Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Quarto volume bound in blue cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine. Edited by The Committee on Publications The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection Trustees for Harvard University Washington, District of Columbia. Contains a Biography and Bibliography of Alexander Alexandrovich Vasiliev by Sirarpie Der Nersessian; A. A. Valiliev - The Iconclastic Edict of the Caliph Yazid II, A.D. 721; Marius Canard - Les adventures d'un prisonnier arabe ed d'un patrice byzantin a Pepoque des guerres bulgaro-byzantines; Francis Dvornik - Byzantine Political Ideas in Kievan Russia; Romilly J. H. Jenkins and Cyril A. Mango - The Date and Significance of the Tenth Homily of Photius; Egon Wellesz - the "Akathistos." A Study Byzantine Hymnography; Oliver Strunk - The Byzantine Office at Hagia Sophia; Ernst H. Kantorowicz - The Baptism of the Apostles; Paul A. Underwood - First Preliminary Report on the Restoration of the Frescoes in the Kariye Camii at Istanbul by the Byzantine Institute, 1952-1954. The next section is headed "Notes and Reports" and contains: Paul A. Underwood - Notes on the Work of the Byzantine Institute in Istanbul: 1954; Glanville Downey - The Church of All Saints (Church of St. Theophano) near the Church of the Holy Apostles at Constantinople; A. A. Vasiliev - Notes on some Episodes concerning the Relations between the Arabs and the Byzantine Empire from the Fourth to the Sixth Century. A fine copy in all respects.

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