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 talking nonsense and taught them, against whose words and foolish talk we shall reasonably argue and concerning the coming to Italy of the emperor lo

 Make the truth clear to me Who are the conspirators and accomplices and advocates of this plot and who are the advisers in this? Tell me the truth an

 his opponents, that is, his adversaries, made a long speech and filled the ears of the new king for this reason, before suffering anything, he took t

 he entrusted the treasures to him alone and at whatever time military affairs and the public need required money, they demanded it from him which wa

 the aristocracy of the Venetians became master of forts and lands. And again another conspicuous and great victory, and one worthy of eternal memory i

 lamenting, he was beating and throwing his head upon his chest, crying out mournfully: O shudder, sun, o groan, earth, and being shaken cry out agains

 and at Allage, a terrible disease struck his heart, announcing a swift death. And in that place after two days he measured out his life, in the year #

 the daughter of the sister of the king of Spain, and a descendant of the marquis of Montferrat, who had obtained Thessalonica by lot, as we have said

 and engaging with them, he accomplished nothing, but rather even returned having suffered losses. Then their leaders, being at odds, were divided and

 Seeking Michael the king and his brother, he happened to pass by the house of the courtesan, whom the brother's watchmen, seeing him and not knowing w

 of Zoodotos, the one called of Chora, he confiscated all his properties and money. Then later again, the emperor, being compassionate, provided for ev

 he took a wife, Anna by name, with whom he begot two daughters, the firstborn of whom he gave as a wife to the son of the leader of the Mysians and a

 the fear of Orhan and he was always seeking a suitable opportunity, so that, if possible, he might try again and bring the empire under himself. But

 emir. 188 But the emperor John, when he saw and heard that the army of Kantakouzenos, his father-in-law, was coming and preparing, and not having the

 go to the emir and ask for forgiveness. And coming before the emir, he confessed all that he had done in ignorance but this impious man, being pruden

 immediately beheaded his own son but the emperor, willing and unwilling, because of fear of the emir, deprived the despot lord Andronikos, his son, o

 XIII. When the emir Murad died, his son Bayezid Aleutores received the rule. Therefore the lord Andronikos, who was also blind, finding an opportunity

 near the metropolis of Serres, the emperor lord Manuel was also present according to the promises and agreements they had, and his brother the despot

 and having prepared well, he proceeded against his adversaries. When the armies drew near, the Germans first and the Gauls kindled the war, and when t

 sending mpasias and Vrenezes with an army of fifty thousand, and on their return, while on the road and having reached the interior of the Peloponnese

 parts of Larissa of the blinding of Orhan, the son of Musulman, 20by his uncle Moses20 and of the arrival from the east to the west of his brother Meh

 XIX. The lord John Komnenos, at a certain time finding himself in the east in the regions of the province of the city of Neocaesarea, fighting with th

 And he himself, using a stroke of fortune, as happens contrary to expectation, had become sultan and emir and leader of the Turks. Who also in secret

 And under the shade of the tree were sitting every winged bird, and among these many and innumerable birds there were also some eagles, both small and

 Kalames and his son Karases took Mysia toward the Hellespont and Othman the parts around Olympus and whatever was next of Bithynia. And thus having d

 he made war against the despot Lazar, who ruled Serbia having routed and defeated him, he pursued him and scattered his army and again took many citi

 they might be friends. But the emir, <being> extremely greedy, was never satisfied with wealth and manner. 224 Being impetuous and formidable, he cons

 and strangled him having been established in power for *** months and Musulman having become master of the domain, Temir then freed his brother Musa,

 having made war, the Venetian fleet, therefore, had as its admiral Pietro Loredan and both fleets having met, I mean those of the Venetians and of th

 to his son Mehmed he gave all authority and the kingdom, having reigned for thirty-four years.

 they have become. He reigned for thirty-two years and he subdued and enslaved ten kingdoms and took two hundred cities from the Christians. He spoke

 they fought those growing up among them. But the Hagarenes dwelling in Spain, having grown to a great population, and seeing that the land they inhabi

 Again after one year the emperor Michael sends another fleet against them. They accomplished no worthy deed, and the Saracens thereafter lived without

 towards the western sea from there, near the trench where the wall of the Isthmus had been, he transports the ships over the dry land. And having quic

 Boniface, Marquis of Montferrat, had entered into the alliance with a notable share and was recognized as the commander of the entire land army he wa

