PREFACE

This little book can do no more than humbly touch the fringe of a large subject; but if it leads the reader to a further study of this beautiful craft, it will have amply fulfilled its duty.

I must express my deep obligation to the magnificent volume on ivories by M. Emile Molinier, whose masterly arrangement of a very fragmentary and scattered subject is a model of lucidity; and also to Dr. Hans Graeven, whose scholarly researches and excellent photographs are indispensable for a real study of the craft.

A. M. Cust.

December, 1901.

CONTENTS

PAGE
List of Illustrations[xiii]
Bibliography[xvii]

CHAPTER I.
Consular and other Secular Diptychs[ 1]

CHAPTER II.
Latin and Byzantine Ivories[37]
I.Latin and Latino-Byzantine and
 the Early Byzantine Ivories[37]
II.Byzantine Caskets[75]
III.The Byzantine Renaissance[84]

CHAPTER III.
Lombardic, Anglo-Saxon, Carlovingian
and German Ivories[96]
I.Lombard Ivory Carvings[96]
II.Anglo-Saxon Ivory Carvings[99]
III.The Carlovingian Renaissance[106]
IV.German Ivory Carving in the time
 of the Ottos[118]

CHAPTER IV.
Romanesque and Gothic Ivories[129]

List of Diptychs		[157]
List of Places where Important Examples
 of Ivories can be found[165]
Index[167]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FIG. PAGE
1.An Angel. Leaf of a Diptych.
Fifth century. Byzantine
British Museum, London[Frontispiece]
2.Second Leaf of the Diptych of Probianus,
Vice-Prefect of Rome. End of fourth century
Berlin Library[ 8]
3.First Leaf of the Diptych of Probus,
Consul at Rome, 406 A.D.
Duomo, Aosta[ 9]
4.First Leaf of the Diptych of Orestes,
Consul at Rome, 530 A.D.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London[14]
5.Leaf of the Diptych of Amalasuntha(?)
Sixth Century. Italian
Bargello, Florence[30]
6.Adam in the Terrestrial Paradise, and Scenes
from the Life of St. Paul.
Leaves of a Diptych. Fifth century. Italian
Bargello, Florence[41]
7 & 8.Two Plaques, The Crucifixion and Christ leaving
the Prætorium.
Fifth century. Italian
British Museum[46], [47]
9.Pyx with the Scene of Christ healing the Paralytic.
Sixth century. Italo-Byzantine
Musée de Cluny, Paris[51]
10.Cover of a Book of the Gospels
(from S. Michele di Murano). Sixth century. Italo-Byzantine
Ravenna Museum[53]
11.Cover of a Book of the Gospels, with three scenes from
the Nativity (from Metz Cathedral).
Sixth century. Italo-Byzantine
Bibliothèque nationale, Paris[57]
12.Front of the Ivory Throne of St. Maximian,
with St. John Baptist and the Four Evangelists.
Sixth century. Byzantine
Duomo, Ravenna[59]
13.A Panel from the same Throne, Bringing Joseph’s
Coat to Jacob.
Sixth century. Byzantine
Duomo, Ravenna[63]
14.Oliphant. Ninth to tenth century.
Oriental Byzantine
Victoria and Albert Museum, London[73]
15.Veroli Casket. Byzantine
Victoria and Albert Museum, London[77]
16.Front of a Casket, with scenes from the life of David.
Ninth century. Byzantine
Museo Kircheriano, Rome[81]
17.Harbaville Triptych.
Tenth century. Byzantine
Louvre, Paris[87]
18.Plaque with the Ascension of Christ.
Eleventh century. Byzantine
Bargello, Florence[89]
19.Christ enthroned.
Eleventh century. Byzantine
Trivulzio Collection, Milan[91]
20.Christ crowning the Emperor Romanus and the
Empress Eudoxia.
Eleventh century. Byzantine.
Cabinet des Médailles, Bibliothèque nationale, Paris[93]
21.The Adoration of the Magi.
Eleventh century. Anglo-Saxon
Victoria and Albert Museum, London[101]
22.The XXVIIth Psalm represented in scenic form.
Ninth century. Carlovingian
Zürich Museum[109]
23.Cover of a Book of the Gospels.
Ninth century. Carlovingian
Abbey of St. Gall, Switzerland[113]
24.The Crucifixion and Allegorical Figures.
Ninth century. Carlovingian
Victoria and Albert Museum, London[115]
25.Panel of the Crucifixion, from a book cover.
Tenth century. German
John Rylands Library, Manchester[123]
26.Ceremonial Comb.
Eleventh century. English
British Museum, London[127]
27.A Bishop’s Crozier.
Fourteenth century. French
Victoria and Albert Museum, London[131]
28.The Coronation of the Virgin.
Thirteenth century. French
Louvre, Paris[137]
29.The Virgin and Child.
Thirteenth century. French
Bargello, Florence[139]
30.The Descent from the Cross.
Thirteenth century. French
Louvre, Paris[141]
31.A Polyptych, with the Virgin and Child
and various scenes from the Nativity.
Fourteenth century. French
Victoria and Albert Museum, London[143]
32.First Leaf of a Diptych.
Fourteenth century. French
Mayer Coll., Liverpool Museum[145]
33.Plaque from a Casket Representing Dancers.
Fourteenth century. French
Bargello, Florence[147]
34.A Mirror Case, with the Elopement of Guinivere and Lancelot.
Fourteenth century. French
Mayer Coll., Liverpool Museum[149]
35.Panel from a Casket.
Fourteenth century. French
Bargello, Florence[151]
36.Triptych made for Bishop Grandison of Exeter.
1327-1369. English
British Museum, London[153]
37.Triptych.
Early fifteenth century. Italian
Victoria and Albert Museum, London[155]