[MGSA-L] A footnote [Laments for the Fall of the City]

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In a message dated 6/2/04 19:19:14 Pacific Daylight Time, 
dkatseto at bellatlantic.net writes:

> A footnote on the aftermath of the fall of The City of 1453. Not a 
> concealed or secret legend in infamy but a true lamentation that personifies "tous 
> stenagmous tou Genous" was the fateful story of the young niece of the last 
> 


For fair use only:
Gibbon's
"The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire".
Volume Seven "Deluxe edition" AMS Press,New York
Appendix, page 344,345,346,347.

Sources for the Siege of Konstantinople, A.D. 1453-(Chap.LXVIII.)

1.Journal of Nicolo Barbaro (Giornale dell'assedio di Constantinopoli 1453, 
edited by E. Cornet 1856 with good analysis of the contents in Ellissen's 
Analekten, vol.iii,Apendix,p84 sgg.

2.An "Information" sent by Francesco de Tresves to the Cardinal d' Avignon, 
and also by Jehan Blanchin and Jacques Tedardi (or Tedaldi) of Florence on the 
capture of Constantinople. Edited in Martene and Durand, Thesaurus,i. p. 1819 
sqq and in Chartier's Chroniques de Charles VII,iii.p 20 sqq,1858.
Tetardi was an eye witness.

3. Account by Ubertino Pusculo of Brescia,........... the work is published 
in Ellissen's Analekten, vol.iii., as an Appendix, 1857.

4. An anonymous Greek poem, in political verses, under the title of Capture 
of Constantinople (Alwsis Kwnstaninoupolews) is misnamed, for it touches only 
incidentally on the facts of the siege and is in this respect of little 
historical importance. It is really an appeal to the powers of the West-
............
............
The work was first edited by Ellissen in vol.iii of his Analekten (1857) with 
introduction, translation, and analysis under the title Dirge of 
Constantinople (Thrhnos Kwnstantinopolews)- a misnomer, for it is not a dirge but a 
tearful appeal.
Legrand published an improved text in 1880 in vol.i. of his Bibl. greque 
vulgaire,p.169 sqq.

5. There are five other laments (thrhnoi) known. See Papadopoulos-Kerameus, 
in Byzantinische Zeitschrift ,xii, 267 sqq.
(1) anakalhma ths Kpolews, Legrand, Collection de monuments pour servir a l' 
etude de la langue neo-hellenique,N.S., No.5,1875.
(2) A dialoque between the four Eastern Patriarchs, published by Krumbacher, 
ein dialogischer Threnos auf den Fall von Konstantinopel, 1901.
(3) Thrhnos, published by S. Lampros in Estia, 1886, 821 sqq from a Ms. of 
Mt. Athos.
(4) Moirologion thliveron, not printed, found by Papadopoulos-K. in a Ms. of 
the Patriarchal Library at Cairo.
(5). Thrhnos, in a Ms. of the Patriarchal Library at Jerusalem, published by 
Papadopoulos -K. loc.cit.

6. A Slavonic account, written probably by a Slav of some of the Balkan 
countries, is also preserved , and has been published by Sreznevski under the title 
Skazaniia o vziatii Tsargrade bezbozhnym turetskym sultanom, in the Zapiski 
of the 2nd Division of the St. Petersburg Academy of Science, vol.i. p. 99 
sqq., 1854.

7. We have another Slavonic account, written by a mixture of Polish and 
Servian, by a Janissary of Mohammad, named Michael, who took part in the 
siege....................................

8. A report by the Father Superior of the Franciscans who was at Galata 
during the siege was printed by Muratori in vol. 18 (p. 701)....................

9. An account by Christoforo Riccherio.

10. Abraham an Armenian monk, who was present at the siege, wrote a "Melodie 
elegiaque"....................

11. A contemporary account (not known to Gibbon), by Critobulus, has been 
spoken of in Appendix 1.

12. Zorzi Dolphin wrote an account of the "siege and capture of 
Constantinople in 1453" which was published by G.M. Thomas..............................

13. A letter of the Genoese "Podesta of Pera".........................

14. Documents........... will be found in Vigna's Codice diplomatico delle 
Colonie Tauro-Liguri................

15. .........Amyris of Filelfo-on the life and deeds of Mohammad in 4 
Books-published in Hopf's Chroniques greco-romanes.

16.A Monody of Adronicus Callistus, in Mignet's Patr.Gr. 161, 
p.1124............

17..........Spandugino Cantacusino's Della origine de principi Turchi (L's 
notation, we did discussed something similar the other day).

18.Unpublisged documents. C. Hopf and A. Dethier had designed and prepare the 
publication of these in the Monuments Hungar..................

19. Brosset gathered some material from Armeniam and Georgian sources; see 
the last vol.of St. Marti's edit. of Lebeau's Histoire du Bass-Empire.

20. Turkish authorities edited by Hammer.

21. Additional works appeared after Gibbon's writings by:
Hammer...........
Zinkeisen.........
Stassulevic..........
Mordtmann............
Finlay.............
Krause............
Broadribb and Besant...........
Vlasto...........
Paspates...........
Mijatovich.........
Pears...........
A. van Milligen.................

I believe that "laments" might be included in many of the above sources, in 
addition to the ones with clear mentions on " Thrhnoi ths Kwnstantinoupolews".



Regards to all.............L.
George sofoklis Tsapanos
Visalia, Ca.

"Vlachs, the autochthonous
of the Hellenic peninsula".
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