 XXVII. And in the beginning of the 20th year, the lord Thomas, son of the sovereign, was sent to the Peloponnese by the emperor his father at which t

 the emperor and they were not able to depart because the secret roads leading to the City were closed. And thus many days passed, from which indeed t

 Philommates, 20but the emir was raging in his anger against the Roman empire, for the reasons which we have stated, and immediately, when he saw them,

 wherever you wish. When he took me aside privately, he gave me a folded paper, which showed me also whence and when he had departed. But when I unfold

 The lady kyra Sophia, having fled, crossed over to her own fatherland, for the reason that the emperor kyr John, her husband, did not have such great

 of such a kind, that my father's brother was his tutor and his sons, my cousins, were brought up with him and were his friends and servants, and I wit

 the brothers to be found together in Sparta, except for the aforementioned despot, lord Theodore, when he should become a monk. And on the first of Ju

 reasons for the common benefit, even if the untimeliness of death snatched him away and the work remained unfinished. Since many others have spoken of

 and extraordinary things, which he had heard and was saying. Therefore, the same Laskaris was sent as governor of 20Ithome and20 Androusa, and further

 horse, and immediately he fell to the ground and the enemies, running to kill him or capture him, found me there as a defender. And he, indeed, by Go

 authority over the willing women of the city, and the people of the city were willing to give them every necessary thing for visiting and caring for t

 of all the priests, hieromonks, summoned and unsummoned, lords and ladies. And these things are indeed so and true.

 And I, not knowing what might happen, reported to him that if the metropolitan did not come, God willing, and they gave us the castle, and I recovered

 Having arrived on the fourth of the same month, we remained in the church of Saint Andrew, behold, also two Turks passing through Naupactus, one of th

 he reasoned that he was not able to accomplish anything good, unless it was harmful. But I, by the good pleasure of God, did this, and a certain ambas

 the young lord, kyr Thomas. And in the #2239th year, in the month of September, I was granted the governorship of Patras. And in the same year, in the

 while expecting the Venetian merchant triremes, so that boarding he might depart for the City, behold, I arrived with nothing accomplished. XI. And ha

 they having agreed, that my lord and master should depart and reside in Constantinople, and the lord Theodore and the lord Thomas the despots in the P

 He made the Red Sea to be crossed, and from the rock so much water gushed forth that all the people were satisfied, and the ark, being held up by the

 of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of the Holy Spirit according to the prophetic word he was named Emmanuel, that is, God with us, o

 with his all-holy mother both present and watching and now he is in heaven, sitting together with God the Father and worshipped together with him by

 who have fallen from him. And the heart of a man toward his neighbor. For it will prepare brothers to think brotherly thoughts. And showing the purpos

 and great, so that the attack of the impious against Constantinople might happen, and from this again the siege and captivity and such and so great a

 period, as it would be superfluous to commit it to writing, because of its length I will omit it. But the entry into Venice of the Emperor John and th

 of piety, perhaps. But before the stern stood something upright like a high pillar. And on top of the pillar was something like a square table, less t

 XV. Therefore, on the twenty-eighth of February, having departed from Venice, both the emperor and the despot and all the clergy and their retinue wer

 Noah's ark. And that was securely made safe. As for the part in the water, it was smeared with pitch, and the visible part was beautified with various

 Of Constantinople, kyr Metrophanes, formerly metropolitan of Cyzicus. 334 χῃιιι. And on the sixth of the month of December of the #22μθ-ου year I was

 care because of the suspicion, which we had from the emir and from the despot lord Demetrios and indeed from the emperor himself. XIX. In the month of

 he knows wherefore it is not necessary for your majesty to undertake this, the matter is dangerous, but I will do whatever is commanded by your majes

 many offices and make everyone have no other authority except you as my sole lord, that is, in my place. And if you wish not to commit injustices and

 striving to make this despot and porphyrogennetos king. But by the citizens of Constantine's city it was judged not to be worthy, while the first and

 of the impious nations from there, and they sold him into the inner parts of the Persians. And his master, being a merchant, and with many other merch

 Amurates, 20which I also learned while I was still in Iberia20. When, therefore, I came to Trebizond, the emperor said to me the following: My lord am

 here also how the wife of the emir, his cousin, returned to her own country to her own parents honorably and well. And when I heard, I considered acco

 she should be joined with her, but for her to remain in prudence, being a virgin, and as far as possible to serve God who granted her freedom for whi

 of the Serbian marriage alliance. And answering he said to me: I owe you much for your love and faith towards me since childhood and for such great se

 if any of these should wish and agree to what the imperial letters stipulated, so that should the need arise, they might see if the emir wishes to do

