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NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO DALLAS · SAN FRANCISCO
[Illustration: PLATE I. MEDIAEVAL MAP OF CONSTANTINOPLE BY BONDELMONTIUS. _Frontispiece._]
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The map is taken from the unpublished _Insularium Henrici Martelli Germani_ (_B.M. Add.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. _Arundel_, 93, has since been published in _Annual B.S.A._ xii. pl. i.
In the present map the legends are as follows. Those marked with a dagger do not occur on hitherto published maps.
Reference is made below to the Paris MS. (best published by Oberhummer, _loc. cit._), the Venetian (Mordtmann, _Esquisse_, p. 45, Sathas, [Greek: Mnêmeia], iii., frontispiece), and the Vatican (Mordtmann, _loc. cit._ p. 73).
TRACIE PARS--GALATHA OLIM NVNC PERA--Pera--S. Dominicus--Arcena--Introitus Euxini Maris.
ASIE MINORIS PARS NVNC TVRCHIA.--TVRCHIA.
Tracie pars--Porta Vlacherne--[Symbol: cross] Ab hec (_sic_) porta Vlacherne usque ad portam Sancti Demetri 6 M.P. et centum et decem turres--[Symbol: cross] Porta S. Iohannis[1]--Porta Chamici[2]--Porta Crescu--Porta Crescea--[Symbol: cross] Ab hec (_sic_) porta que dicitur Crescea usque ad portam Sancti Demetri septem M. passuum et turres centum nonaginta octo. Et ad portam Vlacherne 5 M. passuum et turres nonaginta sex--Receptaculum Conticasii[3]-Porta olim palacii Imperatoris--Porta S. Dimitri--Iudee[4]--Pistarie p.[5]--Messi p.--Cheone p.[6]--S. Andreas--S. Iohannes de Petra--Hic Constantinus genuflexus--[Symbol: cross] Ad S. Salvatorem--[Symbol: cross] Columna Co(n)s?--Hic Iustinianus in equo[7]--Sancta Sophia--Hippodromus--S. Demetrius--S. Georgius-S. Lazarus--Domus Pape--Domus S. Constantini--Sanctorum Apostolorum--Porta antiquissima mire (_sic_) arte constructa[8]--S. Marta[9]--S. Andreas--S. Iohannes de Studio--Perleftos.