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Title: Byzantine Churches in Constantinople
Their History and Architecture

Author: Alexander Van Millingen
Ramsay Traquair
W. S. George
A. E. Henderson

Release Date: June 9, 2009 [EBook #29077]

Language: English

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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.
_Frontispiece._]

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The map is taken from the unpublished _Insularium Henrici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_ (_B.M. Add. MSS._ 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 B.M. _Arunde