 He said again: But I have a suspicion that if I send someone else besides you, he will not maintain the proper goodwill and faithfulness to me, lest m

 the office of Constable, since his father-in-law has this, he will bestow it neither on you nor on anyone else, but he will give you that of the Grand

 for how, not considering the so many kindnesses and friendships from you towards me, do they wish, in comparison of your things, to jump from their pr

 Turahan and his two sons, Achumates and Amaren, with a very large army in the Peloponnese, so that by fighting they might hinder the despots and broth

 to cast the very heavy iron chain at the mouth of the harbor, so that it might hinder the assault of the fleet, I mean of the enemy ships. And inside

 to his king. And he, having summoned me, said: This service pertains to you, the things needing guarding and secret. Take therefore the registers of t

 of the city and according to his command they began to dig. A certain John the German, highly skilled in the arts of war and of liquid fire, having l

 their empty [places], they were amazed. And the emir, being more grieved and ashamed, was amazed at the dexterity of our men and said, perhaps in wond

 a few having been struck and after not many days, a few of them departed to the Lord. But the amir, so maddened and grieved against the droungarios o

 of two hundred men, both archers and crossbowmen for they had in that part a siege tower opposite, and it was covered with the hides of buffalo and o

 we were preparing for war. 7. And since the palace was lacking money for the soldiers' pay, the emperor ordered to take the holy vessels of the church

 to withdraw. And he did these things not only because of the entrance to the harbor, but also that he might pay back the Ligurian ships, so that he mi

 does. No fortunate man is a friend to the unfortunate. VII. And on the twenty-fourth of May it was whispered, that the emir wishes to make war on us f

 deciding to get up on the morrow and to lift the siege. But on the same evening, on which he was planning for the morrow, so that they might depart, t

 For his words and counsel greatly pleased the emir, and he remained gracious and received relief from his grief. And giving orders, he says: 'Review t

 and of the divine images and standards the priests, high priests and monks, and women and children, going about through the walls of the city with tea

 they will fly over us like the sand of the seas. Through which, for I hope, they will not harm us, because I see and greatly rejoice and I am nourishe

 of his babbling false prophet Mohammed and a dwelling place for brute animals and camels. Therefore, brothers and fellow soldiers, consider this in yo

 or to enter. And when we 20came to the Caligaria at the first hour of the cockcrow and dismounting from our horses we went up into the tower and 20we

 Theophilos Palaiologos and Demetrios Kantakouzenos, most excellent men, leaping forward, conquer the Hagarenes and put them to flight and cast them do

 encouraged the enemy and shouting many cries, all eagerly and without fear climbed upon the walls. 10. When, therefore, the unfortunate emperor and m

 many and various and countless lamentations, enslavements of noble ladies and virgins and those consecrated to God, being dragged by the Turks by the

 they marveled at his counsel. But Notaras said to the emir: All these things I was guarding for your kingdom and behold, now I bestow them on you as

 From Augustus Caesar until the great Constantine Flavius, the thrice-blessed and celebrated and ever-memorable, who transferred the imperial rule from

 Concerning the chapters in the Quran of Muhammad and what is contained in them first, in the first discourse and in the first chapter.

 Nemeli, which is interpreted fly, he tells about Solomon and the flies a certain foolish falsehood, which he also says. Fourteenth, that in the chapte

 having become their [leader], then he also gathered for himself a sufficient force, and he overran and plundered all of Syria and ravaged and destroye

 of the palace performed the Blessed, then also a short litany and the Grand Domestic chanted For where the king's presence is and the rest, then

 he himself shall be free, and the patriarchs after him forever, likewise also all the high priests subject to him. 458

 Then, having nothing else to say except only, as we said before, that we lost the kingdom because we did not think rightly, and they themselves, perha

 7. And so through the four winds the great Zacharias and the divine Daniel teach of the four great kingdoms, that of the Chaldeans I say, that of the

 of our sound and holy faith and the impiety which the Hagarenes have. And God did not say to him once, but even twice. First, he said: You shall bear

 furthermore, so that what the God-seer Moses said might come to pass, and not that the Romans and Serbs and Bulgarians did not think rightly, as our a

 he took care of this. For when the cardinal of Russia was found in the city, I also mediated 472 concerning this with my lord the king, of celebrated

