Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks Center For Byzantine Studies, 1976. First printing. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Large quarto volume bound in green cloth and lettered in gilt on the spine. This volume is in Memorium for Francis Dvornik. Contains the following essays: Helene Toubert - Rome et le Mont-Cassin / Nouvelles remarques sur les fresques de l'eglise interieure de Saint-Clement de Rome; Francis Newton - The Desiderian Scriptorium at Monte Cassino / The Chronicle and Some Surviving Manuscripts; Henry M. Willard - The Staurotheca of Romanus at Monte Cassino; Kurt Weitzmann - The Ode Pictures of the Aristocratic Psalter Recension; David Pingree - The Byzantine Version of the Toledan Tables / The Works of George Lapithes?; David Pingree - Political Horoscopes from the Reign of Zeno; Nicolas Oikonomides - Leo VI and the Narthex Mosaic of Saint Sophia; Nicolas Oikonomides - Leo VI's Legislation of 907 Forbidding Fourth Marriages / An Interpolation in the Procheiros Nomos (IV, 25-27); Andrzej Poppe - The Politicald Background to the Baptism of Rus'/ Byzantine-Russian Relations between 986-89; Irina Andreescu - Torcello, III. La chronologie relative des mosaiques parietales. The comes a Field Report by A. H. S. Megaw titled: Excavations at the Episcopal Basilica o Kourion in Cyprus in 1974 and 1975: A Preliminary Report. A Notes section follows: Philip Mayerson - An Inscription in the Monastery of St. Catherine and the Martyr Tradition in Sinai; A Report on Monte Cassino; Bound in is an Index for the Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 21-30, entailing 1967-76). An exceptionally clean, bright and solid copy in a fine dust jacket. Illustrated with some plates in color but most in black and white.

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