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BYZANTINE CHURCHES
IN CONSTANTINOPLE
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Mediaeval Map ofConstantinople by Bondelmontius.
Frontispiece.
NOTE ON THE MAP OF CONSTANTINOPLE
For the map forming the frontispiece and the following note I amgreatly indebted to Mr. F. W. Hasluck, of the British School atAthens.
The map is taken from the unpublished Insularium HenriciMartelli Germani (B.M. Add.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 Buondelmontiusseries, which dates from 1420, and forms the base of all known mapsprior to the Conquest. Buondelmontius' map of Constantinople hasbeen published from several MSS., varying considerably in legendand other details:1 thebest 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. Arundel, 93, has since been publishedin Annual B.S.A. xii. pl. i.
In the present map the legends are as follows. Those marked witha dagger do not occur on hitherto published maps.
Reference is made below to the Paris MS. (best published byOberhummer, loc. cit.), the Venetian (Mordtmann,Esquisse, p. 45, Sathas,Μνημεῖα, iii., frontispiece), andthe Vatican (Mordtmann, loc. cit. p. 73).
Tracie pars—Galatha olim nvncPera—Pera—S.Dominicus—Arcena—Introitus Euxini Maris.
Asie minorus pars nvnctvurchia.—Tvrchia.
Tracie pars—Porta Vlacherne—♰Ab hec(sic) porta Vlacherne usque ad portam Sancti Demetri 6 M.P. et centum et decemturres—♰Porta S. Iohannis1—Porta Chamici2—Porta Crescu—PortaCrescea—♰Ab hec (sic) porta que dicitur Cresceausque ad portam Sancti Demetri septem M.passuum et turres centum nonaginta octo. Et ad portam Vlacherne 5M. passuum et turres nonagintasex—Receptaculum Conticasi