Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks Center For Byzantine Studies, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Quarto volume bound in blue cloth and lettered in gilt at the spine. This volume contains the following essays: George H. Forsyth - The Monastery of St. Catherine at Mount Sinai: The Church and Fortress of Justinian; Edward R. Hardy - The Egyptian Policy of Justinian; John Meyendorff - Justinian, the Empire and the Church; David C. Winfield - Middle and Later Byzantine Wall Painting Methods. A Comparative Study; Erica Cruikshank Dodd - Byzantine Silver Stamps: Supplement II. More Treasures from Syria; Ernest J.W. Hawkins - Further Observations on the Narthex Mosaic in St. Sophia at Istanbul. Then follows a "Notes" section: Cyril Mango - The Monastery of St. Abercius at Kursunlu (Elegmi) in Bithynia; Cyril Mango and Ernest J.W. Hawkins - Additional Finds at Fenari Isa Camii, Istanbul; Cecil L. Striker and Y. Dogan Kuban - Work at Kalenderhane Camii in Istanbul: Second Preliminary Report; R. Martin Harrison and Nezih Firatli - Excavations at Sarachane in Istanbul: Fifth Preliminary Report, with a Contribution on A Seventh-Century Pottery Group, by John W. Hayes; James Morganstern - The Church at Dereagzi: A Preliminary Report. The volume concludes with - Justinian and Eastern Christendom: Report on the Dumbarton Oaks Symposium of 1967. An excellent example of both book and dust jacket. Illustrated throughout. There appears an elaborate six section fold-out table at the end of the Winfield Essay on Byzantine Wall Paint Methods. A lovely volume in all respects.

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