 Galata, in order that they might send men, and they did not send them? or who performed fasts and prayers for himself and through the priests, giving

 he spoke with authority, Lazarus, come forth, and the breathless one obeyed the command of the Lord, showing both his divinity and humanity so at t

 Muhammad: I have made all things for your sake, and you for my sake and this the Christians do not accept. But also the name of Muhammad is found wri

 state, he was perplexed within himself, that there is some power that holds together and governs the universe. And since all men confess that there is

 the baptized as impious. If, then, you love Muhammad, because he speaks truly, how do you call the baptized impious and not follow the teaching of the

 eighty years old for he was found to be of so many years, when he was commanded by God to lead the sons of Israel out of Egypt but Christ had the te

 smoother, and nothing is truer than the truth. But nevertheless, let us examine and see what the words of the lawgiver mean. Surely nothing else, but

 are works of wrath and aversion and the results of sin. For before the transgression and sin of Adam, where were baths, where were houses at all, wher

 it is also concerning his sons and their wives. But Moses himself, when ascending Mount Sinai, speaks thus to the Jews: Sanctify yourselves, each one,

 drinkings and baths and women, which are the results of sin and wrath, as has been said, but holiness and purity and an angelic way of life, joy and g

 Who would have dared to cast out the name of Mohammed from the Gospel, if it were found written in it? On the one hand, because he who dared to add or

 Yes. And the beast said: I will not permit him to ascend, unless he first should pray to God for me. And I prayed to my God for the beast, and I mount

 himself, but also of all those, into whom Gabriel had no entrance, but was so inferior to them, that he handed over Muhammad himself to another angel,

 of certain proofs for the manifestation of the truth but since God truly and clearly reveals himself, I have considered it superfluous to give any de

 this one to be found dissonant, but also not even to be in agreement with himself, just as this present Muhammad is in the whole of his writing. But i

 concerning the Quran, that no one among men, not even Muhammad himself, knows its interpretation, but only God. And if this is true, what is the benef

 of the earth and became guilty of many other sins, for which God, as they say, sympathized with him. Furthermore, Christ performed terrible and extrao

 spiritual and bodily health, as in the case of Christ, or for use, as in the case of Moses and Joshua the son of Nun. But how did the moon perform suc

 Lightning does not happen in another way, except by the interaction of the winds and the collision of the clouds, as being forced by the winds, a cras

 You will see this truly Take pure rain water in a glass jar and leave the water, until it disappears, and you will find earth, as we have said. And t

 I returned to Patras, by God's help alone we escaped the evil of the sea, which found us on the way. 9. In June of the same year the amir took the cit

 XVI. In the month of October of the year #22'67 the emir, having sent an ambassador to the despot lord Demetrios, asking for his daughter as a wife, 2

 the worst and most useless race of the Albanians, having found an opportunity suitable to their reputation and their rapacious and greedy and unjust m

 his Sakkos having celebrated the sacred rite. And when in the divine liturgy he showed the holy things to the people, saying, With fear of God and fa

 beauty and the virtues of the citizens, the emperors in succession honored their holy church and the citizens themselves of the renowned fortress, and

 cities and regions of my empire are assigned by chrysobulls and ordinances of my holy and ever-memorable and blessed lords and emperors, both the fath

 of them, or from west to east or from east to west or from the region of Zagora, transporting animals or anything else, whether to Sozopolis or to Aga

 of the emir himself and to the parts around Leontari, and finding it deserted of people, he took it because the people had fled. But in Gardiki, as it

 and there a most beautiful monastery in the name of Saint Nicholas, which my mother's father had built from its foundations. And when Raoul George and

 fear of the plague, as has been shown. 11. And after a time, finding a residence in the name of Saint Elias near the city, when I had gone there, I to

 20. In November of the year #22oa-ou, Amaris, the son of Turahan, made an incursion and took captive all those around Naupactus of Aetolia, in its dis

 how many there are of his, he marveled and we are condemned for if concerning that blessed master, such a man, they marveled how he had so many here,

