Review 15(1937),629 ff.
[225]Cf.the description in the travel book of the Bavarian Schiltberger who fought in the battle of Nicopolis and was taken prisoner,ed.V.Langmantel(Tübingen 1885),7.
[226]Cf.J.H.Mordtmann,‘Die erste Eroberung von Athen durch die Türken zu Ende des 14.Jahrhunderts’,BNJ 4(1923),346 ff.
[227]Cf.Zakythinos,Despotat Ⅰ,156 ff.,with references to the sources.
[228]Miklosich-Müller,Ⅱ,191 f.The end of this exhortation of the Patriarch Antony(1388-90;1391-7)is mutilated,and it therefore bears no date;it has usually been assigned to the year 1393,but it more probably belongs to the period 1394-7 because it speaks of the encirclcomnt of Constantinople,and it was not until 1394 that Bajezid’s blockade cocomnced(cf.above,p.550)。
[229]Miklosich-Müller,Ⅱ,190.
[230]Polnoe Sobr.Russk.Letopisej(Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles),11(1897),168.
[231]The authorization which he had drawn up for this purpose for his French negotiators on 15 August 1397 has been printed with a cocomntary by Sp.Lampros,10(1913),248 ff.
[232]The best and most detailed account of this famous joruney with ncomrous references to the sources is by Vasiliev,‘Putesestvie Manuila’.Cf.also G.Schlumberger,Un empereur de Byzance à Paris et á Londres,in Byzance et les croisades(1927),87-147,361-2.
[233]Chronicon Adae de Usk.,ed.E.M.Thompson(1904),57.Cf.Vasiliev,‘Putesestvie Manuila’272 and History 634.
[234]Cf.W.Barthold,Zwolf V