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[Ill.u.s.tration: FIGS. 45 AND 46.]

[179] _Ancient and Modern C.P._ pp. 70, 79.

[180] Pp. 322, 325.

[181] To Muhlmann and Mordtmann, _Esq. top._ paragraph 127, belongs the credit of the identification of Phenere Isa Mesjedi with the monastery of Lips. But I have not seen any full statement of their reasons for that opinion.

[182] _Itin. russes_, p. 202.

[183] _Ibid._ p. 119.

[184] _Ibid._ p. 162.

[185] _Ibid._ p. 230.

[186] _Ibid._ p. 205.

[187] Phrantzes, pp. 141; _Itin. russes_, pp. 205, 122, 234.

[188] i. p. 455; ii. p. 19.

[189] i. p. 160.

[190] Theoph. Cont. p. 371.

[191] Page 141.

[192] _Itin. russes_, pp. 205, 234.

[193] _Ibid._ p. 234.

[194] _Ibid._ p. 122.

[195] Du Cange, iv. p. 93, quoting the Life of Nicholas of the Studion. The district was named [Greek: Merdosagare], Leo Gramm. p.

280.

[196] Theoph. Cont. p. 371.

[197] See inscription, p. 131.

[198] Codinus, _De officiis_, p. 80.

[199] Du Cange, iv. p. 93.

[200] Const. Porphyr. _De adm. imp._ c. 43.

[201] Theoph. Cont. p. 384.

[202] Const. Porphyr. _ut supra_.

[203] Theoph. Cont. p. 389.

[204] _Ibid._ p. 371.

[205] Banduri, iii. p. 52.

[206] _Ut supra_.

[207] Niceph. Greg. i. p. 162.

[208] Pachym. i. p. 378.

[209] _Ibid._ p. 425.

[210] Niceph. Greg. i. p. 461.

[211] Cantacuz. i. p. 193.

[212] Phrantzes, p. 110.

[213] _Ibid._ p. 141.

[214] Paspates, p. 325.

CHAPTER VII

THE CHURCH OF THE THEOTOKOS PAMMAKARISTOS, FETIYEH JAMISSI

The Byzantine church, now Fetiyeh Jamissi, overlooking the Golden Horn from the heights of the Fifth Hill, was the church of the Theotokos Pammakaristos (the All Blessed), attached to the monastery known by that name.

Regarding the ident.i.ty of the church there can be no manner of doubt, as the building remained in the hands of the Greek community for 138 years after the conquest, and was during that period the patriarchal cathedral.

The questions when and by whom the church was founded cannot be so readily determined. According to a ma.n.u.script in the library of the Greek theological college on the island of Halki (one of the small group of islands known as the Princes' Islands in the Sea of Marmora), an inscription in the bema of the church ascribed the foundation of the building to John Comnenus and his wife Anna.[215] The ma.n.u.script perished in the earthquake which reduced the college to a heap of ruins in 1894, but the inscription had fortunately been copied in the catalogue of the library before that disaster occurred. It read as follows:

[Greek: Ioannou phrontisma Komnenou tode Annes te rhizes Doukikes tes syzygou.

hois antidousa plousian, hagne, charin taxais en oiko tou theou monotropous].[216]

[Ill.u.s.tration: PLATE x.x.xVI.

(1) S. MARY PAMMAKARISTOS, FROM THE SOUTH-EAST.

(2) S. MARY PAMMAKARISTOS, FROM THE WEST.

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The legend cannot refer to the Emperor John Comnenus (1118-1143), for his consort was neither named Anna nor related to the family of Ducas.