 Let them love all, let them converse with all, both their own and strangers, with honor let them not be arrogant, let them be humble and calm. And le

 and the lords who are here are taking counsel. His Beatitude the Pope and I are writing to the legate of the Marches, that he may help you and assist

 he poured out threatening words to those advising him, saying that because of their cowardice and faithlessness they too did not join in the pursuit o

 many myriads of people, not thousands among whom also the daughter of the despotes, 20the sultana, died. 15. In the #22nd year, in the month of Novem

 of God and you believe in the Son of God and these things are written, that they may believe that this is the Christ, the Son of God and the only-bego

 of Mary the virgin20 Isaiah: behold, the virgin shall conceive in her womb and bear a son. Gospel and how shall this be to me, since I know not a man

 baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. When the Comforter comes, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send i

 of the Spirit. 580 20 I look for the resurrection of the dead From Acts: it is concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead that I am on trial. F

 Honorius and Pyrrhus the foolish, but two wills and two energies, that is a divine and a human energy and will, and that neither of the natures is wit

 along the shore they destroyed down to the foundations, but the rest they hold. And after he passed through as far as the Principality and having retu

 will be a cause for forgiving me many of the things in which I have erred against him for there has not been in my life a sin, nor an action, nor any

Boniface, Marquis of Montferrat, had entered into the alliance with a notable share and was recognized as the commander of the entire land army; he was honored as King of Thessalonica by the Emperor Baldwin. And this island of Crete, along with the others, fell into his own share; but after some time he had sold it to the senate of the Venetians; and thus to this day it is in their hands. And we have joined this story to the account to be found in our book, and let us return to the building of the Isthmus.

XXVI. In the 23rd year, on the 13th of March, the emperor landed at the port called Cenchreae and on the 8th of April he began to clear and rebuild that very Isthmus, of which the length, or rather to say the breadth from one sea to the other, is three thousand eight hundred fathoms; And the length from the mainland of Greece, that is the land of Attica, after descending the rough road called "Sloping Evil", until reaching the plain below, in which place these walls of the Isthmus were built, is thirty stades and ***, and from the walls of the Isthmus to Corinth, the fortress above the clouds, there are hills and ridges and the end of the Isthmus ***. The Peloponnese resembles a plane-tree leaf in every way; and the Isthmus is the stem of the leaf. And he erected one hundred and fifty-three towers on it. And on a certain marble they found letters written, saying thus: Light from light, true God from true God, protect the Emperor Justinian and his faithful servant Victorinus and all those dwelling in Greece who live from God. And in the 24th year, in the month of March, the emperor and the entire senate that was with him returned to Constantinople; in which month after the arrival of that very emperor, the patriarch Kyr Euthymius also died; and on the 21st of the month of May of the same year Kyr Joseph, the metropolitan of Ephesus, became patriarch. And in the 25th year the emperor Kyr John went to the Peloponnese in the autumn; at which time, passing through Thessalonica, he took away the false son of Bayezid, that Mustafa, 248 who was being pursued by the emir, his supposed brother, and sent him to Lemnos, then to Lacedaemonia. 20In the winter of the same year a pestilential disease occurred in the Euxine Pontus, that is, in the20 Black Sea, and being with his whole household in a certain city there as governors, my brother-in-law Gregory Palaiologos Mamonas, an excellent man, son of the Grand Duke Mamonas who once ruled Monemvasia and the surrounding areas, and with him my sister who was his wife; and one female child of theirs, which they had, died. And after seven days from the death of the child, the father died, and again after seven days from his death the mother also died, and moreover six of their subject men and women. And only two of them were left, and coming to Constantinople they told these things with one voice to my wretched parents and from such great affliction and inconsolable grief they fell into sickness, and almost came into danger of death. For this reason he who begot me and I did not go to the Peloponnese with the young master Kyr Thomas, in whose service I was as a table attendant and his chamberlain, as we were appointed by the emperor his father and were preparing ourselves, and since my first brother was in the Peloponnese with the emperor; but the other one after me, when the death of his siblings occurred, leaving father and mother and brothers, went to the monastery called Charsianites, where also was the truly genuine teacher Kyr Joseph, and there he became a monk. In that spring and summer when a plague occurred in Constantinople, the Despoina Kyra Anna of Russia also died of the pestilential disease and was buried in the monastery of Lips.

