Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks Center For Byzantine Studies, 1969 and 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Very Good. Quarto volume bound in blue cloth and lettered in gilt at the spine. Volume is dedicated to the Memory of Paul Atkins Underwood and Romilly James Heald Jenkins and contains a brief obituary for each as well as representative Bibliographies. The volume contains the following essays: Herbert Hunger - On the Imitation (Greek Text) of Antiquity in Byzantine Literature; Antoine Guillaumont - Justinen et l'Eglise de Perse; Averil Cameron - Agathias on the Sassanians; Ihor Sevcenko - Poems on the Deaths of Leo VI and Constantine VII in the Madrid Manuscript of Scylitzes; Halil Inalcik - The Policy of Mehmed II towad the Greek Population of Istanbul and the Byzantine Buildings of the City; Speros Vryonis, JR. - The Byzantine Legacy and ottoman Forms; Manolis Chatzidakis - Recherches sur le Peintre Theophane le Cretois; Rowland J. Mainstone - The Reconstructions of the Tympana of St. Sophia at Istanbul. Then follows a section of "Notes:" Cyril Mango - Notes on Byzantine Monuments; David C. Winfield - The Church of the Panagia tou Arakos, Langoudera: First Preliminary Report, 1968; with an Appendix by Cyril Mango; James Morganstern and Richard E. Stone - The Church at Dereagzi: A Preliminary Report on the Mosaics of the Dianconicon. An excellent example of this important volume from Dumbarton Oaks. The book is superb. The complete dust jacket is clean and complete though there is separation at the rear hinge flap.

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