NOTES      

40 On this very important point, essential in the present argument, there is ample certainty.  The eunuch Constantine Philoxenites was "minister of imperial treasuries" for the unfortunate Isaac II on his brief restoration to power in 1203 (Nic. Chon. 550).  Mesarites was thus out of that post and probably already looking towards the Greek Lascarid stronghold of Nicaea.  Once the crusaders had taken the city the Greek clergy was utterly displaced in important posts.  See Ernst Gerland, Geschichte des lateinischen Kaiserreiches von Konstantinopel (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchsgesellschaft 1966. Repr. of 1905) 10‑17 and 118‑54.  Also Walter Norden, Das Papstum und Byzanz (New York: Burt Franklin 1958.  Repr. of 1903).  The discussion of the new Latin power structure in Constantinople in Robert Lee Wolff and Harry W. Hazard, A history of the Crusades (Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press 1969) II. 194‑99 precludes any possibility of doubt.  Finally, there is the evidence of Villehardouin that when the city was captured, the Bucoleon was occupied and secured by the troops of the Marquis de Montferrat while those of Henri de Flandre did the same at the palace of Blachernae.  No place for Greeks in this context. M. R. B. Shaw, tr., Joinville and Villehardouin: Chronicles of the Crusades (New York: Penguin 1963) 92.

41  Pietro Savio, Ricerche storiche sulla Santa Sindone (Torino: Società  Editrice Internazionale 1957) 121.  This collection of texts is a work of immense scholarship and of inestimable value to the study of the burial wrap of Jesus. 

42  Thus, the Greek text of Mesarites' Palastrevolution (n. 36) 31‑32 (Col. A) should be compared to that of the Epitaphios in August Heisenberg, Neue Quellen zur Geschichte des lateinischen Kaisartums und der Kirchenunion. I. Der Epitaphios des Nikolaos Mesarites auf seinem Bruder Johannes (Munich: Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1923) 27f (Col. B). (Italics below are by the present writer.)

      

       COL. A                                                    COL. B

[He lists ten relics of the                   [He lists relics of the

Passion corresponding to the       Passion present in Cpe.]

Ten Commandments including     "Christ is known in  

the ¦vτ�φιoι σιvδóvες                        Judaea but the Lord is

            not absent from us. His

and later, τò σoυδάριov                     tomb is there, but the

and ¦vτάφιoις σιvδoσιv.]                    Ïθόvαι κα τ� σoυδάρια                                                                                                  have been brought to us;             

 κραvίoυ τόπoς ¦κει but the cross is here. . . .

. . . κα τί δει με τè λόγè                     κα τί δει με τè λόγè

μακρεγoρειv τ� πoλλά;                     συvείρειv τ� πoλλά;                                                                                                               He who is �περίγραπτoς who appeared

among us in the form of a man,

The Lawgiver himself is                 περιγραπτÎς,

here . . . ñς ¦v                                      . . . ñς ¦v

πρωτoτύπè τετυπωμέvoς                    πρωτoτύπè τετυπωμέvoς

τè χειρoμάκτρè κα τε                        τè χειρoμάκτρè κα τε           

εÛθρύπτè κεράμè ñς ¦v                 εÛθρύπτè κεράμè ñς ¦v

¦γκεκoλαμμέvoς                                ¦γκεκoλαμμέvoς

�χειρoπoιέτè τέχv¬ τιv                  �χειρoπoιέτè τέχv¬ τιvÂ

γραφιλκ±. vαÎς oàτoς,                       γραφιλκ±.

τόπoς oàτoς                                     τόπoς oàτoς, é τέκvov,

Σίvαιov άλλo, Βεθλεέμ,                     

Ioρδάvες, {Iερoσόλυμα,                     Iερoσόλυμα, Τιβερι�ς,          

Ναζαρέτ, Βεθαvία, Γαλιλαία, Ναζαρέτ, Θαβώριov Ðρos,

Τιβερι�ς, . . . Θαβώριov                  Βεθαvία, κα Βεθλεέμ. 

Ðρos, Πιλάτoυ πραιτόριov,

κα τόπoς Κραvίoυ

μεθερμεvευόμεvoς

{Ηβραϊστ Γoλγόθα.