Βονιφάτιοςμαρκίων Μοντεφεῤῥάτου ἀξιολόγῳ μοίρᾳ τὴν συμμαχίαν ἦν ἐνεγκάμενος καὶ κυβερνή της παντὸς τοῦ χερσαίου στρατοῦ ἐγνωρίζετο, ῥὴξ Θεσσαλονίκης παρὰ τοῦ βασιλέως Βαλδουΐνου τετίμηται. Καὶ ἡ νῆσος αὐτὴ τῆς Κρήτης μετὰ τῶν ἄλλων ἐν τῇ ἰδίᾳ μοίρᾳ ἐνέτυχε· μετὰ δέ τινα καιρὸν ἐπεπωλήκει αὐτὴν τῇ τῶν Ἑνετῶν γερουσίᾳ· καὶ οὕτως ἄχρι τῆς σήμερον ὑπὸ τὰς χεῖρας αὐτῶν ἐστι. Καὶ ταύτην τὴν ἱστορίαν τῷ λόγῳ ἡνώσαμεν τῷ ἡμετέρῳ βιβλίῳ εὑρίσκεσθαι καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν τοῦ Ἰσθμοῦ οἰκοδομὴν ἐπα νέλθωμεν.

XXVI. Τῷ ʹκγ-ῳ ἔτει, Μαρτίου ιγ-ῃ, ὁ βασιλεὺς ἀπέσωσεν ἐν τῷ λιμένι τῶν Κεχρεῶν ὀνομαζομένῳ καὶ τῇ η-ῃ Ἀπριλίου ἤρξατο ἀνα καθαίρειν καὶ ἀνοικοδομεῖν αὐτὸν δὴ τὸν Ἰσθμόν, οὗπέρ ἐστι τὸ μῆκος ἢ μᾶλ λον εἰπεῖν τὸ εὗρος ἐκ μιᾶς θαλάττης εἰς τὴν ἑτέραν ὀργυίαις τρισχίλιες καὶ ὀκτακόσιες· Τὸ δὲ μάκρος ἐκ τῆς χέρσου τῆς Ἑλλάδος, ἤτοι τῆς Ἀττικῆς γῆς, μετὰ τὸ καταβῆναι τὴν τραχεῖαν ὁδὸν τὴν λεγομένην Πλάγιον Κακόν, ἕως τῆς πεδιάδος κάτωθεν φθάσαι, ἐν ᾧ τόπῳ ἦν κτισθέντα τὰ τείχη ταῦτα τοῦ Ἰσθμοῦ, στάδια τριάκοντα καὶ ***, ἀπὸ δὲ τῶν τειχῶν τοῦ Ἰσθμοῦ ἕως τῆς Κορίνθου τοῦ ὑπὲρ νεφέλας φρουρίου βουνῶν καὶ λόφων καὶ τοῦ Ἰσθμοῦ τέλος ὑπάρχουσι ***. Ἔοικε δὲ ἡ Πελοπόννησος πλατάνου φύλλῳ εἰς πάντα· τοῦ δὲ φύλλου τὸ καῦλος ὁ Ἰσθμός ἐστιν. Ἀνέστησε δὲ πύργους ἐν αὐτῷ ἑκατὸν πεντήκοντα καὶ τρεῖς. Καὶ ἔν τινι μαρμάρῳ εὗρον γράμματα γεγραμμένα, λέγοντα οὕτως· Φῶς ἐκ φω τός, Θεὸς ἀληθινὸς ἐκ Θεοῦ ἀληθινοῦ φυλάξῃ τὸν αὐτοκράτορα Ἰουστι νιανὸν καὶ τὸν πιστὸν δοῦλον αὐτοῦ Βικτωρῖνον καὶ πάντας τοὺς ἐν τῇ Ἑλλάδι οἰκοῦντας τοὺς ἐκ θεοῦ ζῶντας. Τῷ δὲ ʹκδ-ῳ ἔτει, μηνὶ Μαρτίῳ ἐπανέστρεψεν εἰς τὴν Κωνσταν τινούπολιν ὁ βασιλεὺς καὶ ἡ μετ' αὐτοῦ οὖσα πᾶσα σύγκλη τοσ· ἐν ᾧ μηνὶ μετὰ τὴν ἄφιξιν αὐτοῦ δὴ τοῦ βασιλέως ἀπέθανε καὶ ὁ πατιάρχης κὺρ Εὐθύμιος· καὶ τῇ κα-ῃ τοῦ Μαΐου μηνὸς τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἔτους ἐγεγόνει πατριάρχης κὺρ Ἰωσὴφ ὁ Ἐφέσου μητροπολίτης. Καὶ τῷ ʹκε-ῳ ἔτει ἀπῆλθεν εἰς τὴν Πελοπόννησον ὁ βασιλεὺς κὺρ Ἰωάννης ἐν καιρῷ φθινοπώρου· ἐν ᾧ δὴ καιρῷ τὴν Θεσσαλονίκην διερχόμενος, τὸν πλαστὸν υἱὸν τοῦ Μπαγιαζήτου, ἐκεῖνον τὸν Μουσταφᾶν, 248 διωκόμενον ὄντα παρὰ τοῦ ἀμηρᾶ, τοῦ τάχα ἀδελφοῦ αὐτοῦ, ἀπῆρε, καὶ ἀποστείλας εἰς Λῆμνον, εἶτα εἰς Λακεδαιμονίαν. 