Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks Center For Byzantine Studies, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Near Fine. Large quarto volume bound in original green cloth and lettered in gilt on the spine. This volume contains the following essays: Gilbert Dagron - Le christianisme dans la ville byzantine; Clive Foss - Late Antique and Byzantine Ankara; Barry Baldwin - Malchus of Philadelphia John W. Nesbitt - Double Names on Early Byzantine Lead Seals; Henry Maguire - The Depiction of Sorrow in Middle Byzantine Art; Robin Cormack and Ernest J. W. Hawkins - The Mosaics of St. Sophia at Istanbul / The Rooms Above the Southwest Vestibule and Ramp; Luba Eleen - Acts Illustration in Italy and Byzantium; Suzanne Spain - The Translation of Relics Ivory, Trier; Ioli Kalavrezou-Maxeiner - Eudokia Makrembolitissa and the Romanos Ivory. Then follows a section of Notes: Nicolas Oikonomides - John VII Palaeologus and the Ivory Pyxis at Dumbarton Oaks; Elizabeth A. Zackariadou - John VII (alias Andronicus) Palaeologus; Warren T. Treadgold - The Preface of the Bibliotheca of Photius / Text, Translation, and Commentary; A clean, bright and solid copy in the complete dust jacket which has a few closed tears at the top edge of the front panel. Illustrated throughout with a fold-out chart. A lovely copy indeed.

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