Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks Center For Byzantine Studies, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Quarto volume bound in original blue cloth and lettered in gilt at the spine. This volumes contains the following essays: Cyril Mango and Ernest J.W. Hawkins - The Mosaics of St. Sophia at Istanbul. The Church Fathers in the North Tympanum; Kurt Weitzmann - The Ivories of the So-Called Grado Chair; Hans Eberhard Mayer - Studies in the History of Queen Melisende of Jerusalem; Irena Andreescu - Torcello. I. Le Christ Inconnu. II. Anastasis et Jugement; Dernier: Tetes Vraies, Tetes Fausses; John J. Yiannas - The Elevation of the Panaghia; G.M. Proxorov - A Codicological Analysis of the Illuminated Akathistos to the Virgin; V.D. Lixaceva - The Illumination of the Greek Manuscript of the Akathistos Hymn; Richard N. Frye - Byzantine and Sasanian Trade Relations with Northeastern Russia; A.D.H. Bivar - Cavalry Equipment and Tactics on the Euphrates Frontier; Irfan Shahid - The Iranian Factor in Byzantium during the Reign of Heraclius. The "Notes" section follows: Arthur H. S. Megaw - Supplementary Excavations on a Castle Site at Paphos, Cyprus, 1970-1971; Nicolas Oikonomides - Quelques Boutiques de Constantinople au X S.: Prix, Loyers, Impostion; Nigel G. Wilson - A Manuscript of Theophanes in Oxford; Byzantium and Sasanian Iran. Report on the Dumbarton Oaks Symposium of 1970; concluding with - Style Guide for the Dumbarton Oaks Papers. An exceptionally clean, bright and solid copy in a complete and lovely example of the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout with one large fold-out example.

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