20Ἐν δὲ τῷ χειμῶνι τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἔτους λοιμικῆς νόσου γενομέ νης ἐν τῷ Εὐξείνῳ Πόντῳ ἤτοι ἐν τῇ20 Μαύρῃ Θαλάττῃ καὶ πα νοικὶ ὄντες ἔν τινι ἄστει τῶν ἐκεῖσε κεφαλατεύοντες ὁ γαμβρός μου Γρη γόριος Παλαιολόγος Μαμωνᾶς, ἀνὴρ ἄριστος, υἱὸς μεγάλου δουκὸς Μα μωνᾶ τοῦ κυριεύοντός ποτε τῆς Μονεμβασίας καὶ τῶν περὶ αὐτήν, καὶ σὺν αὐτῷ ἡ ἁδελφή μου ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ οὖσα· καὶ ἓν παιδίον αὐτῶν θῆλυ, ὃ εἶχον, ἀπέθανε. Καὶ μετὰ τὰς ἑπτὰ ἡμέρας τῆς θανῆς τῆς παιδίου ἀπέ θανεν ὁ πατήρ, καὶ πάλιν μετὰ ἑπτὰ ἡμέρας τῆς τούτου τελευτῆς ἐτελεύ τησε καὶ ἡ μήτηρ, ἔτι δὲ καὶ ἓξ τῶν ὑποχειρίων αὐτῶν ἀνδρῶν τε καὶ γυναικῶν. Καὶ δύο ἐξ αὐτῶν μόνοι ἐναπελείφθησαν καὶ ἐλθόντες εἰς Κων σταντινούπολιν εἶπον ἐν μιᾷ φωνῇ ταῦτα τοῖς ἀθλίοις μου γονεῦσι καὶ ἐκ τῆς τοσαύτης θλίψεως καὶ ἀπαραμυθήτου λύπης ἐν ἀσθενίᾳ πεσόντες, καὶ σχεδὸν εἰς κίνδυνον θανάτου ἦλθον. ∆ι' αὐτὴν τὴν αἰτίαν οὐκ ἦλ θεν ὁ γεννήσας μὲ κἀγὼ εἰς τὴν Πελοπόννησον σὺν τῷ αὐθεντοπούλῳ κὺρ Θωμᾶ, εἰς τὴν αὐτοῦ τάξιν ἦν εἰς ὑπηρεσίαν ἐπὶ τραπέζης καὶ κελ λιώτης αὐτοῦ, ὡς ὡρίσθημεν παρὰ τοῦ βασιλέως καὶ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ καὶ ἡτοιμαζόμεθα, καὶ ἀφ' οὗ ὁ μὲν πρῶτος μου ἀδελφὸς ἦν εἰς τὴν Πελο πόννησον μετὰ τοῦ βασιλέως· ὁ δὲ μετ' ἐμὲ ἕτερος, ὡς ἐπῆλθεν ὁ θάνα τος τῶν ἀδελφῶν αὐτοῦ, ἀφεὶς πατέρα καὶ μητέρα καὶ ἀδελφοὺς ἀπῆλθεν εἰς τὴν μονὴν τὴν λεγομένην τοῦ Χαρσιανίτου, οὗ ἦν καὶ ὁ κατὰ ἀλή θειαν ὄντως διδάσκαλος ὁ κὺρ Ἰωσὴφ, κἀκεῖσε ἔγινε μοναχός. Ἐν ἐκείνῳ τῷ ἔαρι καὶ θέρει λοιμοῦ γεγονότος ἐν τῇ Κωνσταντι νουπόλει ἀπέθανε καὶ ἡ δέσποινα κυρὰ Ἄννα ἡ ἀπὸ τῆς Ῥωσσίας λοι- μώδει νόσῳ καὶ ἐτάφη ἐν τῇ τοῦ Λιβὸς μονῇ.