centre of a great religious community, which elaborated dogmas, fostered forms of piety, and controlled an ecclesiastical administration that have left a profound impression upon the thought and life of mankind | BYZANTINE CHURCHES IN CONSTANTINOPLE MACMILLAN AND CO. LIMITED LONDON BOMBAY CALCUTTA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK BOSTON CHICAGO DALLAS SAN FRANCISCO THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA LTD. TORONTO Illustration PLATE I. MEDIAEVAL MAP OF CONSTANTINOPLE BY BONDELMONTIUS. NOTE ON THE MAP OF CONSTANTINOPLE For the map forming the frontispiece and the following note I am greatly indebted to Mr. F. W. Hasluck of the British School at Athens. The map is taken from the unpublished _Insularium Henrici Martelli Germani_ . Add. 15 760 f. 40. A short note on the MS. which may be dated approximately 1490 is given in the _Annual of the British School at Athens_ xii. 199. The map of Constantinople is a derivative of the Buondelmontius series which dates from 1420 and forms the base of all known maps prior to the Conquest. Buondelmontius map of Constantinople has been published from several MSS. varying considerably in legend and other details 1 the best account of these publications is to be found in E. Oberhummer s _Konstantinopel unter Suleiman dem Grossen_ pp. 18 ff. The map in . _Arundel_ 93 has since been published in _Annual xii. pl. i. In the present map the legends are as follows. Those marked with a dagger do not occur on hitherto published maps. Reference is made below to the Paris MS. best published by Oberhummer _loc. the Venetian Mordtmann _Esquisse_ p. 45 Sathas Greek Mnêmeia iii. frontispiece and the Vatican Mordtmann _loc. p. 73 . TRACIE PARS--GALATHA OLIM NVNC PERA--Pera--S. Dominicus--Arcena--Introitus Euxini Maris. ASIE MINORIS PARS NVNC . Tracie pars--Porta Vlacherne-- Symbol cross Ab hec _sic_ porta Vlacherne usque ad portam Sancti Demetri 6 . et centum et decem turres-- Symbol cross Porta S. Iohannis 1 --Porta Chamici 2 --Porta Crescu--Porta Crescea-- Symbol cross Ab hec _sic_ porta que dicitur Crescea usque ad portam Sancti Demetri septem M. passuum et turres centum nonaginta octo. .