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Ο Ρωμανός Γ΄ ιδρύει την εκκλησία και τη μονή Περιβλέπτου και τους παραχωρεί πλουσιοπάροχες δωρεές
Πρῶτος μὲν οὖν αὐτῷ τῆς εὐσεβείας τρόπος ἐπενοήθη· ἔπειτα δὲ καὶ τῷ Σολομῶντι ἐκείνῳ τῷ πάνυ τῆς τοῦ πολυθρυλλήτου ναοῦ βασκαίνων οἰκοδομῆς, ζηλοτυπῶν δὲ καὶ τὸν αὐτοκράτορα Ἰουστινιανὸν ἐπὶ τῷ μεγάλῳ τεμένει καὶ ἐπωνύμῳ τῆς θείας καὶ ἀρρήτου Σοφίας, ἀντανοικοδομεῖν ὥσπερ καὶ ἀνθιδρύειν ναὸν τῇ Θεομήτορι ἐπεχείρησεν· ἐφ’ ᾧ δὴ τὰ πολλὰ ἐκείνῳ διημαρτήθη, καὶ ὁ τῆς εὐσεβείας αὐτῷ σκοπὸς ἀφορμὴ τοῦ κακῶς ποιεῖν καὶ τῶν πολλῶν ἐκείνων ἀδικημάτων ἐγένετο· προσετίθη γὰρ ἀεὶ ταῖς ἐπὶ τοῦτο δαπάναις, καὶ τῶν ἡμερῶν ἑκάστῃ πλέον τι τῶν ἔργων συνηρανίζετο· καὶ ὁ μὲν μέτρον ὁρίζων τῷ πράγματι μετὰ τῶν ἐχθίστων ἐτάττετο, ὁ δὲ ὑπερβολὰς ἀνευρίσκων καὶ ποικιλίας σχημάτων ἐν τοῖς φιλτάτοις εὐθὺς ἐτίθετο...
Ἀλλὰ δέον, εἴ τι καὶ περὶ τοὺς ἐκτὸς κόσμους παρανομεῖν χρὴ, τῶν τε βασιλείων ἐπιμελεῖσθαι καὶ κατακοσμεῖν τὴν ἀκρόπολιν καὶ τὰ διερρωγότα συνάπτειν, πλήρεις τε τοὺς βασιλείους ποιεῖν θησαυροὺς καὶ στρατιωτικὰ ταῦτα ἡγεῖσθαι τὰ χρήματα, ὁ δὲ τούτου μὲν ἠμέλει, ὅπως δὲ ὁ ναὸς αὐτῷ καλλίων παρὰ τοὺς ἄλλους δεικνύοιτο, τἄλλα κατελυμαίνετο. Εἰ δεῖ οὖν καὶ τοῦτ’ εἰπεῖν, ἐμεμήνει περὶ τὸ ἔργον, καὶ πολλάκις τοῦτο καὶ πολλοῖς ἐβούλετο ὁρᾶν ὀφθαλμοῖς· ὅθεν καὶ σχήματα τούτῳ βασιλείων αὐλῶν περιθέμενος, θρόνους τε καθιδρύσας καὶ σκήπτροις κατακοσμήσας καὶ φοινικίδας παραπετάσας, ἐκεῖσε τὸ πολὺ τοῦ ἔτους ἐποίει, τῷ κάλλει τῶν οἰκοδομημάτων καλλυνόμενός τε καὶ φαιδρυνόμενος. Βουλόμενος δὲ καὶ τὴν Θεομήτορα καλλίονι τῶν ἄλλων κατακοσμῆσαι ὀνόματι, ἔλαθεν ἀνθρωπικώτερον ταύτην ἐπονομάσας, εἰ καὶ Περίβλεπτός ἐστι τοὔνομα ὡς ἀληθῶς ἡ περίβλεπτος.
Ἐπὶ τούτοις καὶ προσθήκη τις ἑτέρα προσεγεγόνει, καὶ ὁ ναὸς καταγωγὴ γίνεται μοναστῶν·
...ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ ἐν ταῖς οἰκοδομαῖς ἄπειρον ἐβούλετο τὸ μέγεθος ἔχειν, οὕτω δὴ καὶ ἐν τοῖς μονασταῖς τὸν ἀριθμὸν παρεξέτεινεν· ἐντεῦθεν οὖν τὰ ἀνάλογα· ὥσπερ ἐκεῖ τῷ μεγέθει τὰ πλήθη, οὕτως ἐνταῦθα τοῖς πλήθεσιν αἱ συνεισφοραί.
Ψελλός, Χρονογραφία 3.14-6, Renauld, E. (επιμ.), (Paris 1926), σελ. 41-43.
Η περιγραφή του Clavijo για το ναό και τη μονή Περιβλέπτου
Then, the same day, they went to see another church of St. Mary which is called Parabilico [sic], and at the entrance of this church is a great courtyard in which are cypresses, walnut-trees, elms and many other trees. And the body of the church is on the outside completely decorated with pictures of different kinds, rich in gold and azure and many other colors. And further, as one enters the body of the church, on the left-hand side, are represented many images, among them one of St. Mary, and next to it, on one side, is an image of an emperor, and on the other side the image of an empress, and at the feet of the image of St. Mary are represented thirty castles and towns... And they said that these towns and castles belonged to the domain of this church and had been granted to it by an emperor called Romanus...
In the body of the church thera are five altars, and the body itself is a round hall, very big and tall, and it is supported on japsper [columns] of different colors; and the floor and the walls are like-wise covered with slabs of jasper. This all is enclosed all round by three aisles which are joined to it, and the ceiling of the hall and the aisles is one and the same, and is completely wrought in mosaic. And at the end of the church, on the left side, was a big tomb of colored jasper wherein lies the said emperor Romanus... And in this church was another big tomb of jasper in which lay another emperor. Also in this church was the other arm of St. Jogn the Baptist...
Outside the body of the church there was a cloister beautifully adorned with different pictures, among which was represented the Tree of Jesse, of whose line the Holy Virgn Mary was descended...
Ruy Gonzàlez de Clavijo, Embajada a Tamorlan, σελ. 37 κ.ε., μτφρ. Mango, C., στο Mango, C., The Art of the Byzantine Empire 312-1453. Sources and Documents2 (London 1986), σελ. 217-218.
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