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Description: Skyllitzes Matritensis, fol. 76r, detail. Miniature:

The appointment of the Patriarch Ignatios. Text from the Chronicle of John Skylitzes: "... When the thrice-blessed Methodius depared the life after occupying the Constantinopolitan throne for four breif years, Ignatios was enthroned as patriarch. He was the grandson of the emperor Nikephoros [I] on his mother's side and the son of the emperor Michael [I] who fell from power. After he fell from power he was castrated and thus excluded from the succession; he became a monk, then hegoumenos of the monastery of Satyros. ..." (Translated by John Wortley, in: John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811-1057: Translation and Notes, p. 106) References:

Ioannis Scylitzae Synopsis Historiarum. Editio Princeps. Rec. Ioannes Thurn, p. 106, in: Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae 5 Series Berolinensis, 1973 Tsamakda V.: The illustrated chronicle of Ioannes Skylitzes in Madrid, p. 118 Grabar A., Manoussacas M.: L'illustration du manuscript de Skylitzes de Madrid, p. 54
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