^{page 916 note 1} d. A.H. 488 (Wust. Gesch., No. 227); the MS. has been recovered at Constantinople by His Excellency Aḥmiad Zéki Pacha.

^{page 917 note 1} At p. 158, 1. 15, and again p. 184, 1. 4, where he is called “Magister and Ḳunṭus”. On p. 167, 1. 6, we are told that he escaped from Baghdad after the release of Scleros and rejoined Basil. In A.D. 996 he defeated the Bulgarians (Épopée, ii, 134–42)Google Scholar, and in 1000 succeeded Damianus Dalassenus (who had been defeated and killed at Apamea; see Ibn al-Ḳalānisi, pp. 51–2)Google Scholar as governor of Antioch (Épopée, p. 158).Google Scholar

^{page 917 note 2} Von Rosen detected from a study of the Bodleian fragment of the Tajārib, MS. Marsh 357, that it was the basis of Ibn al-Athīr's narrative (Épopée, i, 421Google Scholar, n. 4). Ibn al-Athīr likewise made use of the Dhail, and in vol. viii, p. 517, is the statement that Zimisces' death was due to poison administered by the eunuch brother of Theophano, “who had been vizier since the death of Romanus, and whose name was Barkamūs (Parakoimomenos), and who thus acquired power.” The eunuch in question was Basil, natural son of Romanus Lecapenus, who aided Nicephorus to the throne and supplanted Bringas. But in another passage Ibn al-Athīr tells another story. In his survey of Byzantine history sub A.H. 433, from the birth of Basil and onwards (ix, 340–2), he attributes the poisoning to a priest instigated by Theophano from her place of exile, a distant cloister, whence she returned on the day Zimisces died, whereupon Basil succeeded, with herself as regent on the ground of his youth. Yahya (p. 147, 1. 1) merely records his death (A.H. 365), and says that thereupon Basil and Constantine, sons of Romanus, became real rulers, but that the government was exercised by Basil their elder alone, he being then 18 years of age; that he relied on the Barkamūs, and recalled his mother Theophano from exile.

^{page 919 note 1} See Ibn Khallihān, trans., ii, 671.Google Scholar

^{page 919 note 2} i.e. holder of the inkstand. The official, as above stated, was Nicephorus Uranus.

^{page 919 note 3} This was in the course of Zimisces' final campaign in Syria, A.H. 364. Yaḥya's account of the surrender, and of Kulaib's nomination as “Basilicus”, i.e. Governor of Antioch (p. 146, 1. 5), is quoted Épopée, i, 299.Google Scholar Kulaib had lately surrendered both Antioch and himself to Scleros, who had made him Governor of Malatya (p. 147, 1. 18; p. 148, 1. 6; Épopée, i, 376–7).Google Scholar Barzūya had been taken from the Byzantines by Saif al-Daula in A.H. 337 (Un Empereur byzantin, p. 132, n. 1).Google Scholar

^{page 919 note 4} Barkamūs, i.e. Parakoimomenos, accubitor, or chamberlain. This was the eunuch Basil who had declared himself in favour of Nicephorus Phocas, and on his success had replaced Bringas as chief adviser, remaining so until his dismissal by Basil in A.H. 375 (A.D. 985) (Yaḥya, p. 165Google Scholar, 1. 13, and Épopée, i, 573).Google Scholar

^{page 920 note 1} The speaker was son of Leo Phocas, brother of Nicephorus.

^{page 921 note 1} Son and successor of Nāṣir al-Daula at Mosul.

^{page 924 note 1} Curopalate, , “Maréchal du Palais Sacré, titre très considérable à fonctions mal connues”Google Scholar (Schlumberger, , Un Empereur byzantin, p. 361).Google Scholar He was Leo Phocas, blinded for his connivance in the revolt of his son Bardas against John Zimisces, but the mutilation in this case was intentionally carried out in a merciful fashion: see Épopée, i, 66.Google Scholar

^{page 924 note 2} Said by way of reductio ad absurdum, the place being near Samarkand. So Belisarius is said to have offered the Goths, in answer to their claim for Sicily which he had already conquered, the cession of Britain.

^{page 925 note 1} Sa'd al-Daula, the son of Saif al-Daula, had tendered his submission to 'Adud al-Daula on his arrival in Baghdad, and had included his name in the “Prayer” after that of the Caliph, (Yaḥya, p. 157, 1. 18).Google Scholar

^{page 928 note 1} The ancestor of the Marwānid dynasty at Mayyāfāriḳīn. Bād made a resolute attempt on Mosul after the death of 'Aḍud al-Daula, but failed, and fell in battle.

^{page 929 note 1} Basil, the eunuch, was natural son of Romanus Lecapenus, whose daughter Helen was wife to Constantine Porphyrogenitus, the grandfather of the Emperor Basil.

^{page 930 note 1} i.e. when he was at Baghdad as envoy from Basil after the flight of Scleros to Moslem territory.

^{page 936 note 1} MS.

^{page 937 note 1} Also written “Asmand”, a village near Samarkand (Yâḳût, , Buldân, i, 265).Google Scholar

^{page 938 note 1} MS.

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^{page 941 note 1} MS. , but the reference must be to Leo Phocas and his son Bardas.