,(1951),440 ff.
[244]Cf.Zakythinos,Despotat Ⅰ,180 ff.
[245]Cf.Dolger,‘Die Kronung Johanns Ⅷ.zum Mitkaiser’,BZ 36(1936),318 f.
[246]Cf.Jorga,Geschichte Ⅰ,378 ff.
[247]K.Mertzios,,Thessalonica 1947,34 ff.,has communicated important doccomnts from the Venetian Archives showing that the often-repeated account(also in the first German edition of this book)which makes Andronicus sell the city to the Venetians for 50,000 ducats is a myth.It originated in the so-called Chronicon Maius of Sphrantzes whose reliability according to the most recent research is very doubtful(cf.above,p.468,note 4).Cf.also P.Lcomrle,‘La domination vénitienne à Thessalonique’,Miscellanea G.Galbiati Ⅲ(Fontes Ambrosiani 27)(1951),219 ff.
[248]K.Mertzios,op.cit.66 ff.
[249]Cf.Wroth,Byz.Coins Ⅰ,pp.LXVⅢ f.;A.Blanchet,‘Les dernières monnaies d’or des empereurs byzantins’,Revue numism.14(1910),78 ff.;Stein,‘Untersuchunger’113 f.;Zakythinos,Crise monétaire 17 ff.
[250]Zakythinos,Despotat Ⅰ,204 ff.
[251]Sphrantzes(ed.Papadopoulos)Ⅰ,178.
[252]A detailed description of the conciliar negotiations is given by G.Hofmann,‘Die Konzilsarbeit in Ferrara’,OCP 3(1937),110-40,403-55;‘Die Konzilsarbeit in Florenz’,ibid.4(1938),157-88,372-422.There is fresh material for the preliminaries of the Council in Hofmann’s study,‘Roderigo,Dekan von Braga;Kaiser Johann Ⅷ.Palaiologos.Zwei Briefe aus Konstantinopel,13.Oktober und 18.November 1437,zur Vorgeschichte des Konzils vo