^In an inscription on the church of Hagia Sophia of Trebizond, Manuel is known simply as "Manuel Komnenos". George Finlay, The History of Greece and the Empire of Trebizond, (1204-1461) (Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1851), p. 319 n. 1
^Panaretos, Chronicle, ch. 3. Greek text in Original-Fragmente, Chroniken, Inschiften und anderes Materiale zur Geschichte des Kaiserthums Trapezunt, part 2; in Abhandlungen der historischen Classe der königlich bayerischen Akademie 4 (1844), abth. 1, pp. 12; German translation, p. 42